The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-01
NOTES ON THE WAR.
Land Battle Expected SOon-Russians
Strong defense AT Hardin.

SUM VI NAAtANNo NllN apparatus
for use i'll connection with the trans
portation Of troops across Lake Baikal.
PIoclamatoins issued by General
VOronetz, who is in command at Vlad-
ivostok, have been received at st.
Petersburg. They urge the people at
Nladivostok to remain, but add that /
only those will be allowed to stay who |
have 432 pounds of flour and 1OS |
pounds of buck whe ut, enough to last |
eight months. All Chinese and Kor-
cans who are without occupation have /
been ordered to depart. Persons who
start untrue and alarming reports will
be courtmartialed. Looting is strickly
prohibited. Persons interfering with
the telegraph will be punished with
death, aud the same punishment will
be melted out to Chinese bandits who
are caught stealing.
United States Consul Davidson will
start for his post at Antung this week,
and he has arranged with the Japanese
naval authorizes to assist his vessel to
reach its destination.
Strong Notifications have been
cree ted for the defense of Hardin and
Liaoyang.
The Russians are establishing
strong position in the vicinity of An
tung. They are said to have seven forts
comleted and to be engaged in erecting
six more. 1t is also reported that four
batteries of artillery have been estab-
lished at Chyang Syong. The Russians
are reported to be experiencing great
difficulty in transporting army sup
plies.
DISPATCHES from the far east tell that
Russian troops, who have been occup-
ing the road from Yalu river to the
neihgborhood of Pingyang, have been
obliged to retire to entrnechd positions
on the south bank of the Yalu in con-
sequence of the addance of the full
force of the first Japanese army, num-
boring 40, 900 men.
The work of constructing the trans
siberian railroad around Lake Baikal
is in such shape that Prince Khilkoff
who is at the head of the system OF
Russian military communication, feels
that he can relinguish immediate per
sonal supervisiongof it.
yielding to south winds and high
tides, the ice fields Ethat stretch from
Newchwang to the sea are moving VI
and down the river with the ebb anC
flow 70 tidal currents.
A Korean, accused of being a Rus
sian spy, has been executed at Ping
yang by the japanese.
Eighty thousand japanese, with ar
e tillery, are only few miles southwes
of the Yalu river.
Two divisions of Cossacks have beef
= Orederd by General Linevitch, Russian
= commander, to go forward to meet tn
: Japanese, and bloody battle is ex
= pected hourly.
Russians have erected strong fortifi
!. cations in front of the only pathwa.
q the Japanese can hope to take in thei
. march north.
/ If the japanese warships carry on
4 the plans said to have been agreed upol
,. at Toxic, they will steam up the rive
n and attack the forts, which are now o
:. cupied by the Russians.
v Seuol reports that immense number
o of japanese troops are ON the way fror
n Pingyang to the front. Their base
e at Pingyang. 1t is admitted by tn
r Japanese that the Russian forts at eS
q posed points on the Yalu are vel
al armed with artillery.
The Russian government has ad
n vised the United States government
d that it has mined the mouth of tn
% Lao river. This was supposed to b
Is neutral territory, but the action c
n Russia puts it within the field of hos
d tilities.
is Russians at Newchwang believe Rus
STA will assume the offensive on the Sc
by midsummer, when reinforcement
70 are expected TO arrive.
le When General Kouropathin reacht
b. Mukden it is understood that the en-
e. eror's forces at the seat of war will
lie divided into three armies-one ON til
is peninsula, including the Port ArthU
garrison; a central army under Gen
eral Lineitch, and a northern army III
der General Baron Stakelburg.
rs Leading Russian at Newchwng a
e. feet to be confident that the Russia
SC fleet will gloriously redeem itsel
<; They say that Admiral Makaroff's el
ergy and pracitacl naval skill are a
~. ting like magic at Port Arthur.
t; The state department has received
IS, cable from Minister Allen at Seoul a
u vising the department to discouraI
Americans to go to Korea to Obser
military nrenaratinns. as the Ianane