Sanginary Fighting.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7828, 22 August 1904, Page 5

Sanginary Fighting.

The Japanese Objective.

China's Neutrality.

Colonel Hay's Scheme.

{Received Yesterday, at 9.26 a.m.) London, Saturday.

The Liverpool Steamship-owners Association have passed a strong resolution that an immediate and satisfactory settlement of the question •' What constitutes contraband?" is imperative. They urged the Government to protect the British flag. Chinese refugees report that the Japanese have been expelled from Palingshing, about three miles north of Port Arthur, whence the bombardment of the inner forts was being carried on, and havo been driven to Shushying. Other accounts state that there is continual and sanguinary lighting at all points. Advices from Liaoyang state that the Japanese objective is now Mukden. Many Japanese troops are reported along the Chinese railway towards Sinmingting (which is about 50 miles due west of Mukden). The Taotai at noon yesterday ordered the Ofrosovoi to leave in '24 hours. The Askold will complete her repairs in 48 hours, and afterwards depart in 24 hours. The alternative in each case is to disarm. Japan has intimated that unless China is prepared to, Japan will enforce this decision. Numerous reports received state that the Cnunchuses are killing the Russians and that the latter are devastating the villages and killing the Chunchuses as retribution. Count Cassini, Eussian Minister at Washington, in course of an interview, said that Colonel Hay's grand scheme to insure China's neutrality had gone to wreck. The entire Chinese question was now open to all eventualities.