Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-04-06
WIJU DESERTED.
Japanese Scouts Found That
Russian Forces Had Fled.
Army Of Mikado Begins Its March
Through Corea.
All Is Now Quiet in the Thcater of
War.

Toxic, april 5.-NOOn.-Reports have
been received from Ping Yang to the
effect that when the Japanese scouts
entered Wiju, Sunday last. they found
the town deserted by the Russians. The
COrean residents of the town informed
teh scouts that the Russian forces OH
the upper reaches of the Yalu river
| consist of small detached parties.
st. Petersburg, April 5.-Russia has
completed arrangements through the
French minister at Toxic to appeal the
cases of the Russian merchantmen now,
| before the Japanese prize courts.
Three Japanese lawyers have been en-
gagged to present the cases. Appeals
will b made on various grounds. Most
! of the ships were taken before the ac-
| tual declaration of war, several of them
We're captured on the high seas having
| left Fort before the outbreak of hOstil-
| tiles and others were detained in Jap
anesc ports. notwithstanding Japan's
declaration allowing Russian ships in
port a certain period of exemption.
There We're experiments at the st.
Nicholas and Warsaw depots, today,
| in embarking troops on and landing
| them from trains, to determine the ra-
pidity with which mobilization can be
carried ont. Two battalions of infan-
try. two horse guard batteries of artil-
| Levy and Il squadron of cavalry were
allowed % minutes to board n train of
IS cars and II minutes to leave it,
The tasks were accomplished in the
specified time.
The LandstruEl, or second-class re-
! serves, OF this province will be given
six weeks training at the Krasnoye
Selo camp G6 miles from st. Peters
burg) beginning April 20.
The Emperor has ordered the pay
ment of 4 gratuity amounting tn IS
months Pay. to the officers and men of
the Naliag and Korietz.
st. Petersburg. April 5.-A cores
pondent of The Associated Press at
Port Arthur, who returned to the for
! treSs, yesterday, from an inspection
trip through Southern Manchuria, tel
cgraphs that that country is strikingly
| full of an unusual and active life, that
the troops are vigorous and healthy
and animated by a desire for active
operations and that the entire native
population. including that of the COM
mercial world. Is friendly to Russia and
full of faith i'll the Russian arms. The
correspondent says:
Russian money, which was shaky
Ut the beginning of the war, is again
firm. - din = aG&
The Chinese volunteer militia
formed there present a good appear
ancc, wearing Il special uniform with
the euralcttes bearing the Russian ma
tional flag. The natives provide pro-
visions freely and are selling horses
| brought from the surrounding country.
The Mandarins are an exception to this
general rule, as they are cautious and
arc trying to carry water on both
shoulders. AS their conduct is passive.
it does the Russians no harm.
The railroad holds out splCndidly and
works regularly. All the attaches of
the road being imbucd with the high
Importance of their task. Sentries are
posted at the boundary and are doing
duty in the neutral zone dividing China
and Manchuria. The weather is warm
and the rivers are open. In Port Ar
thur all is quiet and the inhabitants
have become accustomed to a state of
war, though some of them are impa-
tient that the enemy has been for SO
long a time invisible
In the second telegram the cnrre@-
pondent gives picturesque details of
the last attempt of the Japanese to
block the harbor as follows:
Following a reconnaissance our fleet
| returned and anchored in the interior
+, of the harbor. After midnight the dark
| ness became more profound and our
scarchlights were constantly in opera
| tion piercing the gloom. Suddenly IL
shot thundered and then a second and
| then a third. Golden Hill and Tiger
Cliff opened fire when the enemy was
discovered. From the battleship Pc
tropaulovsk a launch put off with Vice
| Admiral Mararoff and other officers
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