Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-06
IMP RESS
RECRUITS
JAPANESE TAKE CHINESE AND
coREANs INTO IN
vADlNG ARMY.
STORY OF INDIGNANTLY
STORY OF INDIGNANTLY
One Dispatch Says 600 coreans Were
Tied to Posts in Front of Japanese
Soldiers and Killed in Fight-No De-
veIopments of Note at Mukden.

Possiet Bay, Manchuria Oct g.
The Japanese minister at Seoul has
demanded that every town in Corea
furnish contingent of forty to sixty
men for the army now being organized,
but the emperor of Corea has refused
to do SO. The Japanese continue to re-
cruit Coreans under the pretense of
employing them as coolies.
lnhuman Action.
1t is reported that they recruited
900 men at Ping Yang, dressed them in
uniforms, sent them to Manchuria and
placed them in the front line. fastened
to posts, until nearly all of them were
killed. The Russians found only one
man alive.
Chinese Are Enlisted.
Mukden, Oct. 5.-A regular recruit
ing service has been formed by the
Japanese army for enlisting what is
known as the Chinese volunteer mill
tia. The. Japanese are assisted in this
work by Linsee, a prince Of the Chi
nese imperial household.
Bravery Is Incontestable.
The men are paid by the Japanese
but not armed by them with Japanese
modern rifles. They use, instead, old
muskets of an enormous caliber. The
Russians have come in contact with
them several times and their bravery
is incontestable.
Many Sklrmishes.
A Russian correspondent Of the AS
sociated Press who just returned from
Major General Mistchenko's division
says:
There have been constant skir-
mishes in which the Russians have
regularly defeated the Japanese ell.
though the engagements have never
| been very large. The last advance
was on October 2. The Japanese made
several tentative movements but were
driven back on every occasion by the
Russian cavalry. The casualties were
small.
Japanese Losses Heavy.
st. Petersburg, Oct. s. - Lieuten
ant General Stoessel says the Japan
ese losses have been 10000 during the
attacks on Port Arthur from Septem
Der % to 30. excepting the outpost
skirmishing.
Waterworks Ruined.
General Stoessel adds that practic
ally nothing remained of the water
works redoubts when the surviving
Russians evacuated them.
Armies Draw Closer.
London, Eng. Oct. 5. --latest press
and official reports from the front in
dicate beyond all doubt that the op
posing armies are steadily drawins
closer together and that events are a
last fastening toward the collision
forecast for more than a week.
A dispatch from General Sakharof
bringing events at the front up to tn,
evening of October 8, reports serie
OF important outpost engagements il
which the Russians were invariabl,
successful
Fighting is Continuous.
4 The report shows that fighting o.
a minor scale is now almost continu
Gus along the entire front of both al
mics. The most important of the out
post fighting since October occurre
on the southern front of Kuropatkin'
army. Unusually strong detachment
have been actively engaged in tha
: district in feeling out the Russia,
: positions.
At dawn on October a pickle
! force Of Japanese cavalry twice a,
tempted to break through the RUSSIA
advance line, which is held by detacf
ments of General Mistchenkos Cos
sacks. Both attacks were repulse
after severe fighting.