The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-13
In an Attempt to Flank Russian
Left at Feng Wang.
CAUGHT IN AMBUSCADE
Russians Retired Without Los
ing a Man.
Big Naval Battle at Port Arthur
Is Reported.

Hal Cheng, Manchuria, June Is
A Ranking movement of the japanese
around the Russian left from Feng
Wang Cheng June was repulsed
with a loss of two whole battalions-
A large japanese force moved out
in the morning along the Feng Weng
Cheng and Hal Cheng road.
The Russians had a force strongly
posted in a ravine thirty miles south
east OF Hal Cheng.
The Japanese were preceded by
two battalions, who walked into the
Russian ambuscade. They received a
murderous rifle and artillery fire at
close range and were wiped out, only
one or two eScap aping.
The main Japanese force, which
was greatly superior to the Russian
force, tried to Outfiank the Russians,
who drew off without losing a man.
The Japanese, closing in, found the
ravine vacant, save for their own
dead.
Naval Battle Reported.
St. Petersburg, June 13.-Rumors
are in circulation here that a great
naval battle has taken place off Port
Arthur in which two Russian and
four Japanese battleships were sunk.
No confirmation of the rumor can be
obtained.
A Submarine for Japan.
New York, June lat is definitely
stated that Japan will be the ultimate
destination of a submarine boat which
is now being carried across the At
lantfc on the deck of the Norwegian
steamer Fortune, about which much
mystery has been made during the
past week. The boat was shipped to a
private firm in Suez. The second pur-
chaser Will it is understood. turn the
boat over to agents of the Japanese
government.
Japanese Move Southward.
who have just arrived here from Pit
sewo say that the Japanese stationed
there have reloaded all of their pro-
visions and ammunition for transport
tatiOn with the intention apparently
of moving them south ward, down the
peninsula. The Japanese fleet they
also say, is cruising daily between
Talien Wan and Kin Chou.
China Is worried.
New Chwang. June 13.-The Chi
neSe government is apparently great
" worried over the death of Lewis
Etzel, the correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Telegra PHI, who was shot
and killed recently by Chinese sol
diers off the Lao Tung coast. The
affair is being energeticalIy investi-
gated by u. S. Consul General Miller.
and the viceroy of Shan Hal Kwan
sent the Taotai Ltu here to act in the
matter on behalf of the Chinese gov
ernOr. TaOtai Liu served at one time
as secretary to the Chinese legation
at Washington and subsequently, as
Chinese consul at New York He is
now taotai of Tien Tsin
Russia VIII Not Heed.
St Petersburg, June 13-4:45 P. NJ
Russia viii not heed the British repre-
sentations in regard to the action of
the russian government in declaring
rice and other food stuffs to be contra
band of war. The Russian position in
relation to fOodstuffs being contraband
is as announced by the Associa ted
Press when the declaration was issued
II covers only full cargoes, destined for
Japan, Where the assumption is that
they are designed for the use of the
enemy's army. In effect the Novoe
Vryema contends that Russia's position
is exactly analogous to Great Britain
during the Beers war notwithstanding
Great Britain's protest against food
stuns being declared contra band at the
time of the Franco Chinese war in 1855
and the Japanese-Chinese war in 1894
The NovOe Vryema expresses pleas
ure at the statement from washington
regarding the submarine boat PrOtet-
tor, which was shipped recently from
New York on board the Norwegian
steamer Fortune, presumably bound for
Japan by saying:
THE United States rsotwithstanding
the agitation in the Pro-Japanese press
remains strictly neutral"
The Russian consul at She Foo re-
ports the persistence of rumors there
of sea fight near Port Arthur
The Russian press, while displaying
considerable interest in King Edwards
visit to Kfel. expresses the opinion that
1t will not have important political con
sequences.
Russians Pushed Back.
Seoul, June 13-5 p. m.-Accordine
to Korean official reports received
here. the Russian forces which were
jim.