Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-07-14
JAPS ARE CLOSING In
The Japanese Generals Have
Tatchekiao In Their Grasp.
ONCE TAKEN, NEWCHWANGAU FALL
Kuropatlkin Must Hold Back Two
Large Armies OF the Japanese.
KurOki ExerttnH Pres
sure at HaichenR.

SurS khAAChehBs
LONDON, July H. - Advices from
st. Petersburg say that steadily and
cautiously General Oku's army from
the south and General Modulus army
from the east are closing in upon Ia
tchekiao, where General Kuropatkin is
reported to be intrenching. One hun
dred and thirty thousand men are in
volved in the movement The next few
days will determine whether and to
what extent General Kuropatkin in
tends to make stand at Tatchekiao,
the possession Of which by the Japa-
nege would compel the immediate
evacuation of Newchwang.
The outposts OF the armies are
scarcely fifteen miles apart. The slow
ness of the advance Is apparently due
to the natural difficulties in the way of
eastern Ranking columns.
Lieutenant General Sacharoff reports
that General Kuroki is massing his
troops near the Pkhanlin pass and
moving out by both roads upon Hal
cheng. Heavy pressure from this
quarter would render Tatchekiao I'M
tenable
All the Japanese energies now seem
to be concentrated on Tatchekiao and
Haicheng. The operations to the north,
which throughout may have been
feints, have been suddenly suspended.
The growing activity Of Chinese ban
dts in the valley of the Lao river at
this critical moment means additional
embarrassment to General EUROPA tkin.
A we'll informed military critic be-
lieves that General Kuropatkin is de-
liberately surrendering his southern
positions like that of Kaichows for the
purpose of drawing on the Japanese in
to the open country at or, above Ia
tchekiao, where the Russians will be
able to display large forces and to de-
rive advantage from their superior cav
airy. He attributes General Oku's adj
vance to the necessity Of helping Gen
eral Nodzu, whose divisions are stalled
In the Chapan and Dalin passes on ac-
count OF transport difficulties and to
the stubborn resistance Of General
Zaroubaiefr, commander OF the Fourth
Siberian army corps, whose forces will
have to be cleared out before south
ern advance is made.
The Japanese game Of strategy is to
effect a juncture between Nodzu and
Oku in order to force Kuropatkin to
the northward and If this plan should
be successful TO combine with Kuroki
near Liaoyang.
A special dispatch received from
Mukden repeats the story of Japanese
repulse at Port Arthur with the loss of
10000. The dispatch says:
News has been received from relia-
BILE sources that the Japanese Third
army, on the night of July IL, attacked
Port Arthur and was heavily defeated,
an immense number being killed by
10000"
A Newchwang report says:
Japanese scouts have been seen at
Black Woods pond, six miles south of
here. General Oku, with $4,000 men,
is advancing rapidly between this place
and Tatchekiao'
A Tokyo report says that several tor
pedo boats of the Vladivostok squad
ron have appeared off the island OF
Yesso
There is published here this morning
a rumor that Port Arthur has fallen,
but it is discredited and lacks con-
firmation.
A Vladivostok dispatch brings the
astonishing statement that the British
ship Cheltenham was captured within
sight of Chemulpo and that from the
Russian ships the Japanese could be
seen working on the wreck OF the
Variag.