Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-13
TOday's Telegraphic News
PORT ARTHUR IN FLAMES.

Fierce Fighting-yapanese rusn.h ny
on-Confiicting Reports from 'he
Front.
Berlin. October 1S.-The Toxic cor
respondent of the Lokal Anzeiger re-
ports that as the result of three days con.
tinuous bombardment the greater part OF
Port Arthur is in flames. A large num-
Der of Russians, he says, have surrender
ed under white flag. The japanese
are reported 10 have taken two more
forts.
Toxic, Oct. 13.-Field Marshall Oya-
ma this afternoon reports that the Japan
ese central army at midnight on Tues
day captured two field guns and eight
ammunition wagons. Major General
Murui, he reports, was wounded, and
one colonel was killed. Unofficial re-
ports have it that the Russians are re-
firing along the entire front. The
Japanese are said to have captured eight
guns. 1t is also reported that the Rus
sian force, which struck the japanese
right at Pensihu, has been surrounded.
st. Petersburg, Oct. l3.-The Bourse
Gazette reports that at ten O'Clock yes
terday morning the japanese retired
from two lines near Van Tai and evacu-
aten Yen Tai station, while the japan.
ese right wing, having been considerably
weakened, had Withdrawn during the
night leaving the Russians to occupy
Pensihu without fighting. Having thus
turned the japanese flank, the paper
adds, the Russians attacked a position of
great strategic value and occupied it
after fierce fight in the Yen Tai hills.
The japanese offered a stubborn resis-
lance. There are many reports at hand
from Mukden, but they are widely
divergent and conflicting.
London, Oct. ia dispatch from
General Oku's headquarters via Fusan,
dated Oct. 18th, says that during the
night the japanese forces occupied hills
held by the Russians on the right and
centre, the Russians retreating for
distance of three miles. The japanese
infantry advanced to within 500 yards
of the Russian lines at noon, and de-
feated fierce counter attack. almost an
Initiating the assailants, who made three
desperate charges. The Russian artillery
was not silenced, however, despite fierce
Smelling all day.
Toxic, Oct. 13.-Field Marshal
0ysma, telegraphing under date of yes
ierday, states that the operations against
the Russians are progressing Tavorably.
London, Oct. IA dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Co, from Rome
states that message received there says
that during the fighting in the vicinity
of Yen Tai on Tuesay, the Russian
losses were over 5000. japanese rein
forcemenls are being rushed northwards,
especially toward General Kuroki, who
is in danger of being surrounded by an
overwhelming force of Russians. Field
Marshal Oyama is personally directing
the operations of the japanese armies
from headquarters, which he has estab-
lished somewhat to the southeast of Yen
Tai
London, Oct. l3.-Tbe Paris CORE.
spondent of the Exchange Telegraph
Company sends report that five Jap
anese cruisers have been sighted off
Vladivostok. The commander of the
fortress at Vladivostok, according to the
report, has ordered the inhabitants to
give up all machines for the manufac-
ture of explosives within eight days.
Toxic, Oct. 13. The battle is raging
today to the north of Yen Tai, to the |
westward across the railway, and south
east to Pentishu, on the Tai-Tae.
0yama's attacks anticipated a Russian
turning movement both on the left and |
right. The japanese armies are main
tanning their advance.
Well informed circles hear that !
General Oku has captured 25 field guns, |
making a total OF 30 guns captured in
the fighting to the south of Mnkden.
Later the reports indicate that the
success of the japanese in the fighting
continues.
st. Petersburg, Oct. l3.-The Rus
SLAMS have been forced to retire from
Yen Tai, owing to heavy reiniorcements
for the japanese arriving. The Russian
losses were about 1000 killed and
wounded. The cavalry suffered most.
Rome, Oct. 13.-The Agenzia Liberia
has dispatch from Toxic giving the
Russian and japanese losses
thus far in the battle south of Mukden
at 20, 900 killed and wounded. Russia,
the dispatch adds, yesterday retired from
the vicinity of Yen Tai in great disorder
after suffering severe losses in the face of
a japanese enyeloping movement. The
Japanese artillery decided the battle.