Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-02-11
jAPS ARE VICTORIOUS
OVER RUSSIAN BEAR
They Put Several of Cars
Ships Out of Business.
RUSSIAN VICTORY ON T4E YALu.

Private Advces Received at Vladivo
stock State that ChemuIpo, Korea.
Has Been Occupied by Russian Sol
diers and Marines.
London, Feb. 10-A special dispatch
from Toxic, dated today, says it is
reported that three transports of the
Russian volunteer fleet, conveying
about 1000 troops, have been captur
ed by the Japanese off the Korean
coast.
st. Petersburg, Feb 1O.-Some OF
the newspapers here print extras
claiming a Russian victory at Port Ar
thur. Three Japanese warships and
four torpedo boats are reported to
have been seriously crippled. One
reports says the Japanese battleship
Shikishima was sunk
The people are demonstrating, but
there is no official confirmation of the
report and the announcement is dis
credited.
YIadivostoclz, Feb. 10.-Private tele
grams received here report the com
plete rout of the Japanese by the Rus
SLAMS on the Yalu river.
These adyices also claim that Che
mulpo, Korea, has been occupied by
Russian soldiers and marines.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 1O.-No further
details of the fighting off Port Arthur
have been made public here beyond
the official bulletins.
kilograms from abroad concerning
the attacks have been received. A
newspaper dispatches over the Siberi.
an line have been stopped and the
telegraph office refuses to accept pri-
Vate messages for the Far East ex-
cept over the Persian line.
Scepticism is expressed in certain
quarters that the full extent of the
Russian losses has not been given
out, but in government circles the of
ticial bulletins are accepted as accu:
rately representing the extent of t.
disaster, the general expression being
that the Russian authorities did not
expect early successes, especially at
sea.
The whole city anxiously awaited
last night for official news. Extraor-
dinary scenes were witnessed in and
around tn newspaper offices and
crowd of people literally besieged the
ministry OF the interior, where the Of
fetal Messenger is published, smart
carriages driving up in quick success
sion and the highest and lowest of the
inhabitants waiting in the ante room
or camping in the snow-covered
street waiting patiently far into the
morning for the numbers containing
the official bulletins. The text OF
these communications had leaked out
among the newspaper men, but as the
law fOrbids publication of such docu
ments until they have appeared in
the Official Messenger, the editors had
to wait until the government organ
printed the news before starting their
own presses.
The Associated Press representa-
tive, calling on we'll known editor.
found him surrounded by a throng of
officers and prominent citizens implor-
ing him to read to them the telegram
he had just received. The editor.
pale with emotion, recited the nara
tive of the bombardment of Port Ar
thur. More people kept coming in
and the editor was compelled to read
1t over and over again. The crowds
expressed furious impatience at the
fact that nothing was said about in
jurtes inflicted upon the Japanese
warships.
The intense indignation with which
the news Of "The stab in the back in.
f1icted by Japan" was received here
seems to be general throughout the
Russias. The whole empire is fired
by the war fever
The state of feeling here was illus.
trated at the theaters last night when
people demanded the national anthem.
JAPAN WINS FIRST BLOOD.