RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1227, 19 January 1905, Page 2

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

More Garrison Revelations

Sharp Fight in Manchuria

Press Association.—Copyright,

LONnO.v, Jan 18

General Stoessel, interviewed by the Daily Express correspondent, said that until Ocrober he had great hopes that the Baltic Fleet would relieve Port Arthur ; also, that the Uouucil of War had unanimously agreed to surrender. Other officers declared that Admiral Ah-xit-ff was a coward for quit ting Port Arthur, and that Admiral Dqhotomskd was a coward for returning all the regimental and nayal flags, which had been conveyed to Chifu.

They said that none of the ships hud been scuttled, but all had been sunk by the Metre Hill guns, and that Kondrachenko was the sole defence .

They allege that frightful excesses were committed after the surrender, and that the officers' lives were imperilled. Ultimately the men were starved into submission.

Before the Japanese entry only enough ammunition was left to resist one more general assault.

THE LiATE BESIEGERS

ARRIVE IN MANCHURIA Press Association.—Copyright. London, Jan. 18

Advices from Mukden state that forty thousand men from Port Arthur have reinfotced General Oyama.

THE MAGAZINE EXPLOSION Press Association. —Copyright. LONdon, January 18 Russian sources are responsible for the story that, gases from the Japanese mines which exploded during the attack on Fungshunshan were collected in an underground passage and fired the magazine, causing the "entombment cabled on the 2nd. STOESSEL'S OFFICERS > Press Association.—Copyright. London, Jan. 18 Stoessel's 250 officers have sailed for Europe. THE DAMAGED WARSHIPS Press Association.—Copyright. London, Jan. 18 The Times Port Arthur correspondent reports that the Pereviet, Poltava, Pallada, and Bayan may be refloated at great expense, but that the Retvisan is hopeless and the Pobeda doubtful. All the turret guns were biown up before the surrender, but some of the secondary armament is intact.

MAN CHURIAN CAMPAIGjT

A BRISK ENGAGEMENT

Press Association.—CopyrightSt Petersburg, Jan 18

Kuropatkin reports that a strong Japanese detachment of infantry, cavalry, and artillery on the 14th, under coverjjof the mist, outflanked a column of Russian cavalry about to retire northwards, and that a battle ensued. The Russian guns inflicted heavy loss at a range of a thousand pace 3, and then retired in good order. The casualties were five officers and fifty men. .

THE RECENT RAID Prees Association.—Copyright. London, January 18 A Japanese staff officer states tha* Chinese regulars accompanied General Mistchanko's raiders. MISCELLANEOUS A FALSE ACCUSATION Press Association.—Copyright. LondON, Jan. IS ' | Russia has expressed regret that ( r he press has accused Britain of allowing the Japanese to establish a h;ise at Labuan, a British colony off Borneo, in the Malay Archipelago. THE CARRIAGE OF CONTRABAND FIFTY BRITISHERS IN DANGEU J Press Association.—CJopyright. j London, January 18 | The London underwriters fear that the Japanese may capture in Tsushima Straits fifty British vessels which ar« approaching Vla<Ji vostock, and which are insured for two millions. RUSSIA THREATENS CHINA ~ ] A SENSATIONAL REPORT ' \ Press Association.—Copyright. i NEW January 18 < ] The New York Herald's Tientsin i that Russia I threatens to insist Northern China J if China cj|tetiuues to discriminate < against Russian in the ] Japanese.fajferar. ft 'V>;. ' '/iv

! Fifty British Contrabanders in Danger of Capture

Russians Threaten China for Nat ality Breaches

LIMIT

THE FIELD OF OPERATIONS

PROPOSED COMPULSORY

Press Association.—Copyright.

London, Jan. 18

China gives a general denial to Russia's charges ot breaches of neutraliry. Mr John Hay, American Secretary of Stats, has invited the Powers to assist in inducing the belligerents to respect the agreement limiting the field of operations.

THE BALTIC FLEET MOVING ON Press Association.—Copyright. Paris, January 18 The Matin's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that Admirals Roshdestvenski and Foelkersahn have junctioned at Madagascar, and sailed without waiting for Admiral Botrovosky.

The Unrest in Russia Police Activity Press Association.—Copyright. St Pbtebsburg, Jan. 17 The Russian police are suppressing the means of seditious propaganda, and have seized all the typewriters at Romni and Poltava. The inhabitants of Kertch and Kerson hav6 held a reform demonstration in defiance of the authorities. IRONWORKERS' STRIKE Press Association.—Copyright. St. Pbtbrsburg, January 18 The Baku strike, owing to the masters concession, has neaily ended. St Petersburg, Jan. 18 The manager at Pietilofi undertakes to inquire into tbe case of tbe dismissal of unionists if the strikers resume work. A CHIEF OF POLICE IN DANGER THREE ATTACKS IN THREE DAYS Press Association.—Copyright. London, Jan. 18. Renter's agency reports that threo attacks have been made in three days running on General Trepofif, Chief of Police at Moscow, who was reported to have been assassinated while joumej'ing to tit. Petersburg. He was chiefly responsible for the poliae brutalities at Moscow. A UNIVERSITY CLOSED St, Petersburg, January 18 The University of Moscow has been closed..

BOMB ATROCITIES St. Petrrsbubg, January 18 To-day a bomb penetrated the residence of the Governor of Smolensk , A bomb was fired to-day in the police quarters at Poshekhon. STRIKE OF GOVERNMENT SHIPBUILDERS TWELVE THOUSAND MEN CEASE WORK CONSTRUCTION OF WARSHIPS STOPPED Press Association.—Copyright. i Sr. Pbtkrsbubg, Jaanuary 18 At Yeroslave twelve thousand shipbuilders employed in the Russian Government yards have joined the Pietiloff strikers, and have stDpped completing the gunboats and submarines. There are now fifty thousand strikers in St. Petersburg.