The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-31
RUSSIANS STILL FALL BACK
CONTINUE RETREAT BEFORE
 JAPANESE ADVANCE.

Four More Guns Taken-Force of 2,0OO Cossacks Defeated Northwest of
 Feng Wang Cheng Eight Russian Scouts Captured-Port Arthur Now
 the Main ObJectiye-Kurokfs Activ- ity Believed to be Feint.
 Tokio. May 30-3 p. m.-General Oku Gin command of the Japanese forces op- Ierating against Port Arthur reports that the Russians have abandoned Chen Ko Chen Pau, Huang Shang and Liu Shu Tun. No Russians have been sent east of Chen Ko Chen Pau. Gen. eraI Nakamura's detachment, which occupied Liu Shu run on Friday, cap- |tured four Russian guns.
 A detachment of Japanese troops att |tacked and defeated 1000 Cossacks at Ali Yang Pien Men, northeast of Feng Wang Cheng, Saturday. The engage ment began at 10:S0 and ended at 11:30 la. m. The Japanese lost four men kill- ed and twenty-eight wounded. The Russian casualties are not known.
 General Kuroki reports number of outpost affairs and the capture of eight Russian scouts.
 Liao Yang, May 30.-The impression lat the Russian headquarters is growing that the main objective of the Japanese lis Port Arthur, and it would not be sur- prising if the actual assault on that fortress began within a fortnight. No important movement of General Kuroki had been reported up to the time this dispatch was filed.
 Mukden, Sunday. May 29 (delayed in transmission) .-So far as can be judged from the grouping of the Japanese forces. the enemys attention is directed principally against Port Arthur. It is possible that part or the whole of the second Japanese army may be sent thither.
 Chefoo, May 30--S D. m.-Fronn Chi nese sources it is learned that the Rus sians have four lines of defense between Nanshan and Port Arthur.
 St. Petersburg, May So.-The war of fee has received the following dispatch from General Kuropatkin, under to- days date:
 T received this morning a report stating that the Japanese advance on Kwan Tien (northeast of Feng Wang Cheng) has begun from Saimatsza. The numbers of the enemy are not known
 The czar has received the following dispatch from General Kuropatkin. url- der yesterdays date: .
 "A detachment of Japanese cavalry, consisting of 150 sabres, moved forward from the main body on May 27 and ap- preached within eight kilometers south east of Wa Fang Hoon station, but on eneountering our frontier guards fell back rapidly. On May 26 Russian patrol heard heavy artillery firing in the direction of Kin Chou.
 According to information received by the Associated Press from a high source, important news regarding the Japanese plan of campaign which has reached the Russian authorities since the battle of Kin Chou, compels the conviction that the advance of General Kuroki and the activity of his scouts northwest and southwest of Feng Wang are parts of a we'll executed feint to prevent General Kuropatkin from detaching a strong force to ham per General Oku's operations on the Liao Tung peninsula. Under cover Of General Kurokis screens, it is added, part of the Japanese army landed at Takushan will be moved southward in to the peninsula, while Kuroki at tempts to make Kuropatkin believe that he intends to force a decisive en- gagement with him.
 This information would tend to prove that the primary object of the Japanese campaign all along has been Port Ar thur. and that once that fortress is in their hands, unless an exceedingly fa- vorable opportunity offers to attack Kuropatkin, the Japanese plan will be simply to make their tenure secure and force the Russian commander to as- sume the offensive. There is informa- ton to the effect that the Japanese propose to storm Port Arthur with the brieeest possible delay, after having first closed the harbor to render the egress of the Russian ships impossible at the last moment, thus forcing the Russians to destroy them without sub- jecting the Japanese to the inevitable losses which must occur if the Russian squadron gets out for last fight be- fore going to the bottom. The previous repeated efforts of the Japanese to "corko the harbor have been as much with the view of this ultimate situation as for protecting landings.
 KUROPATKIN' TROUBLES.