Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-02-18
The EASTERN WAR.
Dispatches Throw Little Real Light
on the Situation.
JAPAN PREPARING TO LAND TROOPS.
the New York Herald Correspondents ~
Port Arthur Says tine Russian Fleet IL
Moving ON Korea and South Japan
japanese 10 BE Emba Eked.

London, Feb. 1.-THE voluminoui
dispatches from the far east published
here this morning are again character
lied by absence of real light on the
situation. Numerous unconfirmed and
conflicting rumors are given and
among them Is o report Of another
engagement at Port Arthur In which
the Russians lost eight vessels sunk
and ten captured.
A correspondent Of the Daily Mail,
who witnessed the engagement on
Port Arthur, confirms this morning
bis previous accounts Of the fight and
asserts that one japanese torpedo boat
was sunk and another deserted by its
crew in q sinking condition and prob
ably captured by the Russians. He
says also that the Japanese lost one
battleship and had one cruiser put out
of action and that the colonel Of the
Fifteenth Russian regiment was killed
by q shell during the bombardment.
Cablegrams to the Daily Mail from
Wei Hal Wei and Newchwang report
a Japanese feet, with transports, cruis-
ing in the Gulf of Pc Chill, apparently
with the idea of effectlng landing
near Port Dalny.
Japanese Preparing to Land Troops
st. Petersburg, Feb. ia dispatch
has been received here from Viceroy
AIexieff, dated February 49, saying:
Capt. Reitzenstein, commander Of
the Russian cruiser division, tele-
graphs that his division destroyed a
steamer in Sangari (TsugaroO straits.
A violent storm, accompanied by a
heavy snow, has been raging for three
days and nine degrees Of frost have
heen registered The enemy has not
been encountered,
Maj. Gen. Plug, Viceroy Alexief's
chief Of staff, telegraphs that the stu
alton at Port Arthur yesterday was
unchanged. Reports from Yin-Kau,
near Newchwang, he says, declare
that the Japanese are preparing to
land at Tsinjenda. A message re-
ceived from the frontier guard says
that mounted patrols, believed to be
Japanese. were seen in the vicinity of
Hsin-Ming-Ting, northwest of Mukden.
The Russian Fleet Moving.
Port Arthur, Feb, 16.-(By New York
Herald Correspondent. 1.-The Russian
leet Is moving In the direction Of Ko-
'ea or South Japan.
1t is reported that the Russian feet
Intends to lombard the nearest Port
md will leave the forts to defend Port
trthur.
Two of the vessels damaged In the
irst engagement have been repaired
md have Joined the feet The third
will be repaired within a
week.
Japaneas Soldiers to Bs Embarked.
Shanghai, Feb. 16.-Advices re-
eived from Nagasaki, according to the
Jew York Herald correspondent, say
hat more than 100000 Japanese SOL
iers will be embarked upon transports
nd sail within the next week. The,
will set out from several
ifferent ports. All the arrangements
Or the vessels and the supply light
RS are already completed. The points
I which the troops will disembark !
re kept profound secret. A boom
J being laid across the entrance to-
Iagasakl harbor. F,
TO OCCUPY the Hermit Kingdom" !.
Washington, Feb. 16.--lnformation
cached here that nearly 10000 Jap
nese troops were landed at Chemulpo .
unday, the first division of large :
lumber which will be thrown into Ko- /
ca as rapidly as possible, in the effort !
D thoroughly occupy the strategic \
oints In the hermit kingdom" while y
he Russian feet is bottled up in Port !
rthur, q