The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09
Only the OutpOstS of the OppOs
ing Armies
Are Now In Contact I'm the Vicin'
ity of Mukden.
THE BANK HAS CLOSED.
Civil Authorities Are Preparing
to Move Out.
Japanese Blown Up by a Mine
at Port Arthur.

Mukden, Sept. 9.-12:3O a m.-All
continues quite at Mukden. All anN-
ETY. regarding the Russian transport
Is over. The japanese have crossed
the Shakhe and are now resting. Only
the Russian and japanese outposts are
in direct contact. Thousands of
wounded are being sent north.
The Russo-Chinese bank at Mukden
has been closed and civil authorities
are preparing to leave.
st. Petersburg Feels Better.
St Petersburg. Sept. 9.-1:S5 p. NJ
The reassuring dispatch of the Asso-
ciated Press from Mukden filed short
Iy after midnight-is- the latest word
from the front 1t disposes of the
many sensational rumors and indicates
that Field Marshal Oyama has failed
to cut of or seriously interfere with
the retreating Russian army, which
has now safely arrived at Mukden.
An impenetrable curtain seems to
have been rung down on the exact
situation at the theater of war. The
lack of news here concerning the de-
tails of the Russian retreat to Mukden
and the movements of the Japanese
armies may be described as complete.
Even the meagre reports published in
the foreign press are not fully COM
municated to the Russian papers and
Tor three days practically no news
coming
through from the front. Information
may be withheld for strategic reasons
but the public is disposed to regard
IT otherwise, resulting in the circula-
uon OF the widest reports, some of
the Russian papers demanding in
pretty outspoken fashion the reorgani-
cation of the conditions at the front
and also demanding that General Ku-
ropatkin be given untrammeled con-
troll as cOmmander-in-chie evidently
aiming at Niceroy A1exieff, who is sup
posed to be responsible for insisting
latterly that the reinforcements should
go to NladtvostOk in view of the prob
ability of early Japanese operations
there or at Hardin, thus depriving
KuropatSin of troops which have
turned the scale at Lao Yang. The
Russ is especially bold, considering
the restrictions placed on the Russian
press It declares that numerical su-
per1ority is not enough and that what
IS needed is some of the do-or-f1ie
spirit OF the Japanese. The paper
quotes the words of General Dragon
leron, former governor general of
KEN, an authority on military mat
tiers. as follows:
Give me soldier who is firmly de-
teEmined to die for his country and 1
viii guarantee that my tactics be SUI
per-excelent- The man who will lay
down mis- life is terrible. A bullet NAV
stop one such man, but it will not stop
a company 1t is difficult to fight and
more difficult to vanquish Them
Inc Russ continues.
What we need is an entirely new or
ganization of everything connected di-
rectly or indirectly with the military or-
erations. A good deal is admirable but
a good deal also is deplorable- The fact
that things nave not gone well at the
theatre of war may be due to the fact
that everything is not directed with a
single aim. subservient to a single, I'M
divided Will Kuropatlxin now entrusted
with the command of the Manchurian
army should be commander-in-chief"
The following dispatch filed at Libau
mas been received from the captain of
the Russian cruiser Ural:
Have just returned from a thirty
days expedition raiding the enemy's
contra band on the Spanish coast
The announcement that the water
supply of Port Arthur has been cut
on does not create particular anxiety
here It is explained that the water of
Port Arthur was never good and that
the fortress is provided with a large
distilling apparatus