Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-13
RUSSIANS prepare
TO meet THE JAPS
KURoPATKIN FEARS TURNING
MOVEMENT AND STRENGTH
EMS LEFT FLANK.
SEA FIGHT
ALL AN INVENTION
Russians Using Hand Grenades with
Deadly Efect-Awful Tension OF
Naval Battle Results in Nervous
Prostitution.

St. Petersburg, Oct. 10.-The meager-
ness of the news from the seat OF
war is increasing the uncertainty re-
garding the developments. There is
good warrant for the belief that Gen.
Kuropatkin is strengthening his left
flank to meet the Japanese turning
movement, his troops occupying trl-
angle, from Fushan- to Mukden and
Tie Pass. over 300 guns have arrived
at the front, and the activity of the
Russian skirmishers below the Hun
river creates the impression that Ku-
ropatkin may contemplate assuming
! the offensive. The war Office, however,
gives no encouragement to this idea,
though naturally, if a move is contem-
plated, the war Office could not be ex-
pected to admit it.
| 1t is now accepted here that the re-
ported naval fight off Port Arthur was
purely imaginative. The naval ex-
perts of the newspapers dwell on the
difficulties which the Port Arthur
squadron must experience in break
| ing after the disastrous sortie of Aug
ust 10. The general opinion is
that the squadron could not venture
out unless something had happened to
the Japanese warships, of which there
is no knowledge here. In any case,
the Russian ships could not go to the
neutral port of Chefoo, but must head
for Vladivostok. If the Baltic fleet
was approaching, however, the whole
situation would be different.
No Hope for Compromise.
Replying to the statement Of Count
Okuma, leader Of the Japanese progress
sive party, that the war with Russia
would be long, but that Japan would
win in the end, the Novoe Vremya
Saturday morning declared that the
idea of possible compromise with
Japan had been abandoned, and that
the war must be prosecuted by Russia
in such a waykhat there can be no pos
sibility of Japan's renewing the strug-
gle. Europe for so years was under
the menace Of revenge for Alsace. IF
we conclude peace with Japan all our
efforts in the far east will be valueless,
and we shall have to spend enormous
sums to keep up our armament there.
The Japanese, once for all, must be
driven out of the Asiatic continent"
Russians Using Hand Grenades.
Toxic, Oct. 10.-According to a pri-
vate letter received from a japanese
officer now with the besieging forces be-
fore Port Arthur, the Russians are ef-
fectively using hand grenades filled with
high explosive. The execution of these
grenades, when accurately thrown, is
deadly, the officer says, and their use
probably accounts for the closeness of
the fighting.
Severe Strain Of Naval Battle.
Cheliabinsk, Russia, Oct. 10.-Capt.
Andreieff, of the Russian armored
cruiser Rossia, of the Vladivostok SQUAD
ron, passed through here on October on
the way to eastern Russia. He Is suffer-
ing from an acute form of nervous pros
tration, the result of the terrific tension
during the naval fight with the japanese
feet under Admiral Kamimura, follow
ing the departure of the Rossia, Gromo-
boi and Rurik from Vladivostok. The
same ailment affects many of the
wounded who are being invalided home,
and who look like living corpses. 1t
seems impossible for the nervous sys,
tenn to recuperate from the awful strain
to which it is subjected in a modern
naval battle.