Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-27
RUSSIA AFTER THE
WHOLE OF CHINA
Soldiers Of the Gear Are Nov
Reported Active In Far
Away Thibet.
KOREA IS TO COME Mex
Oriental Press Is Greatly Exercise,
Over Recent Developments in the
Celestial kingdom-Con-
fiietins Reports.

Victoria, British Columbia, June b.
Advices received by mail from thu
orient tell Of Russian aggression II
Thibet as well as Manchuria, Mongolia
and Korea. A dispatch TO the Toxic
Asah says the Chinese resident minister
In Thibet telegraphed to Pekin early II
May that 143 men, apparently Russian
engineer troops, had entered the east
ern part OF Thibet. They are, he says
making preparations to settle them
selves there permanently and are u
veying the adjacent places. The In
habitants are stated to be mucf
alarmed.
The far eastern press comments a
longth on Russian activity on the Yalu
The North China Daily News says set
Elements of Russians are being estab'
lished on both sides of the rivers
mouth. The Korean government ha'
plucked up courage to order the Rus
slams away, but has no forces to exc
cute the orders.
The Nichi Shimbum, which. accord.
ing to English Japanese papers, is al
most q Russophile organ, so moderate
have been it's comments, says Russia
in actual possession of Manchurla TO
day would mean Russia In prospective
possession Of Korea tomorrow.
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Korea and when she comedies to Russis
a military base on the frontier of the
%peninsular empire, she will have tt
fight at q terrible disadvantage.
Another paper says the German
steamer Annoy has taken q cargo o,
railway iron to the mouth or the 1alL
and the Russians propose to build {
railway there to connect the Chimes
Eastern railway with the Yalu. which
will enable Russia to bring her troops
to the Korean border by rail. A Chi
nese general with a thousand troops II
Russian pay is to act as a buffer anc
Keep the Russians and japanese from
coming into conflict while the new rail
way is being hurried on.
Russian Soldiers Gathering.
The North China Daily News says IL
regard to the Manchurian entente tina
the Pekin government has received
telegram from the Tartar general a
Moukden that over 1000 Cossack!
passed Tiehling on May IL en- route t
New Chwang. On the same day
regiment Of artillery with sixteen field
pieces passed through Lao Yang 70
Tien Chuang Tai.
Word has also been received from
Youan Tahua, the tar tai Of Fenl
Huang Cheng, near the Yalu, to the eff
feet that 1000 mounted bandits clothed
and armed by the Russians, with man!
| Russians officers turbaned and dressed
like Chinese officers, attempted to pas
Feng Huang Cheng and make for Chi
Long Chong, but their passage wa
stopped by Yuan Tahua and his dis
ciplined contingent, who's by a displa.
| of force and after shooting four or fiv
of the bandits, made them retreat bacl
to the north bank of the Yalu.
Trouble in South china.
The Toxic Asahuj has further advice
Of trouble In South China, to the effec
that the Chinese foreign office ha,
given out that the rebels in Yum MAJ
have restored Ringoken, a town recent
ly captured by the insurgents. TIL
Chinese officials also state that the for
eigners of Mentzu are being protecte
by imperial troops.
The Japanese paper also publishes
dispatch that the rebels have now sew
cred all the telegraph lines in u Ma
and communication has been cut of
with Pekin.