The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-03

4eta Ia consequence. our base win
re moved 10 Anuue
oe perfectly FRANK, i must say
Apectea yesterdays eneagemeut
-le oe more decisive. especially In
OF tle large number Of Russian
l9 opposed 90 as. It's significance
49, t9tsely depend ols our ability to
sue tne enemy.
Rests with Russia
heYleWing the whole future Of the
ossle that has just commenced ia
u@aaiy earnest On land, Baron
Aayashi said.
Ehe duration of fine war r1uef Tie
WIN Russia than with Japan
'i tne moment the military adEan-
ae is with us for kur0patkin has
1.eiiueo his front and we can strike
--Stc anu when we Will Our agrees
I'VE movement may be carried ON 10
1-,1.-i-1ei' perhaps to Hardin and per-
i-a even further. but before long
t--5Ie must come a. stage of the cam
Li=H "lefe Russia win assume the
-olV oL tne invading power and where
must act solely on the defense.
rom lne beginning it has been So. and
NAi aggression is and has been but a.
means toward the eventual repulsion Of
an invading army
Problem Of Supplies.
General Kur0d himself probably
cannot say at this moment at exactly
WHaJ point our aggression win be
changed into the defensive. kuFOpat-
i,il, SO i believe, says ne win not UNI
cef take TO drive as back until he has
svy,ybJ men ready 10 take the field. I
lhlnk what that means IS that at least
SICKNESS so that 10 keep his force at
tle maximum required kur0patkin viii
always have TO be Transporting 1900
men from ST. Petersburg-nO small
TASK This years harvest In Manchu-
lla, i learn. promises 10 be bad A
million Russians there. i'm addition 10
lue army must be fed W have, or
SHAH have, closed every source of food
supply except by the Siberian railroad
Even with double tracks and no men or
munitions of war to transport the
problem OF feeding the Russian pOpula-
ton and army I'M AIauchuria would be
in Itself Intensely serious, but with a
single track road which is Russia's
only vital slneW, Dc ls almost lmpOs-
aible, and famine appears inevitable.
Manehurians May Rise.
with this dreadful accompaniment
or war there is only too likely TO be a
rising among the Mauchurians. They
may attack the Russians or they may
attack us Either case is bad enough
10 contemplate.
ITO help us SIT down and await all
these contingencies we are working day
ana night on the Korean railway, and
Dy October the unfinished portions of
the road between Fusau and Seoul wiz
De completed and a new line from Seoul
10 Win win also be ready. Locomo-
states, and as soon as these arrive we
viii have strong and rapid line of
communication through all Korea.
which VIII almost touch our main land,
ana we viii not be likely to suffer from
want of supplies or reiufoTCemeuts.
CAS- regards Port Arthur and Vladi-
VOstOk, the situation is somewhat diff
1erent. I cannot say anything about
the movements of our other armies
that have been modified, but there is
no doubt but that the Lao Tung peuiu-
sula viii be cut off from supplies IF
any success attends our land forces.
Neither Port Arthur nor NSadiVOstOk
can be taken from the sea front, but I
think YOU viii find Port Arthur either
taken by our land f8rces or starved
out by September. The Chinese are
smuggling provisions into Port Arthur
now from ChefOO. but only TO am inn
material extent and that VIII soon
cease
Autumn Hurricanes.
'fvice Admiral Togo doubtless viii
remain on watch outside Port Arthur.
by September, when the hurricane sea-
son comes. he should be able to safely
house his fleet iu Japanese port. No
fleet Russian or Japanese could DE
particularly effective ten. / scarcely
think Russia viii send her Baltic feet
20 face our autumn hurricanes If the
ships so before. then they viii en-
counter the monsoon period. which
lasts from May 70 August, and i'm which
CUali8g at sea en- route 10 Japan would
he exceptionally dangerous, If not i'm
possible, and ccalilE at sea is the only
way the Baltic fleet can take a hand
i'm tho war"
Referring TO the long period which
elapsed between the declaration OF war
and the land dshJiugi Minister Haya-
shat said-
"That waiting which taxed the pa
thence of the world has been a busy
and exciting time for us. Our troops
have been continually marching and
working I'm anticipation of striking the
blow which would initiate the cam
paign I'm Manchuria.
II do NOT think our morale has been
I'M any way affected by what is so err
roue0usly described as a period of i'm
action. General Eurod may, even by
his own c0untrymeu, be thought TO be
rather slow, but IL is better 20 be sure.
"Ihe most unfortunate incident of
the campaign up TO date is Vice Adj
miraI kamimuras misfortune I'm miss
ing the EladiV0sJ0E feet IT seems
from here that il was a pity the vice
admiral did not stay outside that port