The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1904-10-05

GUS Torpedo Afloat-Death of Sena'
tor Hoar-Democratic State Candl
dates Notified-Many Railroad Men
Barred by Age--Trade Review.
Efforts by the Russians to retake
positions commanding the water supply
of Port Arthur have resulted in hard
lighting, the losses on both sides be-
ing reported to lave been heavy
The Japanese retain tho contested
ground.
1t is said that heavy guns newly
mounted threaten the Russian war
chips in the harbor of Port Arthur
which may now be forced to go out and
face the fleet of Admiral Togo. There
is a report that Japanese gunboat
was sunk by coming in contact with a
mine south of the I.iaotdng peninsu
la; the report adds thai portion Of
the crew were rescued.
Field Marshal Oyama has begun the
long expected advance upon the Rus
sian army at Mukden, and coinci
dent movement against Sinmintin is
indicated by the fact that the Japa'
nese have occupied Siaobeyho, west
of the Lao river There is a cOnceE'
tration of Japanese forces in the vi
cinity of the Yental mines and the ad
vance lines are being gradually pushed
eastward.
General Sakharoff in the dispatches
to the war office at st. Petersburg re-
peats successes in several engage
ments Of a minor character.
An undated dispatch from General
Kuroki's headquarters reports that the
present Japanese military organiza'
tion is as efficient as II has been
at any time since the war began.
There is no definite news from Port
Arthur. Change in the Russian min.
istry Of marine and in naval commands
are announced On high authority
New head of the admiralty, 1t is said,
will be Vice Admiral Doubasoff, an of
ficer Of wide experience in war and
the present head of the technical
bureau Of the ministry Of marine.
Japs Fire on Burial Parties.
Russians residing at Chefoo claim
to have received information that the
Japanese losses in the last assault on
Port Arthur which begun Sept. Is
were 1000.
A Chinaman who left the fortress
on Sept. 26 says that the Russian
losses were between 500 and 600.
This Chinaman says that the Japa
nese were unable to remain in three
supplementary forts which they cap
tured and that they retired at O'Clock
on the afternoon of Sept. 26. after en-
during several days Of tremendous
firing from the inner forts.
He adds that the Russians attempt
ed to bury the dead on both sides al
night, because the decomposing bodies
seriously menaced the health Of the
garrison. The Russians allege that
it is the deliberate policy of the Jap
anese to undermine the health Of the
Russian troops by means of the cdors
from the decomposing bodies and for
that reason they fire on the Duria
parties.
One Chinaman whS was a member
of burial party says that the Japa
nese fired when he and other Chinese
attempted to bury the dead. He add'
that when the wind carries the odor:
toward tho Japanese, the latter re
tire.
Chinese say that the most severe at
taclis were made on the supplement
tary forts of the Itz and Anshu noun
tain forts. The Russians had under
mined the ground and several hundred
Japanese were blown up on Sept. 23.
Young Tolstoi a lingo.
Count Tostoi's son, Lea, in al
article in the Novoe Vremya of st
Petersburg, takes a position dia
metricany opposed to his father!
ideas. He has just returned from see
ing off his brother, who is departing
for the front, and writes of the touch
ing scenes he witnessed at Tambof
as the reserve men left for the Fa
East. Young Tolstoi says the peas
ants are united in agreeing that th'
war must be fought out until Japal
is subdued He adds:
1t is hard time for Russia, but |
IS the period of her regeneration. Th,
war in the Far East is a great wal
such as Russia has not seen since tn
! days of Peter the Great-a war for tn
possession of the eastern shores OF tn
European-Asiatic continent, just as Il
the days of Peter it was for the west
ern shores. Just as in the war wit
the Swedes we suffered at Narva, bu
we conquered at Poltava, we are nov
suffering reverses with the Asiati
Swedes; but there will come a da
when Japan will be vanquished.
In concluding, young Tolstoi pre-
diets the triumph of Russia which h
declares is destined ito become, II
stead of England, the greatest uatio
in the world" He says the Slavs wi
spread over and absorb all the neigl
boring people they have already sui
jugated in the Crimea, the Caucasus
Eastern Russia and Siberia, adding;
Russia is the only power destinc
10 realize the dream Of world col
quest"
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