Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-01-16
MISCHTSCHENKORAID
Russian Leader, With 10000
5Cossacks, In Lao Plains.
HAVE VIOLATED CHINESE TERRITORY
Cars Cavalry Column Surprise and
XIII a Hundred Chunchuses-StOes- ,
sci Arrives Mt Nagasaki-Japs-
nese Defeat Near Tasudyapu. .

nese Defeat Near Tasudyapu.
LONDON. Jan. 16.-A Newchwang re
port says that General Mischtschenko
with 10000 COssacks, has deliberately
invaded the territory Of China, n neu
trail country, and broken the limit Of
the war zOne in his recent cavalry raiG
against the Japanese forces on The
| plains of the Lao river district.
The force crossed the Hun river an6
| swept southwark over the Lao plair
in three columns, commanded by Gen
erals Samsonoff, Abramoff and Tyeles
choff.
The front extended five miles, one OF
the most magnificent sights Of the war.
At S O'Clock in the morning they
came into contact with c~hunchuses.
| Captain Chaplin, formerly of the artil'
| lery at Warsaw. ut that moment III
| control of the machine guns of the
Degistan regiment. was shot through
the heart by the first FIRE. The Degistan
regiment. commanded by Colonel bunt'
ing, charged with extraordinary SWIFT
ness and fierceness.
The c%hunchuses. well drilled ana
| armed with MarAers, resisted bravery.
| but 100 of them were cut to pieces.
| They numbered 800. A Japanese flag
was captured from them. Some Jap
anese were killed among the nun
,huses.
Farther south the right aud central
columns attacked the walled village of
ShontoZe. al the bar of the confluence
If the Taitse river with tho Liao. The
village was held by 800 Japanese IN
fantry. who resisted stubbornly, but
were driven out.
A Tokyo report says that the Rus
sian note to the powers calling atten-
ion TO China's nonenforcement of leu
.rality is regarded there AZ absurd. 1t
S felt that China's weakness and on
slant failure to enforce neutrality must
'eleasc Japan from obligations to OBJ
serve restrictions which Russia open
" ignores.
A Na2asaki dispatch says that the
Japanese transport kamakuru, from
Port .Dalny. with General Stoessel, his
wife and many other prisoners OH
BOARD. has arrived there.
A report from Tnsudyapu says that
FOR a Whole day the Japanese lombard.
I'd the Russian positions to the right
md left of the railroad with unaccus-
:6med vigor.
\ Japanese, regiment then advanced
II the face of n furious fire from bat
cries and rifles. drove back the Rus.
San oitposts, who drew Oh the Japa.
iesc to a masked battery. and later al
owed them to come on suddenly. when
be Russians opened a murderous fire,
he infantry at the same time falling
m the japanese tanks. The Japanese
'egiment was almost completely an
INFLATED, and the survivors fed in
Wild disorder. leaving heaps of dead
md wounded on the field.
\ st. Petersburg dispatch says that
Emperor Nicholas has addressed a
'escript to the army and navy prais-
ng and thanking the garrison of Port
Arthur for its prolonged defense.
The tone of the rescript addressed
by Emperor Nicholas to the army and
navy is regarded here Ms putting an
END to all present hopes Of the posi-
bility of mediation o peace and as IN.
iicatIng the likelihood that General
Kuropatkin o o will resume the Of
fensive.
The war office at st. Petersburg does
not admit the appearance OF General
Observation-Disclosures cavalry southwest of
Liaoyans il more than q raiding expe-
dition designed to strike the railroad
at several points and interrupt the
transportation OF General NOgi's guns
from Port Arthur TO Mnpchuria. but
from certain indications it seems pos
sible that it Is preliminary to on opera
ton Of magnitude. General Mischtschen.
ko. With his 20.000 lloisenlen, moving
rapidly may be able to seriously dam
age communications IN the rear of LAO
yang. Important Developments, it is
said. are about TO break the long calm
since the battle of Shakhc.
\ dispatch from Yinkow says that
General Observation-Disclosures raiding force
was cut off on its way back by 5000
Japanese dispatched from Sanlihoo by
General Oku. ft
1t is reported that the raid was only
Il divergence from Il mass of cavalry
now moving down the banks Of the
Lao river and TINT the exceptional
mildness of the season affords -. chance
for the repetition of such operations.
Dcutschland's Commander Varored.
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