Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-07-08
RUSSIANS FALL BACK
Japanese Brigade Advances
Close to Kaichow.
PORT Arthur & sOU / hnED Il
Admiral BezohraxoG Reports That
Tsvo Torpedo Boats of the En-
emy Were Sunk by ylad-
iT0skok Fleet.

envy We're sunk By yIad-
iFostok Fleet.
LONDON, July S.-A Tatchekiao dis
patch says that the Japanese in force
have swarmcd over the mountain
crcsts and advanced on Kaichow, com
polling General chirlkoff, with the cen
ter Of the Russian vanguard, to fall
back.
A whole brigade Of japanese, with
masses of cavalry, followed and occu-
pied the village OF Nantay, driving
two companies of Russian infantry ant
two companies of Cossacks who vert
intrenched there. The Japanese have
arrived within five miles Of Kaichow.
and both hold q strong position.
General Samsonoff made a heroic at
| tempt to check the Japanese, galloping
out with guns to shell the Japanese left
and inficting great loss on them. But,
fearing his retreat would be cut off,
| he fell back and is now holding Kai-
| chow. General Chirikof's force is sta
| toned southeast Of Kaichow. The
plans of the japanese remain q mys-
| terry to the Russian commanders.
There is no doubt that the appear
ance of the Japanese SO close to Kali
chow is one Of the most crucial fea-
| lures of the present situation. This
leaves an opportunity either for a Wig
| orons defense Of Kaichow, bringing
south for this purpose General Kuro-
patkin, vino is still ut T~atchekiao, or
for the Russians to evacuate Kaichow
without serious resistance, probably
concentrating at Tatchekiao, at which
s the end of the branch railroad con
Iecting Newchwang with the main line
and apparently the last place where a
stand could be successfully made to
prevent the Japanese from pushing
across the peninsula, selling New
chwang and Yinkow and establishing
a new base on the west coast Of the
peninsula.
The fact that the Japanese outposts
are gradually being pushed out along
the whole front, even to the north of
Liaoyang, makes fighting a possibility
almost anywhere along the railroad.
A. Chefu dispatch says hat in the
| fighting Which occurred for the posses
| sion of one Of the hills northeast of
Port Arthur the Russians lost, accord
| ing to Chinese reports, 100 men killed
and fifty wounded. Fifty Chinese were
sent out to bring in the Russian dead
and wounded.
Chinese saytthe entrance to the har-
| Dor to Port Arthur is unsafe for the
passage of vessels. One Russian war
| ship was slightly damaged while com
ing out recently as a result Of striking
| a sunken wreck, and two other war
| ships oollided in the entrance and had
to undergo repairs.
Vice Admiral Skrydloff has reported
to st. Petersburg that the Russian
cruisers from s~Vladivostok, commanded
by Vice Admiral Bezobrazoff, met a
Japanese squadron, consisting of three
battlesliips, four protected cruisers and
torpedo boats, in the Korean gulf and
turned back. The Japanese pursued
the Russians, the battleships ana cruis-
ers firing on them without result. Jap.
anese torpedo boats then attacked the
Russians, which returned the attack,
and Admiral Bezobrazoff believes that
two of the encmy's torpedo boats were
sunk by the Russian fire. The Rus
SLAMS sustained no damage.
A Chefu dispatch says that Chinese
who have arrived there from Port Ar
thur say the japanese forces have
formed n cOmnlpte cordOn around the
land side of the town and that they
are occupying all the commanding
hills, including Wolf mountain. with
in a radius of seven miles of the forti-
ficatlons.
The Chinese say also that two large
warships are missing from the squad
ron which went out from Port Arthur
and that the Russian battleship Sevas-
topol has been damaged.
The japanese bombarded Port Arthur
from the sen on june 80, but did no