Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-06-03
The RUSSO JAPANESE WAR.
EVENTS OF A WEEK In THE FAR EAST CONCSELY TOLD.
Japs Take Kin Chow
Dany also Occupied

ments, and there were also two bat
teries of quick-fring field pieces.
The artillery was sheltered behind
loopholes trenched on the terraces of
the hill. The infantry manning the
field pieces ran with them around
the hill, thus using these guns for
the protection Of the most important
points.
Japan paid heavily for her victories
at Kin Chow, Nanshan and Talienwan,
losing $500 men in killed and
wounded in the repeated assaults
against these positions, but she
scored a sweeping and valuable VIC
tory over the Russians, capturing
fifty guns, clearing the way to Port
Arthur and inflicting losses on the
Russians which in the end are ex-
pected to total over two thousand
men. The desperate onslaughts of the
japanese on the heights of Nansban
were telling, for the Russians left
over 500 dead in the trenches there.
NOW OCCUPY PORT DALNY.
General Oku, commanding the
army operating against Port Arthur,
reports entering Dalny on May
30. The Russians evacuated so
hastily that they failed to destroy
much property which will prove
highly valuable to the japanese.
General Oku's scouts report that
over one hundred barracks and store
houses remain unipjured. The rail-
way and telegraph stations, with 200
passenger and freight coaches, are
also uninjured.
The Russians destroyed the big
pier and blocked all the dock en-
frances with sunken steamers. They
destroyed all the small railway
bridges in the vicinity of the docks,
but left the jetties uniujured.
1t is evident that the Russians fled
quickly when Nanshau Hill was
lost, expecting that General Oku
would immediately take possession
of Dalny.
A detachment of Japanese troops
attacked and defeated 2 900 Cossacks
at Ai-Yang- Pien-Men northeast of
Feng Wang Cheng Saturday. The
began at 1890 and
ended at 1l:30 a. m. The Japanese
lost fourteen killed and twenty eight
wounded. The Russian casualties
are Lot known.
DALNY A UNIQUE CITY.
Unique among the cities of the
world is DalnY, which has now fallen
into the hand of the japanese. 1t is
a city that was built to order, having
been contracted for by the Cars
Government, just as New York might
contract for new reservoir or school. |
1t was built with astonishing
rapidity, and was designed with ex-
traordinary completeness to the last |
detail. That, before any trade came |
to the place and while only hand
full of merchants were there, a 40
foot pleasure drive should have been
cut through the hills for seven or
eight miles seems incredible, yet this
was one of the things that were done.
When Russia secured the lease of
Port Arthur and the adjacent terri
tory she determined to make the
stronghold exclusively a war port,
while at the head of fallen Wan
bay, about 20 miles southeast of Port
Arthur, it was decided to construct /
great commercial emporium, with
ample quays, warehouses, stores,
hotels and every convenience of
modern city. Dalny was to be the
great trading port of Manchuria, the
New York of the Far East, TO it
merchant ships from all over the
world were to come, and through it
Manchuria was to be opened up.
just how much money was sunk
n building Dalny cannot be stated.
The sum is said to have exceeded
p25, OOO,O 900, in spite of the fact that
abor is extremely cheap in that re-
zion. The barren hillside was con-
,erted into city, the mud was
iredged away to give more deep water
pace, docks were excavated, a great
'ailway depot was created, spacious
'ouleVards and wide macadamized
treets were constructed, and gardens
we're planted.
Dalny, which means "far away"
las been open TO foreign vessels for
hree years, but has never had any
opGlatlon to speak of with the ex-
'eptlon OF the Chinese and the Rus
Ian officials. 1t has been likened to a
;ity of the dead.
just how much of the city was de-
troyed by the Russians before thew
vaouated it is at present uncertain.
'ut, at any rate, the works on which
he greater proportion of the Russian
money was spent, the gigantic dredg-
ng operations, remain for the bene-
it of the Japanese.