The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-10-01
FIGURING ON HOW
TO FEED RUSSIANS
kURoPATKlN'S SUPPLIES MUST
ALL BE BROUGHT IN OVER
THE RAILROAD.
JAPS CAN LIVE ON THE COUNTRY
Correspondent Who Rode from Lao
Yang to New Chwang Found Little
Damage Done to Standing
Grain-Many Refugees.

General Kurokis Headquarters in
the Field, undated, via Tien Tsin. Sept.
20.-Evening)-The most interesting
military problem at present Is how
arge Russian army The railway can
suppo.t in Manchuria. While the
army is south of Harbin almost all the
necessary food SUPPLIES can be obtained
in the country, but the farther north
il goes the more it must depend on the
Iail Dad, while at the same time the
Japnese will gain an advantage Dy
having an increased area to draw from.
Crops 4 Failure.
The richest section OF Manchuria Is
the country of which Lao Yang is the
principal maThet, and the crops in lhat
section are unusually large. Mer
chants who are acquainted with the
country believe that if General Kuro'
patkin should retreat to Harbin, III
Iaust then bring every pound of food
by means of the railroad. especially as
this years crop in the Sungari valley
has proved failure.
Besides this every horse for the
Russian commander must be brouSd:
over the abroad.
If winter campaigning is attempted
On which point there is much specula'
ton, it will become increasingly diff
cult to render operations successful.
Japs Prepare for Winter.
The operations of the Japanese ar
my continue to be as efficient as it has
been since the beginning of the cam
paign. Most of the troops were
equipped with winter clothing whtn
the first cod weather and snow a
rived, and khaki has been replaced by
heavier material with remarkable
promptness.
The harvesting is p:ogrcs sing slowly
| il the fields in front of the Japanese
army and to the southwark. thou
| sands of Chinese are employed as
teamsters and coolies by the Japanese
army There is therefore great
scarcity of labor, and as result many
of the crops are neglected.
The thick millet, which has been a
great factor in the movement Df boil
armies, has nearly all been !eapcd. md
there are now bare plains.
Slight Evidences OF Destruction.
A correspondent rode f.om i.iac
Yang to New Chwang, and founl that
surprisingly little damage had been
done to the grain, considering that t%C
great armies had fought over The cum
try, while, with the exception Ot
| few buildings which had been bT ned
in The Rusian settlement at .dao fang
there were small evidences of iesrruc
tiOn.
Rumors Of Lootina Exaggerated.
The reports which charged tic
japanese troops with lo,":ag al Lilac
Yang were eatly cxagg srdtei. The
looting done at Lao Ya'g was msig
nificant, and compared with The lOOiiH2
at Ticn Tsin and Picking Wy foreign
troops in 1900 is not worthy Of men
! ton.
Conditions at Mukden are lad
/ There are 10000 refugees tner". RI.
la tar general is condnc III a rclirl
| system. 20 v hich the d..wt.-Cr empress
I uf Russia has contributed
A committee for the relief ~ ih'
destitute Chinese through lut Man
/ rhuria has been organizo :, with Hears
! y. Miller the Amc icsl consul crn' ra
~ New ChwanE. a. channan.
To On =z.unarirs aT- IAN ~ .''
The Japanese Authorize are assi-tiu'
fhem and have permitted all he mit
sronaries ~ return to the p0sis.