The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-06-13
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Great Naval Battle OFF PORT
Arthur Rumored.
JAPS BOMBARD TRAIN
Russians We're Bringing Troops
to and FortifyinS Kiachau
When SheIled:
JAPS BOMBARD TRAIN

LONDON, June l3.-Adyices from st.
Petersburg say rumors are in circula-
ton there to the effect that a great
naval battle has taken place off Port
Arthur, in which two Russian and four
japanese battleships were sunk.
a Tokyo report says that Rear Adj
miral Togo has reported that the feet
bombarded the west coast Of the Liau-
tong peninsular near Kaichau and
drove back a military train that was
approaching southwark. No trains have
been seen since.
The enemy was bringing in troops
and throwing up works, evidently ex-
pecting a landing ofsth japanese on
that point and making all preparations
to prevent it,
Small gunboats sent close in by Rear
Admiral Togo bombarded the Russians
at work and ii is believed caused con-
siderable damage.
The military commission assigned to
bury the Russian dead in the battle OF
Nanshan hill at Ninchau has present
ed its final report at Tokyo
1t states that 10 Russian officers and
664 men who fell in the battle have
been carefully buried and that 30 men
were buried by the outposts. making
the total number of killed left behind
by the Russians 704.
The Russian government has not yet
returned an answer to British Ambas-
sador Hardinge relative to his govern
ment's protest at Russias declaration
that rice and other foodstuffs are con-
traband of war, but it has been learn
ed that there is no intention on the
part of the Russian government to
make notifications to meet the British
view.
The protest is based on the rule OBJ
served by Great Britain during the
Boer war that even foodstuffs destined
for a hostile country would be consid-
cred contraband of war only If intend-
ed for an enemy's forces.
A Tokyo report says the Siberian rail-
way steamer Manchuria. which was
captured by the japanese, has left the
Yokosuka naval station, carrying sixty
guests of the navy department. The
trip of the Manchuria has been ar
ranged for the foreign naval attaches,
prominent members of the diet and ten
of the foreign correspondents The itin-
erary of the vessel includes visits to
the Kure naval station the Sasebo ma
val station, Chemulpo, Chinampho, the
Sir James hall and the Elliott groups
of the islands, Talien bay, Port Arthur,
the advanced naval bases at the mouth
of the Yalu and the army bases on the
Liautong peninsula.
A Haicheng dispatch says:
"a flanking movement of the Japa-
nese around the Russian left from
Fengwangcheng has been repulsed
with loss of two whole battalions.
"a large japanese force moved out
In the morning along the Fengwang4
cheng and Haicheng road. The Rus
Sims had a force strongly posted in q
ravine thirty miles southeast of Hal
cheng. The japanese were preceded
by two battalions, who walked into the
Russian ambush. They received
murderous rifle and artillery fire at
close range and weSe wiped out, only
one or two escaping.
''The main Japanese force, which
was greatly superior to the Russian
force, tried to outfiank the Russians,
who drew of without losing a man.
The Japanese, closing in, found the
Favine vacant save for their own
dead"
Night hundred infantry and no cav
airy or artillery whatever is the total
japanese garrison at Wonson, and
these are the only troops Japan main
tains on the eastern Korean coast The
lack of cavalry prevents effective scout
ing. Infantry is useless against the
mobile Cossack bands forming the
principal Russian force for 200 miles
to the north.
Collar Button Brings Death.
SYRACUSE, n. Y, June 13.-Alex.
Simons, a small child, swallowed a col
lar button and before a physician ar