Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-06
The War in the East.

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consul here reports that large Japanese
vessel has been sunk off the Alienwan.
The report is not confirmed.
Chefoo, June cit is reported that
large japanese merchantmen has been
blown up off Talienwan by mine.
Rome, June Ga telegram from To-
kio states that three more divisions of
the Japanese army are being modified
to operate against Vladivostok.
Seoul, June 6.-The japanese consul
at Gensan, Korea, reports skirmish on
June 3, between japanese detachment
of 80 men under lieutenant, and a party
of Russians. The Russians lost 3 killed
and wounded. The Russians were
finally forced to retreat. AS they did so
they burned a Korean village. The
natives enraged at this action seized old
flint locks and weapons Of all sorts, and
attacked the COssacks, who lost two
killed and several wounded.
London, June g. Baron Hayashi, the
Jaoanese minister at London, has dis
patch from Toxic confirming the report
ed sinking of Russian gunboat at Port
Arthur. His dispatch reads "Admiral
Togo reports that the fifth torpedo de-
stroyer flotilla, while engaged in block
aiding Port Arthura at $40 p. m. on June
4, witnessed the blowing up of one of
the enemy's gunboats of the Giyak type.
The vessel sank in front of Cheng Tua
Shan. The gunboat was destroyed pre-
sumably by one of our mines. Other
Russian gunboats, destroyers and
launches, engaged in clearing mines out
side Port Arthur, hastily fled inside"
st. Petersburg, June 6.-Alarming
reports are current today, to the effect
that the trans-Siberian railway has
reached the limit of its capacity in trans
porting supplies for the feeding of the
army already in Manchuria. 1t is even
feared that it will prove impossible to
prosecute the campaign successfully or
with sufficient army until the railway
is made double tracked one beyond
Lake BaikalI.
Toxic, June 6.-Vice Admiral Togo
has been promoted to admiral for his
distinguished work about Port Arthur.
st. Petersburg, June GA telegram
from Lao Yang gives most interesting
incident of the battle at Kin Lieng
Cheng, just north of Yalu on May 30th.
During the battle, says the telegram,
General Kashtalinsky ordered the Tenth
Siberian regiment to advance, thus cOy-
eriug the retreat OF the general Russian
army. The order was obeyed, and the
Siberian regiment marched forward with
the utmost steadiness in the face of
almost certain annibilation. The Jap
anese on the neighboring heights observ-
ing the move saluted the Russian heroes
and gave them a cheer. In reply for
the cheers General Kashtalinsky ordered
the battery which was trained on the
japanese to cease firing, and during the
lull which followed the armies separated.
Toxic, June 6.-The small japanese
schooner Daisan- Kai-Maru has been
captured by the Russian off the west
coast of the island of Saghaien, west of
Siberia. The schooner was declared
prize of war and her crew of 63 made
prisoners. It's expected that this island,
which was formerly a part of Japlu,
will be conquered by the Japanse dur
ing July. The taking OF it is regarded
as an easy task. One of the most i'm
portant results of such capture would be
the release of Russian convicts and
exiles.