The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-08
KOREANS
RETALIATE
Body Of FOragins Russians
Wiped Out.
WERE ROBBING NATIVES
Japanese Fleet again Appears in
Front of VIadivistock and
Attacks the City.

LONDON, March S,-An official dis
patch says the Japanese are again bonn
harding YladiyostOk.
a late dispatch said that the Japa-
nese We're preparing to attack again.
A dispatch from St Petersburg says
kilograms received from Vladivostok
say that seven Japanese ships APP
preached that port at 10 o'clock yes
terday morning entered Ussuri bay
and after some maneuyering steamed
out seHward
1t is reported from. Seoul that the
Russian soldiers operating in the vicin.
ity of Anju are committing all man
ners OF excesses, maltreating the native
women and perpetrating robbery upon
every opportunity.
Korean soldiers attacked a body of
the invaders and succeeded in killing
thirty of them.
II has been learned from ~ official
source that the Russian authorities
have been approached Indirectly by
American shipping firms desiring au-
thofity to fit out prlyateers to prey on
japanese commerce. but that they met
With no encouragement.
In just what forms these offers came
or in whose behalf they were made
cannot be ascertained. as the govern
ment would not even consider them
and has announced officially that Rus
sia will not issue letters of marque.
The funds available for Red Cross
work amount to S3,0OO,00O. The scope
of the work during the next six months
contemplates the expenditure OF $4,-
100000.
Up TO a late hour the japanese lega-
tion here had received no official in
formation regarding the bombardment
of Yladivostok. 1t is believed at the
legation, however, that the japanese
are now between the Russian cruiser
squadron and Nladiyostok, and there is
reason TO believe that the Russian
squadron is in the vicinity of Posslet
bay.
Russian official dispatches do not
mention this squadron, and this fact
lends color to the belief that the Japa-
nese warships have shut it out of Ylad-
ivostok.
1t is pointed out at the legation that
II this is true the Russian vessels are
in a critical condition since they must
run the gantlet of the Japanese squad
ron off Vadlvostok or the japanese
squadron Off Port Arthur before reach
ing Russian port.
A cable from Pingyang, Korea, says
that 1000 Russian cavalrymen, with
seven guns, have retreated through
Kusong and Sonchon toward Wiju
They destroyed the telegraph lines.
A Tokyo bulletin says:
1T is believed that the Vladlvostok
squadron is now in the vicinity of the
mouth of the Tumen river engaged in
covering the movements of Russian
troops from Possiet bay to the valley
of the Tumen."
A Chefu report says it is expected
that the Japanese will reach the left
bank of the lower Yalu on Thursday.
a large force of Russians is strongly
intrenched on the hills in the Antung
district, adjacent and parallel to the
river. Their position is similar to that
which the Beers held on the Tugela
river.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
that the czar has received a telegram
to the effect that the Japanese feet
bombarded Vladivostok all day yes
terday. Only trifilng damage was in
flicted, but one or two japanese cruis-
ers were sunk
A Tokyo dispatch says japanese
squadron has taken possession of Hal
yangtao, one of the Elliot group of is
lands. They found only stores of coal
having evacuated the island