Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-18
PANIC AT SUNGJIN
Five Thousand Cossacks Will Divert laps From the Yalu.
JAPANESE REGRETS FOR MAKAROFF
Korean Emperor Will Rebuild a Temporary Palace-Captain of the Mandjur Went Down In the
 PetropavI0vsk.

1 Hamgyung, in northeastern Korea, wires that force of Cossacks has ap- i peared near Sungjin. The consul at i Sungjin became heightened and wired Japanese Minister Hayashi for a yes sel to carry away Japanese residents. A steamer sent from Gensan has ar | rived at Sungjin and embarked the refugees.
 ! It is said that 5000 Russians are 1 following the advance of the Cossaclls with the intention of diverting the ! Japanese from the Yalu river, but this Is hardly credible owing to the possi- biltty of the Japanese landing and cut ! ting them off
 I There is no information here as to 1 whether the two English missionaries at Sungjin have left there. but there 1 are no fears for their safety. l Japanese refugees are arriving at Gensan.
 1 The emperor has decided to rebuild 1 only temporarily on the site of the j burned palace. The building will be 1 of foreign style. A stone building under construction will replace the 1 once beautiful audience hall, now 1 smoldering ashes.
 A report has been received that Port i Arthur was bombarded all day FYi- l day and that the action was continued Saturday.
 1 It is said at St Petersburg that on the eve of the disaster to the Petro- pavlovsk Vice Admiral Makaroff tele- graphed to the emperor that he was v F. Az. C .N~L la n%f AEN the enemy's fleet.
 A court story told here is that on hearing of the catastrophe to Makaroff ! the emperor wept and, referring to l Viceroy Alexeieff, exclaimed, That man brings us nothing but i'll luck. 1 It is also alleged that the emperor was 1 with difficulty dissuaded from remov ing the viceroy from his post.
 Captain Grown, who went down with 1 the Petropavlovsk joined that ship on i the previous day, having succeeded in l getting through from Shanghai where I he left his vessel, the gunboat Mand- I jur. Captain Grown was descendant l of a Scotchman who fought with Rus sia in the war with Sweden, when he captured the first Retyizan. | several eyewitnesses assert that a Jap anese cruiser has been lost outside of l Port Arthur by striking one of its own 1 floating mines.
 Advicss from Tokyo say that the Japanese are elated over the successes they have won at Port Arthur. They are also proud of the achievements of Vice Admiral Togo, particularly of his newest strategy of countermining the enemy's harbor and decoying him l across this field of mines to an equally dangerous flank attack.
 The success of the system of placing deadly countermines Is due largely to series of careful observations made by the Japanese during their previous :. attacks on Port Arthur. The Japanese 1 saw the Russian fleet leave the harbor and return to it several times, and they discovered that the Russian war 1 ships followed an identical course ev- l cry time they came out or went in, evil 1 dently for the purpose of avoiding their own mines. The Japanese took bearings on this course. When the de- stroysr divisions of the Japanese tor I pedo fotilla laid the countermines 1 during the night of April 12-13 they placed them along this course. The laying of these countermines was ex- ceedingly perilOus, because if any Jap- anese boat with mines on board had been struck by a lucky Russian .shot she would have been annihilated.
 The weather of the night of April 12-13 favored the work. There was a heavy rain, the night was dark and 1 cloudy, and the Russian searchlights playing over the channel failed to re- 1 veal the presence of the Japanese de stroyers.
 Expressions of regret at the death of i Vice Admiral Makaroff are general here. Speaking for the naval staff, l Commander Ogasawara has published lengthy statement, in which he la ments the death of the Russian vice admiral and pronounces it to be loss to the navies of the world. Command CT Ogasawara reviews the life, profes- sionaI career and the personal attri- butes of Vice Admiral Makarof and declares that he is entitled to be classed with the best admirals in the l world.
 The Koryu Maru, which participated in the latest attack on Port Arthur, is a torpedo depot ship, under the com mand of Commander Oda Oda is a
 mine expert, and the success of the
 Japanese countermining operations
 was due largely to his ingenuity and 1 bravery.
 Rumors at Port Arthur say that twenty Japanese transports conveying troops have been sighted steaming in the direction of Yinkow. They cannot
 be confirmed.
 The Russians impatiently await a l Japanese landing.
 Viceroy Alexeieff has hoisted his flag l on the battleship Sevastopol.
 The Easter gifts received from the
 grand duchesses have been distributed
 to the soldiers and sailors.
 The signal man of the Petropavlovsk,
 who survived the explosion describing
 the last moments on the ship, said: