Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1904 — JAPANESE CRUSH GEN. KUROPATKIN [ARTICLE]

JAPANESE CRUSH GEN. KUROPATKIN

Russians Reported to Have Met Defeat in Desperate Battle. NEWS COMES BY WAY OF ROME Japanese Said to Have Captured Whole Squadrons of j .Cossacks. .. . ■ —— • War Officials at St. Petersburg in a Gloomy Sjate of Mind—Situation at Port Arthur Is Bad.

Washington, June 1. —The Japanese legation has just given out the following dispatch from the home government at Tokio, embodying a report from General Oku as follows: “General \ Oku, commanding the army operating against Port Arthur, reports that our troops occupied Dalny on May 30. Over 100 warehouses and barracks, besides telegraph office and railway station were found uninjured. Over 200 railway ears are available, but all tbe small railway bridges in the neighborhood are destroyed. All dock piers, except the great pier which was sunk, remain uninjured. Some steam launches were also found at the mouth of the dock.”

London, June 2.—A special dispatch from Rome says a telegram has been received there from Tokio reporting that General Kuroki lias completely defeated General Kuropatkin’s forces near Sumentse (probably Saimatsza or Simatsi.) All the Russian positions east of Hnielieng have been abandoned, according to the telegram, several guns have been taken, and whole squadrons of Cossacks captured. Land Attack on Port Arthur. Indianapolis, Ind., June 2. —A special cable from tlie staff correspondent of the Indianapolis News at Chefoo, dated June 1, says: “The Japanese land nttack on Port Arthur was begun yesterday morning. Russian forces that were driven southward from Dalny and Kineliou by the Japanese are assisting the garrison at Port Arthur and the Russian navy has joined in the movement to repulse the enemy. There may be several days of skirmishing outpost work before the Russiaft city is taken but it is the opinion of refugees who have arrived here from the beseiged ‘Gibraltar’ that the Russians eventually must succumb to overwhelming numbers.” Russian Officials Are Gloomy. Tientsin, June 2.—A courier who has arrived here from New C’hwang says: "While it is known that the Russians received reports from Mukden giving tlie losses sustained by them during the fighting at Klnchou and Nanshan hill and the conditions prevailing, they will not talk on the subject. The officials are desperately gloomy. The press bulletin giving the news of the fighting on the KwanTung peninsula with the European comments on the victory of the Japanese, wns suppressed on its arrival at New Chwang, but was released when the Russians learned that two copies of it were in possession of Englishmen and were being shown to other people. The Tientsin newspapers which reached New Chwang at night were eagerly snappid up. Knots of officers stood in the streets and in and about the club eagerly scanning the papers. Situation at Port Arthur. London. June 2. —The Daily Mail’s correspondent at New Chwang says: “Some Chinese fugitives from Port Arthur who have arrived here describe the situation of the inhabitants there as desperate. Famine prices exist. The cost of provisions increases weekly. Many persons are reduced to eating Chinese food, and even that is dear. Millet flour costs $6 a bag. Whole streets and several public buildings have been wrecked by Japanese shell fire. The hospitals are packed with sick and wounded.”