Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-03-17
PORT ARTHUR
is EVACUATED
REPORT COMES FROM DIFFERENT
POINTS BUT LACKS CON.
FiRMATioN.
CITY SufftES KtAlY DAMAGE
LAST COMMANDMENT WAS MUCH
MORE seRIoos THAN
REPORTED.
DANNY IS ALMOST DESTROYED
JAPANESE DESCENT ON ThE LAO
TuNG PENINSULA rs IN.
MtNENT.

London. March rs. The rUmor Of
the evacuation Of Port Arthur is re.
peated this morning from different
points. but IL is absolutely without
confirmation.
According 10 the ST. Petersburg
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
vague rumnrs are current there that
later kilograms describe the hom-
bardment of Port Arthur as much
more serious than has been admitted
ofhcislly. Special dispatches from
Toxic and Yin kow also give reports
of heavy Russian casualties AT Port
Arthur amounting TO forty men killed
and one hundred wounded. but they
are so conflicting in details that il is
not wise 10 give them much c~redence.
In a dispatch from Toxic dated March
Is. a correspondent of the Daily Tele-
graph says that in the latest
Attack on Port Arthur
two Russian Torpedo boat destroyers
were sunk and great damage was
done to the docks. forts and s~rsenals.
NAt tARtoGAOh va a HVWd1t
magazine. Dalney is reported TO have
been almost entirely destroyed. sew
eral guns were dismounted and the
crews of four torpedo boats in the in
side harbor are said to have deserted.
The Daily Telegraph publishes a dis
patch from a correspondent at Yin
Kow. who reports that the Russian
b~attleship Retvizan at Port Arthur
was hit five times by Japanese pro-
j~ectiles and that there were twenty
casualties on board.
Japs in M~anehuria.
This correspondent declares further
that the presence of Japanese al Feng
Huan Cheng 1.-THE M~anchurian town
about ~forty-hve miles northwest of
Will has Seen confirmed.
The Yin Kow correspondent of the
Daily Mail reports that serious dis
putes occurred daily between the Rus
sian naval and military officers at
Port Arthur, the latter reproaching
the former with incomptency and
cowardice.
The correspondent describes the
floating OF the b~attleship Retvizan. and
says the dock at Port Arthur is too
small to repair her. Gen. Stoessel, in
command of Port Arthur. has been or
dered 70 the Yalu. the correspondent
concludes, and he viii be replaced by
Gen. Smirnoh.
Like . City Of Death.
lin a dispatch from Chefu dated
March ~. a correspondent of the Daily
Mail describes and inspection Of Port
Arthur made on the 18th inst from a
boat. The new city seemed to be on
fire, three columns of smoke were as
cending from II. The Bread Hill fort
appeared to have suffered terribly. the
defences were shattered and the earth
works torn up.
No guns were visible. The line of
forts on the Tigers Tail also appeared
to have suffered damage. At sunrise
no sign of life could be seen anywhere
and Port Arthur looked like a city of
death.
The torpedo boat d~estroyers inside
did not appear to have steam up.
Japanese Descent Imminent.
Special dispatches from Port Ar
thur say there are rumors among the
Chinese population that the projected
Japanese descent ON the Lao Tung
peninsula IL imminent.
The Tien-tsin correspondent Of the
Daily Chronicle reports that 10000
japanese are nearing Neuchwang.
The Times publishes q dispatch
from Seoul dated March IL In which
the correspondent confirms previous
reports that It IL the intention Of the
Japanese to wait until the ice breaks
up before making large d~isembarka-
tons In order 10 avoid difficulties on
the roads. The transports are still ar
irving to make good the deficiencies
on the Seoul-C hemulpo line. which has
been denuded of troops, but some time
h expected TO eIapse before any great
achievement IL attempted.
A correspondent Of the Times at
Toxic says reports received are that
the Korean coast between 0ensan and
Song Chin n entirely free n Russians.
rslis % eombardment
Tfen-tsln. March is. A Russian
refugee who arrived here yesterday