Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-03-16
JAPS HOLD
THE PASS.
Oyama's Turning Movement
Forces Russians to Retreat
Fleet After ROjestvensky.

LONDON. March 16.-A Newchwans
dispatch saws that the japanese occu-
nied Tie pass Wednesday ut midnight
nv a wide thanking movement against
the Russian position. The movement
is expected 10 develop further impor-
tant results. cntslling the probable
withdrawal of the Russians northward
10 Hardin.
The Japanese. with their usual thor
~o,Irbness. did not hesitate to sacrifice
1000 men in order 10 gain the position.
The strength of the attacking force
presumably did not exceed IL division
and Il half. The defenders consisted of
the whole of the Fourth Siberian army
corps belonging TO General Linevitch's
command.
There are indications that General
Kuropatkin is sending his troops north
ward toward Hardin as rapidly rs pos
sible. The censor's office has been
moved above Tie pass, provisions are
scarce, and there is great activity in
the train service.
A dispatch from S%antoupou. north
OF Tie pass. says that after the evacua-
ton Of Mukden by the Russians eighty
foreigners were killed by Chinese, in
Guided in the number being Richard Ii.
Little, correspondent of the Chicago
Daily News.
Mr.. Little, however. has cabled di-
rect from Yinkow, saying that he Il
been captured by the japanese n
was being taken to Kobe. The cable
gram contained references which dem
onstrated that the message was from
Mr.. Little personally and that he was
alive and well.
1t is now definitely stated that En-
peror Nicholas has approved the deci-
sion of the council of war to send
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch to
replace General KurQpatkin as the best
means of putting II stop 10 the in
trigues and jealousies among the gen
erals of the army both at st. Peters
burg and at the front. General Sou-
khomlinoff will he chief of staff.
The fact that Kuropatkin was able
to %evacuatc Mukdcn with 10000 men
wounded and cXtrtrare his army from
the meshcS of the net SET by Field
Marshal Oyama, even with heavy cost
in mon and munitions. is looked upon
as q military feat CT tie first order.
a steamer arriving at Singapore re
ports having passed Il squadron OF
Twenty-Five Japanese warshipS about
twenty miles east Of the entrance to
e the strait of Maiacca. Two Japanese
: cruisers and two auxiliary cruisers
previously arrived ut Singapore. Pre-.
sunlably these vessels are on their way
westward in search Of the Russian sec
ond Pacific squadron, last reported in
Madagascar waters.
Dispatches from General kurOpatkin
to he cZar report that the Japanese
have attacked the central Russian po-
sitions ON the Fan river. which is ten
miles south of Tie pass. and We're re-
pulsed, leaving 1000 dead M the field.
The magnificent brigade of eau
casian Cossacks who bore the brunt
of the fighting at AlukJcn were prac-
tically annihilatcd. only two Of the
officers survive. All belonged to the
st. Petersburg nobility and hence many
of the highest families in Russia are
in mourning.
Generals Bilderling. Lincvitch and
Kaulbars have reached TELLING with 4
large number of troops in good order.
\ Hardin report says that General
Kuropatkin has only 100000 troops
organized and able to take the field.
He does not believe il will be possible
to remain at Telling and prefers To in
trench himself nj Hardin, where he
could keep III touch with Nladiyostok.
Captain W. V. Judson and Colonel
V. Hazard. United States army at
taclies to the Russian forces in Man
churia. who were captured 10y the Jap
ancse at Mukden. have reported that
they were captured. but are safe and
well within the japanese lines. The
whereabouts of Major VI. NJ, Macomhe
Of tie artillery corps, the third Of the
military attaches of the United States
army with kuropatkin. is not known.
It is presumed that he was not in Muk-
den at the time OF the capture of the
city.
A dispatch from General Oku's head
quarters says that up to the present
time 10000 prisoners and fifty guns
have been taken. .t..
Arrangements We're concluded at Il
final conference between representa-
lives of the Russian government and
of French banking houses by which Il
Russian loan of $120,000, 900 will be ne
gotiated at Paris.
A Berlin report says that the man
who was killed in the hotel Bristol
VI st. Petersburg by the explosion of
his own bomb vas n Russian by the
name Of Naumann and that he was Il
member Of the terrorist organization.