Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-17
|DO JAPs HOLD
PORT ARTHUR.
Russian Stronghold Is Re-
ported to Have Sue
cumbed.
IS ABANDONED OR CAPTURED.
sAeent Japanese Attacks Resulted in
Heavy Loss - Fighting Between
Torpedo FiotilIas Was Almost Hand
10 Hand.

| 20 Hand.
Tien Tsin. March 14-An uncon-
armed report has reached here that
| Port Arthur has fallen.
London, March IA dispatch to.
the Central News from Toxic says:
1T is asserted here that the Rus
slams virtually have abandoned Port
| Arthur
London, March 1.-THE rumor Of
the evacuation of Port Arthur is re,
| peate3 this morning from different
points, but it is absolutely without
confirmation.
According to the st. Petersburg cor
| respondent of the Daily Telegraph
vague rumors are current there that
late kilograms describe the lombard
ment of Port Arthur as much more
serious than has been admitted OH
cially.
Special dispatches from Toxic and
Yin Kow also give reports of heavy
Russian casualties at Port Arthur,
amounting to forty men killed and
one hundred injured, but they are so
conflicting that it is not wise to give
them much credence.
In a dispatch from Toxic, dated
March 10. a correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says that in the
latest attack on Port Arthur two Rus
sian torpedo boat destroyers were
sunk and great damage was done to"
the docks, forts and arsenals and the
crews of four torpedo boats in the in
side harbor arr said to have deserted.
The Daily Telegraph publishes a
dispatch from correspondent at Yin
Kow, who reports that the Russian
battleship RetVisan at Port Arthur
was hit five times by Japanese pro
jectiles, and that there were twenty
casualties on board. '~''
This correspondent declares further
that the presence of Japanese az
Feng Huan Cheng Cthe Manchurian
town about forty-five miles northwest
Of Wiju), has been confirmed.
st. Petersburg, March 10. The cza9
has received the following message
from Viceroy Alexieff, dated Mukden,
| March 10:
"The commandant at the fortress
at Port Arthur reports that about
o'clock this morning the outlines OF
vessels, apparently torpedo boats.
were seen at sea, within the area
swept by our searchlights. Our bat
teries opened fire upon these vessels.
Our torpedo boats put out to sea at
| 2:40 a. m, and at about o'clock met
the enemy west of the Liza TishiR
lighthouse. After firing several shots.
the enemy retired to the south in thu
direction of Shandun. Our tOrpeGa
boats returned to the harbor at =
o'clock.
Later, torpedo boats were again
Esat to sea to reconnoiter. They re-
iGTned in half an hour, having learap
ed that an enemy's squadron was az
preaching. .~. ---.--. --.-~
"At o'clock the Japanese opened
fire upon our cruisers and the fort
ress. The enemy had fourteen ships
and fired the entire time from behind
Lao Tishin. ....
81 have the honor to report the
above to your majesty. #....
(Signed) "Alexieff"
The reports that the Japanese have
river and have reached Feng Huan
Chen, on the Picking road, which lie
the Russian line of communication to
the Yalu, cannot be confirmed. II
the information proves true land en-
gagement of some magnitude cannot
long be delayed, as the Russians have
a heavy force south Of the line, be
tween Lao Yang and Mukden and
al of
lions along the Yalu river. A Japan
csc column between them would be
in a desperate strait unless it moved
by the flank to take the Russians ON
the Yalu in the rear and was sup
ported by forward Japanese move
ment from Korea. <.
Washington, March 1.-THE Japan
csc minister has received the follow
ing cablegram from Toxic, dated yes
terday: $3.50,
vfce-Admiral Kamimura. command
erin chief of a division of the Japan
csc fleet, made demonstration to the
northeast of the batteries of Vladi
vostock on the 9th instant and bonn.
barded the object of observation for
forty minutes, beginning at 2 p. m.
Some soldiers were seen at the bat
bonn bardment On the next morning
the squadron secuted to the Bay OF
America and the Bay Of Stroroku, but
found nothing unusual. At noon the
the squadron again made for the east
ern end of Vladivostock, but finding
none Of the enemy's ships there re
turned to Possiet bay to discover Il
they were there. but did not fns
them. ..g..E
ST.. Petersburg, March 11.-Russis
has served notice on China that the
latter must not send troops beyons
the great wall. and that she must ex
ercise her influence to restrain ths
Chinese bandits, who are partially
under the control of Chinese officers
from interfering with the railroad ane
telegraph lines. A refusal to hees
this warning will be considered .
breach of neutrality.
Ratify Treaty With Menelik.
Washington, March 4.-The senate
In executive session ratified the treaty
between the United States and Eth
iopia, which was negotiated by Meme
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