Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-24
RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES plscov-
Err MEN WHO HAVE DAM
AGED WAR VESSELS,
LAND ATTACK ON
PORT ARTHER RUMORED
Story Adds That Japanese Were Re
pulsed With Heavy Loss But 1t is
Not Believed At ST. Petersburg =
Destruction Of Bosatyr Confirmed.

II = X Il - = *s*
St. Petersburg, May 23.-Inves- $
= tigation made by the authorities
$ into the recent attempts to destroy
M some of the vess els of the Baltic y
y fleet at Cronstadt has resulted in
the arrest of four Japanese spies,
* who have escaped detection by
wearing the uniform of the naval
cadets. The authorities here think
/" the Japanese have been harbored
* by the anarchists.
. st. Petersburg, May %. - The =
y report that Rear Admiral Jessen
y finding it impossible to save the 8
protected cruiser Bogatyr, which *
~ went ashore recently in fog on y
= the rocks off vIadivostok, caused *
& her to be blown up, is confirmed. =
ST. Petersburg, May %. - Ac- s.
s. cording to reports which have =
y reached the Russian headquarters x
* at Lao Yang from Chinese sources y
the Japanese have made land at-s
y tack on Port Arthur, but have been :
y repulsed with heavy loss. The y
. truth of the report is questioned =
here. :"
s. TOXIC, May 23.-The Japanese =
= who have landed at Taku Shan re-
port having been engaged in two =
y scouting skirmishes, during which y
* ten Russians were killed. About y
y 800 sick and slightly wounded men '
s. Of General kuroki's army arrived y
8 here today.
Che Foo Hay s23.-Forty Russians
who left Dalyn yesterday arrived here
today. Dalny has not been attacked
by the japanese. The japanese
troops met with reverse at Kin Chau
on May Is, but the Russians failed to
regain control of the railway.
Another Vessel Damaged.
They arespositive that another Jap.
anese war vessels was damaged at
the time the battleship Hatsuse was
destroyed. Civilians in expectation OF
an attack upon Dalny are leaving
there in junks.
fs.
Z Tolkio;i May 23. - During the recon
noissance of Port Arthur. made by Ad
miral Togo on Friday of last week, a
shell hit the torpedo boat destroyer
Akatsuki, killing one officer and twen
ty-four men.
kuroki East Of Mukden.
London, May 23. The Japanese
advance guard holds Molten pass
where the main road from Fengwang
cheng to Liao Yang passes through the
mountains.
Russian scouting paties are at work
seventy-fve miles northeast of Feng.
wangcheng. This indicates to military
observers here that Gen. Kuroki's army
is working around to the eastward OF
Mukden.
Japs in Molten Pass.
The Daily Telegraph this morning
prints the following dispatch, dated
May 19, from it's correspondent at the
japanese headquarters, which the dis
patch does not locate:
There has been no change in the
position here for the last ten days.
SOUR advanced division is in touch
with the enemy near Molten pass
where the Liao Yang road traverses
the defile.
"The Russian line extends from
Haicheng to the west of Molten pass
No Sortie from Port Arthur.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg ad
mits that the report of a sortie by tho
Port Arthur garrison has not been con
firmed. It appears to have originated
in the receipt of Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel's
report of the fight at Kinchou, this, to
eether with the fact that Gen. Stoesse
commands at Port Arthur, giving rist
to the rumor that the garrison hac
made a sortie.
Prepares for Long War.
Russia is preparing for two yea
war with Japan and if necessary an ar
my of 100000 men will be sent to th'
far east to overawe China, to guard tn,
railway communications, relieve Por
Arthur, and drive the Japanese armie
into the sea.
The war temper of the Russian EN-
pire has been thoroughly aroused b.
the succession of reverses in Man
churia. Military men are no loude
than civilians in demanding reveng
for the defeats on land and sea.
viii Call Out Reserves.
The cry is for more troops" "mor
troops"
Plans are being hurried at the wa
department, in ST. Petersburg for th
mobilization of the entire body of Rus
Z sian reserves.
The orders calling the reserves Q
the st. Petersburg district will, it i
stated in dispatches from the Russia
capital, be issued in a few days.
Trial of Endurance.
The war with Japan has reache