[JAPANESE OFficial telegram.]
CASUALTIES AT KAIPING.
TOKYO, 13th July, 12.50 p.m. General Oku reports that in the occupa tion of Kaiping our casualties from 5th to 7th inst. were 24. whereof 4 men were killed.
Those of the 8th and 9th were about 180.
NAVAL OPERATIONS.
[REUTER'S SERVICE.]
NOT FAR FROM GENSAN.
LONDON, 7th July. Admiral Skrydloff reports that the Vladivostock squadron encountered seven large Japanese warships in Broughton Bay. The squadron turned back, the Japanese pursuing and firing without result. Eleven torpedoers attacked the Russiaus, and it is believed that two were sunk. The Japanese disappeared in the morning, leaving the Russians undamaged and without casualties.
WAR ITEMS.
Ir is reported from Newohwang by Chinese that on the 3rd instant there were no less than 300,000 Russian troops encamped outside the city of Haicheng.
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THE Russian correspondent of the Echo de Chine writes under the heading The Baltic Fleet":"This fleet is very sick, and it is not for nothing that it is nicknamed La Sonnaia, "The Sleeping Fleet. Composed of very fine units, it grows mouldy in the harbours and is only fit for ornament. Its vital pieces do not exist, are in bad condition, or are replaced by temporary pieces, and God knows when it will be able to start. Besides which, everybody is asking of what use it can be. By the Red Sea it will require 52 days at least, perhaps 60 or 70. according to the weather. This brings it to the end of September, if the fleet leaves at the end of July, which is very doubtful. It is feared that it will arrive too late. ¿.e., after the feast is over."
VLADIVOSTOCK.
AT Vladivostock there are twenty-two forts and batteries on which are placed 100 heavy guns and sixty light guns, with calibres ranging from six inches to eleven inches. There are four ironclad cruisers (one of which has been wrecked, however), several transports (the largest one of which is the Lena), several second class torpedo-boats (which are from 100 to 200 tons in displacement and from nineteen to twenty- one knots in speed), and ten small torpedo-boats of an old type. Under the circumstances, the Japanese squadron can only attack Vladivostock by torpedo-boats. Small torpedo-boats cannot steam with the main squadron for the distance of 10,000 nautical miles, so that six destroyers of from 280 to 380 tons' displacement must be sent out from Japan. The Japanese squadron would incur a great loss in passing through the straits to the entrance to Vladivostock, since the east and west channels of the straits are strongly defended.
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
MARSHAL Oyama, Commander-in-Chief, General Baron Kodama, his Chief of Staff, General Fukishima and staff had the most splendid send-off this morning. says the Tokyo correspondent of the N-Č. Daily News on the 6th inst. They left in a special train with flags flying and bands playing. The streets were lined between the General Staff Office and the Shimbashi station, which was crowded outside and jammed inside. Marshal Oyama rode to the station in the carriage specially presented to him by the Emperor, amid tremendous enthusiasm.
JOURNALISTIC JOTTINGS.
POOR H. J. Middleton, the war correspondent who died of dysentery at Liaoyang, was only about thirty-five years old, and most of his journalistic experience was gained in Paris, with the Associated Press. Paris is the paradise of Pressmen. Daily News A. G. Hales, whose South African record was against his gaining the confidence of the Japanese Censor, is going
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paid a visit to the survivors on June 22nd. I am informed that all of them, with the exception of the wounded, will be removed to some other place in a few days. The names of the survivors will be reported immediately I receive them."
The foreign engineers on the transports numbered only three-namely Mr. Glass, Õhief Engineer on the Hitachi, and Mr. Kerr, Chief Engineer, and Mr. Carmichael, Second Engineer, on the Sado. Probably the fourth Englishman is one of the deck officers.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
home via Siberia. G. Kingswell, who came out | to arrange the field for the Daily Express, goes with him. Douglas Story, whose last corrusca- tions had Hongkong for venue, and J. Wigham smaller fry whom it is now too late to remember, of the Morning Post, with many others of the
have been recalled. The "picture men will probably follow, for what they have seen to depict could have been sketched just as well at the British Museum. The Daily Mail, pet journalistic offspring of the new baronite, seems to be "top side," now that the Times' Haimua charter has expired. On the Russian side it has the clever Hands, hero of many a scoop and in Japan, editing its war news with the skill acquired by five years residence on the spot, E. J. Harrison, who speaks and reads Japanese like a native, and is the foremost foreign ex- ponent of jujitsu in Mikado-land. His journal-bur, in which it is stated that Captain istic experience includes a long spell in western
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America.
A PICTURE MAP.
According to a striking panoramic map by the Japanese Mainichi vewspaper, revised and republished by the N.-C. Daily News, the Japa- nese army in three columns is marebing north with Mukden as their converging point. One column, leaving a large force on the neck of the Laotung Peninsula, investing Port Arthur; is following the railway track along the west to Haicheng, and (as recent despatches indicate) has passed Kaijing. This is the force that won the great battle of Telissu. In the valley road running from the port of Takushan to Haicheng, its scouts almost equi-distant with the western column, is the central column, massed at and about Shuen. The main army of invasion, operating from the Yalu, taking Fenghwangcheng and Saimachi en route, has pushed forward two detachments, one marching parallel with the middle columo, along the Liaoyang Road, and the other clearing the r ad over the Motieuling Pass from Saimachi to Mukden.
RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE KINCHAU FIGHT.
General Stoessel reported to headquarters on May 28th as follows:
"On May 26th, after a fierce battle which lasted two days. I ordered the Kinchan position to be evacuated in the evening, for we had opposed to us at least three divi-ions, with 190 guns.
The enemy's fice, particularly that of four gueboats and six torpedo-boats, completely annihilated our batteries mounted at Kinchan.
The 5th Regiment, which was posted at this spot, stood its ground heroically.
The fire of the regiment, as well as that of ou batteries and the gunboat Bobr off Khounoueza, infiicted enormous losses on the Japanese.
Our losses amounted to thirty officers and about 800 men killed and wounded.
We blew up and damaged all the guns which the Japanese had not put out of action. It was certainly not expedient to bring up siege artillery during a fight, for it would have to have been done three days before.
The battle of May 26th began at five o'clock in the morning and lasted until sight o'clock in the evening, when I ordered the position to be evacuated gradually.
The explosion of a number of mines and fougades was rendered impossible, inasmuch as the Japanese turned our position directly, advancing through water up to their waists and under the protection of their ships.
The spirit of our troops is excellent."
The method of transmission of General Stoessel's despatch is not disclosed, but it is presumed to have been brought by a junk. It was evidently drawn up under stress of circum- stances, as it was hastily written in pencil.-
SURVIVORS AT VLADIVOSTOCK. The following telegram reached the Foreign Office on Wednesday, 29th alt., from Mr. Inouye, Japanese Minister at Berlin:-
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CAPT. TROUBRIDGE. The following characteristic letter appeared in the Home paper named
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ** STANDARD.' Sir.-In The Standard of the 4th instant a report from the New York Correspondent of a London paper is telegraphed from S. Peters-
Troubridge is responsible for Admiral Togo's successes, having planned the night attack on Port Arthur, and being present at it in person."
In view of the possibility that misunderstand- ing may be caused were this statement to remain uncontradicted, I shall be under an obligation to you if you will mention in your next issue that I was not responsible for Admiral Togo" successes; that I did not plan the night attack on Port Arthur; and that I was not present at it in person.
I am. Sir, your obedient servant,
E. T. TROUERIDGE, Captain and late Naval Attaché at Tokyo.
1. Durham-place, S.W.. June 7.
TWO VESSELS SUNK AT GENSAN.
The following_reports dated the 30th have reached the Foreign Department
from Gensan :~~
1. Four Russian warships came here this morning at 5.30.
2. The number of Russian torpedo-boats was five. Besides these. three large vessels resem- bling warships were sighted off the port.
3. Russian torpedo -boats began to attack the settlement this morning at 6.10.
4. Six Russian torpedo-boats stopped firing at 6.45 a.m. after sinking one steamboat and one small sailing ship. They left the port at 7.20 a.m.
5. The enemy consisted of three warships, nine torpedo-boats, and one vessel which seemed to be a torpedo-destroyer. They steamed south- east and were off Anpen at 9.30 a.m.
6. They fired about two hundred shots at the settlement, but did not do much damage. The steamboat sunk by the Russians was the Koun Maru, belonging to Hori Kiu at Chemulpo, and the sailing ship was the Seisha Muru, which came across from Hokkaido. Her tonnage was only 35.
7. The crew who were on bos.d' the Seisha Maru 887 that a searchlight was turned upon them on the 24th the cast of Shunggin. All the people in the Settlement escaped to the hills and no one was killed. (Kobe Herald)
THE Japanese were in the Motienling Pass on or about the 4th inst. The middle column of the First Corps occupied Lienshan-Kwan.
THE Sasebo Prize Court on June 25th released the Norwegiau steamer (Aggi?) that was seized at Nagasai, and her cargo of coal too.
A TOKYO telegram of the 5th inst. to the N.-C. Daily News says that two thousand Russians retired toward the west of Tensiutien.
MESSES. Bush Bros. & Co., Lloyd's agents at Newchwang, sent the following telegram for publication in the N.-C. Daily News :—
Shanhaikuan, 2nd July.
A Ningpo junk loaded for the south struck a mine at 3 o'clock on the 29th of June near Ching Hang Island, between Chinchou and Fuchou in 31.39 N. Lat., 121,14 E. Long. Nine men were killed. Fifteen have been landed here, of whom two are in hospital.
THE Construction of iron cases for mines is going on merrily in Shanghai. Four of them were seen, says the Shanghai Daily News, being The U.S. Ambassador at St. Petersburg taken along the Bund on a truck on Saturday has supplied me by telegram with the following morning, and they are being openly mann- report, which he received from the U.S. Com-factured in Hongkow. It would be indiscreet to ask whether they are for Russian or Japanese mercial Agent at Vladivostock:
account.
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The survivors of those who were on board the Sado Maru and the transports which were sunk on June 16th and 17th arrived at Vladivo- stock on June 20th. They number 103 Japanese and 4 English engineers, in addition to 1 Japan- ese passenger and 11 wounded Japanese. I
SOME of the St. Petersburg papers complain of the pessimistic attitude of the Russian public, especially in the provinces, with regard to the war. Que of the principal, the Buss. says:----“ Already there are people who despair
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