The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-22
BOmBARDMENT
OF new 'CHWANG
Japanese Are Reported TO Have
Made a Landing.
Both Stories Are Still Lacking
Confirmation.
CHINESE ARE AROUSED
Object to Extension of Martial
Law to YinkOw.
AIexief Reports Officially on
PetropavIOvsk Disaster.

EEbEOUdNAUESh OASNodOAs
New York, April 22.@The japanese
are reported to have bOmbarded New
Chwang, says a Worlds dispatch from
st. Petersburg. They are rumored to
have landed troops who probably will
endeavor to effect a junction with the
forces supposed to have landed near
the mouth of the Yalu river three days
ago. There is no confirmation of the
story.
Chinese Aroused.
Tien Tsin. April 22-If Vfceroy
Alexieff has declared Yinkow, a ter
minus of the Imperial Chinese rail
road opposite New Chwang, to be
within the region under martial law,
the management of the Imperial Chi
nese railways will consider it an un-
= friendly act, it was prearranged
that Yinkow should be considered
within a neutral zone. The Imperial
Chinese railway gives notice this
morning by telegraph that it will not
receive code messages at Yinkow-
When this is considered the war cor
respondents now at Mukden and New
ChWang viii not be allowed to for
ward news of the slightest Importance.
New Chwang Full of Spies.
Mukden, April 22.-The operations OF
the Russians in Manchuria are greatly
hampered by the immense number Of
spies. Major KOndratsvitch command
ing the Ninth East Siberian rifle brig
ade, says the Japanese have taken adj
vantage of the convenient location of
the Newchwang, which is full of spies.
Japanese Caught Near Moscow.
Archangel, Russia, April 22.-Two sus-
pected Japanese have been arrested on
the railroad near Vologfa in northeast
ia 1aEf fr~fn11 n
plans in their possession of Archangel
and the famous monastery on the is
land of Solovetsl1i, in the White sea.
Russians Fleeing NOrthward.
London, April ga correspondent
of the Times cabling from Newchwang
says that messenger has arrived there
from the Yalu river with the informa-
tion that the Russians are fleeing north
across the river in overcrowded boats
and are losing hundreds by drowning.
Japanese Officers to Be Shot
IIarbin, April 22.-The two officers
of the Japanese general staff. col
onel and a captain who were arrested
by the railroad guard eighteen miles
found guilty by a court martial and
sentenced to be hanged. The officers
listened quietly to the sentence of the
court, but subsequently, asked that
their lives be spared. General Kuro-
patkin confirmed the findings of the
court but taking into consideration
the fact that the accused are soldiers.
he ordered that they should be shot
instead of being hanged The sittinrs
of the court martial attracted a large
attendance including many ladies'
The sentence has not yet been exc
cuted.
Port, Arthur Is Blocked.
London. April 22@The Toxic cor
respondent of the Daily Telegraph
SAYS that Port Arthur undoubtedly is
eIfeetuaIiy blocked and that events
fortress.
Russia After Warships.
Paris, April 22.= Information
reaches the officials here to the ef-
Gect that Russia is negotiating with
Greece and Argentina for the n1r-
chase Of warshiDs.
Occasional SI1irnlishes.
Lao Yang, April 22.-Occasional
skirmishes with the Japanese aIonp
the Aatu river and unimportant tus-
sles with small bands of Chinese ban
dts alone vary the monOtony of the
perpetual movement of troops to the
seat of war. Military trains are end
!esSiy going UP and down the line:
passing by daily. The troops which
nave reached their allotted stations
are hard to work preparing to receive
the enemy.
Wayside stations have been organ
lzed everywh ere to give the soldiers
on the march hot meals, warm shelter.
ana comfortable beds. The torrentia1
rams Which fell during the first fort
hlght Of April did not affect the
movement of troops.
A Red Cross hospital has been es-
taoIlshed here and a flying field de-
tdchlnent has been sent out with mack
horses and trained dogs to find wound
ed men.
The hospital work is under the per-
sonaI supervision of NJ. Alexandra
Nsky formerly Russian comIoissi0ner
70 the St. Louis exposition. A large
Temple Tor the use of the Red Cross
society has been donated free Of
charge. u
The foreign military attaches are at
general kurOpatkin's HEADQUARTERS.
rived here from New Chwang
A military newspaper will he pub-
staff ii7iu
Plan of Campaign.
Seoul. Korea, April 10. via Sbangbsi
april zz-ZIhe belief is general here
that no attempt viii be made to cross
the Aalu river before the end of this
week, by which time the arranganaerts
for a concerted Japanese movement. \
simultaneous rush toward the river
front from three distant points viii
have been perfected. The second lana
nese army is supposed to have Ieft
Japan c1 april Is; it probably win az
tempt to land near Port Arthur while
other forces VIII try to land on the
Manchurtan coast near Takushen
about 55 miles to the west of the month
of the Yalu, on Tatungkao, about lF
miles west of the river mouth Part
of the general advance will be toward
Lao Yang, and a division of guards
1nOuye, viii be the first troops sent
against the Russians at Chi Tieu