The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-24
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ward to the YaIu from the station at
Laicheng.
The railway administration has placed
two trains, each of Is cars, stationary
at DaIny to remove to the north the
hospitals, the officials and the Workmen
should the Japanese lombard.
Mines have been laid at Dalny IL
miles from the shore.
Neutral vessels which arrived after
the hostilities began experienced great
difficulty in clearing from that port
The captains of the boats were not al
lowed to command their vessels until
they had entirely passed the mines, port
officials doing the plotting.
CHINESE TROOPS MOVING
New York, Feb. 24.-Transportation
wall has begun, according to a World
dispatch from Tien Tsin. Four trains
filled with cavalry were first dispatch
ed. Several Japanese officers We're at
the station to inspect the proceedings,
NO RUSSIAN ADVANCE YET.
Seoul, Feb .24.,The Russians are
keeping communication between VIII
and Anju, Korea, open. Otherwise an
advance to the southwark has not yet
been made. Russian spies, however,
are reported to be in the vicinity OF
Ping Yang.
BLACK SEA FLEET WILL STAY
New York, Feb. 24.-Rurnors of ne
gotiations among the powers. concern
ed respecting the passage of the Rus
sian Black Sea fleet through the OAR
danelleS are declared by the Paris cor
respondent of the Times to be UNI
founded. The disturbance of the inter-
nation equilibrium which probably
would be entailed, the dispatch contin-
ues, can hardly be matter of indif-
ference to other powers besides Eng
land.
There is not a particle of evidence to
justify the supposition that the sym
IT, dow
allies in any way has affected the An
gio-French entente cOrdiale. The re-
lations between the two countries are
as satisfactory as before the outbreak
of the war, concludes the correspond
ent. In this channel it unquestionably
is the general wish that. the good UNI
Outstanding continue and that neither
France or England become involved in
the war in the far east.
JAPANESE PATRIOTISM.
Toxic, Feb. 24.-According to the re-
ports of local banks. the national loan
of 100 million yen, $49,S00,000, has been
covered nearly four times. The intense
patriotism of all classes is evidenced
by the fact that even servants and Ia
borers are contributing from their say
ings. According to the Seoul CORE
spondent of the Nichi Nichi, pro-Rus-
sian intrigueS are being carried on
there under the active leadership of
vi Yon elk, former minister of war.
triguers meet at night at the French
legation. Their object is, he says, to
get the emperor to remove with his
court to Chyunchion, fifty miles to the
eastward of Seoul.
QUIET AT PEKIN.
New York, Feb. 24-Quiet prevails at
Pekin. says a dispatch to the Times
from the Chinese capital The Chinese
are maintaining order we'll. They have
covered the province with proclama-
lions enjoining the preservation of
tranquility.
Manifestos of the car evoke little
sympathy among the Chinese. General
Yuan Shin Kai, viceroy of Chi Lii and
minister of commerce, has asked per-
mission to send Colonel Munthe, a Nor
wegian long in his service, to be at
tached to the Russian forces and re-
port the progress of the campaign.
Admiral Alexieff consented, and Col
Munthe has started on his journey.
PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
ST. Petersburg, Feb. 24-The railway
between Samar and Zlatoust in Euro
pean Russia and the Siberian lines,
with all the territory appropriated by
the government for the purposes of
these railways have been placed under
martial law in order to insure the reg
ular running of military trains. The
full powers of a commander of an army
in the field have been conferred on the
commander of the Kazan and in the
Siberian military districts in whose
charge these railways have been
ARMY OF 10000 AT PING YANG.
Shanghai, Feb. 24.-The Japanese
army corps landed at Chemulpo. Ko-
rea, a total of about 10000 men. has
already been deployed between Seoul
and Ping Yang. The advance guards
are even northward of the latter place.
Owing to the partial thaw, the roads
are bad and the transportation of pro-
visions and war munitions is most diff
ficult.
JAPANESE HANGED.