The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-22
Japanese Have Captured Anoth.
or Fort ON a Height.
Which Commands the Interior
OF Russian Fortress.
DESPERATE ASSAULT.
Resist All Attempts of Enemy
to Recapture 1t.
Skirmlshing Continues Along
the Hun River.

All advices today indicate that an
other engagement between Kuropat-
kin's army and Oyama's forces is not
far distant. The Japanese outposts
yesterday attempted to take Kaoutou
pass, which commands the road to
Fushan, but were stubbornly resist
ed The Russians are reported to be
holding all the passes of the Da range
and severe fighting is predicted be-
fore the japanese reach the Hun
river. Dispatches to St Petersburg
say that Oyama's advance is still thir-
ty miles south and southeast of Fu-
shan, where it seems probable the next
engagement in force will take place.
Toxic. Sept. 22.-WhiIe official con-
f1rmation is lacking, it seems certain
that the Japanese possess a fort on
another height westward of Itzshan,
which they carried by desperate as
sault and have since resisted all at
tempts to recapture by the Russians.
Both these heights overlook Port
Arthur, offering excellent gun posi-
tions. which materially weaken the
Russian defense.
Dispatches for the Gar.
St Petersburg, Sept. 22.-11:57 a.
m--Captain Cladot. Vice Admiral
chief of staff. has arrived from Vladi-
Vostok with important dispatches for
the emperor In an interview Capt
Cladot informed the correspondent of
the Associated Press that the repairs
TO the protected cruiser Bagatyr had
been completed, that the damages to
the armOred cruisers Gromoboi and
RoSSia did not necessitate their going
into dry dock, and that both were fit
10 resume active service. He admits
that the chief mission of these vessels
is TO prey upon commerce but says
they had a hard fight with Admiral
kammiInura' s ships when the latter
attempted to cut off their retreat.
Cladot says the Russians will be un-
able to recapture Port Arthur in event
OF its fall without having the mastery
OF the sea and he urges the despatch
of every available ship to the far east
including the Black sea fleet.
Admiral Birileff. the Russian naval
commander at Cronstadt has ordered
the wa-ship- Orel. the cruisers Oleg
kamchatka to be ready for sea Sep
tember 25, and the cruiser Izurmud
on September %. They will join Vice
Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press is informed on good authority
that Grand Duke Alexis. the high ad-
miral. favors sending out the Baltic
neet to the far east by way of Cape
Horn, but it is still undecided whether
the fleet Will start this year.
The Russ and Novoe Vremya refuse
ID
anese financial and military resources
contained in the dispatches. They say
they have no reason to suppose that
they are more correct than the pic
lures of the situation in Russia pub
lished in the British press. The Russ
is convinced that the japanese are
able to place as many able bodied men
In the field as France. whose CAPACITY
the Russ says. is 2.5OO.OOO men. The
paper admits that Russia is greatly
handicapped by the distance of her
army from headquarters here and
urges doubling the Siberian railway
Coal Famine at Port Arthur
Tsingtau. Sept. %. 8 p. m.-SeveraI
colliers arrived here within the last
ten days. It is believed their cargoes
are intended for Port Arthur The
ferred her cargo of Cardiff coal to the
German steamer Ericka, which the
local authorities would not allow to
leave until given assurances that no
attempt would be made to enter Port
Arthur. The Ericka sails at daylight,
and Japan is given as her destination,
but it is believed that she will ulti-
mately make for Port Arthur, where
the Russians are offering stupendous
inducements for the delivery of coal.
s. Davidson. an American merchant,
who had a Russian coal contract and
was ordered to leave Port Arthur on
February Is last. is now at Tsingtau.
He tells the Associated Press corre-
spondent that when he left there was
On account of the Russian warships
having been compelled to keep up full
steam day and night for nearly eight
months. and the enormous quantities
of fuel required for the water con-
densing plant there must be a coal
famine there now unless more coal
has arrived. The Japanese have since
cut off the water supply. when the
garrison would have to depend en-
tirely upon the condenser.
If a coal famine prevails. the town
must be getting water from impure
water wells, which would also have
to be served to the sick and wounded
iceless-
F1anking Movement Continues
General Kuroki's Headquarters in the |
Field. Sept. II. via Fusan, Sept. 22.-
The Russians are accommodating along /
the Japanese front with a large force /
of cavalry, supported by guns. With J
their guns they appeared yesterday 1
evening within six thousand yards from /
Yentai and threw a few shells at the /
station. They continued the cannonad- |
ing at intervals all day. The Russian |
force on the Mukden road extends from ]
Shuliho. eight miles north of Yenta1 to /
Tsaotoitsu. five miles northeast
Coal for Russian Fleet.
Washington Sept. 22.-The Ameri-
can consul at Bremen cables the state /
denartment that three ships are TAX
Ing coal at Enden. 1t is supposed the i
coal is for the Russian fleet
Intended to Hold Liao Yang.
Toxic. Sept. 22-3 p. m.-Gen. Oku
has written an extended report of the /
1r,a,-s4sopS precadinz the capture of |