Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
RUSSIANS MEET
ANOTHER DISASTER
Gunboat GiIiak Was Sunk by
Torpedoes at Port
Arthur.
REFUSED ON LAND AS WELL
1000 Russians Driven Back in At
tack on 1900 Japanese-2oo Rus
slams We're Killed and 400 Wound.
ed in Assault.

Toxic June 6.-The Russian gun
boat, Giliak, was torpedoed and de,
stroyed at Port Arthur on Saturday
London, June 1.-THE Daily Tele'
graphs Tien Tsin correspondent
/ wires: -Four thousand Russians be
longing to General Stakelberg's brig
ade. on May 81 attacked 1900 Japan
csc occupying position five miles
south of Wafangtien. The Russians
were repulsed, losing two hundred
and four hundred wounded. Tine
Japanese lost more than one hundred
killed"
Che Foo, June 6.-Only two miles
separated Japanese and Russian ar
mics on the Lao Tung peninsula on
June 2, according to Chinese who have
arrived from Dalny. -.-. .~.
The Japanese army, REINFORCED by
tie men landed at Dalny, occupied
living Ching and also Sanchimpo,
several miles west OF Dalny. they
then proceeded along the coast to-
ward Port Arthur. On one side OF
the army are mountains and on the
other is the sea, from which the Jap
anese gunboats are supporting the
flank OF the army.
On June the Japanese forces
were within seven miles OF the outer
forts of Port Arthur only two miles
from the Russian army, which is ready
to protest their further advance. The
Chinese believed that there would be
big battle at this point. 1t is also
said by the Chinese that the japanese
have moved their base to Dalny from
Taiienwan. The larger japanese
ships are anchored outside and the
smaller ones inside the harbor
Troops are landing, they say, from
small vessels, apparently coming from
Pitsewo or the Elliott islands. The
Chinese further reported that mum.
Der OF Chinese have been shot while
attempting to get through the Rus.
sian lines.
Paris, June 6.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent OF the Echo DE Paris
says: According to information re.
ceived here General kuroki has been
suffering from mild attack of typhus
fever, but he has now recovered.
The general belief is that General
Kuropatkin will not advance to the
relief OF Port Arthur. In any case. or
ders to do SO have not yet been trans
mitted.
Il learn that England has obtained
from Japan in behalf of Russia, as.
surances that the Japanese will not
| destroy seals in Behring sea during
the war.
1T is rumored that the army corps
OF the ST. Peters burg district will be
! mobniZed shortly. | have reason to
believe that two other army corps IN
the central districts will also be mo-
b.nzed"
Kai Chou. Liza Tung Peninsula
June "A Russian who was wounded
in the fight near the station at Va
fangow, May 80, says General Sam
sonoff attacked the Japanese near the
| railroad, mile from Vafangow sta
ton. A cornet of the frontier guards
was the hero of the fight. His ser
geant was lying wounded and n Jap
| anese officer was about to ride over
| him. when the cornet endorsed tho
| Japanese, mounted the lattcr's horse
| and placed the wounded man on his
| own charger. The Japanese cavalry
I GnSdsCu WdS lUt IHlTl0tHJn TeEf
ment. Their horses were splendie
| animals.
| St. Petersburg. June General
| Sakarhoff has telegraphed as follows
| under yesterdays date to the general
| staff: According to reports, the
! Japanese commander in the action OF
May 80, near Vafangow had three bat.
| talions of infantry in reserve. Our
| losses were seventeen killed and
| twenty-three wounded, and Lieutenant
| Meyer and another officer, whose
name has not been ascertained, were
/ wounded The Japanese losses were
| very considerable. One squadron OF
the Thirteenth Japanese cavalry was
annihilated in hand to hand en-,
counter, and another squadron which
came to it's assistance suffered great
loss from the fire of our frontier
| guards and riflemen. We captured
nineteen horses"