Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-14

account OF the necessities Of the mill.
tary situation.
Vice Admiral Makaroff's torpedo flo.
tilla p~atrolled the open sea, while the
warships, with full steam up, remained
outside Port Arthur. Elsewhere
throughout the theater of war all is
reported quiet.
The military censors did not sit later
than 10 o'clock last night, and NJ news
of fighting was received up to that
hour. In case of official dispatches
arriving later they will not be given
out until 400 to-day.
Operations Delayed.
Yinkow, April 12.-The recent heavy
rains have converted the country into
a marsh and hundreds of miles of
land is under water. Military opera
tons will be impossible for some time.
utmost indifference Is shown by
natives to war.
Rumors of Land Fighting.
London. April 12.-No confirmation
has reached London of the various
rumors, most of which came by way
On Paris. of land fighting, landings by
Japanese on the Lao Tung peninsula.
the capture Of Japanese transports by
Russians, etc.
Dispatches from various points agree
that Russians have completely evacu
ated Korea, but beyond this there is
little reliable news.
A Chefu dispatch. which reaches
London by way of Rome, asserts that
the Japanese squadron with twenty
steamers was seen making for Port
Arthur. The squadron Of Admiral
Wireniue left C~herbourg yesterday for
the Baltic.
T~rainicacs Of Wounded.
Tien-tsin, April IL. - 1t is reported
Mukden that two trains contain.
Ing a large number Of Russians who
were wounded in an engagement on
the Yalu river have passed through
there on the way to Hardin.
Japanese Advancing.
Pingyang, April 1.-THE Japanese
are advancing northward from here in
great force. Three thousand men with
eight large cannon left yesterday for
Anju and more are TO follow to-day.
achievements arriving daily take the
place of the advancing troops. The
river is now navigable to within five
miles of this city, the ice having prac-
tically disappeared. An easy path OF
communication between Pingyang and
Japan's great military base, and Chin
ampo. the chosen landing point, is es-
Iablished.
Russia's War Plan.
st. Petersburg. April II. A high
military authority. in conversation
with the Associated Press, explained
why Gen. Kuropatkin's plan OF cam
paign does not contemplate a heavy
resistance to the Japanese advance at
The Yalu, saying:
Either defeat or victory in a battle
here would be Instantaneous to us.
we lost we would have to fall back
through a difficult country. II We won
and | say to you that Russian STRAIT
egy is based on the idea of victory
md not On that CO defeat-success
would be fruitless. We could not fol.
Iow it up without exposing the army to
risks. On account of the Jap
anese control of the sea, If we pursued
he enemy into the peninsula of Korea,
would open both TANKS to a posi-
Die attack from the rear. No, the Jap
must come on to a point in the
Interior, which, with that end in view,
has been selected. where We a fol-
ow up a crushing defeat to the bitter
End with blow after blow and seal the
ate of the campaign.
Our plans on sea and land will con
verge at a time next summer when
Vice Admiral Makaroff's fleet will be
relieved by the arrival of reinforce
nents. Then, if successful on land. we
IAN clear the sea of the enemy, cut his
communications and the Japanese in
and Manchuria will then be at
)ur mercy.
"The world must nit be impatient.
The prelude to this war is not yet
inished."