The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-30
SharpshOOters Do Great Ex-
ecutiOn Among Cars Officers.
FIGHT STILL GOING ON.
This Is the Story That Comes
Direct From Manchuria.
Washington Has Information
That 1t Is All Over.
Resulting in Complete Victory
for Japanese.

Kaupang Use, Manchuria, April So
10 q. fn=The first battle Of the war
is persistently reported to have oc-
Cured on the Yalu river. Sixteen
thousand Japanese crossed the stream
Thursday and attacked 10000 Rus
aians. who were strongly fortified II
is run1ored this morning that the
Japanese were reinforced and that the
battle continues. The Japanese sharp
shooters shot many Russian officers
whose uniforms were conspicuous.
Leave for the Front.
Toxic, April 3O.-Fourteen foreign
military attaches who have Deen as
signed to the first army LETT TOXIC To-
dav by railway for the port OF Shl-
mon oselSf They will sail May for an
unknown destination. Members OF
the sye-eeral staff. the ministers and a
large crowd of people bid them rare
we'll at the road station
London Is Without News
London. April 3O-1:23 p m.-The
japanese legation up to the present
has received no confirmation OF the
reported engagement between the Jap
anese and Russian forces on the Yalu,
but the officials think 1t quite prop
able. The main body of the japanese
army is believed to have traversed the
mountain passes and crossed the Yalu
river a hundred miles from the sea
with the object of taking the Russian
forces near the mouth of the river in
The legation is of the opinion that
the Japanese operations at the mouth
of the YaIu were merely in the nature
of a feint.
Kuropatlsin Reports All Quiet.
St Petersburg, April 3O.-The en-
peror received a telegram from Cen
eraI Kuropatkin, under today's date,
as follows:
General Sassulitch reports that the
night of April 2S-29 passed quietly.
Small bodies of Japanese are moving
on the right of the Yalu. On April %
at about two in the afternoon Jap
anese columns were seen going from
Yongampo towards Win. The Jap
anese have not yet undertaken any
active operations"
Russians Retreated.
Toxic, April 3O.-6 p. m.-Admiral
Hosoya, commanding the third squad
ron, reports that on the morning of
April 20 gunboats fired on the enemy
at the mouth of the Yalu river, but the
Russians did not reply.
Later a fiotilla of small ships, armed
with cannon, opened fire on $50 of the
enemy at SandorOto and the latter re-
treated to the mountains, leaving
many wounded. The Japanese had no
casualties.
Testimony of Missionaries.
Shan Hal Kwan, April so, 7 p. M
The reports of a big battle on the
Yalu river have been given consider
able substantiation by information
brought in by four Danish mission
aries, who have just arrived here from
New ChWang.
When these missionaries left An
Tung, ten days ago, the Russians III
that vicinity numbered 10000 men
and occupied strongly fortified posi-
tions between An Tung and the Al
river, which empties into the Yalu
river about 90 miles northeast of An
Tung There We're also small Russian
forces at Hsu Yen and Feng Huan
Cheng, where bases had been estab-
ished- These two places are respec-
lively about 65 and As miles to the
northwest of An Tung.
The Russians along the railroad
line according to the missionaries
We're burning beancakes, endeavoring
with some success, to prevent the ex-
port of this product
Report Reaches Washington.
Washington April 3O-Reports
have reached the state department
the sources of which the officials do
not care to divulge, to the effect that
great battle has been fought on the
Yalu river, resulting in a complete
japanese victory. Details are not OBJ
tainable
The Japanese legation here has no
news confirming these reports but the
matter has aroused intense interest in
oIhclai circles Reports which have
from time to time reached the Wash
1ngton government from its agents in
the held indicate that the two great
armies would not come into touch
before May I, and that what has here
tofore occurred was nothing more
than mere outpost skirmishes and col
iisions between scouting parties. 1t is
believed, however. that the Won ~, ~.
conditions in Manchuria have in
proved sufficiently to facilitate the
movements of the troops and artillerv
and that the two vanguards have CON
sequentIy come together a few days in