Arizona republican., 1904-05-13
Russians Regarding MOve- mentS of the Japanese
THE LATTER ARE MASSIN6
Observations of Scouting Parties Fail to Disclose Their Intentions - Port Arthur Completes Its Preparations for Defense by Destroying Dalny.

st. ctersbPurg, May 12.-General Karkevitch in a dispatch to the gen. cral staff. says that on May Sth, a part of the Japanese vanguard appeared in the valley of the Sedzic river and that a considerable body of the enemy con- tinued to occupy Douanymo. Another detachment composed apparently of one battalion of infantry and half a squadron of cavalry is situated about five miles north of Takushan. Other information indicates that on May 10, Japanese force of about 100000 in fantry and fifty guns, chiefly of the mountain type, h, halted for the day at Hung Kiapusze and advanced Cn May II toward Siu Yen.
 Another telegram received by the general staff from General Karkevitch s;I,'s.
 "On May 4, some sixty Japanese transports and warships appeared at sea between Pitzewo and Cape Term inal Detachments of sharp-shCoters were sent to reconnoiter and small detachment of infantry was sent from Polandien.
 Troops sent to reconnoiter announc- ed that the Japanese were landing at Cape Simo-Kahusrtsa, in Kin Cnau Bay, near the mouth of Tcheng Yu river and were posting a division of 10000 men in the neighboring villages. The Russian population was with drawn from Pitzewo.
 Having fulfilled its task our small detachment retired on the evening of May ,, but it met enroute a su0erior force cf the enemy and took another road. The detachment was pursued by the Japanese for a distance of six miles and our casualties were one sharp-shOoter wounded and three horses killed.
 The Japanese on the evening of May sent two regiments toward Tant Sia Fang and also two detachments south and west of the points of disembarka- ton.
 Japanese scouts appeared on the morning of May 9th, at O'clock at Polandien and then the Japanese in fantry came uD and opened fire on a mail train bound north, but without result. The Japanese evacuated Po- landien May :, probably because a great storm began to gather and also because they feared being cut off.
 "On May Sth, a small detachment of Russian cavalry effected a reconnais-
 
 Wu Flung Tien, covering in a day 65 miles.
 ''The railway is still free from the enemy. Japanese attachments con sisting of one and one-half and three companies each, kept watch and passed the night east of the railway and then preceded southwest.
 "Our detachment having arrived seven and One-half miles northwest of PitzewO advanced to within three quarters of a mile of fortification un- der construction, which was occupied by Japanese infantry company. During the fusilade one of the frontier guards was wounded.
 According to Chinese information 2O,OOO Japanese landed east of Pitzewo with field artillery and siege guns. and Pitzewo was occupied by 1,5OO men. A Japanese detachment of four or five companies on May 9th attacked our post near the village of Shi Hei. kill ing four of our frontier guards and wounding eight.
 "On May 10, the Japanese left the railroad line and railway communica- tiOE with Port Arthur was re-estab- lished by Lieut.. Col Spinidonoff. of the fourth trans-Amur railway bat talon, with the soldiers of the bat taliOn.
 Detachments of the Japanese ad- vance guard advanced on May and 10 on the villages of Mutsiatun and Sia- tlatin, nine miles south of Polandien. Other attachments of the Japanese ad- vance guard have taken up positions seven and one-half miles west of Pit