WAR NEWS BY MAIL.
RUSSIAN FORCES IN THE EAST. AN ARMY OF 400,000 MEN. JAPANESE EFFICIENCY. < (Per s.s. Ventura at Auckland.) SAN FRANCISCO, April 14. , A London Daily Mail despatch from' j Seoul, dated April 9, says : — The Russians are offering practically no resistance to the Japanese advance. ' The Japanese commissariat arrange- ] . ments iri tlie northern' army are marked by the same thoroughness which distin- - guishes this branch of the army every- ( where. Thousands of carts, stocked with 1 provisions, passed through Pingyang last < week', bound for the north. s The Japanese army is completely, equip- I lied with every scientific aid. The photograplud corps attached to! the First Army ( Corps is ih itself a notable feature, j The health of the corps is good, and j they are confident of victory. * A despatch dated St. Petersburgj April j 11, confirms the reports that tlie Russian , military plans will- not mature, before late m the summer. They are of far greater magnitude than is generally sup- { posed', and take into account all possible j contingencies. ; i General. Kuropatkin, it is asserted, re- t members the experience 'of Russia dur- < ing the war with Turkey, and • insists * that ( the men and guns placed at his 1 disposal shall cover the extra . limit re- c quired to settle the campaign. i The* Russian plans are predicted on the i Napoleon dictum, "God fights on tlie side of the heaviest battalions." , Tlie army is designed to reach a' total ' of 500,000 men. The Seventeenth and ! Tenth Army Corps, now drafting, are ' expected to reach Manchuria m June. * The mobilisation) of four other corps and. ] two or more- from the Volga will be an- ■*. riounced at the "middle of next month,' ] and will start eastward a month later. 1 Rear-Admiral Rojestrensky will hoist 1 his flag as commander of the formidable j Baltic squadron early m July, and sail . immediately for Port Arthur, with si? ] battleships, six cruisers and two trans- * ports.. General Kuropatkin is making an m- _ spection tour of the outposts along the \ Yalu river. ■••... - . General Keuenkaspoff's Cossack divi- j sioii, numbering 10,<X)0 men, lias arrived • on tlie upoer Yalu. The Fourth Army Corps reached Har- _ bin ten days ago. Vladivostock is held by 13,000 riflemen. s Officers and 15 Cossacks, left south * of the Yalu river to reconnoitre after tjie ' Russians retired, succeeded m locating y the Japanese positions without discovery. ' and swam their horses a mile and a-half \ before crossing the river. - - \ Very cheerful reports from St. Peters- . burg are being published m Paris, whence ' it is reported tliat the First, Second, * Third, and Fourth Army Corps have taken up positions m Manchuria, and the Fifth Army is now moving forward into ' position. These, with the Tenth and ' Seventeenth Army Corps and tlie Cos- ] sacks actually m the Far East and Caucassian cavalry, now being mobilised, bring the total number of men m the ' army at the seat of war to 400,000 by • the end of May. " s ________________ - s
WAR NEWS BY MAIL.
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10038, 3 May 1904, Page 3
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