Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-04-18
PANIC AT SUNGJIN
Five Thousand Cossacks Will
Divert Japs From the Yalu.
JAPANESE REGRETS FOR MAKAROFF
Korean Emperor VIII Rebuild n
Temporary Palace-CaDtnin of h
hsaEdjur Went Down In the
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LONDON, April ia Seoul report
says the governor OF the province Of
Hamgyung, in northeastern Korea,
wires that a force Of Cossacks has ap-
peared near Sungjin. The consul at
Sungjin became heightened and wired
Japanese Minister Hayashi for a YES
sci to carry away Japanese residents.
A steamer sent from Gensan has ar
rived at Sungjin and embarked the
refugees.
1t is said that 5000 Russians are
following the advance of the Cossacks
with the intention of diverting the
japanese from the Yalu river, but this
is hardly credible owing to the posi-
Elity of the Japanese landing and cut
ting them off.
There Is no information here as to
whether the two English missionaries
at Sungjin have left there, but there
are no fears for their safety.
Japanese refugees are arriving at
Gensan. T.
The emperor has decided to rebuild
only temporarily Oh the site of the
burned palace. The building will be
of foreign style. A stone building
under construction will replace the
once beautiful audience hall, now
~smoldering ashes. ~
A report has been received that Port
Arthur was bombarded all day Fri
day and that the action was continued
Saturday.
1t is said at st. Petersburg that on
the eve of the disaster to the Petro-
pavlovsk Vice Admiral Makaroif tele-
graphed to the emperor that he was
about to fight a decisive action with
the enemy's fleet.
A court story told here is that on
hearing OF the catastrophe to Makaroff
the emperor wept and, referring to
Viceroy Alexeieff, exclaimed, THAT
man brings us nothing but i'll luck"
1t is also alleged that the emperor was
with difficulty dissuaded from remov-
ing the viceroy from his post.
Captain Crown, who went down with
the Petropavlovsk Joined that ship on
the previous day. having succeeded in
getting through from Shanghai, where
he left his vessel, the gunboat Mand-
jur. Captain Crown was a descendant
of a Scotchman who fought with Rus
STA in the war with Sweden, when he
captured the first RetviZan.
A dispatch from Port Arthur says
several eyewitnesses assert that a jap
anese cruiser has been lost outside of
Port Arthur by striking n of its own
floating mines.
Advices from Tokyo say that the
Japanese are elatel V e the successes
they have won at Port Arthur. They
are also proud of the achievements of
Vice Admiral Togo, particularly of his
newest strategy of countermining the
eneniy's harbor and d%ecoying him
across this field of mines to an equally
dangerous flank attack.
The success of the system of placing
deadly countermines Is due largely to
a series of careful observations made
by the japanese during their previous
attacks on Port Arthur. The Japanese
saw the Russian fleet leave the harbor
and return to it several times, and
they discovered that the Russian war
ships followed an identical curse ev-
cry time they came out or went in, evil
IDENTIFY for the purpose of avoiding
their own mines. The japanese took
bearings on this course. When the de-
stroyer divisions Of the japanese tor
pedo fiotilla laid the countermines
during the night of April 1918 they
placed them along this course. The
laying of these countermines was ex-
~ceedingly perilous, because II any Jap
anese boat with mines on board had
been struck by a lucky Russian shot
she would have been annihilated.
The weather of the night of April
1918 favored the work. There was a
heavy rain, the night was dark and
cloudy, and the Russian ~searchlights
playing over the channel failed to re-
veal the presence of the Japanese de-
stroyers.
Expressions of regret at the death Of
Vice Admiral Makaroff are general
here. Speaking for the naval staff,
Commander Ogasawara has published
a lengthy statement, in which he Ia
ments the death of the Russian vice
admiral and pronounces 1t to be a loss
to the navies of the world. Command
or O%gasawara reviews the life, profes-
sioral career and the personal attri-
butes of Vice Admiral Makaroff and
declares that he is entitled to be
classed with the best admirals in the
world.
The Koryu Maru, which participated
In the latest attack on Port Arthur, is
a torpedo depot ship, under the com