Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

While China means to be neutral, its inhabitants keep on taking boxing lessons. Coast defenses are being overhauled in Lisbon, Fayal and Lagos, which could serve as naval stations. Five thousand Wien* have bpen working day and night strengthening the defenses of the l'ort Amyir .garrison. Russians are reported nt Yongju, only twenty-five miles distant from PingYang, where the Japanese are mobilizing. Cablegrams from Amsterdam assert that everything is ready for tiie mobilization of the Dutch army. All leave is refused to officers. Tlio United States cruiser Cincinnati left Shanghai for Chemulpo ns the relief of the Zafiro, which is on her way back to Philippine waters. Japan sends envoys to London and New York to negotiate for loans to insure the strength of her war chest in case the struggle is prolonged. Mnj. Gen. Blngoeschensky, quartermaster general of the Kieff military district, lias been appointed to tlio important post of Inspector general of the Russian army in Manchuria. Russian merchants. In anger nt the Vicksburg incident at Chemulpo, \cancel large orders for American goods. Consul General Watts asks State Department for official explanation of nffnir. France turns to England In consternation when Russinn note is received declining longer to acknowledge the neutrality of Korea, the government fearing entanglements ns the ally of the Czar. The Jnpnnese fleet was repulsed In a second engagement at Port Arthur, following the attempt to close the harbor by sinking stone-laden ships, according to n dispatch to the Czar from Gcu. I* flung.