The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-24
PFLUC DENIES.
Wires Correction of Numerous
Reports from East.
Declares Japanese Have Not
Crossed Tatung Pass.
HAS BEEN NO FIGHT.
Was No Engagement at Port
Arthur March 1S.
Report Of Battle on the YaIu Is
Untrue.

st. Petersburg, March 24-General
Plug telegraphs from Mukden under
todays date as follows:
There is absolutely no truth in the
report published in England to the eff
feet that the Japanese have crossed
the Tatung pass or that they have had
engagements with the Russians while
the statement that the way to the
Motienling pass, where a strong Rus
sian detachment is alleged to be sta
toned, is open to the Japanese, is also
pure invention. To the same category
belong the reports published in Lon
don newspapers from Japanese sources
of an engagement alleged to have ta-
ken place at Port Arthur March Is
and of the encounter at Choing-Siole.
on the Yalu river in which the Rus
slams were reported to have lost 800
men killed or wounded"
RUSSIA MUST FIGHT CHINA.
New York, March 24.-A communica-
tion from well known diplomatist in
Paris is published by the semi-official
post. says Berlin dispatch to the
Herald, in which it is asserted that a
most pessimistic view is being taken
at Paris of the tension which is de-
clared to have undoubtedly set in be-
tween Russia and China. All fears
regarding the attitude of China tow
ard the war seem, the statement con-
tinueS, to be approaching a realization.
Dispatches have been received from
Pekin stating that the Chinese govern
ment still denies any intention of
abandoning its attitude of neutrality,
but everything, the diplomatist AYERS,
goes to show that it is really only
waiting for a favorable opportunity TO
take part in the hOStifitieS
The Russian government has receiy-
ed similar reports from its minister in
Pekin and is taking measures in con-
sequence.
NEWSPAPER BoYCOTTED.
Tien Tsin, March 24.-Viceroy Yuan
has prohibited the Chinese from pur-
chasing the Chinese newspaper Chip
pao on the ground that it had publish
bad conduct of the imperial troops on
the border which tended he claimed
TO excite the people.
REFUSED A PASSPORT
New York, March 24.-The ministry
of foreign affairs has refused the Rus
sian military attache a passport to in
spect the Chinese forces in ManchuIia
and Mongolia, cables the Herald's Pc
kin correspondent. He has, however,
been furnished a Chinese escort to ac-
company him on the same inspection.
CHINESE ARE PUZZLED.
Pelxin, March 24.-The Russo-Jap-
anese notifications regarding contra
band of war differing somewhat, the
Chinese government has applied to Sir
Robert Hart inspector general of GUS
toms in China for advice in the mat
ter. Sir Robert has advised it to pro-
hibit the giving of any assistance to
Japan according to the Russian notifi-
cation or to Russia according 70 the
Japanese notification. Pekin should
also, he suggested. be placarded with
notices prohibiting the natives from
assisting either of the belligerents.
= PERSISTENT RUMOR.
Berlin, March PA special dispatch
from Yokohama repeats the report
sent from Toxic that the japanese
made an attack on Port Arthur March
Is and sank a Russian battleship.
WAR TAXES DISCUSSED
Toxic. March 24.-The house com
mittee investigating the charge that