Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-28
BIG FIGHTS
NEARLY DUE
JAPANESE OPERATIONS TO BE-
GIN SIMULTANEOUSLY AT
THREE POINTS.
WILL GO AGAINST PORT ARTHUR
TRANSPORTS LOADED WITH 3d.
600 JAPANESE HEADED
NoRTHWARD.
POLES HANGED BY RUSSIANS
ENERGETIC MEASURES TO PRE-
VENT SERIOUS OUTBREAKS
IN RUSSIA.
POLES HANGED BY RUSSIANS

London, April &c. - The Chronicle
correspondent, cabling from Seoul un-
der date of April Is, says:
81 have excellent authority for stat
ing that the Japanese military actions
will commence almost simultaneously
at three points. The first division,
now at Wiju, is ready to the
Yalu. II consists of at least $4,000
men. The second division is provided
with six-inch guns destined for Port
Arthur. They will probably land on
both sides of the peninsula. The
third division will land at Takusban
or in that neighborhood. These three
divisions are all expected to have i'm
portant engagements with the enemy
within a week.
Poles Killed by Russians.
st. Petersburg, April 26.-Eighteen
Poles have just been hanged at War
saw after having been convicted Of a
revolutionary plot. Unrest continues
throughout Russia, and serious out
breaks are prevented only by the most
drastic measures.
Jap Transports Seen.
Shanghai April 26.-Spies informed
the Russians at Kinchow yesterday
that Japanese warships conveying
transports with 10000 troops on board
we're steaming northward. The news
caused a panic. Viceroy Alexieff or
dered a strict watch to be kept all
along the coast.
Russian torpedo boats stopped the
newspaper dispatch boat Fuwan off
Port Arthur yesterday, and, after
searching the vessel, allowed her to
proceed.
Japanese troops that have arrived
at Yongampho that the
Russians are in force near Yatungkau,
on the Manchurian bank Of the estu-
airy of the Yalu river. Russian mines
are visible in the Yalu at ebb tide.
vIadivostok Expects Thaw.
London, April 26.-The Daily Mails
correspondent at Hakodate says that
important preparations are being
made there. 1t is presumed the OBJ
jective point of attack is Vladivostok,
where a thaw is imminent.
The correspondent of the Daily
Mail at st. Petersburg cables as fol-
lows:
There is no fresh news from the
Yalu. No credence is to be attached
to the reports of serious fighting in
that district. Indeed, the latest Of
fetal news definitely stated all was
Denied by Russians.
The Daily Mail correspondent at
te~legraphs that the Rus
sian military authorities deny the re-
ports about the Japanese cruisers and
having been see off this
coast. The truth is that some vessels
Of the Chinese squadron from Chefu
have been p~atroling the west coast of
the Gulf of -echili.
Mai. Reichmand OF the United
States army has arrived here. being
attached to the Russian headquarters
at Liaoyang. Two suspected Ameri-
cans have been ordered to leave town
Immediately on a charge of commune
eating news to Japanese staff officers
at Tien-tsin. Other peacable citizens
remain unmolested.
In Case OF Retreat.
Paris. April 26. Petit Parisiane's
st. Petersburg correspondent says
that owing to complications with
China the war minister has ordered
the mobilization of another army
corps and the formation of special
regiments to constitute the following
columns with headquarters at Irk-
tusk and Baikal. thus commanding
the Urga and Pekin roads and pro-
tccting the communications OF the
Russian army in case of retreat. The
government. he adds, has received an
offer from foreign shipbuilders to de-
liver Immediately two submarines.
four destroyers and six sea-going tor,
pedo boats. The naval reserves in the
st. Petersburg district have been en-
tirely modified.
Japanese on the AIort.
London, May 26.-The Far Eastern
dispatches this morning are chiefly
concerned with reports and specula-
lions concerning Japanese landings