Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-04
Energy Of Russians Bent in This Dr.
rection---Say the Japs Are
Discouraged.

London, March 4.-The Far Eastern
news published, this morning. consists
chiefly of more or less reliable reports
of Japancce military movements, and
the general idea among correspondents
appears to be that no important land
battle is expected before the end of
March.
A dispatch to the Daily Express from
Chenulro dated March 2, says that
1900 Japanese troops have landed at
Chinampo and gone to Ping Yang.
The Hardin, Manchuria, correspon-
dent of the Daily Chronicle giv.s a ru-
NOR that $4,000 Japanese have landed
1t Wonsan.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph asserts that three sep
aratc japanese armies have landed iE
Core;i. ana the Paris edition of the
New York Herald publishes q report
froln Che Foo to the effect that six
Japanese cruisers, cscortins 10 trans
ports. have been seen steaming III the
direction of the Gulf OF Lao Tung.
Noun TX II! sllS VI lIl.Sc lcpOl II
improbable. but it is evident that Jap
an is maintaining strict secrecy as to
her plans.
Cabling from Che Foo under date of
March s. 4 correspondent Of the Daily
Telegraph says that although Japan
has lost q small cruiser and that the
machinery of two of her warships has
been damaged. these probably have
been fully repaired. and iii any event.
Japan has complete command Of the
sea ard will ehectually isolate Por;
Arthur. He anticipates the early re-
newal of naval movements. the land
ing of japanese troops ut the best
strategic positions ond the occupation
of territory near Port Dalny as soon
as the winter moderates. He predicts
that. having secured the Halu river,
the japanese will threaten kirin, cut
ting the railroad and menacinS Nlad-
livestock. while Il second force deals
with the Lao Tung peninsula.
According to the correspondent Of
The Morning Post at che Foo. a jap
;neec batt,eship has rim aground near
CiiemulrO
refugees from Port Arthur" the
NaSaSakI correspondent W 'ii'- Ihhc'
cables. under date of s1arch 3. be
l;evc there were 10000 troops there the
middle OF February. They report that
the 10000 Russian troops VINO were dis
Datche d to Corea the beginning of Feb
ruary were SO ill-eduipped with trans
ports and supplies that it was thought
they would he compelled IT, return.
They say also that the Russians
treated TIE japanese at Port Arthur so
brutally that they fed to the seashore
en-, barked in sumpans (smaH harbor
boats) and cndcavorcd to reach Fort
Dalny. Several were drowned.
Toxic March Am intrigue on the
Part of the opposition at Seoul against
the conclusion Of the Japanese-Corcan
protocol. eliminated in the throwing
OF bombs at the residences of the for
eisn minister and his secretary, at :
o'clock. Thursday morning. They es-
capped uninjured.
st. Petersburg, March 3.-Since the
disappearance of the Japanese fleet
from before Port Arthur the Russian
authorities have been awaiting anX-
iously for the next move of the Jap
anese on sea. fhere is an inclination
here to believesthat the japanese have
ben discouraged by the failure of their
attacks and perhaps by losses they
have not announced. =
1t is evident even from the meagre
information reeardfngs the Russian
dispositions in northern Corea that the
plan for checking theJapanese land ad.
vance is perfected and that heavy re-
serves are being broughttup to the Yalt
river. sf.
, Every energy of the. authorities j:
now directed to prevent a blockade or
the Siberian railway. Twenty new sid
ings each Of 200 feet, are being erected