THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13206, 13 February 1905, Page 5

THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

1 RECENT RUSSIAN LOSSES. THE THIRD BALTIC FLEET Japanese Orders for Warships. BLOCKADE OF VLADIVOSTOK. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. TWO THOUSAND RUSSIAN DEAD. THE JAPANESE STRENGTH. LONDON, February 12. (Received Fpb. 13, at 0.23 a.m.) Field-marshal Oyama reports that the Japanese buried 2000 Russians in the direction of Hei-kon-tai. The Russi Invalidy estimates that Fieldmarshal Oyaina commands half a million men. THE THIRD BALTIC FLEET. PREPARING TO SAIL. LONDON, February 11. (Received Feb. 12, at 4.52 p.m.) The third Baltic fleet is exercising and preparing to start, JAPAN BUYS A WARSHIP. ORDERS FOR FOUR BATTLESHIPS. THE JAPANESE WOUNDED. LONDON, February 11. (Received Feb. 12, at 4.52 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph's Tokio correspondent states that Japan has purchased through an American firm the Chilian battleship Captain Pratt, and has ordered .from England foun battleships similar to tho latest British type, also half a million pounds' worth of guns. The total Japanese wounded during tho campaign is 140,000. CONDEMNED AS A PRIZE. BLOCKADE OF VLADIVOSTOK. LONDON, February 10. (Received Feb. 11, at 9.13 a.m.) The British steamer Wyefiold, captured by the Japanese, has been condemned as a prize. Tho lighthouses in the Tsugar Strait are rarely lighted, while the La Perouse Strait is filled with Hoes and icobergs. Tho blockade at Vladivosfock is considered effective, owing lo tiie increased vigilance at Tsushima and Tsugaliara. THE SINKING OiF THE SAIYEN. INSTANCES OF JAP DEVOTION 1 . LONDON, February 11. (Received' Feb. 12, at 4.52 p.m.) Commander Okuda, second in command of the cruiser Saiyen, narrates that the vessel struck a mine in Louisa Bay on November 13 while, co-operating with the army in an attack on Metre Hill. Eight in the engine room were killed. As the ship was sinking Captain Tagiina, on tlie bridge, ordered the crew lo save themselves. Lieutenant Nashitomi went to the cabins twice, rescuing the portraits of the Mikado, the Empress, and the Crown Prince. Tho engineer (Tame) similarly saved the signal book entrusted to him. There were 70 occupants of the only two boats launched. Only two minutes elapsedi between the explosion and the sinking of the vessel. Tlie enemy from Liao-ti-shan poured a deadly fire into the occupants of tho boats—on those struggling in the water equally with the rescuers from the comrade shins. Okuda and Tagima sank together. Tagima and 30 others were lost, but 19 officers and 140 men were rescued, MOBILISATION SUSPENDED. THE TRANSPORT BREAKDOWN. ST. PETERSBURG, February 10. (Received Feb. 11, at 8.30 a.m.) Though Konrapatkin is 'demanding a quarter of a million reinforcements, the Government has suspended mobilisation in Poland and some other districts, fearing a general rising. There are 140,000 carloads of war stores awaiting transport to Manchuria.