The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-04-18
COSSACKS TO
THE FRONT
Five Thousand Spearmen
Gather on the YaIu.
WILL HARASS JAPANESE
Appearance of the Wild HorSemen
Created a Panic in
Sung Jim.
WILL HARASS JAPANESE

LONDON, April lS.-A Seoul report
says the governor Of the province Of
Hamgyung, in northeastern Korea,
wires that force of Cossacks has ap.
peared near Sungiin. The consul at
Sungjin became alghtened and wired
japanese Minister Hayashi for a yes
sci to carry away Japanese residents
A steamer sent from Geusan has ar
rived at Sungjin and embarked the
refugees.
1t is said that 5000 Russians are
following the advance of the Cossacks
with the intention of diverting the
japanese from the Yalu river, but this
is hardly credible owing to the possi-
bility of the Japanese landing and cut
ring them of.
There is no information here as to
whether the two English missionaries
at Sungjin have left there, but there
are no fears for their safety.
japanese refugees are arriving at
Gensan.
The emperor has decided to rebuild
only temporarily on the site of the
burned palace The building will be
of foreign style A stone building
under construction will replace the
once beautiful audience hall, now
smoldering ashes
a report has been received that Port
Arthur was bombarded all day Fri
day and that the action was continued
Saturday.
1t is said at St Petersburg that on
the eve of the disaster to the Petro-
pavlovsk Vice Admiral Makaroff tele-
graphed to the emperor that he was
about to fight'a decisive action with
the enemy's fleet.
A court story told here is that on
hearing Of the catastrophe to Makaroff
the emperor wept and. referring to
VicOroy Alexeieff, exclaimed, THAT
man brings us nothing but i'll luck"
1t is also alleged that the emperor was
with difficulty dissuaded from remov-
ing the viceroy from his post.
Captain Grown, who went down with
the Petrop0vlovsk Joined that ship on
the previous day, having succeeded in
getting through from Shanghai, where
he left his vessel, the gunboat Mand-
jur. Captain Crown was a descendant
Of Scotchman who fought with Rus
sia in the war with Sweden, when he
captured the first Retvizan.
a dispatch from Port Arthur says
several eyewitnesses assert that a Jap
anese cruiser has been lost outside of |
Port Arthur by striking one OF its own
floating mines.
Advices from Tokyo say that the
japanese are elated over the successes |
they have won at Port Arthur. They |
are also proud Of the achievements of |
Vice Admiral Togo, particularly of his
newest strategy of countermining the
snemy's harbor and decoying him
across this field of mines to an equally |
dangerous flank attack
The success of the system of placing
leadly countermines is due largely to |
| series of careful observations made
~ the japanese during their previous
Ittacks on Port Arthur. The japanese
Jaw the Russian feet leave the harbor
md return to 1t several times, and
hey discovered that the Russian war
hips followed an identical course ey-
ry time they came out or went in evil
lently for the purpose of avoiding
heir own mines The japanese took
bearings on this course. When the de-
troyer divisions of the japanese tor
'edo dotilla laid the countermines
Turing the night of April 1913 they
'laced them along this course. The
aging of these countermines was ex-
eedingly perilous, because If any Jap
nese boat with mines on board had
'een struck by lucky Russian shot
he would have been annihilated.
The weather of the night of April
2-13 favored the work. There was
eavy rain, the night was dark and
Loudly, and the Russian searchlights
laying over the channel failed to re-
cal the presence of the japanese de-
troyers.
Expressions of regret Mt the death of
ice Admiral Makaroff are general
ere. Speaking for the naval staff,
0gasawara has published
lengthy statement, in which he la