New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-24
NOTES ON THE WAR.

The "pernicious activity OF the censorship
continues to be the leading feature OF news
from the Far East. There are rumors OF en-
easements at Port Arthur February is. IA
and 90 and Of serious loss 20 the Russian heet
I}ut the details have not been announced oy
the government" No. nor by any one DOUBT
less because the government does not want II
done. The report OF a japanese trick. OF mi
Getting Russian signals. and thus capturing or
DESTROYING four Russian torpedo boats. may or
may not be true. but Fuch a performance WoGId
he entirely characteristic OF the japanese, NuO
are hound to miss point In the game OK war
Our theory seems to Re confirmed that the
story Of the Russian entry into Ping ans
meant the province. not the city OF that name
Thu latest reports are that the Russian al
vance guard has reached An-Ju- Ihat place
Is seventy miles southeast Of the Yalu River
at wi-Ju. and fifty miles north OF Ping-4ans,
which latter place IS now said 10 be occupied
nv the japanese. There is a mountain range
between ANU and Ping-Yang, crossed now
ever bv one pretty good road. beside the roao
around its end. at the shore or the Aeuo" oeo-
In view Of the possibility that a great line OF
hattie will be formed along the Yalu River II
q. >, interest 70 recall that only the lower fifty
r,fez Of that river are navigable. At Chang
so,g there are rapids which no vessel can pass
TO- those ffty miles the japanese might De
h,o - hold the river with their fleet But the
~Sroar frontier AZ the north is more than your
bundred miles long, and the other SCV Niil0S
would have to be hela by troops On ANU
The French government Is setting an excellenI
axanple OF neutrality In its treatment OF ths
Russian ships at Djlbutil It gave them sinister
and supplies. according to law. and then SIS
niAed to them that they must not overstay 'n'
IegaI limit The result was that some OF thsiIi
left the port and have returned toward CIon-
stadt regarding Il as a hopeless under KING
10 90 ON to the East Some OF them h0Ne'
hovvsver- remained at Djibutil. and the authori-
ties have properly required them TO Dc ols-
v,aptIAd and laid up In storage until ths Wal
sbau end The same course seems 10 De PROV
.rIv prescribed for the Russian ship at shans-
hoi Rut the Chinese government IS nov no., as
strong as the French to enforce the heutIdIIeS
$3.50 - the Russians seem to be taxing sOine
adyan+oVe Of its weakness. me ldCl -
Chinese are In an awkward plghL ~ ~
the Mandiur remain without Dells stei-ttor
e. TaDaDese will charge them with NlOlleLOiA
S ~o,tralitv and may indulge IN some TO
T,risaIs or exact some indemnity. On re T.-,e
hand II the Chinese force the ManoJur 70 1880 49,
port and thus get captured. OF II ~, ~, ,bsf sc
The disuantling OF Il. Russia may on tns' a.
count claim a grievance against theil anu VIZ
late Chinese neutrality In return
Speculation upon the possibility Of the Niaoi-
,,oetol, feet getting to Port Arthur. or that n
port Arthur getting to Vladivostok. should %
tsnnered with the reflection that the roV''
between those points passes through the mar
row strait OF Corea. and that in the mlodle %
that strait on Tsu Shima, Is the Japanese iA'A.
station of TakeshIka, where there are supp'SsN