Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Russian war office will send 400,COO more troops to Manchuria. Russia is sending a steady stream of war materia) to the Indian frontier. Grand Duke Vladimir says Russia will send another army to the far East. Russians are charged with burning wounded Japanese soldiers in Manchuria. ' Thousands of Russian soldiers were captured by the Japanese when Mukden fell. Gen. Gripenberg, in an interview nt St. Petersburg, bitterly assailed Gen. Kuropatkin. The Russian government paid to Great Britain $325,000 in settlement of the North Sea claims. The British steamer Eusby Abbey, from Cardiff, bound for Vladivostok, was seized by the Japanese. Gen. Stoessel, the hero of Tort Arthur, met with a cool reception upon his arrival in St. Petersburg. Russia urged China to protest against the violation of the neutrality of Chinese territory by the Japanese. The disaster to the Russian army has revived talk of peace in Europe. The opinion prevails that peace is inevitable. ,Tbe Japanese steamer Osaka Shoshen Kais,ha sank while entering Osaka harbor, and over one hundred lives were lost. The British steamers Apollo and Scotsman, with contraband cargoes for Vladivostok, were captured by Japanese warships.