Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-08-05
Troops on Island of Si1hslia Surrender to
the MiksSs Cavalry.
HAD NO MEANS oIcARNG FOR WOUNDED
Surrender Inclbes All Stores, Records
and Men.
Jap ADVANCE BEGINS IN hhNCHURlA
simultaDsOa Movement Against Two
PAGES Reported Checked
wAasHlpy ARE OFF WADWOsToT
Squadron of Admiral ToEO's Victo-
riots Fleet Sighted Cruising in
Peter the Great
Bay.

TOXIC, Aug. 4-Noon.-A report, giving
details Of the final pursuit and surrender
OF the majority OF the Russian garrison
on Sakhalln island. has been received as
follows:
An independent cavalry column on the
afternoon OF July 8 attacked the enemy
south Of Paleo and routed him, driving
him southwark. capturing two field guns,
besides a number OF rifles and a quantity
on July % the cavalry, being reinforced.
vigorously pursued the enemy south Of
of Rykoh. The enemy halted at Onol
twenty-five miles south OF Tayalan, and at
8 o'clock on the morning of July 30 sent
q letter. under a flag of truce. to the
japanese commanding officer from General
Iapnon, the Russian governor saying that
and the consequent inability to succor the
wounded. compelled him from sense of
The commander of the Japanese force
replied. demanding the delivery Of all war
eminent. the nninjured and the delivery Of
all maps, records and papers relating TO
requiring their delivery in reply at 10
o'clock on the morning of July 81, other
wise an attacking movement would be I'M
Colonel Toiovltch, on behalf Of Governor
Liapnoff, met Colonel Koisumi the Japa-
July 81 and accepted the terms
Governor Liapnof, seventy officers and
300 men OF the Russian garrison then sur
The spoils, consisting of clothing. papers
and military supplies are now under In
vestgatlon.
It is reported that the advance guards
OF the hostile forces south OF the Tumen
river are within rife range. An early con-
hct is regarded as inevitable.
Japanese Go for New ship.
! NEW YORK, Aug. 40. Kamimura, the
Japanese commander. who in the battle
with Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron.
sailed the armored cruiser ,Tokiwara, left
New York today on the steamship Celtic
to take charge OF the new Japanese battle
ship Katori. now building in Scotland.
Lieutenant Commander X. Sato and other
officers accompanied Commander Kami-
mura The Katori, now at Glasgow. will
not be ready to put to sea for nearly year.
even should the Russian-Japan war
end Immediately. The Japanese officers are
sent to inspect the battleships completion
other passengers on the Celtic included
Mrs Victor r. Lawson of Chicago
Japanese Advance.
GODZYADANI, Manchuria Aug. A.-Dis-
patches received from Corea report that
the japanese have begun a simultaneous
advance from Kuanchoderi against the
Musariet and Piatsadang passes, but that
both columns were checked under pressure
of the Russian advance detachments. The
Russian losses, the dispatches say, were
Insignificant
Japanese warships are reported TO be
cruising OF the mouth of Peter the Great
bay on which Vladivostok is situated, their
lights often being visible from Russian
island.
Chinese arriving from the south say that
the japanese are most active in establish
ing trade relations in southern Manchuria,
that over a score OF large business houses
have been established at Yin Kow and
that 5000 Japanese suffers and larger trad
4 ers follow close on the heels OF the army.
- Almost tropical rains are falling in Man
churia and the hily regions are impassable
for trains OF artillery. Every mountain
path is a torrent and every valley a quag-
mire. Important operations apparently Will
be impossible for a long time TO come The
alienation Of rains and fervid sunshine
has a depressing effect on the health of the
army.
News Rt Washington.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-The japanese le
cation today received the following repor
!, on the surrender of the Russians at Ham
" dasa July 81:
The sakhalien aFmy reports that an inde
pendent cavalry force attacked and routed
the enemy south OF Palem on the Afternoon
OF July -, capturing two held guns, besides
on July % that force cooperating with re
Inducements gave hot pursuit to the enem!
10 the south OF Tauran. At 8 a. m. July
the enemy's parliamentiare came TO Taural
with a message OF General Liapnov tn,
military governor, addressed to the com
mander of the army stating that lack o
dressing materials and medicines and i'm
possibility of treating the wounded com
PEELED General Liapinov, out of sentiment
OF humanity, 10 ask cessation of hostili
ties. The commander OF the army repliel
that all military stores, all movables an
immoyables belonging 10 the government
and all documents concerning adminstra
tive and military matters must be deliv
cred, and that a reply. to the above be sen
10 Hamdasa by 10 a. m. July 81. On Jul
81 the Russian delegate, Colonel Trihit
came TO Hamdasa and after a conferenc
with our delegate, General Koidzumi, aC
cepted our conditions in totoA Liapinoy
with about seventy officers and 800 mer