COREAN WAR.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 8087, 1 April 1895, Page 2

COREAN WAR.

RUSSIA GETTING READY TO CHIP IN. MORE JAPANESE VICTORIES. Pj>k PfiKsiT Association. Shanghai, March 29. Russia has assembled twenty-one warships in Chinese water, including her best ironclads, and has massed thirty thousand troops in the vicinity of Vladivostock. The number of the latter is to be increased to ninety thousand. The Japanese have captured the islands of Yuchow and.Haichbw .with'a loss to the enemy of three hundred. It is believed they intend to advance upon Nankin and capture Naichow, with a view to seize the canal. The chief route by which Pekin receives" supplies. ; '■■'-■ The Japanese continue their advance, and their fleet is now bomb!tA& - ing Fai Tai Wahfoo and Formosa. : ' i London, March' 29: , It is reported that Russia proposes to occupy Pescadores under • similar conditions to those under which Cyprus is held by Great Britain. ' Later. The great powers decline to support the proposal of the Chinese Govern- ' went for an armistice pending the result of peace negotiations now going on in Japan or interfere in any way in the warfare. Yokohama, March 30. Owing to the outrage committed on Li Hung Chang, the Mikado has decreed an unconditional armistice;