Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-08
KOREANS RETALIATE
Russian Soldiers Killed While
 Robbing Natives
SECOND ATTACK ON VLADIVoSToK
Report That Americans Have offered to Fit Out ships With Letters of Marque to Frey on Japanese
 Commerce on the High Seas.'

Marque to Prey on Japanese
 Commerce on the High Seas;
 LONDON, March s-An official dis patch says the Japanese are again bonn. barding Vladivostok.
 A late dispatch said that the Japa. nese were preparing to attack again.
 A dispatch from St. Petersburg says telegrams received from Vladlvostok say that seven Japanese ships ap- preached that port at 10 o'clock yes terday morning, entered Ussuri bay and after some maneuyerfng steamed out seaward.
 It is reported from Seoul that the Russian soldiers operating in the vicin- ity of Anju are committing all man ners of excesses, maltrea ting the native women and perpetrating robbery upon every opportunity.
 Korean soldiers attacked body of the invaders and succeeded in killing ! thirty of them.
 It has been learned from an official source that the Russian authorities have been approached indirectly by American shipping firms desiring au- thority to fit out privateers to prey on Japanese commerce, but that they met with no encouragement.
 In just what forms these offers came or in whose behalf they were made cannot be ascertained, as the govern ment would not even consider them and has announced officially that Rus sia viii not issue letters of marque.
 The funds available for Red Cross work amount to S3,0OO,0 900. The scope of the work during the next six months contemplates the expenditure of $4,- 100000.
 Up to late hour the Japanese lega- ton here had received no official in- ! formation regarding the bombardment of Vladivostok. It is believed at the legation, however, that the Japanese are now between the Russian cruiser squadron and Vladivostok, and there is reason to believe that the Russian squadron is in the vicinity of Possiet bay.
 Russian official dispatches do not mention this squadron, and this fact l lends color to the belief that the Japa- nese warships have shut it out of Vlad- tvostok.
 It is pointed out at the legation that if this is true the Russian vessels are in a critical condition since they must run the gantlet of the Japanese squad ron off vladivostok or the Japanese squadron off Port Arthur before reach. ing Russian port.
 A cable from Pingyang, Korea, says 1 that 2,000 Russian cavalrymen, with seven guns, have retreated through l Kusong and Sonchon toward Wiju. They destroyed the telegraph lines.
 A Tokyo bulletin says: Ut is believed that the Vladivostok squadron is now in the vicinity of the mouth of the Tumen river engaged in covering the movements of Russian 1 troops from Possiet bay to the valley of the Tumen.''
 N A Chefu report says it is expected that the Japanese will reach the left bank of the lower Yalu on Thursday, 1 A large force of Russians is strongly { intrenched on the hills in the Antung district, adjacent and parallel to the river Their position is similar to that which the Boers held on the Tugela river
 A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that the czar has received telegram l to the effect that the Japanese fleet bombarded Vladivostok all day yes l terday. Only trifling damage was in 1 dicted, but one orsstwo Japanese cruis- CTS were sunk / A Tokyo dispatch says Japanese squadron has taken possession of Hai yangtao, one of the Elliot group of is. lands. They found only stores of coal and signaling flags there, the Russians having evacuated the island.