The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-06-17


naval battle has taken place off Port
Arthur, it is reported here. Two Rus
sian and four Japanese warships
were sunk. the report declares. No
confirmation of the rumor is obtaina-
BILE.
Hai-Cheng, Manchuria, June IA
Two battalions of Japanese troops,
the advance guard of General Kuro
kfs army, was wiped out of existence
on June by the Russians in an am
buscade on the road between here and
Feng-Wang -Cheng. Not man was
lost to the Russian force.
Opened u Murderous Fire.
The ambush was laid in ravine,
about thirty miles southeast of here.
A large force of japanese. preceded by
the two Inflated battalions, consisting
Of about 200 men. moved out in the
early morning. The Russians had a
strong force posted in the ravine and
the battalions were in 1t before their
enemies were discovered.
When the japanese were well in the
ravine the Russians opened murder
Gus rifle and artillery fire on them.
The firing was at close range and so
quick was the work on the part of the
cars men that in few moments
only one or two Japanese were not
killed or not wounded. The main
Japanese force tried to outfiank the
Dno httt no Lot
of without losing a man. The Jap
anese, closing in, found the ravine va
cant, save for their own dead and
wounded.
Details of tho saimatze Battle.
Liao-Yang, June 10.-Two Russian
battalions of infantry a squadron OF
Cossacks and one battery of artillery
were engaged near SaimatZe June z
against two Japanese regiments of in
fantry, with artillery, but with no
cavalry. The Russian losses were 100.
The Russian force at SaimatZe was
commanded by General Erhoff, who
engaged the Japanese advance at
a. IN. on June Z. The Russian in
fantry advanced steadily. pushing the
Japanese from their position. but their
attack gradually developed strength,
and the Russians, finding themselves
in the presence of an overwhelming
force. retired in good order. Their
losses were three officers and about
100 men killed or wounded. Russian
observers think the Japanese lost more.
The fighting continued until 3 p. III.
yIsdivostok at Port Arthur.
London, June 1.-THE Standards
correspondent at ST. Petersburg tele
graphs that dispatches have been re-
ceived from Admiral Skrydloff stat
ing that on Tuesday last he moved
with the Nladivostok squadron toward
Port Arthur and arrived within thirty
miles of that place. There he ran into
a fog and found several Japanese tor
pedo-boats and two battleships con-
fronting him.
The Japanese attacked fiercely and
inflicted some damage. The Russians
returned the Japanese fire, but as none
of the Port Arthur ships appeared, as
Skrydloff had expected, they returned
to Vladivostok, which they reached at
. " ClOth .tSltlddy
laps Trap Russians.
New Chwang, June 14.-Information
has been received here through here
tofore reliable channels that part Of
the Japanese force left at Pu-Lan-Tieu
to checkmate the Russians southwark
movement to relieve Port Arthur was
attacked southeast of Shungnmao
Saturday. After slight fighting the
Japanese made n false retreat the
Russians holly following them, when
the Japanese made flank movement.
catching the Russians in trap. The
Russians losses are placed at 800 men.
They then fell back on Kai-chou and
began To retreat along the Baimatgu-
TsaichOu road.
kuropatkin Retires Northward.
London. June IA telegram from
st. Petersburg states that the Rus
slams have evacuated Lao Yang and
that General Kuropatkin has moved
his headquarters from Lao Yang TO
Mukden. indicating that the army he
commands is retiring northward
a dispatch from Chefoo states that
Chinese arriving there from Port Ar
thur say a battle was fought within
seven miles of the inners forts last
Wednesday. The Japanese fleets ly-
ing off the east coast Of the Lao Yang
peninsula supported the army in the