Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1905 — RUSSIAN ROUT COMPLETE. [ARTICLE]

RUSSIAN ROUT COMPLETE.

Great Distress Com pels -Surrender on Sakhalin Island After Long Flight. A report giving details of the final pursuit and surrender of the majority of the Russian garrison on Sakhalin island on July 31 has been received at Tokio as follows: “An independent cavalry column on the afternoon of July 28 attacked the enemy south of Paleo and routed him, driving him southward, capturing two field guns, besides a number of rifles and a quantity of ammunition. “On July 29, tlie cavalry, being reenforeed, # vigorously pursued the enemy south of Taylan, which lies twenty-five miles south of Rykoff.*" The enemy halted at Onol. twenty-five miles south of Taylan, and at 5 o’clock on the morning of July 30 sent a letter under a flag of truce to the Japanese commanding officer from Gen. Liapnoff, tlie Russian Governor, saying that the lack of bandage material and medicines, and" the consequent inability to succor the wounded, compelled him from a sense of humanity to terminate hostilities. “The commander of the Japanese force replied, demanding the delivery of all war supplies and property of the Russian government, the uninjured, mid the delivery of all maps, records and papers relating to the Russian civil and military administration, and requiring their delivery in reply at 10 o’clock on the morning of July 31, otherwise an attacking movement would immediately be started. "Col. Tolivitch, on behalf of Governor Liapnoff, met Col. Koizumi, Japanese chief of staff, on the morning of July 31, and accepted the proposed terms. Governor Liapnoff, seventy officers and 3,200 men of the Russian garrison then surrendered. The si»oils l consisting of clothing. papers am} military supplies, urn now under investigation.” Almost tropical rains are falling in Manchuria, and the hilly regions are impassable for trains of artillery. Every Uioftntain path is a torrent* and every valley a quagmire. Important operations apparently will be impossible for a long time to come. The alternation of rains and fervid sunshine has a depressing effect on the health of the army. Dispatches received from Korea report that the Japanese have begun a simultaneous advance from lvuanchoderi against the Musarief and Piatsabniig passes, but that both columns were checked under pressure of the Russian advance detachments. The Russian losses, the dispatches say, were insignificant. Japanese warships are reported to be cruising off tlie mouth «i Peter the Great bay, on which Vladivostok is situated, their lights often being visible from Russian island. The Japanese are most active in establishing trade relations in southern Manchuria. Over a score of large business houses have been established at Yinkow, and 5,000 Japanese sutlers and larger traders follow close on tlie heels of the army.