Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-10-10
JOY FOR
RUSSIA
Gar Gets News from
His BeIeaguered
Fortress
May Hold the Place
Long Against the
Tired Japs
Kuropatkin Will Try
to Avenge Lao
yang Defeat

st. Petersburg, Oct. General
StOessel has been heard from-the first
report from Port Arthur for several
days-and his report created great re-
joicing and revived hope in his ability
to defend the fortress. After the fail
ure of the storming operations the war
office would not be surprised il the
Japanese changed their plans to reg
ular engineering siege. According to
the war Offices information quiet con-
tinues at Mukden.
Japanese Lost 10000.
Gen. Stoessel says the Japanese
losses were 10000 during the attacks
on Port Arthur from September 10 to
%. He reports that no incident oc-
Cured from September % to 80, ex-
cepting outpost skirmishing.
Gen. Stoessel adds that practically
nothing remained of the waterworks
redoubts when the surviving Russians
evacuated them.
The last Japanese attack to which
Gen. Stoessel refers was on hill
called High Mountain, south of Inthan
(Etseshan, or Etze mountain.) He
gives instances of the heroism of the
defenders, especially the case OF
lieutenant who threw hand bombs into
the Japanese trenches, causing panic.
Col Irman, chief of the Port Arthur
artillery, is praised for the magnificent
dispositions of the guns.
Boris to Rejoin Army.
Grand Duke Boris, cousin Of the
car, leaves st. Petersburg in 10 days
to rejoin the army.
Major General Orloff has been as
signed to duty on the general staff,
thus ending the reports that he would
be tried by court martial and dis
missed from the army, the fact being
as repeatedly stated in the dispatches
of the Associated Press, that General
Orloff was simply deprived of his COM
mand by General Kuropatkin,
Lieut. General Crippenburg, who is
going to command the second Manchu-
rian army, was received in audience by
the car yesterday but he declined to
be interviewed. He leaves for the
front during October.
Revenge for Liaoyang.
Berlin, Oct. ga dispatch to the
Lokal Anzeiger from Mukden says:
General Kuropatkin has expressed
fire determination to avail himself
of the favorable season for military
action. Everything points to coming
revenge for Liaoyang. Officers and
men hope that the period of retreat is
past and that they will be led against
the enemy. The Japanese undoubtedly
intended September 81 to attack in
three columns from the golfers at YEN
tai along the imperial road, but desist-
ed when they discovered that the Rus
slams fronting them numbered $4,000
men,
The correspondent of the Lokal An
zeiger gives a summary of the osten-
sible strength of the opposing japanese
arms, which according to his calcula-
tons total 144,OOO infantry, $500 cav
airy and GAS guns.
Naval Battle Reported.
London, Oct. 6.-The News agency
sent out a dispatch dated at Toxic Oc-
tober 5, saying:
''It is reported that the Russian
squadron made a sortie from Port Ar
thur and that great naval battle oc-
Cured"
No details are given.
ln+aras+ in Nff;eae
London, Oct 6.-In the absence OF
developments at the front, interest at
st. Petersburg centers in the DISPOSE
ton to be made of certain important
civil and military officers. Rumor
has it that Viceroy Alexieff has been
reinstated in the royal favor and will,
on his return from the far east, be-
come the actual director of Russia s
foreign policy. Friends of General
Kuropatkin are confident that he will
be given at least temporary command
Of the two Manchurian armies.
Slaughter at Port Arthur.
The Telegraph's Chefoo CORE
spondent says that September "a and
Is the Japanese made repeated and
recklessly brave attempts to capture
High hill at Port Arthur. Owing to
the destruction of earthworks their
advance was unprotected and under
the rays of searchlights the Russian
machine guns swept them down in
masses.
more troops, however, came on