The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-11
JAPS WON'T TELL;
EXPERTS FIGURE
Japan's Plan Of Campaign Fore
Swallowed by Inference.
FIGHT EXPECTED AT YIN KOW
NJ .ements of the MfkadO's Forces
Indicate "a Repetition of the Plan
successfully Carried Out in
War with China.

London, March 5.-"Yin Kow, ten
miles from the Manchurian railway,
and about 60 miles by land directly
north of Port Arthur, is the point
where the Japanese army will next be
heard from"
This prediction is made by military
men here, based on the few significant
facts contained in the mass of meager-
ly told dispatches that come from
points near the seat of war.
Indicative Movements.
Every movement SO far made indi-
Gates with much positiveness that
Japan will pursue almost identically
the plan adopted so successfully in her
val with China. The science of war
has not changed in ten years, and the
objects to be accomplished 20 are the
same as they were then. The only diff
posed to be more valorous and intelli-
gently directed than were the Chinese.
Southern Manchuria will be invaded
at two points, by crossing the lower
Yalu and at Yin Kow.
Russians May Retire.
Dispatches from New Chwang, which
lies on the Lao river not far from
Yin Kow, say that on count of the
impossibility of defending the coast at
Yin Kow, until such a time as a thaw
permits the construction OF intrench-
ments and works, the Russians have
prepared to retire up the main rail-
road line. There are practically no de-
lenses there, and although the shifting
and reshifting of troops and artillery
to the small forts at the mouth of the
Lao river has the appearance of an in
tention to defend Yin Kow the military
authorities depend upon a land engage
ment to check the Japanese advance.
The Yin Kow invasion will certainly
be made by a large body of troops.
Correspondents Kept In the Dark.
All efforts by correspondents to OBJ
tain information as to the forward
movement of the Japanese have been
fruitless. All agree that there are
not many Japanese troops north of
Ping Yang. Even conceding that $4,000
are north of Seoul, this would leave
two-thirds of the Japanese army miss
ing, and it is known that all the regi-
ments have departed from Sasebo,
Kobe and other points of Japan.
These missing troops must form
the army that has been dispatched to
effect a Judgment at Yin Kow. This
impression is borne out by a dispatch
which says that six Japanese cruisers,
escorting ten transports, were sighted
off Che Foo steaming toward the Lao
Tung gulf. Yin Kow is on the Man
churian side of Lao Tung gulf.
To Force the YaIu.
AS a part of this land movement it
is expected that the Japanese will at
tempt to force a passage across the
Yalu river and then advance toward
Lao Yang.
Lao Yang is the Russian base in
southern Manchuria, and is about 100
miles north of Yin Kow.
The reports of Japanese operations
in the region of V~ladivostock are gen
orally reported by British military
men as feints to veil the real object
of the campaign. The most plausible
theory for these movements is that
the occupation of Poissit bay and
Gensan, south of Vladivostock, by a
strong force "a necessary in order
to prevent a Russian turning move
ment.
To Meet the INVASION.
To meet the Japanese invasion as
far as known the only plans formed
by the Russians are first that Gen.
Kuropatkin's headquarters are to be
at Mukden; Viceroy Alexieff proposes
to remain at Mudken indefinitely, as
that city is the center of the Chinese
administration and has a v%ice-royal
bureau; second, that the plain west
of Tashih-Chiao, which is almost i'm
possible of defense, will be held If
possible on account of the railroad
connecting with Port Arthur; third,
Hal Ching and Lao Yang are the ex-
IRENE limits to which troops will be
withdrawn on account of the expos
ure of the railroad at these points.