Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-02
.RUNSCAUnTLET
TO MUKD[k
I.ieut-Osl tiaorko Breaks
Through Japanese Lines
Around Porl Arthur With
Dispatches
VII D STORIES OF
ENEMY'S LOSS
English Government D0es Net
Believe Three Mile Limit
should BE Extended

tenant Col. Gourko has succeeded IN
eIuding the Japanese on Lao Tung
peninsula and reached the Russian
headquarters at Mukden from Port
Arthur. He was the bearer OF imports
ant information regarding the fighting
at Kinchou and the situation at Port
Arthur. A long dispatch is niw be-
ing deciphered at the war office. All
reports received at General Kuropatt
kin's headquarters at Kwang Tung
peninsula are increasing the extent of
the japanese losses, one today making
the number 10000 men. Accurate re.
ports Of the Russian losses as we'll as
Of the Russian forces engaged were
probably brought BY Lieut.. Col Gour,
ko to Mukden.
Russians Heavy Loss.
ST PETERSBURG. June IA semi
Official dispatch from Mukden. dated
today. says the Russian losses at the
battle Kinchou, May Goth. were thir
ty officers and 500 men killed and
wounded. The guns abandoned b,
the Russians were rendered useless.
Japs Still Advancing.
DASHICHAO, ton railroad betweei
Hau.C Cheng and Kai-chon) Wednesda,
The Japanese outposts are now thre'
miles from vafangow. There is NJ
news from Port Arthur. The Japan
ese are stopping the Chinese rnnner
and searching their junks.
THE Mine Question.
LONDON. June 2 Earl Percy, i'm
der secretary of state for foreign al
fairs. replying to a question In tn
house of commons today, said that NJ
representations had been made 4
Russia or Japan regarding plaeinl
mines In the far east outside terEitof
ial limits. The subject, he added, wa
engaging the careful attention Of th,
government. When asked, II IN vies
of the increased range Of modern pro
jectiles the government was prepal
ing to recognize any extension Of I'll,
three.mile limit. Earl Percy answere'
{ T. Il # e q
IN the negative.
General Reports.
ST. PETERSBURG. June 2ier
eral Sakharoff has telegraphed a
follows, under yesterday's'date, 10 th
general stan:
According to our reports the Jar
anese commander In the action OF Ma
80, near vafangow, had three battaI
ions OF infantry in reserve. Our losse
We're IL men killed and 20 me-
wounded, and Lieutenant Meyer an
another officer. whose name has no
been ascertained, wounded. The jar
anese losses we're very considerable
One squadron Of the Thirteenth JaI
anese cavalry was annihilated In
hand 70 hand encounter. and anothe
squadron which came to It's assis
ance suffered great loss from the fir
Of our frontier guards and riflemei
We captured 10 horses.
Attack on Port Arthur Begun;
INDIANAPOLIS. June 2--A specii
|cable from the stan correspondent {
the indianapolis News at Chez Fo'
dated June /. says: The Japanes
land attack on Port Arthur was begu
yesterday morning The Russia
forces that were driven southwar
from Dalny and Kin Chow by the Jal
anese are assisting the garrison /
Port Arthur, and the Russian navy ba
Joined In the movement to repulse III
enemy. There may be several day
Of skirmIshing and outpost work b
fore the Russian city ~ taken, bt
4 Is the opinion Of refugees who hav
arrived here from the besieged "Gil
raltar" that the Russians eventual
must succumb to Overwhelming nun
bers DaIny, Kin Chau, Talienwa
and Nan Shan have already fallen b
fore The Japanese
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Grant Rivenburg OF Santa Fe who
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