New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-01
MOVES IN THE WAR.

The japanese now seem to have complete
possession of the Kin-ChOw isthmuS and the
upper part of the Kwan-Tung peninsula They
occupied Dalny, the Cars fiat city" on Mon
day. Last Friday they occupied Liu-Shu-Tun
which is the old TalienWan. on the end OF the
peninsula which juts out between Hand Bay
and Junk Bay. (The latter is the middle of the
three bays into which the inner end of Talien-
Wan Bay is divided. lying between Hand Bay
at the northeast and Victoria Bay, on which
Dalny stands, at the southwestD We are told
that the Russians have disappeared also from
Huang- Shan, which is n village few miles
from Liu-Shu- Tun, on the north shore O. Junk
Bay; and also from Chen-KO-Chen-Pau, which
is the next railroad station beyond Shan-Chi-
Li-PaO. toward Port Arthur. The Japanese
have then. everything from kin-Chow 10
Dalny on land and command of the seas at
both sides Obviously, that IS position OF
great strength. 1t completely isolateS Port Ar
thur. and makes it impossible for the garrison
there TO execute General Kuropatkin's plan
which Admiral AleXieff vetoed abandoning
Port Arthur and retreating nOrthWard.
Now we are told that, probably under the
influence Of impatient urgings from st. Peters
burg, General Kuropatkn is about to make
desperate rush southwark. TO relieve Port Ar
thur and to crush the Japanese army which
is now investing that fortress. We must be
permitted to doubt, first, that he will try such
a move and, second. that If he does try it he
will succeed. The time for that, If ever was
before the Japanese had gained possession or
the isthmus 1t would be desperate under
taking now for General Kurupatl,in 10 march
down from Liao-Yang, nearly two hundred
miles away. and seek TO force the passage OF
that narrow isthmus. swept from side TO side
By the guns of japanese warships, and to storm
NGnShan in the face OF those who last week
stormed it and who are now its defCr lcrS. In
such a move he would he exposing himself to
dangerous flank or rear attack from General
Kuroki, or from that other Japanese army
which was lately landed at Taku-Shan. We
are told il is true, that the Russians have been
repairing the railroad north Of kinChow 1t
must be long way north-if indeed 1t IS not
Kai-Chow instead Of Kln-Chow that the repairs
are near. Siniuchen one of the places named,
Is less than twenty miles from katChow While
Wa-Fang-Tien. the southennost OF then, Is
forty miles north Of Kin Chow
Just what is being done further north is not
altogether clear General kuropatkn is sup
posed TO be al Liao-Yang, and General kurol
is somewhere near Feng Wang-C heng, Though
he seems TO be pushing a considerable I9rce
north and east, il to menace Moukden. We
are told the Japanese have occupied Molten
Iiao-Yang. and their presence there wduld
seem 10 make it necessary for General kuro-
patkin TO remain at Liao-larg with a strong
force to meet them, rather than to go south
ward and let them swing in upon his rear and
cut the lines behind him. Yet If japanese
army is working northward 1t may presently
get between him and Moukden. The trouble
is that the Russians have 10 defend that long
line Of a hundred miles and more At all points
not knowing at what point the japanese may
rush down from the mountains ana attack
them. Moreover, they de not know, and no
bodv outside of the Japanese army and gov
eminent knows, how many troops the japanese
may have by this time in that forbidden lana
between the Yalu River and the Molten noun
tains They could easily have sent scores or
thousands OF men in by way OF Iaku-Shan CT
either points along that coast, without the rest
OF the worlds knowing thing about H.