The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-03-16

st. petersburg, March 3.-Gen. Drag
omiroff, ex-governor general of kieff
and well-known military authority,
has been summoned to st. Petersburg
to take part in the deliberations in re-
gard to the conduct of the war. The
general has severely criticised the policy
of the government in the far east, and in
sisted that both the fleet and the army
evacuate Port Arthur. He has consid-
cred such a retreat necessary in order
to avoid greater disasters. This advice
is not welcome and is energetically re-
pudiated. Nevertheless in military cir
cles Viceroy Alexieff generally is blamed,
and it is considered he has committed
such blunders that probably the whole
fleet will be lost.
Reports Unreliable.
London, March 3.-Hardly word of
news comes from the seat of war with
the exception of the Russian official
dispatches, is published here this morn
ing, and it now seems clear that the story
in the Morning Telegraph two days ago
of a bombardment of Port Arthur by the
japanese on February 20 is nothing
more than reecho of previous at
lacks.
Has Not Seen Enemy.
st. Petersburg, March BIN a dispatch
to the car, Viceroy Alexieff says: "Ad-
miral Stark, telegraphing from Port
Arthur to-day March 2, says the enemy
| did not appear Off Port Arthur on either
II11,r
| connaissances made by cruisers and tor
| pedo boats over radius of 60 miles from
Port Arthur also failed to discover the
enemy's vessels
- ga ,ss1rSss- oe~>-1>s,- pine-Yang
st. Petersburg, March Am official
| dispatch received from Mai. Gen. Plug.
| Viceroy Alexieff's chief of staff dated
March 2, says: According to the re-
ports of our patrols to Ping-Yang and
| on the road to Gensan (Wonsan) there
| were no signs of the enemy. Ping Yang
!! has been occupied by 5000 Japanese.
| who include 200 cavalrymen No par
| tlculars have beer obtained concerning
artillery. Il has been learned that the
japanese bring troops by sea from Flu
san to Chenampo (on Ping-Yang inlet)
whence they come to Ping-Yang. Be
tween LOCO and 1000 Korean troops
have been sent TO Plng-Yang from Seoul.
Our patrols on February % were within
II versts eight miles, of Pine-Yane
4 and report that the japanese have for
tilted the town. The enemy's troops are
arriving daily. At Port Arthur and in
Manchuria all is calm. According to
Korean reports detachment of $500
japanese, without artillery, landed at
Songchen (Hueng-S eng, north of Cane
Bruat?) on February 10 and marched
toward southern Manchuria. There
have been heavy snow falls at Port
Arthur and in Manchuria recently. AT
Port Arthur there were ten degrees OF
frost and Vladivostock had a heavy
snowstorm"
Russians Retired.
Seoul, Feb. z9-Details Of a skirmish
at Ping-Yang show that so Russian
cavalrymen approached the north gate
OF the Japanese camp and fired at 900
meters. A sharp fusillade took place
and the Russians retired. All foreign
ers are safe. The fight took place or
the morning of the 2Sth.
Coreans Driven Back.
Toxic, Feb. 29-Corean soldiers OF
the Ham-Gyeng frontier have been at.
tackled and dispersed by Russian
troops.
Says Japs Reiterated.
st. Petersburg, Feb. pa dispatch
received here from Lao Yang, ant
dated February 2S, says that Chinese
on the Yalu river report that an advance
guard of Russian cavalry which has
penetrated Corea fer distance of about
200 versts across the river had an en-
counter with detachment of Japan
ese, and that the Japanese were COM
PEELED to retreat and fed, leaving their
horses, which were seized by Cossacks.