Success of the Enveloping Movement
Russian Retreat Being Cut Off
Nogi and Oku Closing In
A Swedish Steamer Captured
Received March 7, 9.17 p.m
LONDON, March 7. 1 There ds every indication that the enveloping movement is a, success.
It is reported that Kuroki's scouts, advancing from northward of Fushan, communicated with Nogi's forces from the west. The Japanese have outstretched their wings, and the converging columns are threatening the Tieling railway.
A large Japanese force is marching .to the mountains to cut off the Russian retreat along the Mukden to Harbin Road.
The Japanese .are only two kilometres from Oho ling—'Kuropatkin's headquarters. The people on th© roofs of the houses at Mukden are watching the shrapnel bursting in the swamps south of the Imperial tombs. Generals Oku and Nogi are closing in. The Swedish steamer Vegga and the .British coffier Easby Abbey, bound for Vladivostock, have been captured.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12446, 8 March 1905, Page 5
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