RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12863, 23 May 1905, Page 2

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

JAPANESE ON BUSS JAN FLANKS. ROZHDESTVENSKY'S SUCCESSOR. ENQUIEY INTO SURRENDER OF PORT ARTHUR. Unitea Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph, — Copyright. London, J\Say 22. Large Japanese forces are deploying, on the Russian fjanks. Owing to the premat'uro melting of the ice on the river Sunigjari, | many Russian x carts, 611 e d( witfli supplies, were lost, and the (drivers "drowned. :: r | St., Petersburg, 22. ' Admiral Biriloflr, who •reJit4veS|A id- | miral Roziidestvonsikyj starts from S^. Petersburg; for 'Vlaidiivfostofc on 25th.. The Ozar has institAite(d a (permanent State Defence Cautncil, uinSder the presidency of • pranH . Dujke Nicholas, to ensure the adequate Welvelofpjment of the fighting forces of t)he Empir|. It is reported in St. Petersburg that a strong- Japanese movemoni has boon comjmen'cad against Genersjl JLineiviteh's. rigdvt wing, 'west of the railway. The newspaper Russ complains that dissipation and amUsemdnt are in full swing in Harbin, money flowing lite water. The Times' Paris correspondent learns from a Russian scsurco i I ai> Admiral Rolzh'destvenslky ordered the colliers a'n\l three amnvunition sl-ips to reiudezvoius at tiho island of Btl-

antang, in the north of Luzon.

The American «fleet at Manila is wholly inadequate, except to make .a demfonstration .

Oontraidictory reports from' otih'cr SQtirtees indicate that the main Ball ie fleet passed -through tjie Bashi Chennel, and that all are off Jffainun waiting for the return, of the auxiliary crXiisers seivt to colloct the conyoy of colliers.

The- ' Times' correspo'nfdeTit at tjio Japaoiese heaklqwarters states tihiat the Russian line extends eigjht nrilos west of the railway, with General IMi^dheaiko's cavalry on the right tranfe of tho Liao River. Tho Russian left elxtemHs from General Kaulbars' coontoanid eastwarjds to a point fifty miles s'omth of Kiriu, where one division is Iplaceid. Tho Russian left, ur/der General Kluropatkin, consist of fi,ve ciorps.,

The hills north of Kirin, axe h'oaivily fortified.

St. Peterstyujrg, |May 22.

A Commission of Inquiry into tlhe surreaiHer of Port Arthur ascertained ■tfh'at two million sterling, intenldejd for the fortifications, were not iiseVi for that purpose, the r-espomsibility for which is attributed to Prmce Aletxiqff.