Evening journal., 1904-06-14
RUSSIANS HAVE
QUIT YINK0W
Three Thousand Driven Out by
Japanese Bombardment.
aQUADRONs FIRE A TELLING ONE

So Fast and Furious Was the Rain Of
Shot From Togo's Fleet That Cars
Troops Had Barely Time to Save
Guns.
Tokyo, June Unsuccessful lombard.
ment by Japanese vessels of extensive
earthwOrks thrown up by the Russians
between the neighborhood of Kaiping
md Yinkow, the port of Newchwang
has been reported officially to the ad.
miralty by Admiral Togo. The bonn.
bardment drove 5000 Russians from
points along the line of temporary de.
fcnses toward the city Of Ylnkow and
at last became so furious the Russians
abandoned that port 1t was directed
at first toward the Kaiping end of the
line, but as the Russians retreated
northward the Japanese line Of attack
was extended so that the cars troops
were pursued for miles along the route
by the shells from the Japanese ships.
A heavy return was made to the Jap
anese fire by the Russians, who had
twenty guns, but the batteries Of the
enemy were silenced one by one, and
in many instances the Russians retired
so rapidly they hardly had time to take
the cannon with them. The japanese
squadron engaged in the bombardment
was maneuvered rapidly, and the last
of the stragglers was not in Yinkow
when the japanese began shelling that
city. An attempt was made by the
Russians TO rally, and a brief reply to
the bombardment was made from the
port itself, but the japanese fire in
creased in severity, and few hours
after the Russians were in full retreat
toward Koakhan, which is at a fork OF
the roads to Haichen and Newchwang
Land Movement Rumored.
No details of the Russian losses were
forwarded by Admiral Togo. The re-
port Of the result of the bombardment
reached him through the captain of a
foreign vessel from Yinkow. No fatali-
ties occurred on the japanese ships. II
is rumored a landing was made at or
near the entrance to Yinkow port, and
there are also rumors of land move
ment by the Japanese from a point be.
tween Kaiping and Yinkow in the di-
rection of Newchwang and Haichen.
\ forced march by japanese soldiers
along those routes could be made to
result in an early junction with the mi
kadO's forces moving toward Haichen
from the west, besides cutting off the
Russian force which has been referred
to i'm st. Petersburg dispatches as the
Port Arthur relief expedition" 1t is
possible General Kuroki's advance is
nearer to the peninsula railroad at a
point between Kaiping and Haichen
than has been divulged by the war Of
| fee.
The bombardment of the west coast
Of the Liautong peninsula between
kaiping and Yinkow was begun by n
brief attack on Wednesday last, in
which the Japanese ships shelled two
companies Of Russians engaged in con-
structing earthworks on Kaiping point,
dispensing the enemy quickly. Another
Of Admiral TOgo's sQuadrons two days
later bombarded the Russians near
YingchiDsu and Sanshakow for two
hours. The Russian defenses at those
points were damaged severely, and II
is believed the garrisons suffered heavy
loss in killed and wounded. Still an.
other detachment. Admiral Togo re-
ported this evening, attacked four Rus.
sian torpedo boats in Talienwan bay
near Shaopingtow. The torpedo boats
fled. the Japanese ships pursuing them
out of the bay and around the point
opposite Shanshantow toward Port Ar.
thur. The chase was abandoned be
tween the mouth Of Talienwan bay
and Lushunshen.
Between seventy and seventy-five
mines, Admiral Togo said in his report
had been destroyed in Talienwan bay
up TO date The japanese found thirty
floating mines and disposed Of them
safely. A few of the mines were float
ing toward Pechili gulf The search
for Russian mines was continued
through a heavy fog that hung over
the Korean gulf in the neighborhood OF
Talienwan bay until Sunday.