The Gainesville star. [volume] (Gainesville, Fla.) 1903-19??, 1904-05-31
RUSSIANS TRAPPED
Marched Into an Ambush at
Feng-Wang-Cheng
-FOUR THOUSAND KILLED
Place Was Thought to Be Deserted by
Japs, But Thirty thousand %
Them Were Lying IA Wait
Just The same.

The Shan Kai-Kwan correspondent
Of The Daily Chronicle CLeAdeh)
sends report received ffon Nlu-
chwane that on May 2s, thinking that
The Japanese had retired from Feng.
WangCheng, $4,000 Russians, frem
Hai-Cheng and Liao-Yang, marched To-
ward Feng- Wang Chens. they were
surprised by $4,000 Japanese in Inc
TatGus pass. The Russian casualties
were 1000. Over a thouellnd Rus.
SLAMS surrendered. The report does not
state the japanese losses
Japs Take kln.chou.
Associated Press adyices from Che.
foo state that It. Is learned from a
reliable source that the japanese took
Kin Chou Thursday and IRE now pur.
suing the enemy
A dispatch to The Central News
(London) from Toxic says the Japan.
ese have stormed and captured the
town OF Kin.Chou, about 80 miles
horVn OF POrJ Arthur.
After the occupation Of Kin Chou,
the Russians retired in good order
to the heights further south, which
were attacked by the full Japanese
force and carried after stubborn
resistance.
In an earlier message, the CORE.
spondent Of The Central News cabled
That the Japanese spies had ascer.
tanned that the Russians had thirty
guns at Kin Chou and numerous
mines and wire entanglements at all
points where a Japanese attack was
expected.
The correspondent Of The Central
News at Toxic cables thai the Jap
anese attacked Nan. Kwan.Llng, on the
narrowest part Of the Kwan-Tung pc
ninsula Wednesday and drove back
the Russians by main force.
Russians Thought Town Was safe.
A st. Petersburg special says: The
general stan Is not In position TO
confirm or deny the TOXIC report that
the Japanese have occupied Kin Chou.
The latest official information regard.
ing fighting In that vicinity was con-
veyed in General Kuropatkln's tele-
gram, which said that the Japanese
had lost TOO on May IS. This agrees
with information contained In the As.
ISOLATED Press dispatches OF May 20.
General Kuropatkiu apparently accept
ing the report from the same Chinese
source.
It would be great surprise to the
authorities in ST. Petersburg II the
report of the capture Of Kin Chou
should prove to be true The impress.
sion heretofore entertained that Kin
Chou would prove hard nut for the
JAPANESE to crack, and that its reduc-
ton would need Siege train and call
for careful approaches which would
occupy the enemy for a long time.
The opinion Of The best authorities.
is that II the japanese rushed Kin
Chou by frontal attack. unsupported
ny ntsNy guns, WulOH ~ 10 hO1 bo-
lleved they possess, the capture OF
tho place must have been effected at
a tremendous loss to the attackers.
Torpedo Boat Flight.
The detailed Official report Of Vice.
roy Alexieff Of the torpedo boat de-
stroyer fight of March 8, in which the
S.ereguechtshni was cut of and sunk
by Japanese cruisers and the fight
OF the following day in which the jap
anese torpedo boot was sunk by a
torpedo is paollshed In st. Peters
burg. The viceroy lays stress upon
the great dellcacy Of the destroyers
and torpedo boats and the ease with
which they are disabled by a projectile
in the engine room. The whole Of
the engine room crew of the Vlastin-
INF was driven to the deck by the |
steam and the boat was saw.
ed only by the heroism Of the engi. |
neer. who. though burned and scalded,
went below and succeeded in again