Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-02-25
CoSsAckS CROSS YALA.
Three Hundred Scouts ReconnoiteI
In Corean Territory.

In Corean Territory.
Totio, Feb. 22.-Three hundred Rus
sian scouts reconnoitersd Friday in
Wiju and vicinity. They crossed the
Yala river, entered the town and
secuted through the surrounding coun-
try. They then recrossed the river
and rejoined their main force.
St. Petersburg, Feb. ga dispatch
received here from Hardin, Man
churia, says the railroad is in working
order and that the Japanese who at
tempted to blow up the BRUCE over the
Sungari river nave been hanged. Bands
Of chuncas (bandits) have been OBJ
served under Japanese leadership and
are being pursued. Almost all the
civilized inhabitants Of Hardin have
left, and the remainder Of the popula-
ton Is quiet. The movement of troops
is causing heavy traffic on the rail-
road All of the Japanese laborers on
the railroad have fed, and the Chi
nese laborers have returned to work
after their New Years celebrations.
St. Petersburg. Feb. pa dispatch
from Port Arthur says the first land
OCCul n
Of Cossacks attacked a small detach-
ment Of Japanesegli, NNPoNcern7Ss
territory. The Cossacks captured some
Japanese prisoners, upon whom they
found maps and papers.
The collision was presumably be-
tween accommodating parties. A gen.
eral engagement Is not anticipated
Immediately. T special Port Arthur
dispatch says the Japanese feet was
observed February IS, cruising off
that port. Reports from northern Kor-
ca say that the Koreans are showing a
decidedly friendly attitude to the Rus
SLAMS. The Manchurian railroad Is
conveying troops without difficulty to
the various points Of concentration.
Native reports say that Chinese pi-
rates have been displaying such act
ivity in easterrc,> static waters as to
paralyze the co.stwise trade.
st. Petersburg. Feb. 22.-The We'd
omosti publishes aneditorial article on
the pride shown in Great Britain and
the United States in their pro-Japan-
nea svmnathies and asks what these
will intimately cost the cultured
west" Answering this question the
paper says:
aside from the question OF the vel
low peril II is hopeless blindness not
to see that Russia stands as barrier
between the approaching rising in
Asia and old degenerate Europe and
the desire that this barrier be swept
away Is absolute imbecility. 1t Is
claimed that japan represents prog
ress and civilization. The same thing
was said In 1865 about Prussia, and
1t was not suspected that the success
Of Prussian arms would be a continual
source of alarm and only ended when
the Franco Russian alliance re-estab-
lished the political balance Of Eur
"ope. #...
"One may bow down to the cultured
advance of Japan. but 1t brings TO
western nations the idea Of endless
wars. The far east Ia now an area OF
European competition. What China
will do In a week or in months. wher
her war position is more clearly de-
fined. and her neutrality guaranteed
by the powers on the American re-
ceipt. Is one of those fictiens which
Europe Is used to paying for with
a most expensive armed peace. Rus.
sian victories will protect the west
from the horrors America Is trying
to keep of by diplomacy. For Russia
this heavy cross is its glory"