Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-06-02
IN A SERIOUS STATE.
Sensational Statements About the
Situation In Russia.
EXECUTIONS BY THE WHOLESALE.

sIx Hundred Persons Hanged in Warsa'
Alone Russian Precautions Againse
Epidemics - sotnia Of Cossacks
Wiped Out-Battle Near DalDy.
London, May 26.-The Daily Mail
correspondent at Shimonoeski, Japar
under date Of May rs says that onl
minor operations are now proceedin
on the peninsula Of Lao Tung an
that the main attack will probably b
y postponed for some time.
The Standards correspondent at tn
headquarters of the Japanese frs
army, under date of May 20, says Their
is no change in the situation. Thu
Russians seem to be perfectly conten
to remain on the defensive and arr
vigorously strengthening their position
at Lao Yang as the base. They arr
q little more active, however, north
east of Feng- Wang Cheng, where the
X patrols of both armies are In touch
almost tally.
| The Standard publishes a dispatch
from a Russian correspondent in
whom, the paper says, 1t places great
confidence, containing most sensa-
tional statements regarding the alarm
ing condition Of Russia as a result Of
the war. The correspondent asserts
that disturbances in various cities
have been followed by wholesale exc
cutions without any civil trial It is
stated that 900 persons have been
hanged in Warsaw alone and that
many others have been hanged in
Cronstadt and Moscow. At the latter
place the troops buried so collins con-
tanning the bodies of those who had
been hanged. The bodies were buried
secretly, in the dead Of night, pre-
sumably in the woods.
This correspondent states that the
war has resulted in the utter paralysis
of all business and says that even the
most sober-minded are drawing
ominous conclusions from the signifi-
cant fact that regiments stationed in
European Russia have been retained
In their places and that only reserves
have been modified for the front
The Standard in an editorial says 1t
publishes this correspondents state
ments under all reserve, but 1t thinks
there are indications, such, for in
stance, as the sinking Of the battle
ship Orel, that the normal disaffec-
ton Of the population of Russia has
been greatly stimulated by the war.
Russian Precautions Against EDidemIcs.
st. Petersburg, May 26.-The great
est precautions are being taken to pre-
vent the outbreak of epidemics among !
the troops In Manchuria. Men espe-
cially trained in disinfecting are dis
patched to all the big camps by the
Red Cross society and, according to |
reports received, the sanitary condi-
lions are fairly good. Some sporadic
cases of typhus and smallpox were
segregated early. Apparently there is
no danger of an epidemic. The Red
Cross society has established 10000
beds in Manchuria for the purposes
Of the war and has divided the i'm
mense territory from the Volga to
Port Arthur and Vladivostok into four
districts, each in charge of superin-
tendent whose duty 1t is to forward
supplies and dispatch physicians and
nurses where they are needed.
A sotnia of Cossacks Nearly Wiped Out.
Lao Yang, May ga wounded Co.'S
sack who arrived at the village of
Sayolentsi reports that a fight took
place north of Takushan on May 20 in
which the japanese ambushed sotnia
Of Cossacks and nearly wiped them
,ut The Cossacks were patrolling to
he north Of Takushan for a distance
# 10 miles when they fell in with three
,quadrons of Japanese cavalry, who
-etreated. The Cossacks followed and
ell into an ambuscade, body Of jap
lnese infantry being concealed. Com
nander Beckromesheff ordered his
men to draw their sabers and cut their .
way out when his horse was shot I'M
Ter him. He had just time to order
he sotnia to scatter when he fell {
wounded. The Japanese then closed In {
N two sides, firing volIeys in close /
ange. The two remaining officers fell I
md the sotnia retreated with the loss I
4 three officers and 80 men.
A Battle Fought Near Dalny.
Chefoo, May ga junk which left
)alny on the night of the 23d and ar
ived yesterday reports that the jap J
nese army reached Sansuripo, north .
{ Dalny, that the Russians offered q l
tubborn resistance and that a battle i
7as fought at noon on the 22d, the 7
esult Of which has not been learned. o
London, May T.-No authoritative b
confirmation of the capture Of Kin b
thou by the Japanese has yet been re- Z
.eived from any quarter. circumstan- a
ial accounts of the storming and cap