The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-12-22

While some of the reserve men call
ed to colors will be used to complete
the strength of the regiments going
| to the front; far greater portion
will be formed into reserve units to
replace the troops which have alrea-
dy gone to the far east This year
the conscripts taken number about
half million men, being about dou-
| BILE the number usually called to the
colors. The number of young men an
nually liable to military service is
over eight hundred thousand. The
new mobilization will entail addition
al relief measures for the families of
the reserve men which will probably
be met by increasing credits of the
Zemstvos for this purpose.
Japanese Reports Confirmed.
While declining to give details the
admiralty admits that the Russian ad
vices from Port Arthur sent by Gen.
Stoessel substantially confirm the ia
panese advices of the partial wreck
ing of the Russian ships in the har-
Dor, and the censor has been instruc
ted to permit the publication of the
dispatches. 1t is claimed that sever
al of the larger ships and respecta-
BILE number of torpedo boats are
still seaworthy, but they are not con
sidered as a factor in the coming
fight between Admiral Togo's ships
and the Russian second Pacific squad
ron. The whole series of misfortunes
which have attended the Port Ar
thur squadron is bitter chapter in
arrival of the latest advices there
has been no disposition to criticize
Rear Admiral Wiren's failure TO
make a sortie General Stoessel hav-
ing decided that further defense OF
the fortress would be impossible If
the guns of the war ships and the
the ships gone out in the conditions
existing they would have been at the
mercy of the Japanese, and would
have been sacrificed without hope of
inficting commensurate damage. If
the fortress is relieved it is believed
most of the ships will be raised and
saved.
Toxic, Dec 21.-Admiral Togo who
made personally a series of obserVa-
tions of the Russian battle ship Sc
vastopol, telegraphs to the navy de-
partment expressing the opinion that
the Sevastopol is disabled. Great
weight is attached to Togo's person
al observation and opinion, instanced
by the fact that when the Russian
battle ship Petropavlovsk was sunk
Togo was one of the few officers OF
the entire Japanese fleet whose eye
caught the vision of the speedy dis
aster. Commander YeZoe who was
killed while torpedoing the Sevasto-
pol has been promoted and given 9th
er posthumous honors.
The following report from Manchu-
rian headquarters was received at
1880 last night and made public to-
day: "On Monday at five in the af-
ternoon the enemy's artillery east OF
Da mountain bombarded the neigh
borhood of Sinlintung. At one in the
morning Tuesday the enemy's infan-
try attacked us south of Pieniuhung-
poa at Tatsupao. By four in the NOR
ming the enemy was repulsed. Stimuli
taneously the enemy's infantry at
tackled Chinshantung, Heilintung and
Puangtia and made a most vigorous
attack in the neighborhood of Chen
hantung. The fighting continued about
an hour when the enemy was COM
pletely repulsed. We had no casual
ties"
Nothing From Port Arthur.
Che Foo, Dec 21.-No additional
nnwc from Port Arthur of any impOr-