RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 254, 31 October 1904, Page 3

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

■ summary of'satuudav a ■ i l ' NEWS. B. . PORT ARTHUR. I ' LONDON, Oct. 28. H Tokio reports that old Port Arthur ■ ia in flames. ■ desperate general attack on Hie H 26th silenced the Russian batteries ■ on the eastern Kikwen forts. Siinul- ■ tenuously the Japanese stonu-d and I occupied Forts. Krhwgsh&n and ■ Bung-chow-choif. '.'a mere limit of Shang-hai lias rea letter, dated 21»t, which mutates that shells are causing gieat to tha fleet and harbour .Works, and nioiie are failing over the ' araeqpl. Ammunition and small ' ,'armsiiave teen destroyed. Pi - ep. 4ra„jions. am being made for the last struggle at close quarters. The water ' supply has been cut, and the besieged have only tinned meats and "! ■ jKQjI to, eat. The offal of Horses is prided as a. banquet. Polish and i (Jewish soldiers are wjiichtd lest they <■'' !tj'y to desert of commit treieh(>ry. The iwwpitals are in a doplorable condition. Over half the Jorigirml'garriaon are dead. Wounded, . lotfßct - The besdegersare pressing tokisejr. Ktvd when the end comes there I teil'-Se a, desperate flgtot.. Every'jjiHig will be wined. ' fcfoUSSIAN COLUMN MISSING. fiATTEMPra A BEAK ATTACK • ''AND f AILS TO RETURN, v LONDON, Oct, 28. ' The Mukden correspondent of the j, &wspaper Berstievija Viedomosti tha,i prior to the ba/ttle of ■'iSha-ho"General ' Kossagovsky's col-' OAtf* advanced to a.ttack , the. Chu'"•jfeiuseß at Saobihe in the rear of the Japanese, and - that it has not ,WfefclriKri, its. whereaboute being unknown. . >!• ■ ! i ' ?iJiEBABII4TATPj) CttrtSßßS. i iu ' TJIE PETERSBURG AND SMO- | , LKNSK AGAIN. '. LONDON, Oct. 28, , j, 7 The • Russian volunteer crujsers. i-Petersburg qpd Smolensk KfLve been the Rioa and Dnieper, as cruisers.