The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-06-24
RUSSIANS LOST
TWO THOUSAND
FIRST AUTHORITATIVE STATE
MENT OF GEN. sTAKELBERGS
LOSSES AT VAFANGoW.
MANY WOUNDED ARE
REACHING LIAOYANC
Gen. Kuroki Awaiting Result of Con-
test Around Port Arthur Before
Planning Future Movements-Ac-
counts of Sinking Of Transports.

st. Petersburg, June 20.-About LOO
including 55 officers, have reached Lao
yang. The total Russian losses are
about 1000.
Gen. Stakelberg's force is marching
north, the railroad being unable to
transport more than a few thousand
men.
Special dispatches say the Russians at
Vafangow had AZ battalions against A
Japanese battalions. The Japanese had
great superiority in artillery, having
more than 200 guns.
Plans Of Kuroki.
Gen. Kuroki's Headquarters in the
Field, via Fusan, June 17.-Gen. Kuroki
Is quietly awaiting the results of the
fighting on the Liaotung peninsula, on
the result of which, according to high
officer, the future movements Of the First
Japanese army largely depend. The
Russian occupation of towns northwest
of the Japanese front is believed to in
dictate plan to prevent Gen. Kuroki
from attempting junction with the
Japanese forces on the Liaotung PENN
sula.
Correspondents with Gen. Kurokis
army have been promised greater liberty
and have been given permission to visit
the outposts of the army. Heavy rains
prevail.
Charges Barbarous Action.
,, Toxic, June 20.-A total of 500 sur
vivors of the japanese transports Sado
and Hitachi, destroyed by Russian war
ships, have arrived at southern ports
The Russians permitted go noncom-
batants to leave the Sado, but their
whereabouts are unknown.
The Japanese officers and soldiers who
were detained on board the Sado> had
prepared to commit suicide, but changed
their minds when the Russians suddenly
departed. There was apparently NO
chance given the noncombatants on
board the Hitachi to leave and the Rus
slams raked the crowded decks of the
crippled transport with shrapnel. The
Japanese denounce this action as bar
bArity, indicating the clear intent of the
Russians to kill defenseless men, instead
of simple desire to destroy the ships.
Vladivostok Squadron.
Toxic. June 20.-The Vladivostok
squadron has disappeared off the west
coast of Aomori prefecture. The Rus
slams recently searched two merchant
men and to one of them they transferred
the Englishmen taken from the Japan
csc transport Sado. They then permit
ted the vessels to depart uninjured.
Mistreat Russian Wounded.
st. Petersburg, June 20.-Col Her
| chausky, commander of the Fourth in
fantry regiment, was taken prisoner by
the Japanese at Vafangow. ~
The charge that the Japanese mu-
| tilated Russian wounded men found in
the bushes about the battlefield Of Va
fangow, is repeated by other Russian
correspondents. Nemirovich Danchen-
ko, probably the best known Of the Rus
sian war correspondents, says hospital
assistant in charge of three wounded
soldiers, having been driven off on the
approach Of some Japanese cavalry, saw
the latter mutilate the wounded men, in
flicting stabs and slashes. One body
showed % wounds on the head, the face
was cut open, the eyes were gouged out
| the breasts were pierced and the knees
were crushed by rifle butts. The skull
of one man was crushed. M. Danchenko
declares that this horrible practice was
ndulged in by the Bashi-bazouks in the
Turkish war and says Gen. Simonoff
| Commander of the Siberian division OF
Cossack cavalry, drew up a statement
in regard to the Japanese mutilations
which. was signed by the British, French
| and Spanish military attaches.