The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-05
THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

Che Foo, April 5-10 a. m.-The Nip pon Yusen Kaisha has resumed it's ser vice between Corea and northern China with foreign steamers. The first steam CT has arrived from Chemulpo, and from the passengers it was learned that the last contingent of Japan's first army landed in Corea March 3O The army consists of 50,000 men, including coolie carriers. Japan has made Anju a frontal base and has bridged the Cheng Cheng and Pax Cheng rivers, and is ready to advance by three roads to the Yalu river. It will possibly be a month, however, before a big battle will be i fought, as the artillery moves slowly on account of the poor horses and the bad management of the horses.
 Otherwise the organization of the Japanese forces Is almost perfect, An forward by coolie carriers. It was also learned from the passengers that work has been resumed at the American mines at Unsan.
 l St. Petersburg, April 4.-As the time approaches for the opening of lend op- erations on large scale, the Russian authorities are exercising greater vigil 1 lance to prevent tre news of their plans for the movement to and the disposition 1 Of troops in the theater of war from going abroad where they might be of service to the enemy. For ten days not a scrap of real information, except such as is contained in official dispatches, i has been given out or has come from the front There practically exists an embargo upon news dispatches, those coming through being colorless and de- |void of importance.
 Secrets regarding what is actually l happening are being well kept. It is las if an irnDenetrable curtain had sud- denly been rung down on the stage of war in the Far East. Behind this cer- tain the greatest activity prevails. Gen. I eral Kuropatkin at his temporary head quarters in Liao Yang, is directing the execution of his plans, moving troops, strengthening the positions selected, oil ling the wheels of the commissariat and quartermaster's department, perfecting 4 the hospital service and otherwise look l ing after the organization and innum- erable wants oe the army in the field. When the prologue is over and the real drama opens the curtain which shuts out the view of the spectators will rise and not before.
 General Kuropatkins plan of cam paign has been worked out and that, as previously stated in these dispatches, it involves the playing of waiting game luntil the dispositions of the army have been completed, can be stated with great positiveness. It can also be stated that these plans are progressing even more rapidly than expected. Ev- cry day is now considered distinct gain for the Russians and as distinct a loss for the Japanese. For this reason l it can be confidently predicted that the Russians will not do more than harass the Japanese advance in Corea. The gradual withdrawal of the Russians does not mean anything as determining the fighting capacities of the men of the respective armies, as this is part of the Russian tactics.
 The melting of the snow in a noun
 tainous country will render impossible III lllC SPIlil6 IllC lOcAA1o ONNl NiAiNAA eAhe Japanese must come, and this is con.
 sidered to be almost as effective an op-
 position as would be Russian army
 corps. The Russians also count upor a Japanese fanking movement in con nection with frontal attack, and therefore a Russian force has beer ! disposed along the Tumen to prevent
 the entrance of 8 Japanese column there. Another f1anking movement is
 expected at the head of the Liao Tune
 gulf near New Chwang, and everything
 there is being prepared to receive the enemy, but for the present the Russian I military authorities believe that the
 Japanese game at this point has beer
 blocked by the failure of the attempts
 to bottle up and render inmobile the fleet under Vice Admiral Makaroff which, while free, will be too great 2 menace to the movements of Japanese
 transports in the gulf of Pc Chi Lii. 1 Another attempt to block Port Arthur l is consequently expected daily
 One of the principal reasons for Vice.
 roy Alexieff's visit to Port Arthur, il
 addition to inspecting the ships and de. fences, is understood to have been fol
 the purpose of consulting Vice Admira
 Makaroff with view to devising plan.
 for defeating these attacks, and to thil
 end all additional possible precautions have been taken. Indeed it is hinted ir
 high quarters that the next time tht
 Japanese appear off Port Arthur they l will find surprise awaiting them. l Viccrey Alexieff has returned to Muk den.