The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1904-10-05

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Efforts by the Russians to retake
positions commanding the water supply
of Port Arthur have resulted in hard
lighting, the losses on both sidas be.
ing reported to lave been heavy
The Japanese retain tho contested
ground.
1t is said MAT heavy guns newly
mounted threaten the Russian war
chips in the harbor of Port Arthur
which may now be forced TO go out and
face the fleet of Admiral Togo. There
is a report that Japanese gunboat
was sunk by coming in contact with
mine south Of the IiaotIng peninsu
la; the report adds that portion OF
the crew were rescued.
Field Marshal Oyama has begun the
long expected advance upon the Rus
sian army at Mukden, and a coinci
dent movement against Sinmintin is
indicated by the fact that the Japa.
nese have occupied Siaobeyho, west
Of the Lao river. There is a conceI
tration Of Japanese forces in the vi
cinity of the Yentai mines and the ad
vance lines are being gradually pushed
eastward.
General Sakharoff in the dispatches
to the war office at st. Petersburg re.
peats successes in several engage
ments Of a minor character.
An undated dispatch from General
Kuroki,s headquarters reports that the
present Japanese military organiza.
tion Is as efficient as II has been
at any time since the war began.
There is no definite news from Port
Arthur. Change In the Russian min.
istry Of marine and in naval commands
are announced On high authority
New head of the admiralty, 1t is said,
will be Vice Admiral Doubasoff, an of
ficer of wide experience in war and
the present head of the technical
bureau Of the ministry Of marine.
Japs Fire on Burial Parties.
Russians residing at Chefoo claim
to have received information that the
Japanese losses in the last assault OF
Port Arthur which begun Sept, Is
were 1000.
A Chinaman who left the fortress
on Sept. 26 says that the Russian
losses were between 500 and 600.
This Chinaman says that the Japa'
nese were unable to remain in three
supplementary forts which they cap
tured and that they retired at O'Clock
on the afternoon Of Sept. 26, after en-
during several days Of tremendous
firing from the inner forts>
He adds that the Russians attempt.
ed to bury the dead on both sides at
night, because the decomposing bodies
seriously menaced the health Of the
garrison. The Russians allege that
it is the deliberate policy of the Jap.
anese to undermine the health of the
Russian troops by means of the odors
from the decomposing bodies and for
that reason they fire on the burial
PARTIES.
One Chinaman whR was a member
of burial party says that the Japa.
nese fired when he and other Chinese
attempted to bury the dead. He adds
that when the wind carries the odors
toward tho Japanese, the latter re.
tire.
Chinese say that the most severe at.
tacks were made on the supplement.
tary forts of the Itz and Anshu noun.
tain forts. The Russians had under.
mined the ground and several hundred
Japanese were blown up on Sept. 23.
Young Tolstoi a lingo.
Count Tolstois son, Leo, in an
article in the Novoe Vremya OF st
Petersburg, takes position dia.
metrically opposed to his fathers
ideas. He has just returned from see.
ing off his brother, who is departing
for the front, and writes of the touch.
ing scenes he witnessed at Tamboff
as the reserve men left for the Far
East. Young Tolstoi says the peas.
ants are united in agreeing that the
war must be fought out until Japan
is .subdued. He adds:
1t is a hard time for Russia, but 1t
is the period of her regeneration The
In hn fc w
such as Russia hasSpot seen since the
days of Peter the Great-a war for the
possession of the eastern shores OF the
European-Asiatic continent, just as in
the days Of Peter 1t was for the west.
ern shores. Just as in the war with
the Swedes we suffered at Narva, but
we conquered at Poltava, we are now
suffering reverses with the Asiatic
Swedes; but there will come a day
when Japan will be vanquished."
In concluding. young Tolstoi pre-
diets the triumph Of Russia, which he
declares is destined ito become, In.
stead of England, the greatest nation
in the world" He says the Slavs will
spread over and absorb all the neigh
boring people they have already sub
jugated in the Crimea, the Caucasus,
Eastern Russia and Siberia. adding;
Russia Is the cnly power destined
10 realize the dream Of world CON
quest"
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