The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
NOTHING BUT RUMORS
 FROM THE SEAT OF WAR
VERY LITTLE LIGHT THRoWN
 ON THE SITUATION.

Active Preparations for the Reduction of Port Arthur Said to be in Progress -Japs Landing Very Heavy Artillery on Liao Tuns PeninsuIa-GeneraI Ku- ropatIin Reported as Being Deter mined to Check the Japs at LiaO Yang.
 London, May 25.-Rumor is unceas- ingly busy with the war, but little ere dence is placed in the varying state- ments in the absence of official confirm ation.
 The Daily Mails correspondent at fshimonoslzi, Japan, cabling under date Df May 24. asserts that active prepara- tions are in progress for the reduction pf Port Arthur, and that these prepara- tions will be entrusted to a carefully thosen force of veterans forming part bf the third army. Very heavy artil- ery, the correspondent says. is landing bn the Liao Tung peninsula.
 M Dispatches to the Daily Telegraph show that on May 16 the Japanese Headquarters were still at Feng Wang Eheng. This the correspondent attrib- Rtes to the necessity for joint action Fith the Japanese army which has landed at Pitsewo. They explain that { Communication has not yet been estab- 3shed between the two Japanese ar 'hies, but that it is expected to be eff ected within few days. The dis Matches say that the telegraph lines Between Feng Wang Cheng and the Nbuth have been cut by Russians dis l Auised as Chinese. A Russian trans brt is moving from Liao Yang in the Erection of Mukden, but it is not Anown whether this means a retirement the army or merely the removal of linter clothing which is no longer &eded. The movements of war. corre- $ondents, the dispatches say, are i'm sed to radius of mile and nalI <om Feng Wang Cheng.
 AThe Daily Telegraph's New Chwang Arrespondent declares that General 31ropatkin is determined to check the Hpanese at Liao Yang where probably d greatest battle of the war will be light. He add that the Japanese land serations against Port Arthur are Betting with little success and that. Asutenant General Stoessel continues lnake well directed but desperate sor- 's against the advance of the Japan s, who are fighting with stubborn Termination. Several hundred Jap ese have been killed during the past M days. Japanese endorsements are living daily from Pitsewo and Polan- In, according to this correspondent IAhe Seoul correspondent of the Daily segraph says that King Charles is be- besieged by the Japanese and his render is momentarily expected.
 The Standards Tien Tsin correspond st asserts that the Chinese govern lit in still levying heavy military tributions from the provinces and he aks that this accumulation of silver sPekin foreshadows some foolhardy aon by the Chinese.
 is reported from Brussels that the sian government is making great srts to buy thirty large steamers h Belgium and Holland to accom- y the Baltic fleet as colliers.
 cluded in a score of rumors is one
 by the Shanghai correspondent of Morning Post to the effect that the sians have been defeated near Ting abandoning fifty guns and that eral Kuropatkin has been advised Viceroy Alexieff to retreat to liar ndon, May 25.-The correspondent he Times on board that newspapers ner, the Haimum, under date of
 24 says he understands that the
 ictions on his movements will be pved May 30. He says he hears
 the delay in the Japanese occupa-
 of Dalny arises from the intricate
 re of the mine fields, which pre-
 adequate naval cooperation. The ing of the Japanese bases of inva-
 the correspondent says, has ne- tated the redistribution of the Pfoo, May 25.-12:30 p. m.-Four nese cruisers and fleet of torpedo
 and destroyers passed midway cen Port Arthur and the Mao Tao is at o'clock this morning, but ounds of firing have yet been
 The Russians have again re- d their guns and troops to forts at
 Chwang.
 ldon, May 25.-The correspondent | e Morning Post at Mukden, un- |
 late of May "A, says it is reported |
 that General Rennenkampff's | lcks captured two Japanese trans | columns, thus leaving the Japan rmy without supplies in diff
 country.
 ANCE WILL HELP RUSSIA.
 It That She Will Take Part in War