RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1114, 8 October 1904, Page 2

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

DESPERATE SOETIES FROM PORT ARTHUR

SKIRMISHING NEAR MUKDEN

REINFORCEMENTS FOR KUROPATKIN

BALTIC FLEET STILL DELAYED

*ivm Aunrastion.—Oonyrtghi

London, October 7 DESPERATE sorties are being made by the Port Arthur garrißon. There are fresh indications that tho ammunition is short.

elude the Japanese vigilance a Yladivoatock.

STOESSEI/S CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE

HOW IT WAS SEN!

Press Association-Copyright

London, October 7

One of General Stoessel's despatches to the Czar was so confidential regarding the situation that copies of it on flimsy paper were entrustod to three officers with instructions to swallow it, if captured Two were captured, and the third reached St. Petersburg.

The information has not been published.

MANCHURIAN CAMPAIGN

RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS Press Association—Copyright London, October 7 Kuropatirin is reinforcing his left wing.

HEAVY SKIRMISHING Press Association—Copyright. London, October 7 ] leavy skirmishing is taking place at llnnkopu, south of Mukden. POOR SCOUTING Press Association—Copyright. London, October 7

Captured documents reveal that many Russian infantry officers have made complaints of the inefficiency of the cavalry scouts and the unreliableuess of the information they obtain.

PREPARING FOR THE WINTER Press Association.—Copyright London, October 7, The Japanese are bringing enormous supplies to Liaoyang for the winter campaign. The soldiers stand the cold splendidly.

MISCELLANEOUS

SPEECH BY A JAP STATESMAN

THE COST OF THE WAR

NATION URGED TO ECONOMISE

Press Association.—Copyright London, October 7

Count Okuma, addressing the united clearing-houses of Tokio, said it was impossible to foretell the duration of the war, but he predicted that in two years the war would cost Japan two thousand million yen, (£12:1,000,000) and the Russians three or four thousand million roubles (about, £600,000,000), Russia had reached the limit of borrowing and taxation. Japan in 1905 conld borrow live hundred million yen (JJIOG, 250,000) and if she secmred a hundred and fifty million (£31,875,000) abroad she must face the depreciation in securities. He urged the nation to husband itß resources, and said he had the fullest confidence in ultimate victory.

THE CRUISER SCARE Press Association .—Copyright BRISBANE, Oct, 7 The cruiser scaro is beginning to be regarded as a hoax,

EFFECT OF THE WAR DISTRESS IN RUSSIA Press Association.—Copyright, St. Petesrurg, October 7 Out of 100,000 artisans in Moscow and Vladimer, tho chief centres of the textile trades, f)0,000 are workless.

THE BALTIC. FLEET

ANOTHER DELAY

Press Association-Copyright. London, October 7

Serious damage to several of the battleships' engines further delaytl the departure of the Baltic fleet.

ON THE LOOK-OUT

Press Asoeiatioi).—Copyright

London, October 7

Japanese destroyers patrol the route from Tientsin and Chefoo to intercept suspected French blockade runners to Port Arthur. x - German ships report it is easy to