The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-14
.FORTIFY TIE PASS
A Russian Force Remains South
of the Hun.
Indications That KurOpatkin
Will Make Another Stand.
j APAN ESE LOSSES
Latest Estimate Places Them
Below 5000.
General Oku Was the Heaviest
Loser at LiaO Yang.
JAPAN ESE LOSSES

| Field Marshal Oyama reports to To-
| kio that a considerable Russian force
remains south of the Hun river, while
General Kuropatkin today teIegraphed
to st. Petersburg that the bulk of the
Japanese force is still south of the
Yentai branch railroad. Oyama also
says that the Russians are fortifying
the heights on both sides of the Lao
river at Tie Pass. Beyond this todays
| dispatches from the seat of war relate
to details of previous fighting and no
light is thrown on the all absorbing
question of where the next engage
ment in force will occur.
General Kuropatkin's estimate of
his losses in the fighting around Lao
Yang are far under the first reports.
He reports from August % to Septem-
Der he lost 1000 killed and $4,000
wounded.
Marshal Oyama placed the total of
Japanese casualties at 1880 making
the total for both armies in round
numbers 33,50O. Accepting the figures
as correct the battle of Lao Yang in
killed and wounded falls much lower
in the scale of the worlds great bat
ties.
Toxic, Sept. 1880 D. m.-Field
Marshal Oyama confirms the reports
that considerable force of Russians
remains south of the Hun river and
says the Russians are fortifying the
heights on both sides of the Lao river
at Tie Pass.
England's Protest Ignored.
London, Sept. 1.-THE Globe this
afternoon says that the decision of the
Vladivostok prize court to confiscate
portion of he Rr;f
1sh steamer Calchas consisting of flour
cotton and timber, consigned to Japan
II confirmed by the Russian supreme
court amounts to a complete ignoring
of the protest lodged by Great Britain
at ST. Petersburg against the inclusion
or provisions in the Russian list of
contraband of war. The paper adds:
1t has also been stated in behalf of
of commons that raw cotton would
only be regarded by Russia as contra
band when destined to make .explo-
sives. The manifest shows there were
thirty-six bales of cotton on board the
Calchas consigned to trading COM
panies in Japan. The shipment from
America also was purely commercial.
The decision of the prize court if al
Britain. amounts to nothing less than
prohibition of commerce between |
this country and Japan
Violation of Red Cross Flag.
Chefoo, Sept. 14.-4:0O p. ma
communication has been received by |
the Russian consul here from General |
Balshoff, chief of the Red Cross at
Port Arthur, requesting that the same |
be made public. The general charges ,
the japanese with gross violation of
the Red Cross. He says on Japanese
dead have been found notes, written in |
Russian, requesting that their bodies
be buried. but when Russian burial
parties attempted to fulfill these re-
quests they We're fired on. Such in
General Balshoff adds, are nu-
merouS and the Russians are now
afraid to trust to the Red Cross flag.
He states that the Japanese also pro-
tect movements of their troops by the
use of the Red Cross flag
The Russians at Chefoo are endeav-
oring to purchase a wireless telegraph
outfit at Manila presumably to replace
the one here which has been useless
for some time.
NOdzu Saw Hard Fighting.
Toxic, Sept. 14--(Afternoon)-Gen
Nodzu reports that the heaviest fight
ing at Lao Yang occurred during the
evening of September 8, the Twentieth
regiment. having. previously lost sue
cessively two regimental and four bat
TALON commanders and sacrif1cially
assaulted and dislodged the Russians
from their redoubtS at Yusfangmiao.
the rank of captain. Captain Yegami.
the regiment, led the
charge and inspired his men. The re-
serves unhesitatingly filled the gaps ind
the assaulting line. The men, unmind-
full of wire entanglements and 9th Ter
distractions rushed up to the Russian
works, shouting "Benzai.' One bat
talon lost all its officers in the first
clash and a private subsequently COM
it. One company was reduc
ed to IA or Is men. The regiments
losses were from IL to Is hundred.
In spite of the fatigue, at sunrise
Snvato olar- h0 Ta0 a017fi InH |
Of bridges forced them to temporarily
remain south of the Taitse river.
sThere Are Others.
St. Petersburg, Sept 14-1:46 p NJ
The admiralty still declares it is with
out official advices relative to the pres
ance of the Russian transport Lena at
San Francisco. The possibility of her
disarmament and other kindred ques-
tions will not be discussed and decided
until the admiralty is in possession of
full facts regarding the situation. Tel
egra phic inquiries, however, have elici-
ted the information from Vladivostok
that the Lena was sent to the Pacific
with the view of stopping the ship
nent of contraband of war. There is
an intimation also but this is not Off
cial that certain other vessels, probably
purchased in Germany
and converted into armored cruisers,
are in the Pacific on similar mission.
If the United States declines to permit
the Lena to have ample time in which
to make complete repairs without
which she could not undertake a long
voyage either back to Vladivostok or
home by way of Cape Horn, it seems
he decision to disarm her. There is
N fisn0SitiOn here to FcriticiZe. the |