The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-04-14
MILITARY PLANS.
Force of Greater Magnitude
Than Generally Conceded-Are
Leavino for Manchuri.

i"SfiSilaIlas
st. Petersburg, April l3.-ExceDtionau,
reliable Information regarding the Rus.
sian military plans confirm the rcpeate ed
announcements by the Associated Press
that these plans will not mature until
late In the summer. They are of greater
magnitude than is generally believed
abroad, and are taking into account al!
possible contingencies.
General kuropatkin, remembering the
experience of Russia during her war with
turkey, when the Russian army placed in
the field at the beginning had to be more
IMAM doubled, has insisted that the men
ana guns to be placed at his disposal
shhll cover the extreme limit required TO
settle the fate Of the campaign.
Inc russian plans are p~redicated upon
Napoleon's dictum that God fights on
the side of the heaviest battal.ons." and
they are being worked out and timed so
as to apply to a superiority of numbers,
on land and sea simultaneously. The
army Is designed 10 attain the enormous
total OF half a million at the time sched-
uled Tor the reinforcement of Vice Ad-
lniral Makaroff's feet with the Baltic
squadron. The Seventeenth and Tenth
army corps now drafting are expected at
Alanchuria about the middle of June. The
mobilization of four other corps, at least
two Of which will be frcm the Nolga, will
be announced by the middle of next
month and VIII start eastward a month
later, reaching their destination at the end
of August.
Rear Admiral Rojestrensky will hoist
his flag as commander of the formidable
Baltic squadron early in July, and will
sail Immediately for Port Arthur with six
battleships, six cruisers and two trans
ports with coal. The last possible diff
Guilty regarding the passage of the Suez
canal disappeared last week with the
signing of the A~nglo-French colonial
treaty by which Great Britain adheres to
the convention of 1888 concerning the free
passage of the anal.
Went Off Half Cooked.
New Chwang, April 13.-An oficia.
explanation was issued today of the fir
ing OF guns from the forts here last
night. which caused a certain mount
of excitement and the killing of two
Chinese. 1t appears thai owing to the
fact hat the officers of the garrison
did not understand the system of Gus
toms flash signals in use at the mouth
or the river for the purpose of signalling
the depth OF water on the bar so as to
enable ships to put to sea, fire was
opened last night at some pilot boats
and outward bound merchantmen.
t~wenty-four shots being fired, includ-
ing projectiles from the large guns. The
a W LIE 4 Has ilOl DGGU reported,
but the firing caused excitement among
the troops, during which a sentry fired
on and killed two ChiRese opposite the
foreign settlement and three miles from
the forts. The Chinese had become
alarmed at the firing and We're en-
deavoring to cross the river. In view
of the reports received here Of Japa-
nese activity in Korea and the arrival
of Japanese troops in the Yalu river.
1t is understood the garrison had been
fully warned that 1t was possible the
japanese would make an attack on this
place. and the citizens on hearing the
firing naturally supposed the attempt
was being made last night.
Russia Is Celebrating.
st. Petersburg, April 11.-Easter
merry making Is in progress, business
is suspended, government departments
closed and war bulletin boards bare ex-
cept for orders for mobilization of the
naval reserves. Only three
appear and they are in the form of
sheets.
Shots Are Exchanged.
Paris, April ia Temps st. Peters
burg dispatch says some further ex-
changes Of shots have occurred between
the Russian and Japanese forces along
the Yalu river. Vice Admiral Makarofr
IS inspecting the outlying defenses Of
Port Arthur,