Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-06-10

| OROulu RUSSIA be victorious the
situation would be more complicated.
but even so, the State Department
would hope to save China, with the
possible exception of being forced to
recognize the special Russian inter-
ests and domination In Manchuria.
The Russians left Dalny much
more serviceable than had been ex-
pected, and the japanese have already
repaired the breeches in the fortifi-
cations and remounted guns. The
mines are being carefully removed
from the harbor, and it is'likely the
Japanese will make the bay a naval
base fully as accessible as is Sasebo.
1t developes that the sea base used
by Admiral Togo, and from which
the Second and Third japanese
armies were started for the Manchu-
ria coast, was originally included in
Admiral Alexieff's plans for war.
lie intended that it should have been
used as Russian torpedo station
before the destroyers could be fitted
out, but the plans were held in St.
Petersburg after being forwarded
there for approval and consequently
nothing was done until after the
war broke out, and then the first at
tempt to take the island revealed the
fact that the Japanese were already
there.
No matter how the war in the
Far East may eventually result, the
United States Government intends to
insist upon the integrity of the
Chinese Empire. This fact was
learned from the best of official
authority. For some time there has
been feeling in official circles that
European powers were planning to
seize parts of China at the ternina-
ton of the war between Russia and
Japan, and that no matter which
won, plans were being laid by outside
countries to take slices of China, as
was the case at the end of the Japan
China war. All of the now powerful
influence Of the United States will
be used to prevent such grasping
policy, and there is every reason to
believe that if Japan is victorious
she will work in harmony with the
United States to save China.
1t is pretty certain now, from in
telligence received by the Japanese
secret service, that even if the chan
mel is practicable for ships of large
draught, there is not sufficient coal
IN Port Arthur for such vessels to
take to the sea. Admiral Togo now
maintains the blockade systematical-
ly, and presumably the junk traffic
will cease.
A telegram just received from
Saskatchewan says that Lewis Etzel,
correspondent of the London Daily
Telegraph, and Ernest Brindle, of
the London Daily Nail, were fred
upon by Chinese soldiers while in a
junk between Shwantaitze and Err
dixie. Ethel was killed but Brindle
is safe. EtSel was a native of Butler,
Pa. United States Consul General
Miller is hurrying to the scene of the
killing of Etzel. He will make a
personal investigation. Asan expla.
nation the Chinese claim that they
thought they were firing upon pirates.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF KIN CHOW
BATTLE.
Eyewitness says that on midday
May 26 Kin Chow isthmus present.
ed an unprecedented military spec
tscle, with 10000 Japanese troops
massed behind the western spur of
Mount Sampson and under such
small cover as was afforded by the
Suchiatun twin peaks. Actually on
the isthmus, within 1000 yards of
the Russian works, there was so little
room to deploy for attack that bat
talions of Japanese infantry had to
stand waiting in the sea. The whole
time there was a veritable inferno.
Small arm missiles and shells from
the Russian batteries plowed int the
serried masses around Kin Chow,
the japanese guns replying as bat
terry after battery came into action
from Chilichwang and Kauchiayan
flats, while a sustained fire from the
gunboats kept the line of Russian
works fringed with bursting projec-
tiles.
About midday the energy of the
Russian defenders of the works in
front of Mauchiaying village seemed
The Japanese battalions
over the saddle between the
twin peaks. They were to make a.
desperate effort to carry the nearest
Russian works. At first the stray
Cling walls of Mauchiaying gave
them some cover, under which they
had moments breathing space. |
Then the gallant little infantry
pressed on again up the breast of the |
slopes of the Russian position. 1t
was an impossible task, for as yet
the defenders had not been sufficient
ly shaken. An avalanche of concen-
trated fire struck the japanese, and
they melted away from the glacis
like solder before q blowfsme. It'll
was vain,s if heroic, effort. Within
fifteen minutes these two battalions
had ceased to exist except in a trail
Of mutilated bodies to the foot of
the Russian glacis.
The official report of General
otoessel, the Russian commander,
has passed the Japanese Gordon and
reached st. Petersburg. He states
hat his batteries at Kin Chow were
and gives the Russian loss
n killed and wounded as $50. A
Toxic dispatch says the japanese loss
vas 744 killed and 1850 wounded, a
otal of 1904.
OTHER SMALL BATTLES.
Four thousand Russians belong
ng to Gen. Stakelberg's brigade on
Nay 81 attacked 1900 Japanese &C.
a position five miles south
# Wafangtlen. The Russians were