The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-01
ATTACK BEGINS.
Japanese Start Land Movement
Againat Port Arthur.
Fall of Russian Stronghold Be-
Iieved to Be Certain.
RUSSIANS ARE ROUTED
Reported That Japanese Have
Defeated Gen. Kuropatkin.
Several Guns and Whole Squad
rons of Cossacks Captured.

Indianapolis, Ind. June IA spe-
cial cable from the staff correspond
ent of the Indianapolis News at Che
foo. dated June 1, says:
The japanese land attack on Port
Arthur was begun yesterday morning.
Russian forces that were driven south
ward from Dalny and Kin Chou by
the Japanese are assisting the garrison
at Port Arthur. and the Russian
navy has joined to repulse the enemy.
There may be several days oe Skirm-
ishing and outpost work before the
Russian city is taken. but it is the
opinion of refugees who have arrived
here from the besieged Gibraltar
the Russians eventually must sue
cumb to overwh Ginning numbers.
Dalny, Kin Chou. Talien Wan and
Nanshan have already fallen before
/ the japanese.
Russians Routed in North.
London, June IA special dispatch
from Rome says a telegram has been
received there from Toxic reporting
that General Kuroki has completely
defeated General Kuropatkin's forces
near Sumentse, probably Saimatza or
Simatsia-
All the Russian positions east of Hal
Chen Chang have been abandoned, ac-
cording to the telegram Several guns
have been taken and whole squadrons
of Cossacks captured.
| 1t is possible that the news received at
Rome refers to the fighting reported IN
Yang and St Petersburg. These did not
| indicate a general engagement, but show
/ ed that series of sharp engagements
| had taken place east Of simatsia, lasting
| from the morning of May 2 until day
! light OF Nav so which resulted in severe
I hnf
of the Russians upon SImatsia
The latter place is S5 miles north of
Russians Are Gloomy.
Tfen Tsin, Tune Ia courier who
has arrived here from New Chwang
says:
s.'While it is known that the Rus
! slams received reports from Mukdesl
last night giving the losses sustained
by them during the fighting at Kin
] Chou and Nanshan hill and the con
ditious prevailing. they will not talk
| on the subject. The officers are dss-
| perately gloomy. The press bulletin
| giving the news of the fighting on the
4 Kwan Tung peninsula with the Euro
4 pean comments on the victory OF the
i ia pa nese was suppressed on its arrival
/ at New Chawng, but was releas ri
when the Russians learned that two
| copies of it were in possession OF
| Englishmen and were being shown to
othel people. The Tien Tsin news
i papers which reached New Ci1Wang
last night were eagerly snapped up
Knots of officers stood in the streets
and in and about the club eagerly
scanning the papers.
six hundred junk loads of supplies.
! mostly beans and grain, purchased at
Il New ChWang, We're shipped to Lao
4 Yang yesterday. These were tile same
supplies the Russians ordered from
the Chinese in the interior at the
time of the second evacuation scare
saying the Japanese would confsrate
or burn them. The Russians were COM
PEELED to pay four times the prices
demanded a month ago.
''Tha Russians are again meddline
with the telegraph offices between
New Chwang and Shan Hal kwan."