Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1904 — NOGI IS MIKING SOME PROGRESS [ARTICLE]

NOGI IS MIKING SOME PROGRESS

Report That He Has Edged Up a Little Closer to a Port Arthur Fort. HE ALSO BLOWS UP A MAGAZINE Preparing Now, Say Chinese Refugees for a Fierce Assault. Battle Continues To Be Imminent on the Shakhe-Kussian Red Cross Officer Accuses the Japs of Barbarity. London, Nov. 2.'!. —A dispatch to the Daily Express from Nagasaki gives details of the sortie of the torpedo-boat nights of Nov. 13, 14 and 15. Only one of these destroyers reached Chefoo, Rastoropny. Three others were sunk by the Japanese. The three boats sunk left two days lwfore the Rastoropny and all carried duplicate dispatches from General Stoessel. Tokio, Nov. 21.—1 t is reported that the Japanese, after successfully mining, occupied a counterscarp on Sungshu mountain last Friday. Tokio, Nov. 21. A dispatch from the army besieging I’ort Arthur, dated Nov. lit, says: “During the bombardment this afternoon a shell from a Japanese naval gun exploded a Russian magazine near the arsenal. Our operations against all the forts are proceeding as pre-arranged from Manchurian headquarters.” -V.jl • Chefoo, Nov. 21. —Another attack on Etse mountain Is expected to occur Nov. 24, according to Chinese who left Dalny Saturday. The Chinese further report that reinforcements for the Japanese continue to arrive. For the past ten days 1,000 men have arrived daily. On Nov. 14 the Chinese say they saw fifty guns brought into Dalny. Some were broken, others were in good condition. The Japanese said they had captured them. They also saw 150 prisoners, including three officers, brought iu, Five more •heavy guns recently arrived from Japan. Fight Has Already Begun, They Say. Chefoo, Nov. 21, 11 a. m. The general attack on Port Arthur was resumed Nov. 18 or 19, according to the report of i>ersons arriving here today from Dalny. They say that the Japanese are so secretive that it is difficult In Dalny to learn the facts. Even the officers detailed to work at the base do not know what their comrades at the front are doing. Nov. 10 a peculiarly heavy explosion shook every ship lying at Dalny. The explosion was ascribed to the blowing up of land mines or a magazine. Another Great Battle Imminent. Tokio, Nov. 21.—Increasing activity along the Sliakhe river seems to i,ndicate the imminence of another great battle. The Russian feints, evidently intended to draw a Japanese attack, are uniformly repulsed; so reports an official dispatch from Field Marshal Oyama. JAPANESE GRAVELY ACCUSED KuHsian Red Croen Man Sny§ They Violate Civilized War Kales. Chefoo, Nov. 21. General Ralashoff, the head of the Red Cross society at Port Arthur, sent to the Associated Press by the torpedo destroyer? Rastoropny a personal better charging the Japanese with a violation of the rules of civilized warfare. Owing to an error the delivery of the letter has been delayed until now. In bis letter General Ralashoff requests the publication of charges that the Japanese deliberately disregard the obligation of the Geneva and Hague conventions, lie says that they have compelled the abandonment by the Russians of three plainly marked hospital ships, and that the wounded who were aboard the half-sunken steamer Andara also had to be removed. These ships, says General Ralashoff, were anchored where they did not Interfere with the Japanese fire against the Russian warships. He further says that the Japanese, who use balloons to direct their fire, and who drop their shells with minute accuracy into the harbor, cannot mistake the hospital ships, nnd he charges that they deliberately drive the wounded from the ships for the purpose of sinking the vessels. “This occurred recently,” continues General Balasboff. “but earlier I noticed several instances of a concentration of fire oil portions of the town devoted almost exclusively to hospitals. Other instances of uncivilized warfare are numerous, but I have no time to write them. I scarcely have time to eat and sleep.”

Japs Seize German Steamer. Tokio, Nov. 22.—The navy department reports the capture of the German steamer Batelan while attempting to run the Tort Arthur blockade. The department says that at 3 a. m. Xov. 19 a Japanese squadron cruising off Yentao sighted a vessel steaming for Port Arthur. ITie gunboat Tatsuta pursued and overtook the steamer at sin the morning. On hoadl of the vessel was found a great quantity of winter clothing, blankets, medicine and corned meats. Hot captain said

he was bound for New Chwang. The route and cargo of the Ratelan were considered to be suspicious and she was taken possession of und brought to Sasel>o.