LATEST INTELLEGENCE

Southland Times, Issue 19492, 24 February 1905, Page 2

LATEST INTELLEGENCE

CM SHORT OOMIWONS LONDON, Feb. 23. Received 23rd, 9.25 p.m.

Advices from Tientsin state that the Russian second line of troops are on half rations. LYING IN WAIT There are 20 Japanese torpedoers at Formosa. RELYING ON RUSSIA Received 23rd, 11.28 p.m. Mr Balfour, replying to a question in the House regarding the third Baltic fleet, said the Government placed implicit reliance in Russia's assurance that full precautions would be taken against a recurrence of incidents like tho Dogger Bank outrage. REUTER’S REPORT DENIED M. Cassina, interviewed, declared that Russia’s attitude regarding the war was unchanged and that the alleged terms are preposterous. Denials have also been received from St. Petersburg. HARASSING Tho Novoe Vremya reports that 4000 Chunchuses and twenty Japanese. with two guns, are attacking convoys south-west of Bodune. JAPANESE ESTIMATE Received 23rd, 10.44 p.m. Suyematsu, interviewed regarding Russia’s terms, said Korea was already under Japanese influence and the Liaotung Peninsula and the bulk of the railway was in Japanese hands, but the most extraordinary suggestion relates to Manchuria. It makes the. defeated power the gainer, Russia, holding the region north of Harbin retains twice as much of Manchuria us she would restore. Other Japanese. in London, interviewed, were unanimous that the proposed terms are preposterous.