Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-06
RUSSIAN BOAT rs SUNK
aILIAK ToRPEDoED By THE
JAPANESE AT PORT ARTHUR.
Cars Troops Sustain Heavy Losses
Japs on the Liao-Tung
Peninsula,

A cablegram from Tokyo last night says:
The Russian gungoat Giliak was torpedoed
and destroyed at Port Arthur Saturday.
The London Daily Telegraph's Tientsin
CO, respondent wires:
-Four thousand Russians belonging to
General Stakelberg's brigade on May 81 at
tackled 1900 Japanese occupying a position
five miles south Of Wafangtien. The Rus
slams were repulsed. losing 200 killed and
400 wounded. The Japanese lost more than
100 killed.,
Various special correspondents in St
Petersburg report increasing depression In
Russia over the prospect of the fall Of Port
Arthur, and say that wild reports are in
circulation as to dissensions between the
general and highest officials concerning
questions of policy and strategy.
Russian Prestige Rests on Port Arthur.
The Daily Mall gives great prominence to
a statement from Russian correspond
ent," declaring that Russia will stand or
fall by Port Arthur as far as the govern
ment's prestige with the lower classes Is
concerned.
internal troubles are inevitable" the
correspondent says, should the fortress
fall. Count Lamsdorn displays a strong
personality, but his position is precarious.
and he is likely to be sacrificed as scape-
war has been conducted. Although 1t is
said that General Kuropatkin has lost ia
vor at court. no change in the commander
ship of the army is contemplated
The ST. Petersburg correspondent of Reu-
ter's Telegram Agency says that increasing
anxiety Is felt over the restlessness of Chi
rese troops On the Manchurian frontier.
The Morning Posts correspondent in st.
Petersburg goes so far as to say that Rus
STA is preparing to cope with a serious Chi
nese invasion. - -
Japs Closing in on Port. Arthur.
A cablegram from Chefoo last night says:
But two miles separated Japanese and Rus
sian armies on the Liao-tung peninsula on
June g. according to Chinese who arrived
here from Dalny. The Japanese army, re-
tnforced by the men who landed at Dalny.
occupied Twing-ching and also Sanchimpo,
several miles west of Dalny. They then
proceeded along the coast toward Port Ar
thur. On one side of the army are high
mountains. and on the other side Is the sea,
from which the Japanese gunboats are sup
porting the flank of the army. On June 2
the Japanese forces were within seven miles
of the outer forts of Port Arthur, only two
miles from the Russian army, which Is
ready to protest their further advance. The
Chinese believed that there would be big
ba tile at this point. 1t is also stated by
these Chinese that the Japanese have
moved their base to Dalny from Talienwan.
The larger Japanese ships are anchored
outside the sn aller ones inside the harbor.
II oops are being landed, they say. from
small vessels. apparently coming from
Pitsewo or the Elliott Islands.
Kuroki Recovering From Typhus Fever
A cablegram from Paris last night says:
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Echo de Paris says:
According to information received here
General Kurok had been suffering from
mild attack of typhus fever, but has now
recovered.
1.-The general belief is that General Kuro-
patkin will not advance to the relief OF
Port Arthur. In any case, orders to do so
have not yet been transmitted.
81 learn that England has obtained from
Japan in behalf of Russia assurances that
the. Japanese viii not destroy seals in Ber-
ing sea during the war.
ut is rumored that the army. corps OF the
St. Petersburg district will be mobfl1zed
shortly, have reason to believe that two
other army corps in the central districts
will also be mobiliZed."