Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-16
MISCHTSCHENKORAID'
Russian Leader, With 10000 Cossacks, In Liao Plains.
HAVE VIOLATED CHINESE TERRITORY
Cxar'A Cavalry Column Surprise and Kill a Hundred Chunchuses-StOex- AeI Arrives at Na8asnki-Japa-
 nexe Defeat Near Tasudyapu.

LONDON, Jan 16.--A Newchwang re- port says that General Mischtschenko. with 2O.GOO Cossacks. has deliberately invaded the territory of China, a neu- tral country. and broken the limit of the war zone in his recent cavalry raid against the Japanese forces on the plains of the Liao river district.
 The force crossed the Hun river and swept southward over the Liao plain in three columns. commanded by Gen erals Samsonoff. Abramof1 and Tyelcs 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 chunchuses. Captain Chaplin. formerly of the artiI lery at Warsaw. nt that moment in control of the machine guns of the Degistan regiment. was shot through the heart by the first fire. The Degistan regiment, commanded b.r Colonel Brmr- ing. charged with extraordinary swift ness and fierceness.
 The chunchuses well drilled and 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 chun chuses
 Faraher south thc right and central l columns. attacked the walled village Of ShOntOZe. at the bar of the confluence of the Taitse river with tbe I.iaO. 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- tiOn 10 China nonenforcemcnt of nnu- trality is regarded there as absurd. IL is felt that China weakness and con stant failure to enforce neutrality must relense Japan from obiiga tion; to ob. serve restrictions which Russia open ly ignores.
 A Nagasaki dispatch says that the Japanese transport kamakuru from Port Dalny, with General Stocssel. his wife and many other prisoners on board, has arrived there.
 1 4 report from Tasudyapu says that l for whole day the Japanese lombard cd the Russian positions to the right and left of the railroad with unaccus- toned vigor.
 A Japanese regiment then advanced 1 in the face of furious fire from bat teries and rifles, drove back the Rus sian outposts, who drew on the Japa- nese to masked battery, and later al lowed them to cone on suddenly, when the Russians opened murderous fire, the infantry ar the same time falling on the Japanese Hanks. The Japanese regiment was almost completely an ! initiated. and the survivors fled in wild disorder, leaving heaps of dead and wounded on the field.
 A St. Petersburg dispatch says tha, Emperor Nicholas has addressed q rescrlpt to the army and navy prais ing and thanking the garrison of Port l
 The tone of the rescript addressed by Emperor Nicholas to the army and navy is regarded here as putting al end to all present hopes of the possi bility of mediation or peace and as in dicating the likelihood that Genera Kuropatkin soon will resume the of fensive.
 The war office at St. Petersburg does rot admit the appearance of Genera MischtschenkO's cavalry southwest oI Liaoyang is more than a raiding expe ditiOn designed to strike the railroad at several points and interrupt tht transportation of General NOgi's gun. from Port Arthur to Manchuria. but from certain indications il seems pos sibe that it is preliminary Co an opera tiOn of ma gniiutlc General Mischtschen ko. with his 20.OUo horsemen. Movint rapidly may he able to seriously dam nge communications in the rear of I.iao yang. Important developments. it il said. are about to break the long caln since tho battle of Shakhe.
 \ dispatch from Yinkow says tha General Misrh;schenkO's raiding force was cut of on its way back hy S.'rs Japanese dispatched from Sanlihoo h! Gencral Ukm
 It is r.po-t"i iii:i; the raid was oni! n divergence from Il nass of cavair!
 DOW moving down the tanks of in
 i.iao river and that inc eNceptiona miliness of the season affords q cbanc for the repetition cf such operations.