Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-05-12
PORT ARTHUR
IS ISOLATED
The Russian Gibraltar Is Now
Cut Off From All Com
muniCatiOn.
LEFT TO ITS OWN RESOURCES
Japanese Out Railroad and Telegraph
Lines - Russians Receive News
StoicalIy, Relying On Strong Forth
fcations and Brave Garrison.

st. Petersburg, May IA dispatch
received last night says that Port Ar
thur is cut off from all communication
by land, the japanese having dlsem-
barked in the rear, occupied the rail
road and cut the telegraph
Vice Admiral Skrydloff. who is en-
route to Port Arthur to take COM
mand of the naval forces in the far
east, will be unable to reach his des-
tinatiOn.
St Petersburg. May THE minis
try OF war has received the following
telegram from Major General Phug,
chief OF the military staff:
according to the information
have received, seven Of the enemys
transports and afterwards about forty,
appeared opposite Pitsewo on the
evening of May 4.
con the morning of May 5, the
Japanese began to land at Pitsewo
and on the coast near Cape Terminal
(about ntteen miles southwest or
Pitsewo) under cover Of artillery fire.
AT this moment about sixty trans
ports were observed bearing down up
on the whole front and our posts re-
tired from the shore.
According to Chinese reports, by
the evening of May ) about 10000 OF
the enemy's troops had landed and
taken up quarters in the Chinese vii
lagos near the points OF debarkatlon.
The enemy sent two columns OF
about one regiment each. one in a
westerly direction and the other to
The southwark.
"On May a passenger train from
Port Arthur was fired upon a mile
and quarter outside Polandicn
(about forty miles north of Port Ar
.hur) by a hundred Japanese infantry
men occupying the heights east of the
railway. The train carried many pas
sengeTs, two hundred sick occupying
an ambulance carriage flying the Red
Cross flag. Two Of the sick were
wounded. The train succeeded in
reaching POlandien.
"Tranquilty prevails in the prov.
mce of Yin Kow."
St Petersburg, May 7.-Japanese
troops swarmed across the narrow
neck Of the Lao Tung peninsula, the
railrOad and telegraph communica'
tons were cut and the Russian Gil
braltar isolated and left to its own
resourCes-all this the Russians seem
to accept with great stOicism.
These events have been anticipated
since the outbreak Of the war anG
the authorities, in a sense, appear t
be relieved now that the blow has fal
len. They assert that the fortress Is
impregnabie and amply provisioned tt
stand a siege for year. and that i
can hold out until the time come!
to relieve it.
According TO official information tn
landing of troops from sixty trans
ports began simultaneously at Pitse
wo and Cape Terminal on the morn
ing of May 5. 1t is also reported tina
troops are being landed at Kin Chow
but this is not credited as the Rus
slams are known to have fertilization
there and it is not believed that tn
Japanese had the daring to land in
ton from which the Russians coul
mfiict severe injury on them.
Complete details are lacking, OWN
20 the interruption OF communication
No resistance was made, the few Co
sacks who observed the movement
retiring when the warships shelled tn
shore preparatory to disembarkatio
Ten thousand men were put ashol
thursday and the disembarkatic
was proceeding Friday at the tin
that communication ceased. 1t is
Iieved that there are over 10000 81
diers now on land preparing for
Forward movement.
1t was because he was convince
that Port Arthur was about to be c
off that Niceroy AleXieff. accompani
by his staff and Grand Duke Bor
left hastily.
1t is reported here that the Japa
csc ships bombarded Port Arth
early on the morning of May 6, a
succeeded at last in closing the {
trance. but no official confirmation
the later statement can be obtain'
The strength of the garrison at Pr
Arthur is not revealed by the
thOrities who will only say that it
adequate for defensive purposes.
is not believed that the force thu
exceeds ~. 900 soldiers.