THE WAR.
NAVAL OPERATIONS.
[REUTER'S SERVICE.]
THE RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET.
LONDON, 30th June. The Times Paris correspondent wires it is reported that Russia has applied for permission for the Baltic fleet to coal at French ports en route to the Far East, and that it is declared this is possible without a breach of neutrality.
A RUSSIAN DENIAL.
LONDON, 2nd July. An official telegram from the Russian Consul at Yingkau reporting the arrival of Burukoff adds:" Admiral Togo's state-
ments of the affair of the 23rd June are inventions. All our vessels are safe and
sound."
General Pflug at Mukden telegraphs in a similar manner.
Admiral Alexieff reports to the Tsar that he is informed by the Naval Commander at Port Arthur that the Novik, Deane, Askold, Sebastopol, Poltava, Pobieda, Peresviet, Rei- visan, Bayan and Pallada made a sortie from the roadstead on the 23rd June; the fleet sailed twenty miles to the South, when they sighted the Japanese squadron, consis- ting of 5 battleships, 16 cruisers and 30 torpedoers. The Naval Commander adds: Considering the greatly superior force of the enemy, I decided to return to Port Arthur and reached the roadstead where the fleet anchored. The Japanese made frequent attacks with destroyers, but were successfully repulsed. In the morning all the ships entered Port Arthur at high tide. At least two Japanese destroyers were sunk."
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[JAPANESE OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.]
RUSSIAN GUARDSHIP AT PORT ARTHUR SUNK.
TOKYO, 3rd July, 4.40 p.m. Admiral Togo reports that the 12th torpedo-boat flotilla on the night of 27th June attacked and sank the enemy's guard- ship, with two masts and three funnels, outside Port Arthur.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
order at Liaoyang, directing the troops to treat the fallen or captured Japanese with a respect due to brave foes and to care for the wounded in the same way as they care for the Russian wounded,
The telegram adds that this is doubtless in response to the excellent treatment of the wounded Russians in the Japanese hospitals.
THE FENCHUILING FIGHT.
LONDON, 30th June. General Kuropatkin wires that the Japanese force which captured the Feng Chiu pass consisted of 27 battalions. He admits that the Russian loss was heavy.
CLOSING IN ON PORT ARTHUR. LONDON, 1st July.
A Russian official despatch shows that the Japanese on the 26th last captured first the heights behind Siaopingtao, 14 miles east of Port Arthur, then Lungwangtang mountain, eight miles to the east of Pori Arthur. They are now erecting a heavy battery on Lungwangtang.
The Russian gunboats and torpedoes from Port Arthur supported the Russians,
Strong Japanese columns are advancing along the central Dalny-Port Arthur road.
RUSSIAN REPORTS.
THE JAPANESE REPORTED TO BE
RETIRING.
LONDON, 3rd July. General Kuropatkin reports that the Japanese force have ceased to advance everywhere except from Senyucheng. They are retiring in the Eastward from the region North of Fenghwangcheng.
St. Petersburg newspaper telegrams from Linoyang state that the Russians are taking the offensive and re-occupied the Taling pass. The correspondent of the Bourse Gazette says that Motien pass and Fengshui pass have also been re-occupied, and that Mis. chenko's Cossacks have annihilated a Japa. nese brigade at Sinyen. On the Tashichian road the Japanese are retiring from all their positions.
The escape of the Vladivostock squadron was due to the darkness and the fog. Ad- miral Kamimura at nightfall approached the squadron to within a distance of 5 miles between Ikishima and Tsushima. The The same flotilla then exchanged fire with Russians shelled the pursuing torpedoers the enemy's destroyers, one of which was and, suddenly extinguishing their lights, observed to capsize and sink. Our casual-disappeared in the darkness, ties were 14 killed and 3 wounded.
JAPANESE NAVAL DISASTER.
TOKYO, 7th July.
Admiral Togo reports that the Kaimon, while on a special mission ou the 5th inst. outside of Talienwan, under a thick fog, hit
a Russian mine and sank. Three officers, including Commander Takahashi, 19 non- commissioned officers and meu, were missed. The rest were saved.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
BRITISH SLOOP ORDERED TO NEWCHWANG.
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LONDON, 4th July. Earl Percy in the House of Commons said that H. M. Š. Espiegle had been ordered to Newchwang.
LAND OPERATIONS.
(REUTER'S SERVICE.]
