Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-17
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS CON-
TINUE TO FALL BACK.
Kuropatkin Has His Plans Laid for Future Work
Will Not Make Any Advance Until June and Per-
haps Not Till August Admiral Skrydlof Will Not
Risk SquadronS Until Baltic Fleet Reaches Pacific.

New ChWang, May 10, nlgnR.-lh
confirmation OF recent Associated
Press dispatches, the Russian evacua-
ton of this ely has been completed,
Nothing remains but the destruction
of the gunboat Sivouch which 1t is
expected will take place early in the
morning. The Russian troops march
ed out in perfect order; General Kon-
dratsvitch leaving with the last regi-
ment.
The Associated Press correspondent
has received exclusive information
from the highest Russian authority
that the Japanese advance will be re-
sisted at Hal Cheng, whence the Rus
sian forces will fall back upon Liao
Yang. where they will make q deter
mined stand. with a fighting strength
there available OF 10000 men.
If defeated, no stop will be made at
Mukden, but the retirement will be
continued to Thieling, a town at the
head of navigation for native craft on
the Lioa river, 200 miles north of
New Chwang. AT the same time
the Cossack regiments will be en-
ployed in the rear of the Japanese
army of the Yalu. harassing the
troops and interfering with its com
munications. 1t is not believed that
the Japanese will move into the in
terror until they have thoroughly es-
tablished their base here, repeating
their movement at Chinwai
The Russians admit the advance of
the Japanese army to q point within
fifteen miles of Hal Cheng, many of
their wounded entering there.
Antung, May 10, via Seoul, May 16.-
The concentration of the Russian
forces at I1iao Yang will make that
place the first line of defense, and the
first great battle probably will be
fought there. No important aggressive
action by this army Is expected in the
near future. Since the Russian feet
at Port Arthur has been bottled up,
the Japanese find it possible to safely
use this port as a base and abandon
most of the land transportation
through Korea, using the regular army
transport equipment for conveying
munitions from Antung to the front.
The Chinese do not object to Japanese
occupation because the new comers
give employment to thousands at good
wages and furnish a market for pro-
visions at inflated prices. Many Jap
anese shopkeepers already are estab-
lished here. The river has not vet
been opened to foreign commerce
The correspondence who remain at
headquarters visited the Russian
wounded, who expressed satisfaction
at their treatment. Their only COM
plaint concerning provisions was that
they received no bread, the Japanese
army not being provided with stores Of
that kind
Toxic. May IL qO:3O a. m.)-Ad-
miral KataOH reports that on the 10Th
the operation of removing the mines
in Kerr bay was continued by the tor
pedo boats under protection of a bonn
bardment by the feet There is no
change in the enemy's defense except
the addition of two or three field guns
to their position. which had the effect
of interrupting the work of clearing
the bay of the mines. Nevertheless
the Japanese destroyed eight mines,
but there are many more left and the
work of destroying them will be con-
tinued.
Liao Yang. May 16, delayed i'm
transmission.)-A Chinese official ass
serted to-day in a speech at a dinner
given in his honor and i'm that of the
other celestial officials by the mill
tary authorities of Liao Yang that Ja-
pan wants an alliance with China in
order to use her. The official fur
ther declared that the Chinese consid-
cred it their duty to preserve good re-
lations with Russia, whose frontier
adioined China's. He added:
''An alliance between China and
Japan would be fatal Japan made
war on us once and Russia's interven-
tion caused her to leave us in peace.
An alliance now would enable her to
use us and then again attack us
In hunting for Chinese bandits the
Cossacks burned the village of Shoh-
taidza: The military authorities have
now organized subscription for the
relief of the villagers who will be
given employment on the railroad
A detachment of Russian troops re-
| Gently crept upon the rear of the Jap
anese advance on the road from. Feng
Wang Cheng to Liao Yang, causing
the enemy to fall back slightly.