The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-17
ON BOTH FLANKS,
Japanese Are Advancing ON
KurOpatkin's Position
From the East, the Southeast
and the Southwest.
OUTPOSTS ENGAGED.
Indications Point to Another
Great Battle Near Mukden.
Terrific BOmbardment of Port
Arthur Is in Progress.

. on both the Russian fankS and that
) skirmishing is continuous. The same
despatch says the Russians are occu-
pying the surrounding villages and that
a battle near Mukden is imminent ST
Petersburg, however, still adheres to
the belief that no serious engagement
is close at hand and says that only out
post affairs are reported. Marshal
Oyama reports to Toxic that the Rus
ward.
Mukden, Sept. 1.-THE Japanese are
reported to be advancing in both hanks
| from the east, southeast and south
| west.
The outposts are closely engaged 20
miles southeastward, there being al
most constant skirmishing.
| Indications point to another great
battle in the vicinity of Mukden. Rus
sian troops occupy all the surrounding
villages.
Refugees are fiocking into the city.
Chinese among them complain of Sc
| verify on the part of the japanese.
Terrible Bombardment.
Chefoo, Sept. ii P. MA Japa-
that the citizens of Dalny on Septem-
Der Is expected that the general at
tack upon Port Arthur would be re-
newed upon the following day He has
reliable information to the effect that
the Japanese siege works at Rihlungs-
han and Kikwanshan were completed
on September Is. Both Chinese and
japanese recent arrivals agree that
the bombarding of Port Arthur be-
came terrific at dawn of September Is
and continued until the forenoon of
September 16. The Japanese fired from
Shushiyen and Palungshan at Pigeon
Bay where heavy guns from Japan
have been placed in position lately. The
shells fell with great frequency in the
Chinese new town.
Yankiatung, which is a village at
Pigeon Bay and has been occupied by
the Russians, has been evacuated by
them secretly. The Japanese have not
occupied the village.
Five hundred cavalrymen who at
tempted to drive the Japanese from
Palungshan have not returned and it is
believed that the fortress there has
been captured
Russians Lost 1873 Guns.
Paris, Sept. 17.-Extra figures of the
Russian killed and wounded and miss
ing before Lao Yang from August 13 to
August 26 have been received by the
general staff, according to the Journal
amount to two generals, 256 officers and
q, 500 soldiers. In addition 1873 guns
were lost. The material losses include
fortification costing $50, 100000.
All Killed But One.
Berlin, Sept. 1.-THE Lokal Anzeiger's
Shanghai correspondent telegraphS
that according to trustworthy informa-
tion from Japan the first militia con-
tingent has received orders to prepare
to depart for the front. According to
4l1oG aIafi
GERS of the Kanazawa regiment have |
been privately informed that all except |
one of the officers have been killed at |
Port Arthur.
War May End Soon.
London, Sept. 1.-THE Daily Tele-
graphs st. Petersburg correspondent
declares that a Russian statesman
whose name, if revealed, would wing |
his utterance with lightning rapidity |
over the globe, asserted that it was his
impression that the war might end
sooner than people imagined, not
through mediation, but through mu-
tual recognition of the ruinous nature
of the conflict. which would lead to
negotiations that would result in
alliance He contended,
the correspondent says. that alth Ough
Russia in the end could exhaust and
crush Japan, yet Japan could hold out
long enough to place an intolerable
and useless strain upon Russia Rus
sia therefore was confronted with the
of either Japanese ruin,
purchased by ruinous sacrifices, or of
a truce followed by offensive and de-
fensive alliance which for years con-
the ideal of the Japan govern
ment.
Prepared for an Emergency.
Washington, Sept. 17.-Instructions
were sent to Rear Admiral Goodrich
at San Francisco today directing him
to detach one ship from his squad adron
when he leaves for Magdalena Bay to
hold the autumn target practice. The
Vessel detached will remain in the vi
,inity of San Francisco prepared to
neutrality should the Russian {
1r Japanese vessels put in at the Golden
Gate. The Wyoming also has been or
lered to remain at Bremerton for the
same duty. The department has no
that there are other Rus
sian cruisers bound for the Pacific
coast, but there is talk to that effect I
around San Francisco and it was {
hought advisab BILE to be ready for any
{
Put on Winter Clothes.
Toxic, Sept. 17.-3 D. m.-Field ]
Marshal Oyama reports that Russian I
cavalry outposts with bases at Pan
ire daily securing southwark in the
-icinity of Wulitachezu and Menfulu-
al, over twelve mile front. and to t
ling Tang, three miles from Ia Tang
hanpao.
The Russian cavalry are changing
heir clothing to gray and black, their /
winter uniform.
Lena's Crew Wants to Go Home.
ST. Petersburg, Sept. 17.-6 P. M
he negotiations between the United
tates and Russia relative to the dis S
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