Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-05-13
HIDE AND SEEK
WITH THE JAPS
The Russian VIadivoStok
Squadron Barred Out
of Port.
is TRYING TO DODGE TOGO
General Kuropatkin Has Ordered a
General Retreat - Russian Com
nander SAID to Have, at His Dis
posal Not More Than 10000 Men

London, May 1O.-The Daily Tele-
graphs Seoul correspondent says:
1T is believed here that a portion
of the Russian Vladivostok fleet has
been successfully shut out and is
now in the sea of Japan trying 70
evade the Japanese"
Paris, May 1o.-The correspondent
at st. Petersburg OF the Echo de Paris
telegraphs as follows:
General Kuropatllin has ordered a
general retreat and no doubt intends
TO avoid battle until he has sufficient
forces. He actually has at his dispos.
al not more than 100000 men, eXclu'
sive Of the garrison at Port Arthur.
which consists of 10000, and the gar
rison at Niuchwang, of $4,000.
"a general who knows the secrets
of the mobilization tells me that the
last 900 men making up the required
100000 will leave kasan July IL.
Che Foo, May 10-Passengers ar
irving today from Niuchwang say that
the Russian force probably evacuated
that place during the night. Many
had already departed yesterday and
those remaining made no secret VI
their intention to leave. There IS no
activity whatever at the forts, where
there are guns still in position. Three
thousand bandits are camped outside
the walls OF NiuchwanS, ready to be-
gin lOoting at the moment the last
Russian soldiers have left the city.
! There are many foreign camp follow
ers with the bandits, who are giving
the Russians much trouble along the
railway between Niuchwang and Muk.
, den. Last week, they destroyed Gull
vert and delayed traffic for four days.
The japanese fleet was in force Off
Port Arthur at midday Monday, but
did not make any hostile demonstra
ton.
London, May 10.-The Toxic cor
| respondent of the Daily. Chronicle
says that 1900 Russians are retire
ing from Niuchwang to Lao Yang.
ENGLAND IN COLORADO WAR.
Dead Non-Union Laborer Was an
Englishman.
W1SulnStOl, May To- lie IL lllSil
government has become involved in
the labor troubles in Colorado. That
government makes it a point to look
after the hUmblest British subject, so
when it happened that in the troubles
| at Telluride, Launcelot Collins, a Brit
| isher and 9. nonunion miner, was kill
| ed by strikers, as it was alleged, the
nearest British consul, at Denver.
! started an investigation and reported
| the case to the British embassy here.
! Sir Mortimer Durand, finding that one
! OF the allegations was that The man
was killed for lack Of proper protec-
ton by authorities, called the alten-
ton of the state department to the
matter. The department in turn for
warded the ambassadors note to the
| governor Of Colorado and the latter
has now explained that owing to the
existence Of martial law in Telluride
county it is not possible to make the
legal investigation required to develop
a satisfactory answer to the British
note. 1t is expected that further pro-
ceedings will be taken when the labor
! troubles of Colorado are at an end,
and if it should appear that the Brit
ish complaint is well-founded an appi
cation will be made to congress by
the state department for a suitable
indemnity for the killing of Collins