The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-05-07
PIT. ARTHUR
IS CUT OFF
Japs Have Cut the Railroad
and Telegraph.
MORE FIGHTING TOCOME
Vice Admiral Skrydloff Cannot
Now Reach the Russian
Fleet.
FIGHTING TOCOME

LONDON, May IA special dis
patch from st, Petersburg says that
Port Arthur is cut off from all commu
nication by land, the Japanese having
disembarked in its rear, occupied the
railroad and cut the telegraph.
Vice Admiral SkrydlofI, who is en-
route to Port Arthur to take over com
mand of the naval forces in the far
east, will be unable to reach his head
quarters.
The ministry of war has received the
following telegram from Major Gen-
eral Plug, chief of the military staff;
According to the information l have
received, forty-seyen of the enemy's
transports appeared opposite Pitsewo
on Wednesday morning.
"On Thursday morning the japanese
began to land at Pitsewo and on the
coast near Cape Terminal, about ff-
teen miles southwest Of Pitsewo, un-
der cover Of artillery fire.
AT this time about sixty transports
were observed bearing down upon the
whole front, and our outposts retired
from the shore
"All papers In the postoilice at Pltse-
wo were removed, and the Russian In
habitants abandoned the town.
According to Chinese reports, by
the evening of Thursday about 10000
of the enemy's troops had landed and
taken up quarters in the Chinese vii
lagos near the points Of debarkation.
"Ihe enemy sent two columns of
about a thousand men each, one in a
westerly direction and the other to the
southwark.
Yesterday a passenger train from
Port Arthur was fired upon mile and
quarter outside Polanden, about for
ty miles north of Port Arthur, by a
hundred japanese infantrymen Occu-
pying heights east of the railway. The
train carried many passengers, 200
sick occupying an ambulance carriage
flying the Red Cross flag Two of the
sick were wounded. The train sue
ceeded in reaching rolandien.
Tranquility prevails in the mari
time province and in Yinkow"
This mornings dispatches received
from st. Petersburg say japanese
troops swarming across the narrow
neck OF the Liaotung peninsula, the
railroad and telegraph cOmmunica-
tons cut and the Russian Gibraltar is
| olated and left to its own resources, all
this the Russians seem to accept with
great stoicism.
These events have been anticipated
since the outbreak of the war. and the
| authorities, in a sense, appear to be re-
| lieved now that the blow has fallen.
| They assert that the fortress is i'm
pregnable and amply provisioned to
stand siege for year and that ii can
hold out until the time comes to relieve
| it.
According to official information the
landing OF troops from sixty trans
ports began simultaneously at Pitsewo
| and Cape Terminal, 1t is also reported
| that troops are being landed at Kin
chow, but this is not credited, as the
Russians are known to have fortifica-
| tons there, and it is not believed that
the japanese had the daring TO land
| Immediately under an intrenched posi-
tion from which the Russians could
inhict severe loss on any army while
disembarking.
The japanese landed in sufficient
force to discourage the few hundred
Russians watching at Pitsewo from
Offering any resistance
A Tokyo report says Admiral Hoso.
va, commanding the squadron that has
been operating at the mouth of the
Yalu, tells of the landing of the Japa-
nese troops. The report says
Discovering number of the enc
my's patrols, we bombaried them for
a short time, tpd then a landing party
Of sailors, Captain Nomoto leading,
was ordered ashore.
1T being low tide it was impossible
to use the boats, and the sailors plung-
ed into the water, waded, breast deep,
for about thousand yards and reach
ed the beach at T:20 p, m, Immediate
ly advancing. they took possession of
range of hills without firing a shot
and planted our flag on the top"