The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-24
JAPAN POURING OUlTROOPS
10000 MORE REPORTED AS
 LANDING AT CHEMULPO.
Dispatch That Some Men Have Besn Landed in Vicinity of Port Arthur seventy Miles of Railroad Destroyed Be.ween HarbIn and vladlvostok- = Intermittent BOmbardment of For, Arthur.

BetWeen HnEb btm ana tin0lvostok- Intermittent Bombardment of Port Arthur.
 London, Feb. 24.-Cabling from Che
 Foo on February 2S, correspondent of the Morning Post says that forty thou- sand more Japanese troops have land ed at Chemulpo, and that he has re- ceived confirmation of the report that some Japanese have landed at Pigeon l Bay, others at Talienwan. and that an engagement occurred on the night of
 February F.
 The Seoul correspondent of the Daily Mail reports a panic at Ping Yang, Corea, which is regarded as heralding the approach of the opposing armies. According to the Standard correspon- | dent at Seoul, the Japanese bombarded Port Arthur at intervals between the eighth and the fourteenth of February, infiicting, however but slight injuries.
 The report is confirmed, this corre- spondent continues, that seventy miles l of railroad track and some important
 bridges have been destroyed between
 Harbin and Vladivostok.
 If the later report is true, it would 1 be a great advantage to the Japanese, as Vladivostok is known to be very badly supplied, and it therefore could 1 not long resist a Japanese attack. There is still, however, no news of ac- tual operations of any kind. 1 Special despatches from St. Peters
 burg give various sensational reports | of a political nature. The Telegraph, for instance, says that the Russian gov ernment has ordered its ambassador at Constantinople to obtain the permis- sion fthe Porte for the exit of the Black Sea fleet; but M. Zinovieff, the ambassador, declined to make this re- quest, and was able to give the Russian
 foreign office conclusive reasons for his refusal.
 Paris, Feb 24.-The Paris edition of the New York Herald asserts that For eign Minister Lamsdorff wants to re- sign, and that M. Witte will succeed him.
 I London. Feb. 24.-In a despatch from Tolio, a correspondent of the Times says some hundreds of Cossacks reach- i ed Chonju. thirty miles south of the Yalu river, the afternoon of February 2O Thirty troopers crossed the river at Kazan the same evening" thus arriving within forty-fve miles of Ping Yang, Corea.
 l It is understood the diet will meet the the war budget.
 The rumor that the Russian vladivos- tok squadron has again put to sea lacks confirmation.
 1 A correspondent of the Times at Wei Hai-Wei says he heard that all the mechanics at Port Arthur. Dalny and lVladivostok are Chinese, and that it is impossible for the Russians to repair the damaged warships.
 Ting Row. Feb 23-The consuls
 have decided on concerted action look ing to the naturalization of New
 Chwang. They will, however, endeavor
 to secure an expression of Russian of lficial opinion before acting further. l An authoritative Japanese report says that one hundred Japanese refu-
 gees sent to Port Arthur had not been
 accounted for up to February 19. Per-
 sistent refusal of official information
 complicates United States Consul Mill lers difficulties.
 An officer of the Russian intelligence department is leaving for Pekin and the interior of China, for the purpose of re- porting on the attitude of the Chinese. I Berlin, Feb 23.-The Lokal-Anzeiger to-day in dispatch from Tokio says:
 "A fresh engagement took place at Port Arthur last Saturday. The details have not been announced by the gov
 ernment''
 I Seoul, Feb. 23.-A telegram received here from foreigner at Ping Yang says that the report that Russian scouts are at Anju is authentic. The telegram
 are panic stricken, but foreigners are not threatened.
 St. Petersburg, Feb. 23.-'The war
 will end in August or September in the
 complete defeat of the Japanese" the
 Associated Press correspondent was I told to-day by high authority, in inti- mate touch with the Russian war plans, -WuOSG ODllllOu CdIl pe Idkeu ldlIHlully I to reflect the belief in the highest off, cial quarters here. He added How the Japanese can hope to suc-
 ceed when our army in the east is strengthened to a point equal or super
 for in numbers to that of our adversa-
 ries. we are honestly unable to com prehend. It will not be difficult to place two, four or even six hundred thousand
 additional men in the field, if necessary.
 When our forces are concentrated and
 ready. they will finish by driving the
 Japanese into the sea. Frankly, it
 seems to us that the Japanese either
 have utterly failed to appreciate Rus-
 sia's resources, or have counted on the aid os Great Britain or the United States. neither of which ever contem-
 plated becoming involved. So far as Great Britain is concerned, we do not believe any Authorizations existed 1 there."