Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-10

! reeI OF tine russians.
! London, March 10.-No further news
has reached London of the reported
hight at Port Arthur or the fate of the
! Russian Nladivostoll squadron. Up to
! Il late hour, last night, the Japanese le-
! CATION here had heard nothing of these
reported occurrences, but it is consid-
! cred significant that none of the Rus
sian official dispatches make any mem
ton of the Nladivostok cruisers.
| The news from Washington of the ap-
| pe1rance of japanese forces at Fung
! Wang Chang. about As miles northwest
of Antung. in Manchuria and Tashan, a
/ few miles inland from the mouth of the
yaiu river is regarded as most import
ant.
According to the Tien Tsin correspond
ent of the Daily Telegraph the Japan
; csc advances from the Yalu river cap
tured Fung Wang Chang and drove out
i the Russians in the vicinity to the Taku
Ling eastern pass and are in force 20
! miles east of New Chwang. The Rus
/ slams, with $4,000 mon, are entrenched
strongly at Lao Yang and Hal Ching
where fighting is imminent. Some small
| engagements have been fought, the
| Russians retiring with losses.
This correspondent says further that
the Japanese are using the same tactics
and advancing along the same route
| they followed during the Chinese war.
The Yin KoW correspondent of the
Paris edition of the New York Herald
| also vaguely reports the Japanese to be
80 miles northwest of Antung and well
to the westward of the Yalu river.
This is the only news on this subject
yet received in London and to some OF
the military critics it is inconccivable
that Japan really can have executed
such n sudden unexpected and success
full turning of the Russian position on
the Yalu river. which is thought would
have necessitated the employment of a
much larger force than it is believed
Japan can possibly have at this point.
Toxic, March S.-CTGCSday).-It is be-
lieved here that there has already been
n decisive naval engagement in the
vicinity OF Niadivostok and tidings of it
are anXi0usly awaited The japanese
fleet did not, it is said, go to Vladi-
vcstok for the purpose of bombarding
the town, but to locate and attack the
armoced cruisers Gromovoi. Rossa.
Rurik and the cruiser BOgatyr, the
Russian feet stationed there.
1t is understood here that when the
Japanese fleet arrived there, Sunday
last, it found the Russian squadron abb
sent. If this is true it gave the Japa-
nece squadron advantages in the way
of avoiding inshore batteries, at the
same time putting it in position to
prevent the Russian ships re-enterinS
the harbor.
1t is doubted that the japanese with
drew their entire squadron unless the
location of the enemy had been discov-
cred as 1t meant surrendering the adj
vantage of being in position between
the enemy and the enemy's base. There
is strong probability that the Japanese
found the Russian ships in the vicinity
of Possiet bay and gave them battle
there.
The names and number of ships in
the Japanese squadron have been kept
secret, but it was probably sufficiently
strong to separate into two divisions.
the one to guard VladiyOstok and the
other to cruise in search of the Russian
ships. 1t is said that the newly pur-
chased cruisers Nishin and Kasaga are
taking part in the present movements
off Vladivostok. The navy department