The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-07-20
.JAPS AT
TATCHEKIAO
An Engagement with Gen.
KelloS' Forces.
TROUBLE FOR RUSSIA
Britain Is Aroused over the Seiz
ures of English Ships in
the Red Sea.
TROUBLE FOR RUSSIA

LONDON, July 20.-A Liaoyang re,
port says that a general engagement is
reported between the forces of Lieu.
tenant General Count Keller and Gen.
eral Kuroki 1t is reported also that
an engagement began simultaneously
at Tatchekiao, from which the Japa-
nese for some days had been only six
miles distant
The Fengwangchcng road, which is
in the height of military activity, is Of
fensive with the odor of dead animals
The large Red Cross hospital ut Ia
tcheklao was removed to Mukdcn in
anticipation of the lighting Conse-
qucntly there is a large call for Red
Cross trains to proceed 10 Tatchekiao
The best information received here
indicates that the siege Of Port Arthur
is now being much more closely press
ed, and there are most oxtrayagant ru-
mors of losses on both sides.
No foreign correspondent has yet
witnessed even the simplest military
operation, but the correspondents have
been notified that they may 20 to Ia
tcheliao
\ Tatchekiao report says that the
japanese seem TO be moving their
forces nOrtheastward in the direction
Of Hiuyan and Simouchen. Fresh
guns, mules and ammunition are being
brought up daily and sent to points
where the Japanese expect to give bat.
tie.
The movement northeastward is con.
siderably impeded by Russian attacks.
At Siatziatun and Gaitziatun the
Russian gunners shelled the japanese
camps anu drove the troops out in dis
order. Many were killed, and large
supplies were abandoned.
Another Japanese party was surpris-
ed at Kaimahe and Tunchemalin
while marching in the mountain detiles
to join General Nodzu.
a Suez special report says.
The German steamer Sambia has
been seized by the Russians and is ex-
pected here today
a dispatch from ConsmntinopIe
says:
~ Russian cruiser has just passed
through from Odessa with several
guns covered with canvas on her deck.
She also carried torpedo tubes"
international complications. the pos
sible demand hy Japan for British co..
operation under the treaty Of alliance
and the likelihood Of q vigorous policy
as to Russias seizure of British ships
in the Red sea were regarded here as
sufficiently within range to cause a
sharp decline IN cousols and Other
gilt edged securities
Some relief was afforded To public
uueaainess when the foreign office au-
thorzed the statement that there was
absolutely no truth in the story circu-
lated in the United States by a news
agency that Great Britain had inform
ed Germany OF the dispatch of a Brit
ish fleet to Alexandria with the i'm
teution Of checking Russian ilegalities
in the Red SEA.
In official circles the recent seizure
and oyerhauliug of British ships in the
Red sen 10y the Russian volunteer fleet
steamers Smoleusk ana St Petersburg
are regarded as very grave internation-
al incidents. The seizure Of the Penm-
sular and Oriental steamer Malacca by
the St Petersburg ana her arrival in
the Suez canal as a prize OF war on
her way to Libau on the Baltic. have
come as climax, and the cabinet has
decided to take action
As result of the cabinet meeting a
strongly worded dispatch has been
drawn up, embodying the British gov
ernments formal protest to Russia,
and will Immediately be forwarded to
the czar by a kings messenger.
The cabinet is moreover believed to
have had an interchange of view with |
the admiralty and a programme of ac-
tion in case of eventualities decided |
upon.
Admiral Sir Edmund Tremantle in |
an interview, said:
Were l commander in chief Of the |
Mediterranean ut the present time l |
should take the law into my own |
hands. | would order my ships to !
convoy British merchantmen through |
the Red sea and protect them from in |
terference on the part of these Russian |