Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1904 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gen. Kuropatkin has returned to LiaoY'nng. ■ It is believed the Japanese fleet is covering the lnnding of troops in Korea. A Korean prefect Bays the Russians and Chinese have withdrawn from Yongampho.

1 'Nine Japanese officials, disguised as Chinamen, have gone nortE to Gen. Ma’s headquarters. A dispatch from Seoul says that Jap-anese-supply steamers are safely entering the estuary of the Y’alu river nnd are landing cargoes ut various points on the Korean shore.

Dispatches received in Berlin from St. Petersburg contain the statement that the Czar is about to proceed to the seat of war, making temporary headquarters at Irkutsk.

Reports from the seat of war state that the Russian cavalry and the Japanese skirmishers exchanged shots near Wiju. Five Japanese were killed. Tho stores of a Russian village near Yongampho were wrecked and burned by a detachment of Japanese infantry. In another skirmish near Wiju six Japanese were killed.

The St Petersburg correspondent of the Petit Parisien states that a genernl mobilization of the Russian army is iu course of preparation. Telegrams received in Seoul state that the Russlaus are occupying six of the largest border towns on the Tumcn river, in northeastern Korea.

: The Japanese navy is dfcvlded into seven squadrons. The first to the fonrth squadrons are watching Port Arthur, the fifth patrols the Korean coasts, whila the sixth and seventh cruise between Vladivostok and Japan. The ships have sustained little damage ao far.