Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

Viceroy Alexieff refuses to receive any more foreign war correspondents. It is admitted that half n million men would have been required to hold southern Manchuria. Three thousand bandits are camped outside of the walls of Newellwang ready to begin looting. The increasingly threatening attitude of the Chinese also is a serious factor in the situation which may contribute to induce Gen. Kuropatkia to evacuate J.I noyang. Red placards all over Moscow and Klinrkoff provinces summon the reserves of the Tenth nnd Seventeenth army corps to the colors, nnd these two coips will lie dispatched to the far East ns quickly ns possible, thus adding 100,000 men to Ivuropatkin’s forces. Admiral Togo Is hoping that Russia may succeed in dickering for a few more warships. Business in Admiral Togo’s line is likely to be rather dull otherwise. I.inoyang is expected to he the scene of the next battle between the Russian and Japanese armies, unless Gen. Kuropatkin shall decide to continue his retreat northward to Mukden. The Russian authorities are completely in the dark as to what is happening in the territory occupied by the enemy, except such news as comes from the newspapers abroad and originating from Japanese sources.