RUSSO – JAPANESE WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12516, 26 March 1904, Page 2

RUSSO - JAPANESE WAR.

f • • if « a -'vessels sink across port arthur entrance. Japanese fleet m)t w&6&ed .:. JN.,BBC"JSNT? fe&u^A'RDMENT. - 1 CHDfA MUST ,< ' I RUSSIAN « DENIAL REGA£H>JNG fcnif eU ; Jfr«ss Association.-rßy ; -Electric | -.Received JVfa'cch^, 10. 25 'g.inJ j ' London, ,3\tarcH 25. I" The" D&Jly Telegrapi^s'l^Mo cortespoudent reports that, sixteen Warships oja Tuesday night escorted seven pcrcKanf steaaiers, wliich uttdec cover laf the botiKardhient' \vfere ' stink across ihe, en^tSice t^'Port Arthur harbour. ! ; Three thousand, Japanese yoluntgerecl for this service. ~^ , ■ .. A I Admiral Togb reports that his > fleet was not injured in" the recent bombardment. He. states that, five Ru^*daa "battleships', "four cruisers,, and : some' clefeiroy'efr^' canie ouV <xf the ?hai*bour, apparently /trying to draw his vessels nearer ' tie forts. -Many:, oi Hts^i 'shells ,' ieJljncar tho battfeships Fuji' 1 ' , ! •. . . - „ - Russian arpiy liicdical meu aWetrt s tha't a ' typhoid' epidemic Jias broken but. ajinongst the' Japanese ; trpops :near and Ping-yarig. „ " - 5 • \, The Japanese have reached- Tejiita, Cossacks have-jOccupiecF Mtissan. « Prince y .A\latsitC -ruler of Mongolia, has. coniiriandecl his subjects ia maiiisain neutrality .rendering i I legal • the present large. >ajtos .io Russia .'of>.ponips, provisions^ and fodder., i v ' ] y An" .-instalmen i t, r ef the..Ajrerman sysjbem. ,<?f >yire,less loleg'rap^H ipytruaxieiitis has Been sepi to Lake^JßaikaL ' \ ■ A "White ' Book' just issued,- shbws that the 'last tlapanese ,Note offered to. recognise Manchuria^ as outside her political provi-deel Russia recognised <Korea * 'as* outside ffcers. This Concession sefeir)s 'to'^have convinced Russia" that"" JaptfS "'X^tJuld^^acrifici an-ytlting-.-^eather -ttati -fight. • - ij The Times' Niu-chwang corresponc|'entMatates that the "river >cc h'aa'ibr'o^en *P- - \ Prince Alex-ieff lias renewed his demand that all Chine?© officials an'S sqldiers her withdt&vra.^ .^om_ Mai&hu!*- »• '"'" ' "".' _ } Russian authorities deny that th'£ Japanese^^ have;; crofesgfl -the,Ta<>ung height^.' , >v :i.: i . r i.r^ ti •-. '