The Liaoyang-Fight.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVII, Issue 12272, 5 September 1904, Page 5

The Liaoyang-Fight.

Received September 3, 8.42 a.m

. LONDON, September 2. It is officially reported at Tokk> that the. Japanese (X)isisCiS since the 29th are below 10,000.

The headquarters' of the Japanese arnt'es.wiffl.forthwith be at Lriaoyang.

A fii-e is raging at Liaoyang. It is believed to be among the stores.

Generals Oku and Nodzu are pressing th© Russians along the Taite© River.

[T(he Tlaitse River floats past Liaoyang.]. •General! Kui^opatkin's totqzg were thrown into confusion when crossing the river.

There aro indications that at Yentai the Japaneso have -pressed back 35,000 Russians.

[Yj&ntai ia on the road from Liaoyang to Mukden, aboait 15 milesmorth of the former place, the distance 'between the two towns being albout 45 niil'ee.]

Received S«iptetmber 3, 8.42 a.m. . LONDON, September 2

Advices, frbm' iSt. Petersburg state that General Ku>ropatkiii is drawing the Japanese nortlnwards, and intends to cruish them betweenl (his own and General! Linovitclro army.

It is expected that tho Fifth and Sixth. Army Corps, with adequate moun. iaiin artillery, will reach Mukden, in a fortnight. GeneraiE Kuropatklin adm'ts liis lofi^es for the two days are 5000, all'so that his ifghlb lias fallen 'back, and that General Ivuirold has crossed the T'aiitse and is advancing westward. Admiral Ukhtomsky hats regained Port Arthur after the naval fight ion the 10th. The commander will snort'ly be court martial ed 'for di-eobeying the Czar's orders that the fleet should not return.

in pursuance of orders to the British Ainibansadoo" at Pekin that impairs to the Aiskold and GrasiovcTba stopped, Olrna. lias ordered tfoa crewts to be repatriated on parole. Japan has notified the- -neutral Powers that when the- Japanese capture acy vessels they \\i& remove tlic-i crews. Reoaived September 8. 9.2 a.m. LONDON, -Sept-amber 2. The Japanese used Rus'/Lan cannon against the Liaoyang railway station. Field-Marshal Oya.nia\? right attacked j-esterday a. large force at Yenfai, 12 mileig ntartli-easb of Lia'oyang. A steaaner ■clea.i'ing the' clianiicl at Port) Arthur was struck by a mine and cTesfroyed'. " There are juUUatkms at Tokio over the recent eucccsses. The German- gunboat Tiger haster. mmaibed a frui'tilecs search for a, junk ctontaiining the Frencli and second German naval attaches at Tort Arthur.