TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12650, 7 September 1904, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

RUSSIA 3iFA\S IH'SIXKSS. TURKU MOV, ARMY CORPS. llrfc'ivoi] September 7, 7 5! am. Paris, September (i. St. Petersburg telegrams to French newspapers annoiuice that three new army corps will be, mobilised. BRITISH CRUISERS PATROLLING. London, September 7. Tho cruisers Lancuster and Suffolk are patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar. KURORTS L-'LANKINCi MOVEMENT. DESPEIUTK NIGHT ATTACKS. JAPS. TEN MILES NORTH OF LIAO-YANG. TENACIOUS OPPOSITION BY RUSSIANS. JRRLMSTIBLE .JAPANESE INFANTRY CHARGES. J{ecelvr<2 bir\>[cni<[cr 7, n m. London. September ft. Thu Times correspondent with General Kuroki on Saturday morning denr-ribe-! the |], inking movement, which prorrr^'^ed by a succession of desperate -nijilit attacks. General Kuroki ib within five miles of tho

railway line and ten miles north of Liao-yan^. The Russians showed tenacious opposition. A correspondent south of Liao-yang descriles the Japanese as making a gradual ascent of the slopes, and en1 reaching preparatory to making irresistible infantry assaults. The Mil-let-fields assisted the Japanese, but the wet weather favoured the Russians. **