Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1904 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Russians are massed on the Yalu with 150 field guns. Their scouts are constantly skirmishing with the Japanese outposts to the north of ztnju. The Japanese fleet, consisting of about twenty vessels, bombarded Port Arthur Tuesday night and retired in the mornihg without any material damage being done on either side. A tumor is current in. Tokio that the Japanese have blocked the entrance to Port 2\.rthur harbor. The Osservatore Romano, the Vatican organ, denies the statement that the congregation of the propaganda lias instructed missionaries in Japan to secretly help the Japanese. A communication from the foreign office is published in St. Petersburg confirming the statement that Russia does not regard Korea ns belligerent and will not do so until there is evidence that Korea is actively making common cam/e with Japan.