Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1905-04-05
EVERYTHING NOW POINTS I0PEACE
Conflict Between Japan and Russia Practically
a Thing of the Past
Cost Russia $1,75o,ooo.

Gunshu Pass, BY Cable.-The JAP
anese are again moving forward and
the Russia rear guard has fallen back
from its p,sition about 13 miles north
OF Sipingai GA miles north of Tie
Pass, to Chaoumiaodzi, which is sit
uated 40 niles below Gunshu Pass.
Practically complete reports show
that the kLssian army sacrificed gen.
eral comm ssiariat stores worth ST.
100000, an. stores for the army corps
amounting to s5OO.OOO held at Muk-
den. Most of the stores were set ON
fire. Boots and uniforms were among
the stores. of which the whole army
was in ned. arriving from Europe
rour days before the Russian retire
ment from Mukden. Kuropatkin or
dered the emoval of the stores, but
the order vas not executed. An in
.vestigation will be made to establish
the respons bility.
st. Petersburg, BY Cable.-Roving
bands of PEASANTS continue to pillage.
burn and murder in the Chernigov
government and in Tamboff. Kazan
and other governments in the south.
The few tr'ops here and there are
powerless. The whole peasant pcpu-
lation is affected more or less. The
parish prieits, under instructions
from the H1y Synod, are doing all
possible to luiet the peasants, but
without makAg any appreciabe i'm
preston. With warm weather a cri-
sis will come especially if it is ac-
conpanied by orders for another ex-
tensiVe mobilization
In the meantime. the situation in
the Caucasus is growing worse A
state bordering on civil war exists in
the kuban territory, where the popu-
lation has BEEN armed for collision
with the soldiers.
In the Georgia, Mingrella and Ku-
tais territories. the red flag of revo-
luton has been raised.
At Yalta. crimea, after the popu-
iation had wrecked the vodka shops,
police quarters. etc, warships were
sent from Sebastopol. and marines
were landed as if in a hostile country.
The renewal of the bomb outrages
in Poland ami the open demonstra-
tons in Finland against conscription
are both REGARDED as bad and signifi-
cant signs.
with the Japanese Left Armies in
the Field, via Fusan.-The Japanese
army near Muklen is clearing the bat
tleheid, sorting the enormous quanti-
ues or stores and materials captured,
ana attending to the prisoners En-
giheers are randly repairing the rail-
road bridges across the Hun river.
which were bally damaged by the
Russians. Trains are now running to
the Hun river. They will reach Muk-
den In few days. The weather is
very warm. ana the ground is thaw-
ing rapidly, making the movement OF
guns and transport wagons difficult.
London, BY Cable.-A telegram from
northern European capital received
IN London says:
have just learned on reliable au
tnorlty that Russia has asked Del
CaSSe 10 act as an intermediate and
open peace Negotiations with Japan.
Dei Casse has signified his Willingness,
ouI considers that Lansdowne's coop
eidlioh Is essential to success"
London, BY Cable.-When the pros
pectus of the Japanese war loan of
? 3Ioo,ooo'oOO was issued, the neighbor-
nood Oh the issuing banks resembled
o,e scenes witnessed on first nights
at popular theatres. Long lines OF
people were struggling for admission
ana special forces of police controlled
.he streams VI eager investors. The
interiors of the banks were filled with
shouting crowds struggling to snatch