The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-26

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given. This report comes from MEM
bers of the emperor's suite.
Captain of PetropavIovsk Returns.
st. Petersburg, May 26-Captain
Jakovleff, former commander of the
Russian battIeship Petropavlovsk, and
Lieut.. Schmidt, the late Vice Admiral
Makaroffs aide-de-camp, have re-
turned here.
No Newspaper Men Allowed.
st. Petersburg, May $3.50 P. NJ
Viceroy AleXieff has decided not to al
low any more foreign newspaper cor
respondents to join the Manchurian
army, at least for the present None
of those at Mukden has yet been al
lowed to so to Lao Yang, much less to
the front, and when permission is
granted it is probable that some sort
of pledge will be exacted which viii
require them to remain until the end
of the campaign, on the ground thataif
they depart at will they would take
away information concerning the Rus
sian dispositions, equipment, guns and
transportation facilities, which would
be published beyond the jurisdiction of
the Russian military censOrs and might
prove of great value to the enemy.
Russian Cavalry Routed.
Toxic May $500 P. M.-General Ku-
roki reports that on Wednesday after the
battle of To-Pu the enemy's cavalry took
up 4 position at Pa Tao Sti. The Japa-
Natives report that three of the enemy
were killed and IS wounded. During the
afternoon a Japanese patrol killed one
officer and one private.
What Hit the Hatsuse?
st. Petersburg, May 26.-4:45 p. m.
A high authority at the admiralty
said to the correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press:
1T is false to assert that the Rus
slams use floating mines. They are
not known in the Russian naval ser
vice. The Japanese used them con-
stantly off Port Arthur, setting num-
bers ahoat near the entrance. All the
Russian mines are anchored, but the
action of the Japanese in dragging for
them is responsible if they get afoat-
Such mines are readily discernible in
daylight and are dangerous only at
night. The three mile limit is an
absurdity as a Whitehead torpedo can
travel four miles.
This authority, while not committing
that the Japanese battleship Hatsuse
was destroyed by a torpedo fired from
a submarine boat.
It is now established that a sub
marine boat of the Drzewiecke type
was at Port Arthur before the out
break of the war.
Kin Chou Reported Taken.
| London, May 26.-4:13 p. ma
dispatch to the Central News from
! Toxic says the Japanese have stormed
and captured the town of Kin Chou,
about 80 miles north of Port Arthur.
Japanese in Red Sea.
/ Odessa, May, 26.-AccOrding to re-
ports made by captains of steamers
which have arrived here from the Red
sea, a Japanese torpedo boat has been
seen there.
No Word From StoeSseI.
st. Petersburg, May 26.-6:2O p. m
while no news has been received
from Lieutenant General Stoessel
commander of the Russian troops al
Port Arthur, the war office is inclined
to believe that severe fighting is in
/ progress in the southern part of the
Lao Tung peninsula, above the mar
rowest point of the peninsula, but nc
credence is attached to the reports OF
the Japanese having entered the
Kwang Tun peninsula, south of and
connected with the Lao Tung PENN
sula. This is considered impossible
before the capture of Kin Chou, which
it is believed here will involve long
and difficult siege operations.
/ The general staff denies the rumors
| of the final evacuation of New Chwang
and says the heavy guns were not
taken back when the town was re-
4 occupied in force.
No changes of Importance in the
positions of General Kuroki or Gen
eral Kuropatkin are reported.
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