Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-16

ActIon Of Paris Interests Is Expected
to Exert Powerful Influence Tor
Peace-American Steamer Tacoma
Captured by Japanese-kuropatkln
Says Attack Has Been RepuIsed.
London, March ia Singapore !,
dispatch says four Japanese
cruisers arrived there today, bound
eastward.
Paris, March 15.-The postpone. I
rnent Of the Russian loan ls defln- \
Itely confirmed. This ls likely to
exert powerful Influence towards
peace.
Moscow, March ia violent
explosion occurred In theatre last
night: Several persons, one Of
whom was Injured, were arrested.
st. Petersburg, March 15.
1t is definitely stated that the en-.
peror has approved the decision
Of the council Of war to send
Grand Duke Nicholas NIcholaie-
kin. General SoukhomIInoff will
be chief Of staff. No dispatches
have been received from the front
today.
The question Of peace still en-
crosses the public attention but
the attitude OF the government Il
apparently remains firm.
Toxic, March 15.-The American
steamer Tacoma was seized by Jap
anese guardship yesterday. The TIA
coma is owned by the Northwestern
Comm ercial Steamship Co. of Seattle
from which port she sailed January q
with cargo of barrel beef for Vladi
vostok, 1t is said.
Japanese Attack RepuIsed.
st. Petersburg, March 15.--General
Kuropatkin in a dispatch dated March
Ia says: IA fierce Japanese attack on
the center of our positions at the Far
river, about thirteen miles south ol
Tie Pass has been repulsed and more
than 1000 corpses remain in front o.
our positions"
Japs Follow SIavs Slowly.
Tie Pass. March 15. - AS after th,
battle of Liao Yang, the advance of th'
Japanese army against the new posi-
tions of the, Russians at Tie Pass Il
very slow. The leading columns ar,
eight or ten miles southwark, and Ii
touch with the Russian van posts, bu
the operations at present are not serl
GUS. Field Marshal Oyama show
slight intentions of pressing his ad
vantage in an immediate attack o,
Tie Pass. 1t is possible, however
that wide turning movement Of whicl
reports are current, is in progress. i
such operations the Japanese have th
immense advantage of several base
and lines Of supply to which is no,
added the Sinmintin road, while th
Russian army necessarily is dependen
on one base and one line of commun
cation and therefore may easily b
outfanked.
Order Out Of choas.
In the grand army order is maxim
out ofchaos with remarkable celerit.
The plain in front Of Tie pass, whic
on March II, seethed like nest {
ants with the dense and confused mas
Of transports, artillery and troops
corps divisions and regiments bein
scattered and parties inextricably mir
gled, has been cleared, the regiment
reorganized, stragglers sent to thei
respective commands, organization
taken their assigned positions and Il
day the same soldiers who on Marc
10 became a terror stricken, surgini
disorganized mass Of gray at a fe'
| stots from little detachment Of ia,
anese or who even fed in panic, firin
indiscrimately in all directions as the
ran at the mere baseless cry
Japanese cavalry" are now gathere
singing about the camp fires with ne
courage, ready to oppose with stul
born resistance an attack on Tie pas
Lineyitch's Men Together.
1t is unfair to accuse the entil
army of this panic. General Lin
witch entered Tie Pass with his reg
ments in perfect order, with mus
playing and the men singing, an
scarcely a straggler was lost in I'll
long, difficult march. Other organ
cations made equally praisewortt
retreats, and especially the rel
guards of all the armies, who pc
| formed their difficult task steadi
and resolutely. There is much to |
said, also, for the panic-stricken conc
tion Of the troops. They were large
composed of undisciplined men ar
wagon drivers were mingled with IL
lsoldiers. -