Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1904 — POUR TROOPS INTO KOREA. [ARTICLE]

POUR TROOPS INTO KOREA.

The Japanese Transports Lsnil Large Large Force Near Flag-Yang. A dispatch from Vladivostok says that according to private reports there thref Japanese detachments of 800 men each recently landed at Chinng-Chan, Korea, about 130 miles uorth of Won-Baa, with the supposed object of reaching the valley of the Tnnven river and threatening Htin-Chun. Manchuria, nine miles north of the Korea!) boundary nnd about eight miles west of Vladivostok. - The landing in force of tlie Japanese on the Leao-Tong peninsula and tlie beginning of the land investment of Por. Arthur will not begin for a fortnight, according to advices received in Washing ton from what are inhered to be r* liable sou ires. Vladivostok has bees nnder siege by the Japanese. Preliminary skirmishes have taken place between Cossacks ami Japanese In northern Korea, bat report! vary widely as to tbs results. The Caar'i soldier* are not on the offensive, bat seek to check the onward march of the eaeaiy let# Manchurian territory.