Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1904 — NO BIG ENGAGEMENT NEAR. [ARTICLE]

NO BIG ENGAGEMENT NEAR.

Kuulana Do Not Expect Severe Fighting Before Last of May. In the course of a conversation the Russian military ngent in Tien-tsin snid he did'not expect n serious engagement between Russia and Japanese land forces for two or three months nnd that it was very improbable that the Japanese would attempt to land at Newehwang or in that vicinity. E" -"• " ' Rio Janeiro has begun harbor improvements to cost 130,000,000, I