The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-14

captured by the V1adivoStok squadron
while on her way from Puget Sound
ports, is a natural sequence of the in
depreciation of the Russian prize regu-
IlationS made by the court in the case
of the Portland and Asiatic line steam
| er Arabia, also seized by the Vladivos
tok squadron and other vessels, and
does not affect the ultimate decision
| into effect the notifications already
| decided upon in principle by the COM
mission here along lines favorable to
! the American and British contentious.
| Ambassador Mccormick has compile
| ted arrangements to send about 500
Japanese refugees, collected at Perm,
| to Germany, whence they will be ship
ped home.
StoeSsel Tells of Fighting.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 1.-THE emper-
| or has received the following dispatch
from General Stoessel commanding the
Russian military forces at Port Arthur
dated August 28:
Il am happy to report to your majes-
| ty that at 8 o'clock in the morning of
August 29 during a violent thunder
storm, the japanese again attempted
to capture our left flank positions, near
| No. l fort and Udan mountain. Their
attack was everywhere repulsed- Our
losses were small-three men killed and
two officers and SO men wounded. The
wounded were brought in and are be-
ing carefully tended. A number of
Japanese corpses would have been
picked up by us but the enemy pre-
vented us from so doing by opening
fire ON the hospital attendants who
been sent out under the Red Cross
flag"
Another dispatch from General
Stoessel to the emperor, dated Septem-
Der 2 says:
"On the night of September 1 the
enemy attacked Visokaya and Dlinna
tifications. opening simultaneous an
artillery fire on the forts and noun
tains. The leading files of the enemy,
with the Japanese columns leading
our batteries opened on them. The
leading files fortunately encountered
some automatic mines and many of
the enemy were blown into the air.
The attack was repulsed in an hour.
Our losses were inconsidera ble-one Of
ficer and seven men wounded"
Successor to Kuropatkin.
st. Petersburg, Sept. 14.-3:5O p. m.
There are rumors af1oat to the ef-
feet that General Nicholas Nicholae- |
witch, inspector of cavalry, may super
sede General KurOpatkin at the front. |
Nicholaevitch has great fighting rec |
ord. made during the Turkish war.
The reports, however, may possibly be
idle gossip.
Japanese Advance Is Slow.
Berlin, Sept. 14.-5:30 p. m.-Colonel |
Gaegke, the war correspondent of the |
Tageblatt, telegraphing to his paper |
from Tie Pass this "wednesday morn |
ing says:
1.-The Russian army is disposed south |
of this point. The Japanese have ad- |
vanced only about six miles north of |
Lao Yang"
Services for Japanese Dead.
Field Headquarters of the Second |
Japanese Army, Sept. 6, via FuSan, |
Korea, Sept. 14.-An elaborate me-
mortal ceremony in honor of the men |
of the Fourth division who fell in
hot f1o ha1 Three
and seventy-fve men of this division |
were killed at Shoushanpao, and Gen. |
Ogawa, who was in command of the |
division, was wounded. He was un- |
able to be present at the ceremony. |
After the performance of religious |
rites thousands of Japanese soldiers
saluted the memorial tablets of their
dead comrades.
Russian Force in Korea.
New York, Sept. IA Russian
force which left Hampung Saturday
has arrived at Pukcheng and Hoowen,
says a Herald dispatch from Gensan,
the effect that anxiety is felt over
uprising of the Tonghaks,
a Korean rebel society.
Word from Stoessel.
st. Petersburg, Sept. 14.-General
Stoessel, commander of the Russian
military forces at Port Arthur, under
the dates of August % and September
2, reports that renewed Japanese at
tackS on the fortress were repulSed
with small loss to the defenders.
Will Release the Calchas.
Vladivostok, Sept. 13.-(Delayed in trans
1.-The prize court has decided to
release the British steamer Galchas (cap,
ports to Japan by the Vladivostok squad
ROM and also the neutral portions of the
consigned to Japan consisting of flour,
cotton and timber is confiscated.
in order to allow its owners time
for an appeal from the prize courts de-
The Russian naval representative before
the court protested against the release or
the vessel.
Japanese Lost 1889.
Toxic, Sept. A.-An approximation of
the Japanese casualties in the battle OF
Lac Yang based upon reports eP fbs OF rr1in tns
covering the fighting from Aug;
26 gave the total of killed and wounded
at Il 539 men, divided follows: In the
center army, under the command of Gen
Nodsu, 1892 men; in the right army, IN
men, and in the left army, under the COM
mand of Gen: Oku, 7,6S1 men. These cas-,
ss4 t4it1f Officers i1 wounded The fact that the
army under Gen. Oku sustained the heay-
saults upon the Russian defenses to the
south of Lao Yang.
Baltic Squadron Held Up.
teEsbure g51n Sep epprrespondent feiegraphs that
the departure of the Baltic squadron has
at the last moment been deferred for sew
eral days apparently to await news from
the far east The fleet will remain for
the present at Reval.
Fighting in Kamchatl1a.
Petropavlovsk, Kamchatksi, Sept. 13.-
delayed in transmission.)- lin the middle
Of June Lieut.. Gen Gundusi of the Jap
anesa navy, with $50 naval reserve men,
landed on the west coast of Kamchatka,
plundered villages, expelled inha b1tants
and issued proclamations declaring the
sovereignty CT Japan over the kamchat-
xa peninsula. a sailing vessel with 100
Russian men and a detachment of 100 mi
litiamen was sent from Petropavlovsk
to the west coast to eject the japanese.
The Russians defeated the latter and cap