Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-11
VICTORIOUS JAPAN.
Japanese and Russians Fight
 at Pingyang, Korea.
TWO THOUSAND RUSSIANS CAPTURED
Yen Russian ships Now Placed HOra de Combat-SIore Than Q Hundred of Their Crc.- Perfshed at Che-
 muIpo-Se,%I Now Aimed At.

muIpo-se,% VI Now Aimed At. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-Dispatch- es received from London announce news of tremendous land battle be- tween the Japanese and Russian forces in Korea between Pingyang and the Yalu river is expected hourly.
 The Russian forces were concentrat- ed at the Yalu river and have been hurried across into Korean territory. It is believed that the first land battle was fought north of Pingyang, which was the scene of the first land fight between China and Japan. f.:... Viceroy Alexeief is mobilizing all the army reserves in eastern Asia.
 The publication of extra editions of the newspapers at St. Petersburg of 1 the reported injuries to Japanese ships during the Port Arthur engagement and the sinking of the Japanese battle 1 ship Shikishima led to a demand upon 1 the editors for the source of their in 1 formation. They replied, 'It came from I the British embassy"
 1 These reports were received every 1 where with manifestations of joy, but l nothing confirming them has come from Viceroy Alexeieff.
 The only additional intelligence the viceroy has sent is the names of the wounded officers. among whom were Lieutenant Colonel Zaientchkovsky of the artillery corps, who was on board the transport Angara, and mid shipman on board the battleship Sevas- topol. l M. Kurino, the retiring Japanese min I ister to Russia, and his staff have left I for Berlin. There was large crowd of people at the station platform when the party boarded the train. Police and gendarmes kept. space clear for the travellers, and there was no hostile demonstration.
 M. Kurina walked slowly to the 1 train, holding In his hand a bouquet of roses which had been presented to Mime. Kurino by Mrs. Mccormick, | wife of the United States ambassador. As the train drew out of the station there were few cheers and cries of Long live Nicholas"
 l A Tokyo dispatch says two Russian transports, with 2,000 troops on board. ! were captured on their way to Asan in m attempt to make landing there and interrupt communication by tele- graph and railway between Fusan and | Seoul.
 l Ten Russian warships have already been wrecked or disabled by Japanese 1 fighting vessels, the sinking of the cruiser Variag and the blowing up of the. torpedo gunboat Korietz having Eeen accomplished at Chemulpo. l More than a hundred Russians were marines who escaped to the shore were made prisoners by the Japanese patrol. This is the fourth naval battle which Japan has forced within the first twenty-four hours of fighting. A spe- cial cable dispatch from Port Arthur tells of 8 third attack on the Russian stronghold by the Japanese fleet. The occupation of Seoul, the capital | of Korea, Is one of Japan's great ob- | jectiyes at the present moment. Fully l 10000 Japanese troops have landed on \ Korean soil. Landings were made at 1 Chenaulpo and Chenanpo. Forty thou l sand Japanese troops, with six batter 1 fes of artillery, are at Pingyang and l have marched northward to the Yalu l river. . M ! Dispatches from Tokyo and Nagasa- | Xii report the arrival at Sasebo, Japan,
 of two large Russian steamers. One is the Volunteer Floot association trans l port. .Ekaterinoslav which recently 1and- l ed troops and arms at Port Arthur, and
 the other is the steamer Argun, be-
 longing to the Chinese Eastern Rail- N ways company. Both were captured by the Japanese cruisers Sai Yen and Hei Yen in the neighborhood of Fusan, Ko-
 req. The Ekaterinoslay is of 10000
 tons displacement and had been fitted up as an auxiliary cruiser. She had
 thirty rifles on board and was on her
 way from Vladivostok. The Argun was
 going to vladivostok from NagasaKi. The Russian whalers Glarige, Nicolai, ! Alexander and Michael, captured by
 the Japanese, have also arrived at Sa- l sebo.
 A cable from Shanghai says an i'm
 portant bridge on the Manchurian rail.
 road has been blown up, and thirty
 Russians have been killed.
 I MT. Takahira, the Japanese minister
 here, has received advices from the
 Japanese forev'n office regarding the
 naval engagement off Chemulpo. Mir
 Takahira thinks it is especially impor. tant to note that, according to these
 advices, the final overt act of hostili. J ties was committed by the Russian
 gunboat Korietz, which fired on the
 Japanese torpedo boats Monday even.
 ing. a
 The Tientsin correspondent of the
 Standard sends in a report that the
 Russians have massacred a hundred
 Chinese at Liaoyang, in consequence
 of which the officials at Shanhaikwar
 are greatly alarmed and are appealing
 to Picking for protection.
 The president has issued procla
 nation of neutrality. The proclama
 tion simply recites and depIores the
 existence of hostilities between Japar and Russia and enjoins upon citizens
 of the United States a strict regard
 and observance of the neutrality laws