The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-07-14
JAPS ARE
CLOSING IN
Mikado's Generals now Have
TatcheNGo.
NEWCHANG TO FALL
Kuropatkin Must Hold Back Two
Large Armies of the
japanese,
NEWCHANG TO FALL

st. Petersburg say that steadily and
cautiously General Oku's army from
the south aud General Nodzus army
from the east are closing in upon tn.
tchekiao, where General Kuropatkln is
reported TO be intrenching. One hun.
dred and thirty thousand men are in:
volved in the movement The next few
days will determine whether and tc
what extent General Kuropatkin in.
tends TO make stand at Tatchekiao,
the possession Of which by the Japa.
nese would compel the immediate
evacuation of Newchwang.
The outposts of the armies are
scarcely fifteen miles apart. The slow.
ness Of the advance is apparently due
TO the natural difficulties in the way Of
rnpid movement Of the Japanese
eastern thanking columns.
Lieutenant General Sacharoff reports
that General Kuroki is massng his
troops near the Pkhanlin pass and
moving out by both roads upon Hal
cheng Heavy pressure from this
quarter would render Tatchekiao un-
tenable
All the japanese energies now seem
70 be concentrated on Tatchekiao and
Haicheng The operations to the north.
which throughout may have been
feints, have been suddenly suspended.
The growing activity Of Chinese ban
dts in the valley of the Liao river at
this critical u,Ouaanf ,naope o9,Jitfo,,.,t
embarrassment to General Kuropatl1ln
well informed military critic be-
lleves that General Kuropatkin is de-
liberately surrendering his southern
positions like that of Kaichow for the
purpose of drawing on the Japanese in
to the open country at or above Ia
tchekiao, where the Russians will be
able to display large forces and to de-
rive advantage from their superior cav
airy. He attributes General Oku's nd
vance to the necessity of helping Gen
eral Nodzu, whose divisions are stalled
in the ChapGn and Dalin passes on ac-
count Of transport difficulties and to
the stubborn resistance of General
ZaroUbaieff, commander of the Fourth
Siberian army corps, whose forces will
have to be cleared out before south.
orn advance is made.
The Japanese game of strategy is to
effect n juncture between Nodzu and
Oku in order to force Kuropatkin to
TIE northward and If this plan should
he successful to combine with Kuroki
near Liaoyang.
y special dispatch received from
Nukden repeats the story of a Japanese
repulSe at Port Arthur with the loss of
10000. The dispatch says:
"News has been received from reia-
bic sources that the japanese Third
army, on the night of July II. attacked
Port Arthur and was heavily defeated.
an immense number being killed by
Russian mines. The total loss is about
10000"
Newchwang report says:
Japanese scouts have been seen at
Black Woods pond six miles south of
here General Oku, with $4,000 men,
is advancing rapidly between this place
ana Tatchekiao.'
A Tokyo report says that several tor
pedo boats of the Vladivostok squad
ron have appeared Off the island of
Yesso.
There is published here this morning
a rumor that Port Arthur has fallen.
but it is discredited and lacks con
frmation
A Vladivostok dispatch brings the
statement that the British |
ship Cheltenham was captured within
sight of Chemulpo and that from the |
Russian ships the Japanese could be
seen working on the wreck of the |
Varlag.