The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-14
FIGHT DENIED.
Toxic Declares There Has Been
No Naval Battle.
Russian Hospital Ship Has
Arrived at Saigon.
WOUNDED on BOARD.
Reports Regarding This Also
Are Conflicting.
The Russian Main Army Has
Reached Kirin.
WOUNDED ON BOARD.


department pronounces the reports Of
naval engagement recently off
Saigon to be unfounded.
Hospital Ship at Saigon.
Manila, April I4-Rear Admiral
Train, in command of the American
Meet IN Asiatic waters, received a tele-
gram at o'clock this afternoon from
saigon, the capital and principal port
OF French Cochin China, reporting the
arrival there of the Russian hospital
ship Orel at o'clock on the morning
OF April 18. The Orel had many
wounded men on board.
A dispatch received on Thursday by
the Chicago Daily News from It's cor
respondent at Saigon said:
RoJestvensky's hospital ship arrived
mere w Wednesday night to take On
Doard provisions, coal and medicines.
1t VIII leave Thursday at midday to
re1oin the squadron.
No mention was made Of wounded
men aboard this ship.
StOessel on Trial.
St. Petersburg, April 14-There is no
truth in the report from Crac0w that
Lieutenant General Stoessel had been
dS a IormaItty. condemned to death by
the commission appointed to inquire in
to the surrender Of Port Arthur. His
trial only began today.
Speculation About ROjestvensIxy.
/ Berlin, April 14.-Admiral Rojestven-
SKY squadron is believed by the intel
llgence division of the German navy
/ department to be lying off the Cuvos
/ island, eighty miles south of AIindoro.
Philippine islands, Tecoaling and pre-
4 pairing for the last stage Of its long
/ voyage. Although these islands .belca9s5
/ to the United States they have fine an
/ chorage outside the three mile limit
/ with hard bottom at 20 to 25 fathoms.
! The German navy department received
/ in telegram today from one of 1he
East Indian ports an indication that the
Russians when off the southern end OF
! Cochin China April Il, changed their
/ course and headed on a course which
would bring theHa- to the Cuyos islands
! IN the northern part of the Sulu sea-
/ 800 miles distant in four days at the
rate of eight knots an hour. The Cuyos
islands lie tacticly IN such a position
! that the approaches can be easily
/ watched by the Russian scouts. Three
| cruisers, it was added, had been de-
tached presumably for a diversion IN
! the coast of Japan, probably in the
hope of calling of Admiral Togo in
pJ4suit.
A Friendly Act.
st. Petersburg, April 14-Dispatches
from Washington showing that Japan
officially. notified the United States when
the rupture with Russia occurred that
no act of hostility would take place till
after a formal declaration of war had
been made, whereas hostilities broke out
February 8, and the declaration of war
was not formally made until February
10, attract much attention here. Al
| though the dispatches arrived too late
for newspaper comment this morning
there is considerable speculation as to
| the cause of the publication Of the
| statement at this time. 1t is regarded
as a friendly manifestation towards
| Russia on the part of the United States,
Russia having always contended that
49,
Japan minister at st. Petersburg to For
! eign Minister LamsdOrm when he pre-
| sented the note severing diplomatic re-
! lations, in which he expressed the hope
that the rupture was only temporary
gave Russia no reason to anticipate an
attack without warning in the shape Of
| a declaration Of war.
An Ideal Base.
London. April 14-British naval Off
Ger who knows the China sea. well says
| that Making harbor, in the Pescadore
islands between Formosa and the Chi
nese mainland, which the japanese have
| chosen as one of their naval bases for
| operation against the Russian squad
ron commanded by Admiral Rojest-
venszy is an ideal base for torpedo op-
GRAFTON. The harbor is located in the
/ southwest part of the largest Of the
! Pesca dores and has a safe anchorage
I which runs back three miles so that it
/ is quite sheltered even from typhoons.
He thinks that the fact that the jap
anese have now revealed this position
! indicates that they are satisfied that
1 there Is no longer any possibility Of
| RojestvensIzy hearing Of it before he
arrives in the Straits of Formosa, the
southern entrance Of which he must
now be nearing.
No Word From RojestvensIzy.
/ St Petersburg, April 14.-4:23 p. m.-
The admiralty has not received any dis
] patches recently from Vice Admiral
| Rojestvensky
] The officials say that all talk of the
i emergence OF any of the interned Rus
sian was vessels to join Rojestvenslky's
| squadron Is pure nonsense.
Much satisfaction and admiration
were expressed in naval circles at the
! bold, direct manner in which Rojest-
/ vensky is carrying out the object of his
voyage.
The attitude Of indiperence in certain
/ quarters of society as to the outcome Of
1 the naval battle is arousing criticism
| and Prince Ouktomslky in his neWspa-
per, the Dawn, today takes society 10
/ task for its unpatriotic careless attitude.
Fought at Every Step.
Toxic, April 14.-3 p m.-The follow
ing official announcement was made to-
day:
| ftOur force advancing eastward via the
Fushtun and Hailung road encountered
and defeated the enemy on the morning
of the 18th at Erhoulu, seven miles east
| of Yingpan- The enemys strength was
one regiment of infantry, six squadrons
/ of cavalry and four guns. Our force
then occupied Tsangshih about 19 miles
east of Yfngpan. The enemy in retreat
ing toward Hailung fought at every
s.The enemy on the Kirin road has
! gradually retreated since the 11th, a
/ portion Of this force still remaining to
bar the passage Of the Yuishu river