Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-08
Kuropatkin's Movements
Give That impress
sion.
RECEIVED 800 GUNS
laps Hope to Capture Port
Arthur Before Mikad0'S
Birthday.

St. Petersburg. Oct S.-There is
good warrant for the belief that KurO-
patkin is strengthening his left flank
To- meet the Japanese turning move
ment. over three hundred guns have
arrived at the front and activity of
the Russian skirmishers below the
Hun river creates the impression that
Kuropatkin may contemplate assum-
ing the offensive.
GrIppenberG's Second Army.
ST. Petersburg. oct. S.-Gen. Grip
pcnberg, who will command the sec
ond Manchurian army. left last evening
for Wilma. He refuses to talk. His
secretary said the second army would
certainly concentrate in Manchuria in
March
Russians Wear Chinese Clothes.
Toxic. Oct S.-An official report on
the skirmishes south of Mukden states
that the Russian infantry wore Chi
nese clothes. The Russians were re
pulsed
Imperial Guards to the Front.
St. Petersburg. Oct. S.-The first
troops of the imperial guard left St.
Petersburg last night for the front
They consisted of the second division
of Finland guards Of which the infant
cZarevitch is honorary colonel.
Close In ON Fortress.
London. OCT. S-The Tien Tsin cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says that
n dispatch from Nagasaki states that
Il japanese officer from Port Arthur
maintains that the Japanese gradually
are closing in on the fortress. They
are most anxious to capture the place
on the mikado's birthday. Nov. 3.
Russian prisoners. according to the
dispatch. say that a number OF dead
lie mburied within the fortress. The
hospitals are so full that the wounded
are being sent to the ships in the har-
Dor The garrison is now stated to
number only 10000 effective troops.
Admits story May He True.
St Petersburg. Oct. S.-The admiral
ty is without news of the reported sea
fight off Port Arthur as well as of the
Toxic report of the wrecking and dam
aging of Russian warships at Port Ar
thur by the Japanese land batteries.
Hand Grenndes Deadly.
Toxic. Oct S-According 10 a pri-
vate letter received from Japanese
officer now with the beseging forces
at Port Arthur. the Russians are eff
fectively using hand grenades filled
with high explosives. The execution
of the grenades when accurate thrown
is deadly. Their use probably accounts
for the closeness of the fighting.
Describe Horror of LInOyanE
Mail letters describing incidents at
the battle of Liaoyang are beginning
10 reach the newspapers here. An
eye witness who was present in the
town during the fearful bombardment
of Aug 30 and Aug. 81 compares the
scene To a seething caldron. veterans
of the Turkish war declaring that moth
ing approaching the intensity of the
shell fire had been experienced at Plev
ma.
The hollow in which Liaoyang is
situated is described as being an aw-
full mass of death and destruction.
Some of the Japanese guns posted in
the Chinese corn paid particular atten-
tion 10 a Russian captive balloon. fiji,
ing shrapnel in the hope OF puncturing
it,. The soldiers attached 10 the rope
of the balloon were compelled several
times To hurriedly drag it away. but
the balloon was never even touched.
Maj. Gen. Kashtalisky. who was on
hill near Sytchun. told a correspond
ent that the Japanese gunners tried
vainly for a whole day TO locate Rus
sian battery posted in the corn near
the hill.