Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-21
A RUSSIAN PROTEST.
Japanese Accused of Smelling
Hospital Ships.
ACTIVITY ALONG THE SHAEHE RIVER
Russian Magazine blown Up by Fire
of B~esicgers mt Port Arthur.
Japs Use a Peculiar
81 W. Missile.

LONDON, @ 2l.-A Chef SDecia
dispatch says that General Balashoffi
the head of the Red Cross society al
Port Arthur, has sent on the torpedo
boat destroyer Rastoropny, which al.
,rivedhere from Port Arthur and which
was subsequently destroyed by hel
crew, a personal letter charging the
Japanese with a violation of the rules
of civilized warfare.
General Balashoff requests the pub.
LEGATION of charges that the japanese
have deliberately disregarded the OBJ
legation of the Geneva and Hague con
ventions. He says that they have
compelled the abandonment by the
Russians of three plainly marked hos
pital ships in the harbor and that the
wounded who were aboard the halt
sunken steamer Andara also had to be
removed. These ships, says General
Balashoff, were anchored where they
did not interfere with the Japanese
fire against the Russian warships. The
general adds: Il have noticed several
instances of a concentration Of fire on
portions of the city devoted almost ex
clusively to hospitals. Other instances
of uncivilized warfare are numerous,
but l have no time to write them. /
scarcely have time to eat and Sleep
General Balashoff requests that his
letter serve as a protest to the world
against the tactics of the Japanese.
A Tokyo dispatch says that increas-
ing activity along the Shakhe river
seems to indicate the imminence of
another great battle. The Russian
japanese attack, are uniformly re-
pulsed. Army Headquarters have re-
ceived the following report from Field
Marshal Oyama:
AT dawn a detachment of the enc
my made an attack near Hsinglung-
tun. They were repulsed.
"Since then the enemy in the vicinity
of, Shakhe village have indirectly bonn
barded oV, positions with mortars and
feldpieces. They have effected no dam
age. ''iN
Ak body of the enemy's infantry was
discovered at Hsiamya and Hsiaoyan-
t2l. we shelled them, and they fled in
confusion to a neighboring village.
1.-THE enemy have burned Huangla-
shetzu and villages to the southeast on
tile right bank of the river Hun"
"a dispatch from the army before
Port Arthur says that during the bonn
iNrdmentia shell from Il Japanese ma
val gun exploded a Russian magazine
near the arsenal. Operations against
all the forts are proceeding as preal-
ranged from Manchurian headquarters.
The gunners shelled a Russian infan-
try force engaged in i~ntrenchlng east
of Reiuchiangtun and also infantry IN
the rear of the villages, causing them
to flee in confusion.
The Japanese after successfully min
ing have occupied n counterscarp on
Sungshu mountain.
A Chefu report says that the Japa-
nese are using a peculiar missile which
looks like a long sausage. The Japa-
nese throw it into the trenches, and it
bursts. giving off an odor so foul that
if it is not thrown out of the trenches
Immediately the soldiers faint. The
gas Is not fatal in its effect.
A Mukden dispatch says that the
Japanese attack on Poutiloff hill has
demonstrated the efficacy of the Rus
sian defensive works. Two b~attalions
engaged in the attack occupied the
first line of the Russian trenches, but
at the second line were caught in pits
and entanglements and exposed to a
calling fire. A Russian bayonet attack
completed their Reconciliation.
A dispatch from Chefu says that
three other Russian destroyers left
Port Arthur with the Rastoropny. The
Japanese stopped two of them, but the
fate of the third is unknown.
British Vessel Wrecked.
CADIZ, Spain. Nov, 21.-The British
schooner Protector is ashore near Rota,
she will probably prove a total wreck.