The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-30
ONINOUS
Nothing Il card from KurOpatkin
Since June %.
No Word from the Front During
Past - Hours.
TWO ARMIES UNITE.
Japanese Fighting Front Now
40 Miles i'm Extent.
YIadivostok Squadron Appears
on the Korean Coast.
TWO ARMIES UNITE.


not a single newspaper dispatch has
been received from the front during
the last "a hours. This silence in the
theater of war is regarded as a sign
of the coming storm.
The Bourse Gazette this morning
saws: I'VE are on the eve of a battle
which may settle the fate of Man
chrrfa and Korea. Both must be-
come Russian-the former because
Russian blood was shed there, the lat
ter because it is essential to the
safety of our communications between
Vladivostol5 and Port Arthur"
Advancing on LiaO Yang.
Lao Yang. Wednesday, June 20
The japanese column which forced
the passage of Mo Tien pass is ad-
vancing on Lao Yang by the eastern
road A Russian force commanded
by General Count Keller is holding
fortified position commanding the
road on this side of the pass. The OBJ
ject of the japanese is to cut the Rus
sian communications nOrthward of
Lao Yang while General Kuropatkin
is operating in the vicinity of Hal
Cheng with practically the whole of
the Russian forces.
Conditions at Port Arthur.
Chefoo, June 3O.-Fifty Europeans
who left Port Arthur June % arrived
here from Pigeon bay, where they
embarked on junk June 2S.
They report that in the naval en-
gaEement OF June 3 the Russian bat
Ileship Sevastopol was slightly dam
aged Fifteen days Will be required
10 repair her The torpedo dispatch
boat Amur was also badly damaged.
The Europeans had not heard of the
result of the night engagement in
which the japanese claim to have
l. hot IN
When the Russian fleet went out of
Port Arthur the hopes of all the resi-
dents We're high. and here was much
appointment when the fleet re-
turned to anchorage without er Saging
the enemy.
1t is said that the Russian sailors
have no confidence in Rear Admiral
Withoeft, but think if Vice Admiral
Skrydlof was in command the fleet
could successfully engage the Japa-
nese. The Russian fleet is now re-
ported to consist of six battleships,
fve cruisers, and . 4 smaller vessels.
on June 2 3, the day on which the
Europeans left, the Japanese were re-
ported to be trying to capture We Flu
mountain, a strongly fortified position
miles from Port Arthur. A French
man who has been in Port Arthur
since the war began states that there
are $4,000 fighting men there fnclud-
ing soldiers and sailors, 500 women
and $50 nOncombatants. The women
and noncombatants are waiting for a
steamer on which the Russians have
promised to take them out of the
besieged fortress. The food supply is
sufficient The only sufferers are the
Chinese, who are without money.
IIia Chau Taken.
London, June 30.-The Toxic corre-
spondent of the Daily Telegraph says
that severe fighting took place at Kai|
Chau on June p, which resulted in
the capture of that place on the
morning of June 26-
Knight still Lives.
New York, June 30.-The Morning
Posts Toxic correspondent telegraphs
according TO a World dispatch from
London, contradicting the report that
war Correspondent F. F. Knight of
the Post staff was killed recently.
Fighting Front of t2O Miles
London, June 3O.-The Toxic cor
respondent OF the Morning Post says
that the Japanese second army has
erected a junction with the first army
and that the whole force now has a
fighting front of 12O miles
Comes Out of Port Arthur
st. Petersburg, June 3O.-A Rus
sian torpedo boat has arrived at New
Chwang from Port Arthur. Her COM
mander denies that anV Russian sbins
were sunk or damaged in the fight off
Port Arthur June %. He declares
tnat after clearing away the Japanese /
mines the whole Russian fleet re-
turned safely to the harbor.
NIadivostOk Squadron at Large.
Toxic, June 80. II a. m.-Reports
from Nensan, Korea, report that the
Iusslan VladivOstok squadron ap-
Peared there today and attacked that
pace The firing was done by de-
Narva Story Denied.
st. Petersburg. June 3O.-Tbe Novoe
Nremya denies reports from Narva. that
two japanese spies were arrested there
on Tuesday while masqueradfne as
organ grinders.
Dispatches from Narva, a Russian |
fortress and seaport 100 miles west of /
ST. petersburg, We're to the effect that /
-Wo spies had been caught, together /
With hand organ in which mans of /
the Baltic coast line and surveying IN /
strurne1ts We're found. One of the men !
was said to be colonel of the jap
anese general staff and the other an or |
oerly.
Army Jeered at Navy.
Chicago, June 3O-A special from,
Chefoo to the Chicago Daily News
says.
Eight refugees who left Port Arthur
In a Chinese junk were picked up this /
. morning They belonged to the upper /
class The Information they gave
seems reliable. They stated that the
RUSSIAN ships now consist of the fol I
lowing ships, in good condition; The
C1al eFltCh, Retvizan. -PObieda Feres- /
Wet. Poltava. Diana, Bayan Novik AMI /
20 torpedo craft and steamer boats, /
The torpedo transport Anur is darnac- |
so ana the battle ship SoVastopol |