The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-04-21
JAPs IN REAR OF
PORT ARlHl
Seventy Transports convs,'.
an Immense Force i
Land at Kin Chau.
q REPULsE is REPoR7t
Attempted Japanese Landing on 4.
Bay Is Said to Have Beer, ss.5
vented by the Russian Lard
Batteries.

Batteries. H#
Tien Tsin, April 20. From sAy.s VA
sources reports have been received Il n II
saying a Japanese fleet of oyer sa,ss
transports is heading for nin a. q
north Of Port Arthur. 80
Kin Chau is an important poim ii
the Chinese Eastern railroad i saM
miles west Of New Chwang, and Es#
tween New Chwang and Pekin. Itt5Ml
been expected for q long time that tStsa
japanese would soon make a de,sEs
mined move to take New ChYss;M
With the strong forces they aireaiM
have on the Yalu, a great army sill
as would be conveyed by seventy trad
ports would enable them to take IA
Chwang. and, operating in conjun0HM
with the forces on the Yalu. outfas#
the Russians in the Antung region, III
off the railroad leading down the IsN
Iung peninsula, Isolate Port ArtkaN
get themselves into shape to starye TIL
stronghold into submission if they csSE
not take it by Greet attack. :
viii Cut Lines.
Paris, April 1S.-A ST. PeteTst9ss
dispatch says the japanese are peptS
ing to u the Russian line OF eeaE
m~unication along the peninsula of Liz
Tung at the same time they cross i'll
yalu river. 5
Wanted, by Japan, Two Torpedors /
st. Petersburg, April ISN'T is assets
ed here with great positiVeness TIL
Russia has purchased two battleshlA
at Schichau and Elbing. +
Alleged Japanese RepuIse.
st. Petersburg, April 2O.-An attemgE
ed landing by Japanese troops ont
shores of Korea bay, between Port iii
thur and the Yalu river on April III
| was frustrated by the Russians. III
Japanese torpedoboat tlotilla ScouAE
the shores Of the bay, but was receias
with such heavy fire from the Ind
batteries that it retired. Togo's assa
ship then recalled the nine transpNl|
which We're on the way to land tr0cas
and the squadron Of ter warships pes
tecting the transports withdrew Ehls
them. The Russians have 90. 900 trogaS
concentrated ut Taku Shan.
Koreans Recovering From Fears.
Seoul, April 1S.-A Ping Yang dsI
patch says the country in the wake d
the Japanese army is resumirg its Tps;
NAL conditions. The majority of til
inhabitants left their homes before Id
troops arrived, but are now returniagI
They have learned that the Japanes
soldiers treat the people we'll. pay I'D
their supplies, and are under strS
discipline.
Several thousand coolies are eng
ployed In carrying rice to the front al
more than the customary wages.
Russia and the Wireless.
London, april 19.-The foreign one
has received IL communication tr0al
the Russian government relative to ts
use of wireless t~elegraphy by war cof@
respondents. 1t Is Identical with ts
note received by the government all
Washington, and says Russia does moi
contemplate any immediate action i|
the matter.
Submarines for Russia.
St. Petersburg April 19.-The first II
the five submarine boats building al
st. Petersburg, and forty wagonloads
of ammunition We're dispatched tods
to the theater Of war. The subariN
pSot NIiiCll dS SeItl. OIL II SGGlIuiS "
.elliptical / IL shape and fitted with an
improved electric apparatus for firing
torpedoes.
Russians Are Recovering.
81. Petersburg, April 19.-The authcr.
tiles here are recovering from the DE-
preston which last weeks disaster
caused. They seem inbued with a new
and feverish energy. The greatest acsl
tivity prevails. The public is more
aroused than at any time since the war
began, and now is thirsting for revenge
gather on the streets. The
Russ bulletin boards are constantly
surrounded, although little fresh news
Is posted. The vivid eye witness pic;
ture of the torpedoboat fight and The
Petropaylovsk disaster, transmitted
the Russian correspondent Of tie
Associated Press under date of Lac
Yang, last night, is reprinted here, and
is the talk of official and private cir.
cles, being the first connected account
published. 1t also contained the first.
definite information that Makaroff was
his post on the bridge when the eE
plosion occurred.
Besides, it put to rest all doubts az
whether the ship was struck. shs
vent down bow first. as the VictoIia
uia, and exactly as Makaroff's owl
iloael dld when, during a lecture WIiss
delivered in 1894, he demonstrate
the instability of heavily armed sniE.
and the impossibility in a disaster oy7
mats or otherwise. of restois
the equilibrium of such steel mon,
tiers.
me admiralty lacks definite data ssS
the cause of the catastrophe, q
though talk of q. boiler explosion aiiu