Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-02-19
THE RUSSO JAPANESE WAR
JAPAN WILL LAUNCH BIG ARMY
ON PORT ARTHUR.
Events Of tho Weeks Confict-Drey.
fus Case to Be Tried This MONTH
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fus Case to Be Tried This Month";
Boer Farmers at Bermuda Go Home
to South Africa.
II is reported that Japan is planning
to land 100000 men on the coast be-
tween the Yalu river aud Port Ar
thur and will make n big attack on
Port Arthur without delay. Prepare
tons with transports and commissa-
rats are being FASTENED on Elliot Is
land. Two thousand men guard the
arsenal at Port Arthur and the gar
rIsons are well stocked. The town and
dock suffered severely by the bonn
bardment OF Feb. 3. The Russian fleet
Is ready for offensive action and the
Russians have heavily reinforced Kin
chow and -Chwang. Six hundred
Russian soldiers are said TO have per-
shed OF cold In crossing Lake Baikal,
/ Eastern Siberia. The temporary rail-
road is not completed and the troops
were sent on 22-mile march over the
lake. The Boyarin, a Russian cruis-
er, struck sub marine mine at Port
Arthur Saturday, Feb. 10, and was
blown up. All her officers and crew,
| 1917 In number. were lost The Rus
sian torpedo gunboat, Yenesei, has also
been blown up. owing to an accident
causing collision of mines under
meath. Captain Stepanof, the inven-
tor of the mine system used, with 81
men, was blown up with the boat and
the charts locating the mines laid are
lost. The Russians have also lost two
thirds their entire store of torpedoes,
400 being on the Variag which was
destroyed Russia's minister TO ko-
rea has left the country by order Of
the japanese who are In full control
OF the peninsula. Reports from st.
Petersburg state that war disasters
have Frustrated the car who sits a.
pathetically for hours. weeping at in
tervals. Viceroy Alexieff was recall |
led Tuesday, Feb 16,, on account OF |
Russian reverses. He left Port Ar |
thur that day and Gen. Kerpaitsky will |
command the Yalu division that is ex-
pecting an attack from the Japanese.
Some of the reports from the war
during the past week have been con-
Trajectory but the principal events
have been as follows:
Thursday Feb. H. the emperor of
Japan formally declared war declar-
ing that Russia's evident purpose Of
the annexation Of Korea, and occupa-
ton of the entire Manchurian penin-
sula, had forced his nation to resort to
arms. President Roosevelt issued
of neutrality, defining
rights OF American citizens and Am
erican ships during the war. This
made clear that Americans could not
enlist In the armies of either nation
from American soil, and that aid of
any kind extended to Russia or Japan
would be violation of the agreement.
Il was announced that owing to Rus
sia's losses at Port Arthur the Baltic
leet would be taken to the scene Of
action through the Kiel canal and the
Black Sea fleet through the Dardanel-
es straits
Friday, Feb. ~. Secretary Hay of the
United States addressed note to pow
RS suggesting TO Russia and japan
he propriety of limiting the scene of
lostilities to small area, and of res
,ecting the integrity Of the Chinese
umpire. The dowager empress of :
Russia issued appeal to the Red Cross /
ociety directing il. to take measures
Il relief for suffering among Russian
roops The society organized for
hospital aid, the city of st. Petersburg
s2,50oooo.
Saturday. Feb. IS, France agreed TO
he terms of the Hay note on Chinese
neutrality. The American flour steam
r, Pleiades held by Russians at Port
Arthur, was released. A squadron of
tx Japanese battle ships appeared at
he mouth Of the Yalu, preparatory to
lockade of Russian fighting ships.
Sunday, Feb. IA, the japanese land
d 500 soldiers near Talienwan, and
he Cossacks sabred 40 of them, the
theirs escaped; the Japanese lost 30
nd were repulsed in trying to land at
love or Pigeon bay. The Japanese
ailng vessel Zensho was attacked
,ithout warning by Russia warships
nd sunk. Nineteen thousand Japan
Sc troops landed at Chemulpo, pre-
aratory to an invasion of the Man
hurian peninsula.
Monday, Feb. Is, Russian guns at
ort Arthur sunk a Russian squad
on of torpedo boats by mistake,
linking them japanese vessels. The
japanese war bureau is assembling
20. 900 men for immediate service.