Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-03-03
FIGHT AT PINGYANG
Russian Scouts Advance Gloss
to Town Gates.
JAPS OPENED FIRE FROM WALLS
Grea Alarm Caused by Cossacks' APP
prOnch, as Garrfson Numbers Only
One Thousand-Japs Land 2,4oO
Troops Near V~indivostok.

LONDON, March "a 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 confiscatcd official papers. The
Russian force G ANU numbers only
about forty men, The main Russian
force is concentrated at L%iaoyang.
The Russians near Antung aggregate
1000. No important engagement is ex-
pected south OF the Yalu river, which,
it is believed, the Russians will make
their main line of defense.
Major General Plug, chief of staff,
sends in the following telegram from
Hardin, dated March 2:
according to additional information
which has reached me, our patrols, hay
ing passed the night twelve versts
eight miles, from Pingyang, approach
ed that town on Monday morning. They
were closely pressing "A Japanese patrol
of seven officers. Lieutenant Loncha-
koff attacked this patrol with three
Cossacks, forcing it to retreat at a gai-
lop toward the gates of the town.
The presence of our patrols heal
Pingyang caused great alarm, and soon
the enemy's sh~arpshooters manned the
wall and towers and opened fire, ex-
pecting an attack. According to the
report. Il patrols approached within
700 PAGES of the town, which they
found to be surrounded by both old and
new ramparts. These, however, were
not yet occupied by the enemy, and it
is supposed that the Japanese have not
more than LOCO 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 yer a radius of sixty
miles from Port Arthur also failed to
discover the enemy's vessels"
Count Benokendorff, Russian ambas-
saGOr TO Great Britain, arrived in Lon
don last night from st. Petersburg.
Great excitement was occasioned in
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 10 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 land 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. 4. sufficient number OF
troops have been landed in Korea to
allow the immediate working out of
Che plan of campaign.
There is a Japanese cruiser ashore
and abandoned thirty miles south of
Clemulpo, Korea. She may have been
disabled in the engagement Mt Che
mulpo, in which the Russian war YES
sells Nariag and Korietz We're de-
stroyed. The officers of the Variag re-
ported at that time TINT they had sunk
u cruiser and Il torpedo boat destroyer.
The cars on the ice railroad owe
Lake Baikal are now drawn by horses,
\ locomotive which performed this serv