Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-07
JAPANESE TAKE
FENG WANG CHENG
Was Captured After Fierce Fight
ing With Heavy Losses on
Both Sides.
PORT ARTHUR IS ISOLATED.
Russians Are Accepting Disagree
able Situation Very
Stoically.

Seoul May IA dispatch from An
tung says It is rumored there that the
Japanese captured Fen Wang Cheng
May 4, after fierce fighting, and that
the losses on both sides were very
heavy aoo,,,
Paris, May IA ST. Petersburg cor
respondent of the Echo de Paris sehds
the following under date of May 6:
"The general staff believes that the
Japanese landed at Pltzwo, the number
being not less than 10000 and says that
the bulk Of Gen, Kurokis army was
this morning about nine miles from
Feng Wang Cheng The army was ad -
vancine I'm three columns, the third coll
umn following the coast, probably IN
order to communicate with the troops
landed at Pitzwo. All the reserves, pro-
visions and ammunition were landed on
the Elliott islands.
"a staff officer said that Lieut. Cen
Zassaitch would be kept IN the pack
ground during the remainder OF the
war, and It Is believed that Gen. kuuro-
patkin viii personally direct operations
statement that Port Arthur Is bottled
M. The passage is still free.
'The telegraph Office has receive IN
structlons not to accept messages Tor
por Arthur.
"Vice Admiral skryloff and Vice. Adj
miral Bezobrazoff have been ordered
10 proceed 10 Mukden. whence they VIII
probably go to Vladivostok'
The correspondent repeats the report
that the Japanese have occupied PORT
Adams. and says they are advancing
on Port Arthur the garrison OF when
is expected to make a sortie.
PORT ARTHUR ISOLATED.
ST. Petersburg, May G QO:5O p. m) "A
dispatch received tonight says that
Port Arthur Is cut off from all COM
munication by land, the japanese nav
ing debarSed I'm its rear, occupied rear
and cut the telegraph
Vice Admiral Skrydlon, VINO IL en-
route 10 Port Arthur TO take command
Of the naval forces In the tar east wiz
be unable TO reach his destination.
News of very heavy lighting near
Feng Wang Cheng is expected within
SO hours. Large achievements have
reached the Russian position. An I'M
perial order has been issued attaching
three batteries of artillery to each of
the nine rifle divisions.
Two distinct landing operations py
the Japanese in the vicinity OF Port
Arthur are reported In todays dis
patches to the Associated Press. Ac-
cording to cables from Toxic and 81
Petersburg, the Japanese effected a
landing in force and unopposed at Pltz-
wo. a point on the east coast OF the
peninsula about 70 miles above Port
Arthur. Another successful landing IL
reported 20 have taken place at Port
Adams, which Is situated on an arm OF
Society bay, on the west coast OF the
peninsula, directly opposite and about
20 miles distant from Pitzwo. The rail-
road that connects Port Arthur with
Mukden passes close to Port Adams,
and IL Is evident that It IL now In the
possession of tie Japanese at this
point.
A dispatch from Washington indi-
Gates n landing, according TO advices
received there, az Kin Chau or Fr
Chow. This place Is located at -
extreme eastern shore of the bay Of
the same name on the west coas,
Is directly across the peninsula from
the Russian port Of Dalny IL z
about 40 miles north of Port Arthur
The strip Of land between Dalny ahc
Kin Chow Is the narrowest point OF
the peninsula. Kin Chow Is about hal