ARMY ORDER BY GENERAL KUROPATKIN.
LONDON, 29th June.
A St. Petersburg semi-official says that General Kuropatkin has issued an Army
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A GROWING FORCE
LONDON, 5th July. General Kuropatkin had fewer than 120,000 men of all arms on the 17th June, but a steady increase since that date makes his position at Liaoyang and Haicheng
quite secure.
RUSSIAN RESERVES CALLED OUT.
LONDON, 5th July. An Ukase calls out a further large body of reservists to the Military districts of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kasaw and Kieff.
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[JAPANESE OFFICIAL DESPATCH.]
RUSSIANS ATTEMPT TO RETAKE
MOTIEN LING.
TOKYO, 5th July, 3.45 p.m. General Kuroki reports that under a thick fog at dawn on the 4th instant, two battalions of the Russian infantry attacked our outposts at Motionling, trying three times to take it by assault. After severe hand-to-hand fighting our outposts repulsed, the enemy, and pursued them 4 miles west.
Our side had 15 killed and 39 wounded, including one officer. The enemy left on the field 30 dead and 50 wounded.
(REUTER'S SERVICE.]
VALOROUS RUSSIANS.
LONDON, 6th July. General Bakharoff, who watched the
Motienling fight from a tower, praises the valour of the troops.
General Sakharoff reports that the Russians on the 3rd instant drove the Japanese to within four miles of Sen Yu Ching, and that the enemy is fortifying the Taling pass.
RUSSIA REQUIRES MORE MEN. LONDON, 6th July.
A Ukase to-day calls out 447,302 men liable to military service in accordance with the conscription law, also all naval reservists in European Russia for the purpose of completing the complement of It also calls out the the Baltic ports. reservists in the Southern provinces for Sevastopol,
THE TRANSPORT DISASTER.
OFFICERS KILLED AND SAVED. The Asahi observes that there now seems little reason to doubt that Captain John Campbell. master of the Hitachi Maru, met his death when disaster overtook the transport. This being generally accepted, the Government is now him for his services and granting a pension to making investigations with a view to decorating his family, as in the case of a Japanese officer under similar circumstances. The same meas- ures are being taken with regard to Mr. Glass, the Chief Engineer of the Hitachi, and other for- eign officers. Mr. Hayashi Asataro, of the Moji branch of the N. Y. K., who has been making inquiries into the fate of the crews of the Idzumi, Hitachi, and Sado, reports to Mr Yatani, manager of the N. Y. K. at Kobe, that
the total of the crews of the three steamers who were saved and brought to Moji is 117, being 16 from the Hitachi, and 102 from the Sado including the third officer. From these men it
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is learned that Captain Campbell, who was on the bridge when the Russians approached, had his right foot completely shot away. afterwards. Some say he threw himself over- seen sitting on a chair near his cabin for a time,
board, but the crew saw little of him after he was shot.
Mr. Glass, the Chief Engineer, was seen lying in the passage between his cabin and the engine-room, also wounded by & projectile. Mr. Bishop, the Second Engineer to the was working in very high spirits up last. It is st ted he once jumped into the water, but clambered on board again, helped to lower a boat, and left with thirty or forty men, he being at the helm. Two or three of the men in the boat were swept away by a shot and the. rest jumped overboard. Mr. Bishop was seen Russia's warships take refuge at Kiao-swimming and clinging to an
oar. It is chau, Germany will strictly carry out inter-supposed he is among the drowned. Captain national neutrality obligations.
GERMAN NEUTRALITY.
LONDON, 5th July.
The Kolnische remarks that should
HARDLY A ROUT.
LONDON, 5th July. An official St. Petersburg despatch re- porting the recent fight at Motienling, says that the Russians routed the Japanese ad- vance guard in a bayonet fight and then retired, the Japanese being reinforced. The Russians lost over 9 officers and 200 men.
Anderson, of the Sado, Mr. Kerr, Chief Engineer, Mr. Dring, Chief Officer, and Messrs. Yahiko and Kawata, purser and clerk, were picked up by a Russian boat and taken on board one of the warships. Mr. Carmichael, Second Engineer, and a few seamen and stokers, rowed to a warship. Captain Higg, Chief Engineer Kubo, Purser Yoshida, and all the other members of the crew of the Idzumi who were not killed, may have been taken on board one of the Russian ships, The boatswain and
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