The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1904-07-15
By Explosion Of Mines During
a Land Attack on
Port Arthur.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 13.-The
following official communication has
been received: According to inform.
alton derived from Japanese sources
the japanese attacked the Russian po.
sition at Port Arthur during the night
OF July 10, being repulsed with enorm.
Gus loss. 1t is impossible to cor.
rectIy estimate the number of japan.
ese casualties, but they will approx.
mate 10000 1t is known, however,
that the Japanese are fatalists and
human life counts for little with them.
They will have Port Arthur if it takes
two hundred thousand lives TO accom-
plish the feat.
TlEN TSIN, July 13.-Information
reaches here that thousands of Japan
ese were killed in an unsuccessful at.
tack on Port Arthur.
LONDON, Juy 9.-According to the
latest estimate Of the available fight.
ing strength at General Kuropatkin's
command, it is improbable. after al.
lowing for losses already sustained,
casualties and all, that the Russian
commander in chief can dispose of
more than $4,000 bayonets and sabres,
with 263 field guns. His force can
hardly on a liberal calculation, ex-
ceed 100000 infantry, 5000 engineers,
10000 Cossacks and 81 field guns.
With this number General Kuropat.
kin has to retard the Japanese ad.
vance and defend the long line from
New Chwang to Siamatse, on the road
to Mukden from the Yalu river. in
order TO keen his line Of communities
,'uir'. g... .s,i. g:a-- rtm..r-ap..u: ID
railway to Harbin, 600 miles from thC
sea.
This army forms the main group o
the Russian forces. 1t consists of six
iy.thrce baJtalions Of the East 81
berian Rifles, of the Seventh, Second
, Third, Fifth, Sixth and Ninth Diyis
, ions, sixteen battalions of the Tent
md Seventeenth Army Corps an,
.orty-cight battalions of Siberian in
fantry, or a total of t27 battalons
with forty.one batteries of field an,
TWO of machine guns.
The second group is that Of Genera
, Stoessel, entrusted with the dsfons
. of Port Arthur, consisting of tn
5 Fourth division, three infantry reg
3 ments and the Seventh division, TN
total making probably about twenty
| eight thousand of the land army, a
= lowing for sick and loss of 1000 a
: Kin Chow With 10000 sailors hi
l. combative strength should be $500
+ men. with some fifty field guns an
j. 100 siege guns, besides naval orc
b. nance.
G The third and last group of the Rus
e sian forces in the field is that of tn
e troops assigned to Vladiyostok, cor
e 5istiug of the Eighth division, and fol
= ress troops, and number of Co!
c locks raiding in northern Korea. Thes
are under the command of Genera
linevitch. and in number probably d
not exceed 10000.
The Russian staff has arranged 10
e the dispatch of 10000 men and $500
3 tons Of stores during the six month
S from May to October monthly SUI
Uly of $1,000 men and 1855 tons G
|. stores. With the most favorable eli
p ,umstnnces and the unhampered us
o IF the Trans-Siberian railway, 1t no'
+ ,eems improbable thant General III
/. ropatliin with the next few weeks ca
oppose anything like equal numbers
|. The japanese armies attacking hin
d LAO YANG, July Cen. Kasti
i insky attacked a Japanese outpoS
=. during the rain last night, intlictin
h casualties estimated at Thousand
!. japanese renforcements threatened
|. flank movement and Kastalinsky r
/. tired in good order His loss is e
e limated at 800.
h TOXIC, July THE tapanes
S cruiser Kaih Mon was sunk by min
Il in Talien Wang bay Tuesday
y LONDON, July News today frol
the Far East indicates that the Japal
II ese are steadily advancing They al
surrounding Mukden aud are giyin
- The Russians great alarm.
u LONDON, July S.--There are fol
Il Japanese armies now in the hel
" three OF which are acting in cooper
lion in the general advance adain
General l[uropatkin in Mahchuri
leaving the fourth engaged in II
siege of Port Arthur The four afmi,
are commanded respectively by &c
/ erals Kuroki, Oku, Nodzu aid Nos
= Marquis Oyama, the Commander
- chief, is expected in ManchuIia II
coming week to take supreme COZ
y mand of the four armies.
If The first army, Gdnetal Kurokis,
h, that which was disembarked at Oh
mulpbo between February s al
March 1, consisting Of 22,5OO men
l7O01 combRtants ahd $500 coolies.