The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-11
RUSSIANS SPIRITS BkoKEN.
Weather and Harshncss of Officers
 Has Had Effect on Recruits.

London. March 11.-Neither the official nor the independent dispatches published this morning add much knowledge to the progress of the war. Speculation regard ing the military situation on the Yalu river is most keen but no news of a re- liable character has been received.
 The Nagasaki correspondent of The Daily Express asserts that 2OO,0OO troops have been shipped from Japan, and that portion of the second army corps Is now on its way to Korea.
 The correspondent of The Daily Chron- icle at Tokio, evidently referring to the same movements, cables that the trans- portation to Northern Korea of three di- visions of Japanese troops has been com pleted and that these men are beginning to advance, while ten divisions of the second army corps have already been mobilized.
 As an illustration of the curiously con- tradlctory character of reports from the Far East received here Q correspondent of The Daily Chronicle at Yinkow mem tions Fungwang Chang, which Is about forty-five miles northwest of Antung in Manchuria, as one of several points of Russian concentration, while other cor respondents have reported that the Japa- nese have captured Fungwang Chang. Other correspondents report that the Rus sians have mined all points where it is possible to cross the Yalu River.
 The Shanghai correspondent Of The Daily Telegraph says that the Japanese, after Port Arthur is neutralized, probably will move their armies to the north simultaneously, one from the southern part of the Liao Tung peninsula and the other from the Yalu River
 The Russians are now moving north ward in Korea, this correspondent con- tinues, with the intention of making WiJu their defensive base.
 A correspondent of The Daily TeIe- graph who was In Japan recently, wires from Seoul that the Japanese are making steady progress with their land move ments. The roads are occupied by Ja- panese troops
 According to the Tientsin correspondent of The Standard, the Russians are with drawing all their superfiuous troops from Port Arthur to HarbIn and Kirin because of the shortness of provisions, and be- cause 1t is doubtful whether or not they would be able to hold either Port Arthur or Newchang against resolute attack.
 The spirit of the Russian troops who are largely recruits. has been broken by starvation. cold and harsh treatment from their officers. The Russian losses on the Yalu river are reported to reach a total of two thousand men.
 Cabling from Tokio. a correspondent of The Daily Telegraph says the Jill Shim- DO has received a communication from Pekip declaring that Great Britain and the United States have protested against Russia sinking junks In the chanel of Liao river at , lgewchwang, on the ground that this would prevent the egress of the warships of these powers from the river.
 The Standard this morning publishes an article fin which the writer points out the defenseless condition of the AmuI River. Russia never prohted from the experiences of the Boxer outbreak, he says. and she has no forts and no gun boats on the river. It is probable that when the fee disappears the Japanese will send fleet of gunboats into the river and make themselves felt along it's entire length.