Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-13
GEN. KUROK| BEGINS
A SERIOUS ADVANCE
Military Opinion in St. Petersburg
Inclines to Belief That He is
Only FeiDting
MARCHING TOWARD Hal CHENC.
Kuropatkin Reported to be Sending
Troops from Mukdcn Against
Enemy Right

81. Petersburg, June 10 (2,0j p. M
The Japanese advance Of columns
north and south Of Feug Vans Chehs
is causing considerable mystilicatlon'
The prepondorancc Of military opinion
sull mAines to the belief thau Une
movements In both directions ar'
feints. although the opinion that Gen
kurold has begun serious advance
bv both nanks against Lao Yang does
nor lack supporters. Renewed sklf-
mishing II reported I'm the neighbor-
hood of EW YEN but there Is no con
0Imation officially of the engagement
reported by correspondent of the Ns-
soriated Press &C Hal Cheng last nlght
as having occurred 80 miles southeast
of Hal chen. i'm tho direction OF the
Feng Wang Chcng road, which was re-
portcd To have resulted In the loss OF
two japanese battalions.
JAPANESE ADVANCING
should this report turn out to be true,
II viii show that the Japanese are adj
yancing toward Hal Cheng between
tvn roads, AS the column reported en-
eaped must have been different IRON
Inc one which drove out the Russians
from Stu Yen on the road mrther
south. Absolute confirmation is not oD-
t.innhIe nj the report that Gen, kuro-
patkin is dispatching troops from Muk-
den against the enemy's right ~
trnmo reticenCe is manifested at the
war office regarding the military sltua-
ton which rs generally interpreted aS
foreshadowmg important developments
I'm the immediate future, While th'
inminence of decisive battle between
10 "A
courap n. news Of fighting of a rather
heavy character is anticipated The
lnck OF official dispatches from kuro-
patlin during the last As hours Is re-
garded as Significant
The London standards 81. Pelet5-
burg dispatch saying that telegram
mad bepn received from Vice Admiral
Skrydlorf announcing that he re/ntly
| loft NIadivost0k with the Russian
squadron and engaged "a Japanese
| SQUADRON off Port Arthur Is denied at
| the admiralty 30 such dispatch has
been received from Skrydlon, whose
souadroa according 10 the last adj
vices IL still az Nladivostok and In its
rciehblring waters. The government
has no adviccs of renewed lighting be-
! fore Port Arthur, but 1t Is regarded as
not unlikely that fighting Of q more or
| Tung peninsula may be In progress, al.
though the war Office Is convinced that
no serious assault on the fortress Is
yet possible
RUSSIAN NAVAL PROGRAM.
pussias naval program Gnally APP
proved saturday M the meeting be-
J tween Emperor Nicholas, the Giand
: Duke Alexis, the high admiral, and
| Wee Admiral Avelan the chief Of the
admiralty, for the next 10 years In
! rmdes 20 battleships, 10 armored cruis-
crs 10 first class and protected cruis-
| ers ami number OF torpedo boats and
| submarine boats. I'm view OF the criti-
cism OH the part OF the foreign naval
experts Of the battleship type after
the destruction OF the battlcshlp Pc
tropavlovsk and the Japanese battle
! ship Hatsuse the subject was given thu
most careful consideration the decision
being I'm favor of the continuance OF the
construction Of battleships.