Two Japanese Columns Effect a Junction.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7778, 23 June 1904, Page 5

Two Japanese Columns Effect a Junction.

Inhabitants of Villages Coerced to Contribute to the War Fund.

Moscow Millionaires Holding

Aloof,

They Denounce the Campaign.

" A Frivolous and Useless

War." (Received To-day, at 9.21 a.m.)

London, Last Night. It is reported that the Russians are retreating from Wufangkau.

They mistook Emerson, the New York World's correspondent, for a spy, and shot him.

Advices received from St. Petersburg j in New York, state that General Kuropatkin personally directed the movement from Liaoyang southwards.

" Generals Kuroki and Uku junctioned and presented o solid front to the Russian column between Haicheng and Liaoyang, driving the enemy to Liaoyang —perhaps beyond.

Russian officials in the villages are putting pressure on the people to contribute so-called voluntary subscriptions towards the cost of the war. The amount which the communes are expected to contribute is fixed beforehand.

The millionaires of Moscow are contributing to a nigggardly extent. Mozorof, one of the richest, told the Grand-Duke Sergius that manufacturers preferred paying many thousand roubles daily in wages, to keep the Socialist workers busy to assisting to continue a frivolous and useless war, which was destined to inflict

endless miseries.