Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02
JAP ADVANCE READY
Army Landed Tn Korea Will Move Toward Manchuria.
RUSSIAN ARMY BARS THE WAY

Armies Must Come Together Soon. Mikado's Troops Occupy Ichio- yang and Fortffy It-Noncom- bntants Leave Port Arthur. LONDON, March 2-According to report received here all the Japanese troops necessary for the forward move ment have been landed in Korea, and 1t Is expected the general advance to- ward Manchuria will begin at once. < ! It is believed that land battle in Korea must occur within a very short time. The Japanese, according to late report, have occupied Ichioyang,> near Pingyang, and are now forttfying it. It was announced that a eonsid erable body of Russian troops were already in the neighborhood of Ichfo- yang and that detachment of mount cd cavalry was expected there.
 Twenty-Five hundred Russian troops are reported to have reached the Yalu, 1 and two regiments of mounted infan- try, with artillery, hold the mountain 1 passes some thirty-five miles south of Wiju.
 Authoritative advices have been re- l ceived to the effect that the Japanese general staff has left Japan for Che mulpo. This is accepted as showing that all the troops necessary for the forward movement have been landed in Korea, and it Is expected thaG Nle move ment of troops forward will very soon | begin. With respect to the Russian l force which will contest the way it is said that there will be some surprise manifested at the strength the Russians are able to oppose the advance with. Reports issued by the Japanese war office state that Russian cavalry has been defeated near Anju and Pingyang and that consequently the residents of that part of Korea arc able to carry on 1 trade.
 1 The hospital ship Kobe Maru has ar l rived at Sasebo from Port Arthur, l bringing seventy-one wounded, six of them engineers of the Idzunao the Ka- sunni and the Shikishima, being serious ly injured and sixty-fve slightly. They l report only fourteen of the Russian men of war now capable of action.
 l Advices from St Petersburg say re- l ports received here from the troops along the route to Harbin show a dis heartening condition of affairs. Dis ease is, rife among the soldiers. A smallpox epidemic is raging in east Si- | beria and has spread among the regi- 1 ments, vaccination being unheard of in the army. The severe cold is also claiming many victims among the | troops. ,4 ~e-s4.ss "-/ H. a= The is drawn from the Japanese plan of campaign by the report from 1 Seoul that they have given notice to Korea that Japan would proceed at once to lay military railroad from l Seoul north to the Yalu river.
 This means that the great land bat tie will be fought-perhaps is now be- ing fought-south of the Yalu. Both sides are rushing troops into the sec ton, and the movements reported show the heads of the hostile armies in startling proximity.
 A Port Arthur report says the mili- tary authorities are causing to be re- moved from all strategic points the women and children and all aged and infrm man, so that the necessity of protecting them will not be added to the other duties of the troops and in order that all supplies may be availa. ble for the use of the actual com. batants.
 The Russian torpedo boat which sought refuge in Pigeon bay was sub jected to a terrific fire from the Japa. nese cruisers. One shot pierced her hull The boat was beached, the leak was stopped, she was refoated at high water and returned to Port Arthur.
 Advices from Vladivostok say thai 500 Chinese brigands are terrorizina the district of Ninguta. Their leader Yavanten, proclaims himself invulner able to bullets.
 A report from Vladivostok says that the warships in the harbor are the Rossia, Gromoboi and Rurik and the transport Moskova. The port is frozer
 hard, and the ice breaker is scarcely able to clear the channel.
 Two Japanese attempted to blow UT
 q dock at Vladivostok, but did not suc
 ceed. They escaped.
 A Japanese barber at Vladivostot
 deeming himself insulted by Rus
 sian officer shot him dead and thel
 dramatically announced that he was
 captain on the Japanese general staff
 and was not used to taking insults.
 Vice Admiral Bezobrazof has lief
 here for Cronstadt to take command
 of the second division of the Baltic
 feet Admiral Bezobrazoff is greatly
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