Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1904 — The War To Date. [ARTICLE]

The War To Date.

Oot of the great mass / 1 ,n , flicting and often corrected 'ij®oii and reports from the war in Asia, about the only things thi I can be said with any oertainiy, h I.m• the Japs more or less badly n > o up the Russian fleet at Poll Arthur, and destroyed a fine oral r --d « gun boat at Chemulpo; b» t what damage, if any, the Japs sn t ne4 at those plaoes is a matter • f uncertainty. All reports of these print disasters to tbe Rnesiau troop ■■ in trying to cross Lakeßiakal proved to be fakes. Neither has there, as yet been any land fighting erf importance. Tbe latest leporls, srd in which there seems to be considerable truth, are to tbe effeot that oa the 24th the Jsps tried to bottle ip the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, by sinking old hulks in tbe harbor month, in ihe same way that Hobson tried to blook the Hpaniarde, at Rantisgo. Ii also 8| pears that the Eusbians themselves abet these Lull s to pieoes and souk them, bnt pro* bably not in places to block the harbor.