The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-03
RUSSIANS
AGGRESSIVE
Pushing forward Near Ping
Yang.
JAPS FIRE ON SCOUTS
Russian Dispatches Give Details
Of Recent Fighting at
Port Arthur.
JAPS FIRE ON SCOUTS

LONDON, March IA Tokyo dis.
patch says it has been learned there
that the Russians have occupied the
telegraph offices at Aniu and Yong
pyon, north Of Pingyang They have
imprisoned the district governor and
have confiscated official papers. The
Russian force near Anju numbers only
about forty men. The main Russian
force is concentrated at LiaOyang/
The Russians near Antung aggregate
1000 No important engagement is ex-
pected south Of the Yalu river, which,
1t is believed, the Russians will make
their main line of defense
Major General Plug, chief of staff.
sends in the following telegram from
Harbin, dated March ?:
According TO additional information
which haNreached me, our patrols, hav-
ing passed the night twelve yersts
leight niles from Pingyang, approach
ed that town on Monday morning They
were closely pressing japanese patrol
of seven officers. Lieutenant Loncha-
koif attacked this patrol with three
Cossaeks, forcing it to retreat at a gal
Top toward the gates OF the town.
THE presence Of our patrols near
Ptngyang caused great alarm, and soon
the enemys sharpshooters manned the
wall and towers and opened fire, ex-
pecting an attack According to the
report, our patrols approached within
ZOO PAGES of the town, which they
found to be surrounded by both old and
new ramparts. These, however, we're
not yet occupied by the enemy, and it
is supposed that the japanese have not
more than 1000 men in Pingyang."
In a dispatch to the car Viceroy
Alexeieff says:
admiral Stark, telegraphing from
Port Arthur, says the enemy has not
appeared off Port Arthur lately Re
ccnnoissances made by cruisers for
torpedo boats over a radius of sixty
miles from Port Arthur also failed to
discover the enemys vessels"
Count Benokendorff. Russian ambas-
sador to Great Britain, arrived in Lon
don last night from st. Petersburg.
the lobby of the house OF commons by
the circulation of a rumor that would
not down that Port Arthur had fallen.
Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minis
ter, said he had no information bear
ing out the statement.
A Seoul dispatch says the command
er in chief of the Japanese army, Gen
eral Prince Komatsu, with all the
members of the general staff, has
reached Seoul and has taken charge of
the active tnd operations.
All the movements thus far made
have been formulated by the general
staff and have been preliminary to a
general advance upon Manchuria by
way of Korea. sufficient number OF
troops have been landed in Korea to
allow the immediate working out of
the plan of campaign.
There is japanese cruiser ashore
and abandoned thirty miles south of
Chemulpo, Korea. She may have been
disabled in the engagement at Che
mulpo, in which the Russian war yes
sells Variag and KOrietz were de-
stroyed. The officers of the Variag re-
ported at that time that they had sunk
Il cruiser and a torpedo boat destroyer.
The cars on the ice railroad over
Lake Baikal are now drawn by horses,
a locomotive which performed this serv.
Ice having broken through the ice
Advicss from st. Petersburg say the
Russian government earnestly desires
the conservation Of the ancient friend
ship between the United States and
the empire. The belief is expressed
here that the two countries are now on
the eve of better understanding of
the points concerning which differ
ences have existed. The campaign of
recrimination which is progressing in
a portion of the press of both countries
Is deprecated, and the government here
specifically disavows responsibility for
the utterances of some Russian news
papers against the United States, which
IN turn have infiamed portion Of the
American press against Russia.
The correction Of the original version
of the Vicksburg incident at Chemulpo
has already affected Russian public