The Bourbon news., 1904-09-30

They Have Crossed the Hun River
Fifty Miles Above Mukden.
The Entire Absence of News From
Port Arthur, 1t Is Feared, indicates
aCIoser Blockade There-Can-
nonading at Aniva.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 28.-The war
commission adjourned early Tuesday
evening without issuing further news
from the front.
The Mukden telegram to the Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger, reporting that the
Japanese had crossed the Hun river
so miles above the city, is believed to
refer to scouting parties of Japanese
whose presence there was recorded in
the press dispatches of September 16.
The movement of Japanese forces
on the Liao river, which was reported
in a dispatch from Gen. Sakharoff to
the general staff on September 26 is
all the more significant since Sianchan
is the starting point of roads leading
to Tie Pass, Mukden and Sinmintin.
The announcement that the Russians
are fortifying Fakoman, 20 miles
northeast of Mukden, shows that Gen.
Kuropatkin is preparing to check the
flanking movement on Tie Pass from
the west in case Sinmintin should
have to be evacuated.
The entire absence of news from
Port Arthur, it is feared, indicates
closer blockade there. Hitherto dis
patches from Gen. Stoessel have been
coming through semi-weekly.
A telegram received here from Ba-
toum reporting that reservists are be-
ing transported along the Caucasian
coast brings the first intimation that
troops there are being modified
Thorn 1xy in hn
Caucasus and one Of these have ap-
parently been ordered to the far east.
Toxic, Sept. 2S.-Unoficial esti-
mates place the number of sick and
wounded Japanese soldiers under
treatment in Japan at $4,000. The mil.
itary hospitals at Toxic, Osaka and
Hiroshima contain 10000 each. Nine
thousand have recovered sufficiently
to be sent to mountain and health re-
sorts. The system of handling and
treating the sick and wounded is work
ing splendidly and the death rate is
exceptionally small
Mukden, Sept. 29.-Many skirmishes
and reconnaisances are reported to
headquarters here, but except for
these, quiet still prevails. In the fight
ing that has been taking place the
Russian scouts have almost invariably
shown superior to the japanese, both
in riding and fighting:
The Japanese movement up the Ia
itse river appears to be by a compara-
lively small force Raiding parties
from the Russian army bring in many
prisoners. Reinforcements are arriv-
ing rapidly. Over one thousand con.
valescents have returned to duty
The railway is in good working con.
dition. Officers are distributing the
reserve of stores that were brought
up from Lao Yang, as adequate sup
plies are now coming in from the
north. Details, of the fighting near
Inpu, between Bentsiaputze and the
railroad on September 26, show that
Gen. MistchenkO'S scouts, accompan-
led by a battery of artillery, attacked
a Japanese position where there were
a battery of artillery, two squadrons
of cavalry and two companies of in
fantry. The Japanese were shelled out
of their position onNa hill and suffered
heavy loss. AS they retired the Rus
slams occupied the hill until nightfall,
when they, too, retired under cover
of darkness, having lost only three
men.
The Japanese are sending out large
parties of scouts daily with the object
of checking the Russians continuous
raids.
The march of Gen. Rennenkampf's
Cossacks around the Japanese right
flank, which was mentioned in these
dispatches on September 26, was a
remarkable performance. Accompan-
led by a battery Of artillery, the Cos
sacks covered 80 miles in So hours
They struck the enemy north of Bent
siaputze on September 10, and thence
continued south, circling the Japanese
right flank and coming unexpectedly
on the Japanese line of communica-
ton near Bensipu, on the bank of the
Taitse river, September %. inflicted
considerable damage. The Japanese
were thrown into great confusion but
retired with loss of only two killed