The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-03-03

tzar's Troops Occupy ADju.
st. Petersburg, March 2.-Major-Gen-
eral Plug. Viceroy Alexieff's chief-of-
staff, sends the following telegram.
dated March 2:
According to additional information
which has reached me, our patrols,
having passed the night twelve yersts
(eight miies) from Ping Yang, ap-
preached that town on the morning of
February 20. They were closely press
ing a japanese, patrol of seven officers.
Lieut.. Lonchakoff attacked this patrol
with three Cossacks, forcing it to re-
treat at a gallop towards the gates Of
the town.
THE presence of our patrols ne4r
Ping Yang caused great alarm and soon
the enenny's sharpshooters manned the
wall and towers and opened fire, ex-
pecting an attack. According to the
report our patrols approached within
700 PAGES of the town, which they found
to be surrounded by both old and new
ramparts. These, however, were not
yet occupied by the enemy, and it is
more than 1000 men in Ping Yang"
A dispatch received later in the day
srom Major General PAug. and also
dated March 2, gives further details of
military movements as follows:
According to the reports of our pa
trolls to Ping Yang and on the road to
Gnesan (Wensan), there were no signs
of the enemy. Ping Yang has been oc-
cucied by 5000 Japanese, who include
200 cavalry men. No particulars have
been learned concerning artillery. 1t
has been learned that the Japanese
bring troops by sea from Fusan to Che
nanp (on Ping Yang inlet), whence they
come to Ping Yang.
Between 1000 and 1000 Coreans have
been sent to Ping Yang from Seoul
Are patrols on February 2S We're within
twelve versts (eight miles) of Ping
Yang. and report that the Japanese
have fortified the town. The enemy's
troops are arriving daily.
''At Port Arthur and in Manchuria all
is calm According to Corean reports
from yladivostok detachment Of $500
Japanese, without artillery, landed at
Song Chen {FIuen Seng north of Cape
Druat2) on February 10 and marched
to the south.
There have been heavy snowfalls at
Port Arthur and in Manchuria recently.
At Port Arthur there were ten degrees
Of Frost and Vladivostok had heavy
srowstorm.
In dispatch to the czar viceroy
Alexieff says:
Admiral Stark, telegraphing from
Port Arthur to-day, March 2, says that
the enemy did not appear off Port
Arthur on either February 2S, February
29 or March 1. "Reminiscences made
by cruisers and torpedo boats over a
radius of sixty miles from Port Arthur
also failed to discover the enemy's YES
selsE''
st. Petersburg, March 2.-The cars on
the ice railroad over Lake Baikal are
now drawn by horses. locomotive
which performed this service having
broken through the ice
Toxic, March 2.-It has been learned
here that the Russians have occupied
the telegraph offices at Anju and Yong
Pyon, north of Ping Yang. They have
\ imprisoned the district governor and
have confiscated official papers. The
Russian force near Anju numbers only
about 400 men. The main Russian
force is concentrated at Lao Yang.
The Russians near Antung aggregate
1000. No important engagement is ex-
pected south of the Yalu river which,
it is believed, the Russians will make
their main line of defense.