Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-03
FIGHT AT PINCYANt
Russian Scouts Advance Close
 to Town Gates.
LAPS OPENED FIRE FROM WALLS
Great Alarm Caused by CossacEs' Ap. proach, as Garrison Numbers Only One Thousaad-Japs Land 2,4OO
 Troops Near VIadivostok.

Troops Near vladivostoIk.
 LONDON, March 3-A Tokyo dis patch says it has been learned there that the Russians have occupied the telegraph offices at Aniu and Yong pyon, north of Pingyang. They have l. imprisoned the district governor and have confscatsd official papers. The Russian force near Anju numbers only about forty men. The main Russian Gorce ts concentrated at Liaoyang.
 The Russians nsar Antung aggregate 2'o0o. No itaasportant enga cement Is ex- pectcd south of the Yalu river, which 1t is believed, the Russians will make their main line of defense.
 Major General Pfug, chief of staff. sends in the following telegram from Harbin, dated March 2:
 According to additional information which has reached me- our patrols, hay ing passed the night twelve versts (eight miles) from Pingyang, approach ed that t>town on Monday morning. They were closely pressing Japanese patrol of seven officers. Lieutenant Loncha koff attacked this patrol with three
  lop toward the gates of the town.
 The presence of our patrols neaf Pingyang caused great alarm, and soon the enemy's shaTpshooters manned the wall and towers aud opened fire, ex- pecting an attack. According to the report. our patrols approached within TOO paces of the town, which they found to be surrounded by both old and new ramparts. These, however, were not yet occupied by the enemy. and it fB supposed that the Japanese have not more than 1000 men in Pingyang."
 In a dispatch to the czar ViGeroy AlexeieR says:
 Admiral Stark, telegraphing from Port Arthar, says the enemy has not appeared off Port Arthur lately. Re ccnnoissances made by cruisers for torpedo boats ever . radius of sixty miles from Port Arthur also failed to discover the enemy'R vessels" Count Benokandorff, Russian anbas- sador to Gssat Britain, arrived in Lon don last night from St Petersburg. Great excitement was occasioned in the lobby of the house of commons by the circulation of a rulnor that would not down that Port Arthur had fallen. Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minis- te9. said he had no information bear ing out tho sta tement. A Seoul dispatch says the command CT in chief of the Japanese army, Gen eral Prince Komatsu, with all the members of the general staff, has reached Seoul and has taken charge of the active land operations.
 All the movements thus far made have been formulated by the general staff and have been preliminary to a general advance upon Manchuria by way of Korea. A suMeient number of troops have been landed in Korea to allow the immediate working out of the plan of campaign.
 There is a Japanese cruiser ashore and abandoned thirty miles south of Chemulpo, Korea. She may have been disabled in the engagement at Che 1 mulpo, in which the Russian war ves- sels Yariag and Korletz were de- l ported at that time that they had sunk cruiser and a torpedo boat destroyer. l The cars on the ice railroad over Lake Baikal are now drawn by horses, locomotive which performed this serv- ice having broken through the lee. Advices from St. Petersburg say the 1 Russian government earnestly desires the conservation of the ancient friend ship between the United States and the empire. The belief is expressed here that the two countries are now on the eye of better understanding of the points concerning which differ ences have existed. The campaign of recrimination which is progressing in a portion of the press of both countries is deprecated, and the government here specifically disavows responsibility for the utterances of some Russian news papers against the United States, which in turn have infiamed portion of the American press against Russia.
 The correction of the original version of the Vicksburgs incident at Chemulpo has already affected Russian public opinion favorably. The report of Com mander Marshall, captain of the vicks- burg, has been communicated to For eign Minister Lamsdorff by United States Ambassador Mccormick and the formal thanks of the Russian ad- miralty will be rendered as soon as a detailed report is received from the captain of the Variag.
 A report from Vladivostok, dated March ?, says that, according to pri- vate reports there, three Japanese de- tachments of 2,4OO men recently land ed at Chiungchan, Korea, about 13O miles north of Wonson Gensan), with the supposed object of reaching the valley of the Tumen river and threat ening Hunchun, Manchuria, nine miles north of the Korean boundary and about eight miles west of Vladivostok. 1 Searching For Mrs. Smiths Slayer.
 LONDONDERRY, N. H., March B. The Rockingham county officials have