Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-14
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN,
rsBmated That Is the Strength OF the
Forces Now Advancing
Against 1t.
CRITICAL AND ANXIOUS MOMENT
Gen. Kuroki Reports the Occupation
BY His Soldiers of Kuan
Tien Cheng

81 Petersburg, May IA d2:50 p. m.).-
The army organ is disinclined to be-
live that Hal Cheng Is the Japanese OBJ
ioctlye. 1t says the division Of guards
now marching IN that direction VIII
probably sweep northward toward Lao
Yang. followed by the forces now at
suIyan Chow and combining with the
division reported to be at Somai@i
make a combined attack on Lao yang
The Novoe vremya's expert estimates
,he force advancing against Lao Yang
n, 100000 men. with 10000 horses and
90 guns, and believes the Russians are
retiring upon their base.
ott is a critical and anxious moment
tba naper continues, Gen. kuropatklh
allowing the enemy TO take the oHen-
live watching for favorable moment
to strike a decisive blow
Although the issue price OF the new
grseion loan is still a secret here, the
pevspapers express Subtraction WIN
vs terms. The NoVoe Nremya polliVS
n,it that 7 per cent was paid during lne
turkish war. and that now the rdle ~
only 3 per cent, whereas the Japanese
ara paying at least per cent lo'
smaller amount 49,, ,-.o ooo fo,.
The emperor has accepted SIoo,VVV ~.
,sa navy from Count Stroganov, from
No patriotic emergency fund, consist.
tng of several million roubles deposltgu
an Inc immortal bank by donators 10 MS
maiesty's grandfather.
,rhs army medical department ooin-
,isied ts prophylactic measures for we
~, east and are NOW able to cope WIN
a,y endemic among the troops dls-
injecting apparatus has been sen, TO
IVORY noInt I'm Manchuria ana also
eyery Kind of serum TO the total Nalue
~ S,5 OOO Every soldier was Vacclnated
ottor nassing Baikal Smallpox IL the
,riv conta pious disease reported by the
siberian hospitals There have peeh
tbree cases at Chita, IA at Werkhheu-
dinsk and 10 at Allan
KHAN TEN CHENG OCCUPIED.
Washington. May 1L-The japanese
legation has received the following ca
blegrum from Toxic, dated today;
Gen. Kurokt commandant Oh hc
First army corps, reports that on May
Z detachment of our troops occu-
,iod Kuan rien Cheng. On May ii an
other infantry detachment pursued tne
enemy's cavalry, which was retreatlhB |
from Shue Hi Chan and captured two |
pryates and one Lieutenant. The lat
Ter is the son of Gen, Honyali,
sKRYDLOFF OFF TO FRONT.
Irllutsk, Siberia, May H,-Vice Ad-
mIral skrydloff, the commander OF the
Russian naval forces in the far east, |
passed through lrkutsk today on his
way 70 the 'front.'
INITIATED JAPANESE DEAD.
Toxic, May IA, 3 p. ma correspond
ent OF the Kokumin Shimbun Of Toxic,
who Is with Gen. kuroki, has made the
charge that the Russians mutiated
japanese dead at the Yalu river. He
says that when the detachment OF the
Fourth regiment OF the Imperial guards
which occupied Kasan received the
counter attack from the Russians three
Japanese soldiers fell into the hands Of
the enemy and were taken prisoners
The mutilated corpse Of one of them,
named Tatsukiro Watanabe, was after
ward found, according to the corre-
spondent, hanging to a tree on the
bank OF the Yalu.
The dead mans face had been strip
ped OF It's skin, his stomach had been
'ouged out continues the correspond
.ut and his feet had been cut OFF,
The mutations were horrible. It Is be.
.oved that the other two men met the
anne fate, but that when the corpses
'i the three were rolled over the bank
ln.y that Of Watanabe caught ON a
noe. the others falling into the river"
The publication OF these charges has
aused intense Indignation.