RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12758, 11 January 1905, Page 2

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

NOGI'S FORCE ¥0R MANCHfJRIA. FRANCE COULD NOT ASSIST RUSSIA. United Press Association. --By Ele- trie Telegraph .— ( Y>py r igh t . Kalgoorlie, January 10. Ton Japanese residents held a procession, carrying Japanese lanterns in honour of the army's success at Port Arthur. London, Janu-iry 10. Mr Bennett Burleigh, Daily Telegraph correspondent, states that a large portion of General Nogi's force has been hurriedly despatched to Liao-yang. M. Paid Lannesan, in Lc Siecle Warors, says that Russia and I'Yancc would bo unable to" assist one another beyond gi\ing moral encouragement since if they went further they would provoke war with England, which France was not prepared for. General Stoessel. until his ••apitulation. believed a Chinese spies' story that General Kuropatkin was a few miles north of Port Arthur. Continental opinion o,f the supreme heroism of the Port Arthur dofoive is changing since the revelation of the strength of the surrendered garris mi. The Navy Departimnt at Tokio explains that the refusal of tho Andromeda's (British hospital ship) offer " was due to the Japanese .-omm.inder's general instructions. The offer was gratefully a'^-ci»ted at Tokio. but when Port Arthur was notified cf this the Andromeda had already left. A disastrous mine explosion in Port Arthur is reported at Cho-foo. The Standard states that one-half of the officers are choosing captivity, owing to the cold terms of the Char's message. Officers marching to the Chanafiingtzu station looked careworn, and .were surprised and pleased at the Japanese kindness in carrying, tho Russian soldiers' kits when the • latter v ere fatigued, and offering them food and cigarettes. The Daily •Mail states that the ; British cruiser Forte, at Mauritius, received an ethergram from strange warships in cypher, believed to be Japanese.