Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-07
PORT ARTHUR SIEGE
Japanese Land Army to AS
sault the Fortress.
RAILROAD AND TELEGRAPH HELD Vi
Gibraltar of Far East Is Now lsO'
lated, and the Garrison of 10000
Must Defend Itsclf-VicerOy
AIexeieG Left Hastily. 40

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LONDON, May IA special dis.
, patch from st. Petersburg says that
Port Arthur is cut of from all commu
nication by land, the Japanese having
disembarked in its rear, occupied the
railroad and cut the telegraph.
Vice Admiral Skrydloff, who is en-
route to Port Arthur to take over com
mand of the naval forces in the faI
east. will be unable to reach his head.
quarters.
The ministry of war has received the
following telegram from Major Gen
eral Plug, chief of the military staff:
according to the information l have
received, forty-seven of the enemy's
transports appeared opposite Pitsewo
on Wednesday morning.
ION Thursday morning the Japanese
began to land ut PitsewO and on the
coast neal Cape Terminal, about tif-
teen miles southwest of Pitsewo, I'm
der cover of artillery fire.
AT this time about sixty transports
were observed bearing down upon the
whole front, and our outposts retired
from the shore.
".All papers i'll the postotflce at Pitse'
wO were removed, and the Russian i'll
habitants abandoned the town.
According to Chinese reports, by
the evening of Thursday about 10000
of the enemy's troops had landed and
taken up quarters in the Chinese vii
lagos near the points of debarkation.
The enemy sent two columns OF
about a thousand men each, II in a
westerly direction and the other to the
southwark.
yesterday a passenger train from
Port Arthur was fired upon Il mile and
a quarter outside Polandien, about for
ty miles north of Port Arthur, by a
hundred Japanese infantrymen occu-
plying heights east of the railway. The
train carried many passengers, 200
sick occupying an ambulance carriage
sick were wounded. The train sue
ceeded in reaching P%olandien.
tranquility prevails In the mari
time province and in Yinkow."
This mornings dispatches received
from st. Petersburg say Japanese
troops swarming across the narrow
neck of the L%iaotung peninsula, the
railroad and telegraph communica.
lions cut and the Russian Gibraltar is
plated and left to its own resources, al
this the Russians seem to accept with
great StoiciSm.
These events have been anticipated
since the outbreak of the war, and the
authorities, I'm a sense, appear to be re-
lieved now that the blow has fallen.
They assert that the fortress is i'm
%pregnable and amply provisioned to
stand Il siege for Il year and that it can
hold out until the time comes to relieve
it.
According to official information the
landing of troops from sixty trans.
ports began simultaneously at Pitsewo
and Cape Terminal. 1t is also reported
that troops are being landed at Kin
chow, but this is not credited, as the
Russians are known to have fortified
tons there, and it is not believed that
the japanese had the daring to land
Immediately under an intrenched posi-
ton from which the Russians could
inflict severe loss on any army while
discriminating.
The Japanese landed in sufficient
force to discourage the few hundred
Russians watching at Pitsewo from
Offering any resistance.
a Tokyo report says Admiral Hose
va, commanding the squadron that has
been operating at the mouth of the
Yalu, tells of the landing of the Japa
nese troops. The report says:
discovering a number of the enc
my's patrols, we bombarded them TO
Il short time. and then a landing part.
) of sailors, Captain Nomoto leading
3 was ordered ashore.
1T being low. tide it was impossible
y, to use the boats, and the sailors plung
eel into the water, waded, breast deep
for about a thousand yards and reach
ed the beach at 7:20 p. M. Immediate
ly advancing, they took possession o
, Il range of hills without firing a sho
and planted our flag on the top"
From information brought from Por
Arthur by the Chinese sixty transports
are disembarking two divisions, mum
bering altogether 10000 men.
Only a few hundred Cossacks wer
9 on the beach when the Japanese ap
peared. They fired n few rounds ant
retired to the railroad.
The landing is proceeding unoppose,
: by the Russians.
While it Is not officially admitted, |
e is believed here that the entrance t
Port Arthur Is sealed, at least for larg
S warships.
Y Complete details of the landing ar
+ lacking owing to the interruption o
8 communication. No resistance wa
: made, the few Cossacks observing tn
t movement, retiring when the warship
s shelled the shore preparatory to dis
embarkation. .
The Japanese regiments were hur
ried westward to cut the railroad an,
8 telegraph communication. One of thes