RUSSO – JAPANESE WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12922, 29 July 1905, Page 5

RUSSO - JAPANESE WAR.

THE POLICE TERMS. \%X A BIG E^dA.<S'E%ENT IJIMIXENT. J^PS^HAVE A MINOR SUCCESS. United Prei* Afsooiatipn. — By Elootrn ' Tclcgraph-'-Copy tight. London, July 28. ' j Washington advices .state .^that Jixpan in likely to demand the neutralisation of Vladivostok, offering in return not to fortify f-'Pqrj; nr--^' .Diplomatists 'declare .that Barou .Komui*a ( Ja,panQ,se r Peace Plenipotejntiury), before accepting" the mission, insisttJ 011 tb'- raising- of a new. Japancsjoi.oaii'.iiijviv^of'tho coiitinuanee of war in tlie» event of neajotiations failing, the occupation of Saghajien, *advahbe' a^iiitistr jVla'dU'ofi^ok,' and stiiking'va.dccisiy.tt felp.w h% Sl^nohuria,' Advices from the front indicate the imminence of a general engagement in Ittanohiiria 1 . ■' ' »A » ■«-•■. '■'.' i -'-V \ Japanese navjal . detaohmen* pn Sunday captured Alkewa bfter dislodging a battalion of Russian infantry, !00 vobmtef^K'-^anti- eight ! field guns A <k v :ac!unent of Japanese infantry .oaptjir'-d- I^yg^ta^jSuGuring-. fJO,O(H> -ibny.. of. coal, and . £Qme light lailwa'y material. ' The Russians stubbornly defended the redoubts/ oast:iofrAlex.androYsk town. which 1 were ultimately captured intact, with 100 prisoners. <• , -■$