Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
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FRO6RESS OF THE CONFLICT BE-
N. A, FwEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
Strict Censorship Makes 1t a Difficult
EAGAFatfef for Correspondents to Get Ac-
News to Outside World-Dis-
patches Received Are Contradictory.

The world knows about as little of
what has been done or is going on in
Abe war area of the far East as If the
telegraph were not yet invented. The
war correspondents seem to have been
bottled up and do not know what the
belligerents are doing, and they are NOT
permitted to tell the little they may hap
pen to find out. Therefore they amuse
themselves and confuse the readers o.
newspapers with rumors and gueSSes. IN
place of news and facts, the newspaper
readers of all the world are fed with idle
gossip and the more or less absurd the
cries of self-advertised experts on the
conduct of operations of which they are
absolutely ignorant.
Tuesday morning, we are told, at vast
expense of cable tolls, Admiral Togo's
heet, consisting of fifteen big ships and
eight torpedo boats, advanced upon Port
Arthur, which the admiral had captured
on the previous Sunday, and bombarded
81. Why Admiral Togo did this is not
explained. Nor are we informed how
i: was that the Russians regained pos
session of the city. Yet they must have
Recaptured it, for we are notified that
on Monday they evacuated Port Arthur,
Grst having surrounded it with land and
sea mines and kerosened all the build
kngs, coal and stores.
At the same time the Russians, as is
stated by the correspondents, are rush
ang large quantities Of supplies to Fort
Arthur. AS the Japanese have captur-
ed the town it is certainly very polite
OF the Russians to supply them so boun-
aifully with food. Meanwhile, the Rus
slams, having evacuated Port Arthur af-
aer having recaptured it and driven out
the Japs, have had time, in mining the
harbor, to recover fifteen japanese tor
pedoes from which the Japanese, i'll
their pardonable excitement, forgot to
withdraw the safety plugs This new
ertheless, has not prevented the Jap
anese, as we learn from the London
Times correspondent at Toxic, from
Alockadng the entrance to Port Arthur.
The tidings from Nladivostok are no
less interesting The harbor is blocked
with ice, and the Russian squadron,
which left the other day for the purpose
of effecting q Junction with the Russian
feet blocked ut Port Arthur, is frozen
mp there. This seems peculiar in view
OF the fact that the VladivoStol fleet has
sailed to intercept at a certain point i'll
tho Pacific the battleship and two cruis-
ers bought by Japan from Chilli, which
reached Japan two weeks ago and par
ticipated in the bombardment Of Fort
Arthur on Tuesday morning. But we
are getting used to these little things
Two Months of War.
The Russo-Japanese war has been III
progress for two months. SO far as can
De gathered from the meager dispatches
&he operations of the war have been
limited to the naval attacks on Fort
Arthur and Vladivostok. On land there
has been no engagement more serious
than picket skirmish. There have been
no "Reminiscences in force, no maneuv-
ers of the opposing armies; there has
been no unmasking on either side. In
eight weeks there has been no war on
hand.
In the several bombardments of Port
Arthur Russia has met with considera-
bic loss, but the naval operations have
had little influence in shaping the course
of the campaign on land. Undoubtedly
Russia has been put at a disadvantage
on the sea front of the theater Of war
by the Gripping of her fleet, but this has
rot prevented the massing of troops on
strategic lines, and it is now reported
that the mobilization of the Manchurian
army is complete. On the japanese side
there must be the same degree of COM
pleteness in preparations for advance.
This does not mean that a general en-