Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-03-10
JAPS IN MANCHURIA
Mikado's Army Now on Rus
sian Side of the Yalu-
SHELLS FLY INTO PORT OF DALEY

G~nSaSemenI BetNeen IoBob ShhH"
and VIadivostOk Squadron Has
Been Reported at TOkyo-Tid-
inss AnxiousIy Awaited.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-The gov
eminent has received an official tele-
gram from Chefu saying that Japanese
forces are at Fungwangchang and Ia
kushan, both well into Manchuria. This
information, while received with in
credulity in some quarters, is regarded
as of the greatest Importance. If it be
true, the Japanese have got in the rear
of the Russian advance into Korea
and are in position to control the south
ern end of the road running by a round
about route from Takushan to New
chwang, over which th@Russian troops
now i'll Korea must obtain their sup
plies.
The reason foy the ~incredulity men
toned is that Fungwangchang is far
from the place where the japanese adj
vance was last reported and a consid-
erlble distance in the interior of Man
churia. Fungwangchang is on the
Great Picking road, which runs through
Korea, and is, in fact, the only road of
Importance in that country. 1t is about
1875 miles northwest of Pingyang, where
the advance of the Japanese army was
cncamped at last accounts and where
Russian scouts were encountered. Ia
kushan is thirty-ive miles to the west
of the Yalu's mouth and a few miles
| from the sea.
If the Japanese are at Fungwang-
chang they are out of the mountainous
region that overruns most of Korea
and the eastern part of Mancluria.
How they got there is a mystery.
In some quarters the information
from Chefu is regarded as confirming
the report that a Japanese expedition
has been landed near the mouth of the
Yalu.
Reports have reached Commander
Sawyer of the United States steamer
Helena, at Yinkow, that the Japanese
and Russians have fought at Fung-
wangcheng, which is forty-five miles
northwest of Antung. Commander
Sawyer in a cablegram to the navy de-
partment supplements this news with
Il statement that Japanese troops have
been landed at Takushan, a fairly good
port, about forty miles from the mouth
of the Yalu.
A Tokyo dispatch says japanese
warships have bombarded the forts at
Talienwan (Dalny) and afterward
made an attack on Port Arthur.
1t is believed at Tokyo that there
has already been a decisive naval en-
gagement in the vicinity of Vladivos
tok, and tidingN Of It-are anxieusls
awaited.
The Japanese fleet did not, 1t Is said
go to V~ladivostok for the purpose OF
bombarding the town, but to locate
and attack the armored cruisers Gro
moboi, Rossia, Rurik and the cruiser
Bogatyr, the Russian fleet under tho
command of Captain Reitzenstein sta
toned there.
A dispatch from Weihaiwei says:
ut is reported on good authority
that a collision between Japanese ant
Russian troops has occurred near Hal
J ju, Korea, fifty-four miles northwes
OIL CHelnulpO, WHICH reSulleu III tHc uS
feat of the Russians"
1t is reported that the japanese ad
vanced from the Yalu river, captures
Fungwangchang and drove out th'
Russians in the vicinity to the Taku
ling eastern pass and are in forc'
seventy miles east of Newchwang. Th'
Russians, with $4,000 men, are in
trenched strongly at Liaoyang ant
Haicheng, where fighting is imminent
Some small engagements already have
been fought, the Russians retiring
with losses.
1t is said in London that If the new
of this strange and marvellous collaps'
of Russian power on land is true Their
is nothing to prevent the Japanese from
selling Mukden and the railroad. Their
/, has been nothing to compare with thi
move, experts say, since Napoleon stag
gered Europe by appearing in the plain
of Italy. having descended from tn
> Alps as from the clouds. Its effec
throughout the east will be ~stupendous
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