Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-28
A BIG BATTLE IS IMMINENT.
Cessation Of News from Front Indicates
That Both Armies Are About
To Meet.
SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST laps,
1t is Said That They Kill the Euemy's
Wcunded--DOn Jaime De Bourbon
Eye.W Witness to the Pact.

st. Petersburg, June 2s, 1880 D. m.--
The Associated Press is informed on
good authority that Gen. Kuropatkin
has decided TO withdraw northward.
JAPs KILL THE WOUNDED.
st. Petersburg, June 2S, 1913 p. m.--
The Novoe vremya today, calling at
tention TO the statement that Don
Jaime de Bourbon was an eyewitness 10
the killing of Russian wounded AT Va
fangow, declares that something must
be done quickly to prevent the war de-
generating into the senseless brutality
which the Japanese practises indicate.
The paper urges the Russian newspaper
correspondents In the field to show up
the authors Of this brutality, and Sc
cure the Q, ,dence Of eye&itnesscs and
photographs in order that The hague
convent On may be invoked.
BATTLE IMMINENT.
The sudden cessation Of newspaper
dispatches from the theater OF war
tends to confirm the belief that the
armies are about to engage. Most OF
the military critics take the view that
big lotilc Is imminent, although the
Novoe Niemyas expert thinks that a
pitched battle now Is more attn active
To the Jalanese generals than "a Gen.
kutopatkin. saying that the latter does
not need irecpitancy as Russian reln-
forCcmtnds continue to arrive. but N the
i No Ia ehn.s
ten, as cnly fortnight remains before
rains set Ia.
The army organ, whose comment was
written before the arrival OF Lieut.. Gen.
Sakhatotf's dispatch last night, points
out the difficult. mountainous country
through which Gen. Kurokl's columns
are going, and finds in Gen. Okus with
drawal southwark either that the Jap
anese are trying TO draw Off part of
kuropatkn's army. or their decision, In
view of the near approach OF the rainy
season, TO arrest their further advance.
In the latter case the army would be
able to loi1 the greater part Of the LAO
Tung PENINSULA until the resumption of
active operations In August.
All the papers consider almost mex
plicable the failure TO receive fu..her
reports from Toxic of the sea fight off
Port Arthur. and are reproducing with
81 at prominence dispatches from tf-
man popers to the effect that Admiral
Togo, IN his official reports, did not
claim positively 20 have sunk a Russian
baltieFhip or TO have crippled two 9th
er vessels. General indignation Ia man
Tested over the alleged mlstranslation
OF the reports Of Admiral Togo
QUIET AT PORT ARTHUR.
Chefoo, June 2s, p. m.--Letters re-
ceived here today from Port Arthur,
dated June %, give no news, but con.
vey an idea OF the conditions prevail
ing in the hesleged city. one writer
says the civilians, though knowing
something of what is occurring, are Ig-
norant OF the progress Of the war. LIT
tie information leaks out. Most Of the
-combatants have caves in the hills
or underground cells, where they spend
the nights In safety. Bands play coca
slonally in the parks. and the prices OF
food are slightly higher. The Chinese
are suffering severely IN many ways as
a result OF the fighting.
The food on the junks Is provided bv
the government to enable the Chinese
to leave Port Arthur The Red Cross
nurses, In the absence Of regular work
have established eatinghouses for the
needy, Some Of the Chinese are SIN
working on the new shlpbuiding works