The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-07-14
As ST. PETERSBURG SEES t
Have No Doubt Japanese Have
Captured and Are Occupying
Kai Chou.
usys0RGs NEW CaWsaS's EVACUATION
Arthur Received-The Destroyer Buru-
koff Returns Safely from New ChwsnE
Railroad Running Twelve Miles Be
yond Perimeter OF Fortress.

St. Petersburg. July 9.-The capture
Of Kai-Chou by the Japanese an
nounced from Toxic, Is not officially
confirmed at the war Office, but there
is no disposition to question the prob
able correctness Of the report as the
latest advices received here made 1t
plain that the Japanese we're ad-
vancing in force along the railroad
against the Russian position.
The emperor and his military suite,
who left St Petersburg Friday night
for the volga region to bid farewell to
the Fifth and Sixth army corps, may
already have received Gen. Kuropat-
kin's report. but the general stan has
not yet received Gen. Sakharoff's re-
port, which usually follows Kuropat-
kin's at a short interval. The occupa-
don Of Kai-Chou. while 1t is not be-
lieved that II will exercise material
influence on Kuropatkin's strategy, Is
Of importance to the Japanese as Il
brings them within reach Of New
Chwang, facilitating Gen. Oku's juno
ture with Gen. Kuroki. who may
already be In touch. How far
the Russian COMMUNICATIVE lief
attempted to contest the pos
session of Kai-Chou with the
Japanese the war Office says will be re-
vealed when the official report arrives.
The Japanese reports of the severity
Of the fighting might indicate Kuropat-
kin's desire to hold Kai Chou so long
as possible for the purpose Of prevent
ing juncture of the Japanese armies,
but the threatening position of the Jap
anese columns eastward may have rem
dered Kuropatkins withdrawal further
north imperative. 1t would not be sur
prising If at the juncture of the Japa-
nese armies, Kuropatkin decided to re-
tire even from Ia Tche Kiao and Hal
Cheng and concentrate his forces about
his main position, at Liao-Yang. This
would render easy the japanese plan,
repeatedly predicted in these dispatch
es, to get possession Of those places,
flank the Russians out of New Chwang,
fortify line from New Chwang across
the head of the peninsula to Taku Shan
and Feng Wang Chcng, secul control
of the railroad, establish a new base
at New Chwang and prepare to advance
or retreat or to resist Kuropatkin's adj
vance, as the case might be, at the
close Of the rainy season.
News of the evacuation of New
Chwang by the Russians would seem
| to be the logical sequence of the an
| nouncement of the occupation of KaI
Chou by the japanese.
Official reports from Gen. Stoessel
commander of the Russian military
| forces at Port Arthur, dated July Z
confirm the reports of the attempt OF
the four Japanese torpedo destroyers to
enter the harbor of Port Arthur June
81, but do not confirm the Che Foo re.
ports of heavy Japanese operations
July 4 and July against Port Arthur
and do not mention the alleged sink.
ing of Russian guardship June q as
reported from Toxic. The torpedo
boat destroyer Lieut. Burukoff returned
safely to Port Arthur July 2 from New
Chwang. Gen. Stoessel says that III
to the time his reports were forwarded
not single fortress battery had fired
a shot at the besiegers on the land side
and that the railroad was then running
IL miles beyond the perimeter Of the
| fortress.
The capture of Kai-Chou (Kai-Ping)
throws the japanese line clear across
the Liao-Tung peninsula and from thu
Yalu river to the Liao-Tung gulf. Kai
Chou is about rs miles south Of Yin
Kow, the port of New Chwang, which
is on the railway and about IL mile
to the southeast of New Chwang.
Injunction Dissolved.
Washington, July 9.-The injunc
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