Russia and Japan.

Opunake Times, Volume XXII, Issue 773, 15 September 1905, Page 2

Russia and Japan.

London, September 12. Medical testimony gazetted at Tokio is that the Russians were using dumdums at'the Vladimirof and other SaghalienVengagements. It is also alleged that there were abuses of the Red Cross'by the Russians, and mutilation of Japanese killed during the fighting. The TimeH’^correspondent 1 ! with General Nogi, describing the arrangement of details of the armistice, states that the army bitterly resents the result of the negotiations, and is disappointed at not being allowed to make a further effort to force a decisive action.

Headquarters consider that military evacuation will not he completed before April. The Russians all along the line are extremely friendly, visiting Japanese under the white flag. Washington, Sep. 12.

Griscoin, American 1 Minister at Tokio, cables that the attacks on the churches were largely due to sporadic antagonism to the Russian Church. The newspapers had raised such popular expectations for months past that dissatisfaction at the peace terms is all the greater, but the sentiments of the army, navy, and nobility are more r moderate. Tokio, September 12. Pour thousand people from all parts of Japan participated in the anti-peace demonstration at Osaka, forty being injured in the crush. St- Petersburg, Sept. 18. The Novoe Vremya hints that Russia seeks aggrandisement on the Dardanelles. The abandonment by Russia of a scheme to furnish the northern railway lines with Russian coal necessitated the importation of a quarter of a million'tons of British coal.