Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-07-21

the fey eastern struggle are now
 among the most outspoken champions
 of a physical fierce that will prevent the repetition of the Malacca incident in the Red sea.
 Tn the hotels and restaurants of St. Petersburg the war is temporarily for gotten and nothing excepting the pos sibility of complications with Great Britain is talked of. The old resent ment against Great Britain, which had been much ameli0rated of late, be-
 came revived at the mere suggestion
 that that country was again seeking to balk Russia, but the official world
 which is charged with the responsi-
 bility is keeping cool and calm. Provided q blunder had not been
 made by the captain of the St. Peters.
 burg in mistaking British government
 stores for contraband of war; Russia
 will probably be prepared to maintain
 the justice of the seizure, but if mis-
 take has been made the government
 doubtless will order the Malacca to
 be set at liberty and pay the bill for l her illegal detention.
 Lord LaEsdowne's policy since the
 first whisper of war between Japan
 and Russia reached Downing street
 has been one of consistent neutrality. When the outbreak came it was a
 matter for no little congratulation, as
 frequently pointed out in these dis patches, that Great Britain had kept herself free from all entanglements thanks chiefly to the hurrying on of the Anglo-French entente, on the strength l of which the diplomats of both nations
 concerned believed they would be able to be detached as spectators of the struggle in the far east.
 The unlocked for developments in the
 Dardanelles and the Red sea embar
 rass Lord Lansdowne more than the circumstances themselves would indi cate. The government, weakened by l internal dissensions, could scarcely stand for a day against popular de mand for reprisals against Russia, and
 this very danger is being assiduously | fostered by leading government news l papers.
 l Special dispatches from Malta give | alarmist accounts of the hurried de | parture from that port of the British cruiser and torpedo squadrons. As l these movements were publicly an nounced before the seizure of the Ma lacca their significance does not savor of the ensational, though their pres ence at Suez or thereabout may eventu ally have no little bearing on the sit uation.
 A St. Petersburg dispatch says that
 the pressure on General Kuropatkin's
 southern front at Tatchekiao is being relieved and that the Japanese are l pursuing their favorite fianking tactics ! working around to the northeast as if l to threaten the communications be- tween Mukden and Liaoyang or to make a direct attack on the latter l place.
 General Kuropatkin having develop l ed the great strength of the Japanese | at Molten pass by Lieutenant General Count Keller's attack, reports that a considerable column of Japanese is advancing along the northern Saina- 1 tsza-L -Liaoyang road. This column has
 come in touch with General Rennen-
 kampff's cavalry near Sekheyan The
 Russians fell back before the advanc-
 ing column, some. thirteen miles to
 Houtsiatze, twenty-five miles as the
 crow flies from Liaoyang.
 A Yokohama report says that in con.
 sequence of the presence at sea of the
 Russian Vladiyostok squadron the steamers Winghang Hethdone and
 Lennox have been ordered not to leave i Yokohama.
 Bulletins from General Kuroki's field
 headquarters received by the British
 war office tell of another important victory won by the Japanese east of
 Liaoyang, this time at a point north
 of Molten pass, where Lieutenant Gen. eral Baron Hasegawa, with a brigade
 and q battalion, on Sunday defeated l 10000 men under Lieutenant General l Count Keller, with enormous loss to
 the Russians. This second battle oc- 1 cured on the mountain road from
 Samaja to Liaoyang. which runs north
 of the Fungwang Liaoyang highway.