The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-04-29
A Big BATTLE
EXPECTED SOON
Japanese Land Large Force ana
Get Ready for Flank
Movement.
TOO MANY FOR RUSSIANS
laps Have Been Quietly Throwing UE
Intrenchments on Western Side
of Reninsuia-Their Numbers
Increasing.

q CuSI1tIiCtkS vi NSSlSIh S'SS
of Feninsuia-Their Numbers
Increasing.
Ct. Petersburg, April 22.-VVhat may
turn out to be the anticipated thanking
movement Of the japanese troops is the
appearance of a number Of Japanese
ships off Potinsa, near the gulf of
Chengthaitse, about midway between
Port Arthur and the mouth of the va
lu river, as reported to the car by Gen.
Kuropatkin.
Military experts here have long re-
garded that vicinity as the probable
point of debarkation of the second Jap
anese expedition. 1t is not far away
from Takushan eighteen miles to the
east), and connects by road with Port
Arthur (150 miles to the southwest),
and Flung Wang (ffty miles to the
~northwest), where the Russians will
make their first obstinate resistance.
Though the japanese are building en-
trenchmentS on the Ialu, it is believed
\ tina they will advance soon. The ar
engagements for q turning movement
are complete, and experts say that such
a movement could properly begin at
Takushan, as Flung Wang lies at the
angle of an equilateral triangle, With
\ Takushan m the Ialu as bases.
The japanese debarkalion will UNI
tcubltdlN W ~ :" ''''
the Russians recognize that 1t Will be
impossible to prevent it.
I'VE will strike after they have land
ed grimly said u member of the gen-
craI staff.
General Kuroptakin is aware of the
strategic Importance of the vicinity OF
Takushan, and il is understood that ne
has mace his arrangements ac-
| cordingly.
Number of Japanese Increasing.
The general Start has issued the fol-
lowing statements:
according 70 ofiiCia. reports, all has
been quiet at Port Arthur and at Yin
kow II on the Yalu river during the
last few days. There is no further
change in the general situation TO re-
port"
Gen. kuropatkin has sent the follow
ing telegram TO the ear:
Gen. Kashtalinsky reports as fol-
lows on April 10:
".All is quiet on the Yalu. The Jap
anese are throwing up Entertainments
opposite GOlutsy and further to the
north.
THE number of japanese troops is
increasing. They are concentrating at
/ VIII and spreading towards the north
along the Yalu.
".Cossack sentinels have observed
the lights of Japanese transports near
Ching Tai Sse, opposite the village of
Potinsa, seventeen miles west OF Ia
tung kau. The vessels were anchored
at a distance of twenty-five miles from
shore.
according to dispatches from Gen:
Mistchenko Japanese ships We're also
seen near Sou Chou"
Russia Buys American Ships.
st. Petersburg, April 20.-In regard
to the reported purchase by Russia of
four ships in the United States, it is
now said the deal was negotiated at
Constantinople by Gen. Williams, agent
OF a Philadelphia ~shipbuilding firm, and
the Russian ambassador to Turkey.
The admiralty still lacks definite in
formation as to the cause of the Petro-
pavlovsk disaster. The authorities at
Port Arthur evidently are not yet on
WINGED that they have the true eNpla-
nation. The general staff here is di-
Nided between two opinions, a mine or
a boiler explosion, although a few still
cling to the theory the battleship was
sunk by a submarine boat.
Russians Leave the Yaiu.
Tien Tsin, April 20.-lt is understood
here that only four Russian regiments
remain on the q river, and hat the
Russian first line of defense extends
from Feng Huan Cheng to Mo Tien
Ling Pass.
outrages by Russians.
Seoul, April 20.-The Japanese con-
sui at Won-San telegraphs tlat a
Buddhist priest is the only Japanese
who remained at Song-Chin, on Plak-
Sin bay, in northeast Korea, at which
place the Russians are reported to have
burned the japanese residences and
destroyed other property belonging to
Japanese. There. is no Geographic
communication with the song-Chin
district.
Correspondents Sent to Front.
New Chwang, April 20.-Correspond-
ents of leading French, Italian and
british npNNSnonnJS md of Dnn A p1ayj-
can newspaper and of the Associated
Press, have been permitted to proceed
to Mukden. They left here today. They
are the first foreign newspaper men
admitted to the Russian lines since the
declaration of war.
Constant Skirmishing.
Seoul, April 20.--The japanese auth
critics here admit constant skirmishing
occurs between opposing armies on the
Yalu river, but claim no decisive action
has aiken place, although news Of such
an engagement is expected momentar-
lily. 1t is estimated the Russians have
$4,000 men on the Yalu. The widest
rumors are afloat, largely from Korean
sources, which are absolutely unre-
liable.
Reported Jap Naval! Losses.
Port Arthur, April 20.-CTuesday,
delayed.)-All is quiet throughout the
district. 1t is persistently asserted a
Japdile2e ulSei was Suilh OIL IOfL Ar
thur April Is, and that the armored
cruisers Nisshin and Kasuga were
damaged respectively below and above
the water line.
Mines Are Destroyed.
Nagasaki. April 2~0.-Contact mines
lave been found floating seward forty
miles from Cape Shang Tung, and
twenty-five miles from Wei Hal Wei.
Three We're discovered and destroyed
by the Japanese fleet.
They Liked Alexieff.
London, April 2o.--The Japanese le-
cation here is greatly interested in the
announcement of Alexieff's resignation.
The opinion is expressed that II he had
resigned six months ago there would
have been no war, but now that hos
~tilities are in progress the Japanese
would have preferred to see Alexietf
retain control.