Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-02-18
UNDER RUSSIAN GUNS
Japs' Torpedo Boats Make a
Second Dash at Enemy.
CARS CRUISERS AGAIN SUFFER
Russia Claims storms and Cold Of
Winter as Her Great AIlies-JA-
pan Moves Masses
of Men Against Russia.

tack of the japanese torpedo boats on
Sunday last.
A Tokyo dispatch says: "On the 18th
of February a detachment of torpedo
boat d~estroyers proceeded, Drawing n
fierce north storm, toward Port Ar
thur. At 3 o'clock the next morning
the Asagiri, a japanese torpedo boat
destroyer, amid a shower OF shells
from the enemy's fort and ships, tor
pedoed a Russian man-of-war and, fur
ther firing on the enemy's guard boat,
safely returned to its headquarters.
The Hayatori, another Japanese torpe-
do boat destroyer, at 5 o'clock of the
same morning approached to the mouth
of the port, where she found two of
the enemy's men-of-war and, in def
ance of their firing, Immediately torpe-
doed one of them with effective ex-
plosion and safely withdrew"
A Nagasaki dispatch says Japanese
soldiers on the point of embarkation
for the front are marching through the
streets of many japanese ports besides
those of Moi, Nagasaki and Kobe.
Transports have embarked troops,
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on the way, but the Japanese cavalry
horses seem hardly worth transporting
except to a knacker's yard. Never
have there been seen such sorry scrub
ponies.
There are more than a score of steam
transports at Moi, among other places,
and of these numbers clear nightly for
ports toward Korea.
There are ten large transport steam
ers at Nagasaki flying the army and
not the navy transport flag. Horse
boxes have been fitted on board the
vessels, and the mems quarters are
most c~ommodious.
Trains arrive upon the wharfs,
which, with their lines, were laid in a
week. They cover a mile of ground
formerly q marsh but now filled up.
The troops are fed and marched to
their billets and subsequently en-
barked upon lighters and steam
launches, by which they are taken
quietly to the ships.
The steamers, besides carrying a full
complement of their own boats, have
each from eight to ten large, strong
sampans upon their davits. These sam
pans are admirably adapted fnr being
rowed or towed in shallo,. N....-rs Ur
through a heavy surf.
1t is believed that the destination of
this force is a point near the mouth of
the Yalu river or a spot on the Lao
tung peninsula, flanking Port Arthur.
The Japanese have also concentrated
about 10000 troops at Wonsan, on the
east coast of Korea, with the object of
entering Manchuria.
Japan has already landed 10000
troops in Korea, $4,000 of whom are
extended along the fighting front south
of the Yalu river.
st. Petersburg dispatches say the
rigid censorship imposed here upon all
news from the far east completely
masks the movements of Russian
troops and the plans Of those in com
mand, but what is being done is evil
IDENTIFY satisfactory to the authorities
here, as they manifest the utmost con-
fidence that when the proper time ar
rlves the enemy will be crushed. They
say that the preliminary sea victories
of the Japanese will be speedily for
gotten.
Russia was taken unawares at the
outset, and some little time will be re
quired to complete the mobilization OF
, Russian troops. There will be no dis
| position to meet the evident wish OF
7 the Japanese to rush matters to a de
cision. Russia ear afford to wait" il
a common expression heard here, and
time and patience always have beer
strong allies Of the empire of the
: north.
Moreover, the excessively severe win
ter weather at the scene of war, it is
averred, also fights on the side of the
czar's legions, as it did in the days OF
Napoleon, when the Russian proverb
JANUARY, February and March are
among the emperor's ablest generals
was coined.
At Port Arthur the thermometer reg
; listers 2 degrees below zero F. The
concentration Of Russian troops will
proceed as rapidly as possible, but 1t |.
fair to assume that Viceroy Alexeief
Will not take the aggressive until ht
feels certain of his ability to admins
: ter a decisive defeat. Therefore, IL
spite Of the extensive landing opera
lions Of the Japanese in Korea, an i'm
portant land fight is not considered
here to be imminent, although 1t is be
lieved that the passage of the YAH
t. river by the Japanese will be disputed
Voluntary contributions to replace
the ships already destroyed by the en-
envy are already assuming large pro
5 portions, one man having given thu
sum of $4,000. 1t was through a SINH
lar movement that the present volun
teer feet was started after the Russo
Turkish al
. The report Of a massacre of Jew
t near Kiev is denied by the minister o
the interior, and it can be positivel.
stated on good authority that the af