The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-04-09
JAPANESE ARMY
HAS TAKEN WIJU
Mikado's Forces Hold Korea, Having Driven
the Cars Army Across the Yalu-Port
Arthur Sl1elled Again.

London, April 5.-The Japanese army
has reached the Yalu. Scouts entered
Wiju yesterday forenoon at II o'clock,
according to dispatches from Shanghai,
and found the town deserted by Russian
troops. The Russians apparently have
retreated across the Yalu. Last Friday
1000 Russian troops were intrenched at
Wiju, strongly supported by artillery
and cavalry. To-day the japanese hold
the south bank of the river and are ready
to invade Korea.
Japs Hold Yongampo.
The occupation of Win gives the Jap
anese undisputed possession of the port
of Yongampo, at the mouth of the Yalu.
With the river free from ice the gun
boats of the mikado's fleet can protect
the japanese army while it is crossing
the river. The japanese are disembarl-
ing 10000 troops at Yongampo, accord
ing to dispatches received from Seoul.
Russians Taken Prisoners.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Kobe says that 20 Russians and guam
tity of spoil were captured in an action
at Chensu, Is miles northeast of Wiju.
The dispatch adds that there had been
no previous information that the Japan
ese were so far north as early as
March 20.
Marks Opening Of Real War.
The Daily Telegraph, in it's editorial
this morning, says: "The most signifi-
cant military news since the opening
of the war has arrived. Pushing north
in the last few days with extreme rap
idity and driving the Cossack squad
rons before them, the Japanese have
seized Wiju and Yongampo, at the
mouth of the Yalu.
"The main masses of their army are
pressing up towards this vital line, and
there is no longer any doubt that when
a few more days have elapsed Japan
will be in position to make at any
moment one of the decisive moves of
the whole struggle. 1t will be able to
force passage of the frontier river
when it pleases and invade Manchuria.
"Then, and not till then. the real
grapple of forces will begin in grim
earnest. People who have been sigh
ing for big war news may hear within
the next two or three weeks Of events
big enough to satisfy the most craving
appetite for sensation.
Japan Holds All Korea.
Japan, by the movement now re-
ported, has comprised one of the most
remarkable achievements in modern
political history 1t has practically
swept Russia clean out of the whole OF
Korea without anything that could be
called blow. From the northern from
tier, on the wide estuary of the Yalu
to the straits looking across to the is
land empire itself, 600 miles away, the
Hermit kingdom is in it's hands from
end to end.
"Never has Nemesis marched more
swiftly upon the retreating track OF
a fatal diplomacy. Within eight weeks
from the opening of the war Russia
has lost, and in our conviction, ire
trievably lost, the very object fol
which she made war.
London, April 6.-Japanese troops, &C.
cording to kilograms from Mukden to St.
sieng, town on the south bank of the
Yalu river, 60 miles above Wiju. A
Toxic correspondent telegraphs to the
Chronicle that the Japanese force al
Changsieng numbers 10000.
Dispatches from Toxic state that the
occupation Of Wiju by a japanese force
is officially confirmed Koreans report
small bodies of Russians still moving on
the south bank of the upper Yalu, but II
is believed that these are merely scouts
The Russian Retreat.
A telegram from Pingyang states that