18th June.
Fuller details of theovents leading up to the occupation of Hsiuyen are. can-tained in dispatches of General Kuroki received on the 10th inst. These state The enemy's force consisted of 4,000 cavalry with six guns. They retreated in the direction of Hsiuhong, and Kaiping. Our casualties wore one man killed, an Lieut. Ikebata (?) and 21 men slightly wounded.
The report from th Ianded at Takushan is detachment of our army, in ce-operation with a detachment of the First Army, repulsed the enemy in the neighbourhood of Hsiuyen on the afternoon of the 8th and occupied Hsiuyen at 5.20 p.m. The enemy's force at Hsinyon consisted of 41,500 or 1,600 cavalry and six guns. The: artillery and a portion of the cavalry rotroated.in the direction of Hsiuheng, and the greater part of the cavalry towards Kaiping. Our casualties were one man killed, and Sub-Lieut. Mihara and seven mon wounded.
Tt is reported that nineteen, junks with 1,500 Chinese on board have arrived at! Chefoo from Port Arthur, They. left Port Arthut with the permission of the Russian authorities, as the result of their application to leave on the ground of the scarcity of food. They wore examined by Tapaneso war-ships outside Port Arthur, 8 And those having no food on board were supplied with rice.
The following notes are from the "L.
Energetic measures are being taken to hurry forward reinforcements from Russia to the Far East. The mobilisation of two more'army-corps is announced, four others ate to be mobilised directly, and reservists are being called out in several districts. It is stated that, another 100,000 men will thus be placed at the disposal of General Kuropatkin. Each army corps, which in time of war comprises 50,000 men, includes three infantry Givisions, consisting of four regiments of throe battalions each, division of cavalry, consisting of three regiments of six squadrons each, one Cossack regiment, and two brigades of artillery, one field and the other horse artillery—altogether 120 us, Attached to each' army corps are also detachments of engineer and sappers. By the departure of these troops to the Far East the European army of Russia will lose six out of thirty-one army corps.
Attempts are still being made to got munitions of war to the Russians in the could not have arisen, Far East. Port Arthur being hopeless, Viadivostock is now the goal.. Several coal steamers are on their way, and a Isrge quantity of railway material is being shipped from the United States in a n tral steamer. The risks of capture on thi vessel have been written at 10 gs. per cent, compared with rates of 5s. per cent, and even less accepted for the risk of capture of steamers carrying contraband cargoes to Japan.
An ambulance section, with horses and trained dogs, has been dispatched to the Far Kast, vid Samara and Zlatusk. The dogs-are trained to carry first aid to the wounded on the field of battle. Each ries attached to its neck a small bag with spirits and the necessary accessories for a primary dressing. The horses are trained to walk two abreast, having a sort of litter slung between them in which wounded men can be carried. Interest is felt here by the fact that Major Hautonville Richardson, Carnoustie, Forfarshire, the well-known trainer of ambulance dogs, has received an order from St. Petersburg for a number of these animals. For the st eight years Major Richardson has devoted hiniself to the teaching-of such dogs, who remain by: the wounded man until the strotohor-bearers atri Sir George'S. Clarke, speaking at the annual dinner of the Navy League, said that there wore no braver soldiers and sailors than the Russians, yot Russia had vi] begun with disaster, a her strategic position was already gravely compromised: The Japanese-had seized the initiate and maintained it, Why? It was due to brains—brains which had drawn.up a brilliant plan of campaign in which no detail was overlooked, and brains in the bluejacket and the private enabling them to respond to the great calls made on them. No power in the world lived under conditions more closely resembling our own than did Japan, whose prosperity and progress, like ours, depended on the sea. What Japan had to do now we might have to do to-morrow, and should succeed or fail according to the methods we adopted. Admiral Togo had admirably discharged his task, and when the menace of the Russian Fleet at Port Arthur disappeared, the land forces were ready to strike with effect. Japan had mobilised 300,000 men, had ready the same number, behind whom came the able-bodied manhood of the country. If Japan had contented herself with or-sarusing her own defence and nothing else she would have been safe in her own islands, but she could have done nothing to carry out her national ideals.
The following extract from the '"Listok," of Astrakhan, is printed by some of the St. Petersburg newspapers:—English men bring us ill-luck even when they help us. The Varyag episode is a case in point. Asis known, one of the first to come forward to the help of the sailors of the Varyag was Captain Bayly, of the Talbot. What have you decided to do?? he inquired of Captain Roudnieff.
shall blow her up,' the Russian replied. Sink her rather, if it's all the same to you, rejoined the Englishman, whose ship was lying near the Varyag, and might have been damaged by such explosion. Koudnioff replied that he was indifferent so long as his ship did not fall into the enemy's hands. The rumour is now current that the Japanese have undertaken the salvage of the Varyag; but if Captain Roudnieff had followed his first impulse, and had blown up his ship instead of listening to the English captain, such a contingency
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