Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-09
JAPS MISSED CHANCE
Laudingat Head of Liao-T -Tung
Gulf Not Anticipated
SEEAFLANK MOVEMENT
RUSSIANS CALCULATING JAP AD-
VANCE FROM KOREA.
Bad Roads and Poor Accommodations
Along Yalu-Naval MOBILIZATION
Eastertide Ceremonies.

PARIS, April 9-The second Japanese
army according to the st. Petersburg cor
respondent of the Temps. is now landing IN
Korea.
Extensive army maneuvers, the eorre-
spondent adds, are being organized for
Findland, where a large force of reserves is
cautioned.
ST PETERSBURG, April 9.-The best
Informed military circles no longer antici-
pate a Japanese landing at the head of the
Iao-Tung gulf They believe the japanese
have missed their opportunity, the Russians
being now too strong
A Russian officer who accompanied the
Japanese armies during the war with China
said:
81 witnessed the Japanese landing at Wef-
Hai-Wei. 1t was eXcellently performed,
but there was no enemy to offer resistance,
the Chinese having fed. Yet it required
four DAYS to disembark q, 600 men. If the
japanese attempt to land anywhere wlthn
striking distance of New Chwang we can
easily concentrate force to oppose them
faster than they can disembark.
The opinion now is that the Japanese
will try a thanking movement from TaF<u-
shan west of Antung. at the head of the
Gulf of Korea, in connection with their
advance on the Yalu river, but the authorl-
ties here make no display of nervousness,
nonifesting the utmost confidence in the
plan Of campaign marked out by Gen.
Kuropatkin.
Fearful Condition of Roads.
A correspondent of the Associated Press
with the Russian outposts, writing from
Antung on the Yalu river, under date of
March 49, describes the fearful state of the
roads and the journey from Feng- -Huang-
Cheng to Antung. which he says is impos-
sibe for vehicles.
The correspondent depicts Antung as a
miserable collection of novels, the inhabi-
tants of which, on account of the scarcity,
cannot afford timber for fires and use
straw instead. The country between Feng-
Huang-Cheng and Antung is sparsely set
tied. The Chinese avoid the high roads,
preferring the mountain Businesses. MIX,
butter and eggs almost unknown.
Naval Mobilization.
The naval mobilization was gazetted to-
day. 1t refers only to officers and men of
the reserve in European Russia and not to
ships. The mobilization is due to the neces-
sity for providing full crews for the BBlack
sea and Baltic fleets, which will go into
commission at the opening of navigation.
1t is an open secret now that several
thousands of sailors belonging to these
fleets, which had been laid up for the win
ter were sent to Vladivostok or Port Ar
thur TO supply the place of time-eXpired
men as well as the places of those wounded
or otherwise incapacitated
The men now called out will also be used
to furnish an adequate reserve when the
European fleets so into commission. In
few days those of the reserves called
the colors who are rusty will be placed on
board the ships which are to remain here,
while the officers and men who have seen
active service will be concentrated on board
the ships which are designed to reinforce
Vice Admiral Makaroff during the coming
summer
Easter Ceremonies.
Great preparations are making for the
big Easter feasts after midnight tonight
This morning at o'clock in all the or
thodox churches occurred the ceremony OF
the burial of Christ. Preceded by the
clergy bearing lanterns and silver crosses
representing the crucifixion and carried on
their shoulders, the bishops an ddeacons
passed around the outside of the churches
followed by long funeral procession
after which the crosses were borne inside
and were deposited in the sepulchres
During the day there were no services III
the churches, which remaieneed compieteiy
dark save for a few stray lighted Candies.
Nevertheless they were constantly niieu
with people, many of them Frustrated IN
prayer.
All the papers express the hope that the
sound of the church bells at Eastertde be
not broken by the booming of guns at Fort
Arthur. The Lfstok says:
Let us hope that the God of peace ewill
softeen the hearts of our foes at least on
Easter morning.