Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-05-12
PORT ARTHUR HEDGED IN,
THE JAPS HAVE LANDED
TEN THOUSAND MEN
At = Point Forty Miles From the
T. Ort, and EfectuaIIy Cut Off
Communication by Land.
The Enemy Fell Back.

st. Petersburg, May GA dis
patch received tonight says that
Port Arthur is cut off from all com
munication by land, the japanese
having disem barked their troops, Oc.
cupied the road and cut the tele-
graph.
Vice Admiral Skrydlof, who is
en- route to Port Arthur to take com
mand of the naval forces in the Far
East, will be unable to reach his des-
tination.
Complete details of the landing are
lacking, owing to the interruption
of communication. No resistance
was made, the few Cossacks who OBJ
served the movement retiring when
the warships shelled the shore prep
aratory to Decentralization. It is be-
lieved that there are over $1,000 now
on land preparing for a forward
movement.
While the landing was proceeding
Thursday the enemy's ships, consist
ing of five battleships and cruisers,
made a demonstration off Port Ar
thur to prevent the possible egress
of Russian torpedo boats. A num-
~ of To
also observed off Miado island, to
Pigeon bay.
japanese troops swarming across
the narrow neck of the Liao Tung
Peninsula, the railroad and tele-
graph communications cut and the
Russian Gibraltar isolated and left to
its own resources-alI this the Rus
slams seem to accept with great
stOicism.
According to official information
the landing of troops from sixty
transports began simultaneously at
Puteewo and Cape Terminal, on the
morning of May 5.
The Minister of War has received
the following telegram from Major
General P. Pfung, Chief of the mill
itary staff:
''According to the Chinese reports,
by the evening Of May 5, about 1O,-
900 of the enemy's troops had landed
and taken up quarters in the Chinese
villages near the points of debarka-
ton.
Despite the greater number of
japanese, the general staff believes
that their formidable Notifications
still leave the defensive superiority
with the Russians, whose staying
qualities, it is confident, will insure
their holding out as long as neces-
sary.
Lieutenant General Stoecell will
have supreme command at Port Ar
thur. He is described as a high-class
commander. The Russians supplies
at Port Arthur are said to be suf-
fcient to last for year. There are
about 10000 soldiers there.
Washington, May 6.-The State
Department has received cable
gram from United States Minister
Griscom, at Toxic, confirming the
press report of the landing of the
japanese in the Liao Tung penin-
sula, about forty miles above Port
Arthur. The location given in the
japanese dispatch is Kinchau. This
is the narroweat point on the PENN
sula anu consequently, the Minister
SAYS, the railroad is practically
closed anu the investment Of Port
Arthur mas begun.
The japanese legation has received
information from Toxic that on May
| 1st about 1900 infantry, posted on d
hill east of Feng Huang Cheng, fired
upon 800 japanese comrades retreat
ing from the Yalu, mistaking them
for the enemy. They wounded LOO
and killed 70. The rest of the body
fed in disorder, abandoning com
missary carts.
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