The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-10
JAPS ARE IN
MANCHURIA
MikadO's Army on North
Side Of YaIu.
SHELLS FLY INTO DALNY
Japs Now Appear to Have Made
Successful Push at Three
Points.
SHELLS FLY INTO DALNY

WASHINGTON, March 10.-The gov
ernment has received an official tele-
gram from Chefu saying that japanese
forces are at Fungwangchang and Ia
Eushan, both we'll into Manchuria. This
information, while received with. in
credulity in some quarters, is regarded
as of the greatest Importance If it be
true, the japanese have got in the rear
of the Russian advance into Korea
and are in position to control the south
ern end Of the road running by round
about route from Takushan to New
chwang, over which the Russian troops
now in Korea must obtain their sup
plies.
The reason for the incredulity men
toned is that Fungwangchang is far
from the place where the japanese adj
vance was last reported and a consid-
cradle distance in the interior Of Man
churia. Fungwangchang is on the
Great Peking road, which runs through
Korea, and is, in fact, the only road of
Importance in that country. 1t is about
1G5 miles northwest OF Pingyang, where
the advance Of the Japanese army was
encamped at last accounts and where
Russian scouts were encountered. Ia
kushan is thirty-fye miles to the west
Of the Yalu's mouth and a few miles
from the sea.
If the japanese are at Fungwang-
chang they are out of the mountainous
region that overruns most of Korea
and the eastern part of Manchuria.
How they got there is a mystery.
In some quarters the information
from Chefu is regarded as confirming
the report that japanese expedition
has been landed near the mouth of the
Yalu.
Reports have reached Commander
Sawyer of the United States steamer
Helena. at Yinkow, that the Japanese
and Russians have fought at Fung-
wangcheng, which is forty-five miles
northwest of Antung. Commander
Sawyer in cablegram to the navy de-
partment supplements this news with
a statement that japanese troops have
been landed at Takushan, a fairly good
port, about forty miles from the mouth
OF the Yalu.
A Tokyo dispatch says Japanese
warships have bombarded the forts ut
Talienwan (Dalny) and afterward
made an attack ON Port Arthur
1t is believed at Tokyo that there
has already been a decisive naval en-
gagement in the vicinity of Vladiyos-
tok, and tidings Of it are anxiously
awaited.
The Japanese fleet did not, it is said,
go to Yladivostok for the purpose Of
bombarding the town, but to locate
and attack the armOred cruisers Gro
moboi, Rossia, Rurik and the cruiser
Bogatyr, the Russian feet under the
command of Captain Reltzenstein sta-
toned there.
A dispatch from Weihaiwei says:
1T is reported on good authority
that collision between japanese and
Russian troops has occurred near Hal
ju, Korea, ffty-fOur miles northwest
of Chemulpo, which resulted In the de.
feat of the Russians"
1t is reported that the Japanese ad-
vanced from the Yalu river, captured
Fungwangchang and drove out the
Russians In the vicinity to the Taku-
ling eastern pass and are in force
seventy miles east Of Newchwang. The
Russians, with $4,000 men, are in
trenched strongly at Liaoyang and
Haicheng, where fighting is imminent.
Some small engagements already have
been fought, the Russians retiring,
with losses.
1t is said in London that IL the news
Of this strange and marvellous collapse
Of Russian power on land is true there
is nothing to prevent the japanese from
seizing Mukden and the railroad. There
has been nothing to compare with this
move, experts say, since Napoleon stag
gered Europe by appearing in the plains
Of Italy, having descended from the
Alps as from the clouds. Its effect
throughout the east will be stupendous.