Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1904 — JAPS MINE YALU RIVER. [ARTICLE]

JAPS MINE YALU RIVER.

Manchu Cavalry, Superior to the Cossacks, to Join the Japanese. The London Telegraph’s Chee Foo special says that the Russians have constructed a number of forts on both sides of the Yalu. The Japanese have blocked up several entrances to the river with torpedoes. Great confusion prevails at Port Arthur. The Russians are showing the utmost dislike for English and Americans and are causing all but a few to leave. Germans and Frenchmen are allowed to remain. Here is the present condition of affairs: Although Japan lost a small cruiser and the machinery of a battleship was damaged and another vessel was injured, the latter probably is now repaired. When the rigor of winter moderates it is anticipated the Japs will occupy territory nc.tr Dalny. In the inenntime the Japanese are making an advance in strength along the Pekin road from Seoul. Having secured the Yalu they will threaten Kiriu. cutting the railway and menacing Vladivostok, while another force deals with the LiaoTung peninsula. Japan's first big land victory, 'which is likely if she keeps troops in a rough country where the Cossack cavalry is of no value, will mean the unauthorized rising of the Chinese, who.se Manchurian horsemen are braver riders and fighters than the Cossacks.