Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1904 — LAND A BIG ARMY [ARTICLE]

LAND A BIG ARMY

!■ p* at Last, Succeed in Getting; a Hold in Manchuria. It is officially admitted i>y ng Russian government that tlie Japanese have succeeded in obtaining n foothold in Man* ehnria and that the Russian force opposed to them has been unabie to keep them back. The admission cntiM'd a profound sensation tiiroughont St. Petersburg. Numerous unconfirmed and Conflicting rumors were in circulation Monday and among them a report of another engagement at I’ort Arthur, in which the Russians lost eight vessels sunk and ten captured. In Tokio information was received at Japanese force had at last succeeded In effecting a landing in Manchuria, north •f Port Arthur, though the exact point of landing was not made public. The Japanese lleet has been re-enforced and is ready to begin operations as soon as the army is in position to attack from the sear. The promptness and precision with which Japan's military movements are carried out is a matter of constant surprise and admiration lo every foreigner in Tokio. Twenty thousand troops were

tended Sunday at Chemulpo and more will follow day by day until the army in Korea is able to cope with any force that can be sent across the Yalu from Manchuria. 80 complete have been the preparations in every detail that it is now estimated that Japan can place in the field at once 300,000 men, well di ilied, well officered and perfectly equipped with the best of modern arms' and ammunition, and this without in any measure impairing her national defenses. As fast ns a regiment •f regulars mures out to join the invading army its place is taken by a regiment of the reserves but little inferior to the regulars in point of drill and equipment.