Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-30
DALNY EVACUATED.


chou have been busy burying their dead,
caring for their wounded, and establish
ing a base of supplies preparatory to
concentration for the advance upon Port
Arthur. The advance of the japanese
first army from the Yalu continues slow
ly toward Liaoyang as preparations are
being made for an attack upon Port
Arthur.
A dispatch from Chefoo says Dalny
has been practically evacuated. All
yaluables, ammunition and most of the
troops have been taken to Pors Arthur.
The only civilians remaining are the
electrical engineers in charge OF the
mines laid in the harbor, and also those
set 70 destroy docks and piers. One
large Russian warship, probably the
armored cruiser Bayan, and three tor
pedo boats reached TalieDwan bay on
Tuesday last from Port Arthur, and it
was doubtless this vessel which attacked
the japanese left wing during the battle
at Kinchou on the 26th. The junks just
arrived, on their way down passed
IA japanese war vessels pine miles out
side of Dalny, so that the Bayan will
likely be captured.
From Liaowang, the headquarters OF
General Kuropatkin, commandments
of the Russian forces in Manchuria,
comes this report: "AIost of the Chi
nese merchants are closing their stores
aud winding up business in expectation
of serious events. Those remaining in
business have raised The prices Of meat
and other products. A high Chinese
parsonage here is believed to be organ
izing a movement against the Russians.
The Russian cavalry is in great need of
forage. Chinese arriving here brought
the news Of the fighting at Kinchou.
The results of the fighting on the penin-
sula caused no appreciable. effect on the
troops, whose health and spirits are ex-
cellent Soldiers are arriving daily"
A Pitsewo correspondent writes that
the Chinese are assisting the japanese
in every way, and that the Chunchus
and other bandits are regularly enlisted
in the japanese arr6y.
There is no change in the Russian sit
uatiOn at Vladivostok.
The Tentsin correspondent of the
London Daily Express says that Paul
Lessar, the Russian minister, informed
Prince Ching that Russia will finally
evacute Niuchwang, provided China
grants a concession for a railway from
Kalgan across Chinese Mongolia to
KiaKhta, so miles from Lake BaiEal,
or that Russia will evacuate Manchuria
outright if China leases the Iii territory
TO Russia. Iii, or, as it is more COM
monty called, Kooldja, is a district OF
Chinese Turkestan forming a part of
Sungari. Russia claimed itas aprovince
from 1870 to 1881, and still -etains a
portion of the territory. The district
contains $4,000 rquare miles. The
London Standards rientsin corrcspon-
dent telegraphs that Uchida, the Jap.
anese minister at Peking, has demanded
an immediate reply to the inquiry pre-
viously sent to the Wal WI Pu as to
whether China is prepared to hold and
administer the territory the japanese
have conquered, adding that otherwise
Japan must appeal to other powers to
undertake the responsibility at the ex-
pense of China.
: The London Daily Telegraph has a
dispatch from Shanghai say .ng it is re-
ported there that Minister Uchida has
notified the Chinese government al
Peking that Port Arthur will soon be
captured, and has asked whether China
is ready to resume posse sion OF the dis
trict or if japan shall hold it.