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been made. The e. machine s' guns moved
down every man who was exposed for
any length Of time. By yards almost
by feet and inches-the besiegers
worked their way to the Russian de-
Great Numbers Engaged.
more remarkable than in the great num-
bers of men engaged. Tho it is impos-
sible to give exact figures, there were
probably 100000 Japanese and $1,000
Russians fighting at Liao-yang, with
hundreds Of guns on each side.
About 100000, on both sides, were en-
gagged along line Of more than forty
Even these operations, however, will
be dwarfed in the campaign already be-
ginning. The Russians are said to mum
Der nearly 400, 900 men, divided into
threee armies under Generals Linevitch
Gripenberg and Kaulbars-an under the
general command of General Kuropat
kin.
Field Marshal Marquis Oyama,s the
japanese commander, either has or soo o
men at his disposal. Nogi' 8 army, Of
10000 to 10000 men has joined hin
since the fall Of Port Arthur, and re
serves have been mobilizing for months
to reinforce him. j.. - ~ :
Wars Startling Beginning. .,
There could hardly be more start
ling contrast, indeed, than the sudden
ness with which the war began after thu
long and tiresome negotiations wer'
broken off by Japan. Hardly had diplo
matte relations been severed on Feb.
1904, when, the day following, Japan oc
cupied Masampho, the southern port O.
Korea. During the next night, Feb. SO
Admiral Togo launched torpedo flo
tilla against the Russian fleet of sever
battleships and five cruisers in the QUITE
roadstead of Port Arthur, disabling tn
battleships Retvizan and Czarevitcl
and the cruiser Pallada. On the mex
morning an engagement was fought i
which the Russian fleet was furthe
damaged, and another Japanese fleet
under Rear Admiral Uriu, destroyed til
Russian cruiser Variag, and the torped
transport Korietz, off Chemulpho, IL
, rea. ~ = III.
For the next three months the japan
csc were engaged in placing their arm
les in the. field, ,fortifying Korea and a
> tempting to "bottle up'' the harbor 8
. Port Arthur. r., IL. D..
Death Of Makaroff.
: Meanwhile Russia had appointed Gel
t | eral KurOpatkin commander of her Ian
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Principal EDents Of the War:

general assault on Port Arthur,
losing $4,000 men.
AUG. Japanese begin advance
on Liao-yang.
AUG. 25-26-Kuroki takes Anping,
and Oku and Nodzu take An
shanshan.
AUG. 27-28-Kuropatkin retreats to
g his main positions at Liao-yang.
AUG. 3O-SEPT. 5Battle of Lao
yang is fought, the Japanese cap
turing the town.
SEPT. l9-21-Nogi makes a terrific
assault on Port Arthur, capturing
- Fort Kuropatkin, which COM
mands the waterworks.
OCT. Russians sortie from Port
Arthur, recapturing positions on
OCT. s-17-Battle of shakhe river
suit, tho the Russians suffer ter
rife loss.
OCT. 19-Vice Admiral Rojestvensky
sails with the Russian Baltic
squadron for the far east.
OCT. 21-Rojestvensky fires on Brit
ish fishing boats in the North
sea, nearly precipitating a war
with England. E
OCT. 26-Japanese attack East Kee-
lkwan forts, and occupy Ehrlung-
shan and Lungshersan, which
they soon afterward are forced
to abandon
NOV. l6-Russian destroyer Rosto-
ropny escapes to Chi-fu with dis
patches, and is blown up to es-
cape capture. -~. ~ IN, :
NOV. 26-27-Another terrific assault
Is made on the East Keekwan
forts, the Japanese losing more
than 10000 men, without result.
NOV. 30-The Japanese capture 2O3-
Meter hill, losing 10000 men, but
sealing the fate Of the fortress.
DEC. 6-10-Japanese destroy the al
ready shattered Russian fleet at
Port Arthur. ~.
DEC. 18-East Keekwan fort is cap
tured, being the first permanent
breach in the main defenses Of
Port Arthur.
DEC. 2S-JAN. 1-Nogi completes his
breach in the main line of the
Port Arthur defenses, taking all
the Keekwan positions and re-
ceiving General Stoessel's pro-
posal to surrender.
JAN. 10-11-General Rennenkamptf
with 5000 Cossacks, sweeps
around the Japanese rear to Niu
chuang, burning Japanese stores.
JAN. 25-29-General Gripenberg at
tempts to turn the Japanese left
flank at Sandepas, but is badly
defeated.
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FEB. 6-Japan breaks off diplomatic
negotiations with Russia.
FEB. Japan occupies Masampho,
Korea.
FEB. 8-9-Togo cripples the Russian
feet at Port Arthur. Uriu de-
stroys the Variag and Korietz at
Chemulph0.
APRIL 13-Admiral Makaroff goes
down with the battleship Petro-
pavlovsk.
MAY 1-Kuroki crosses the Yalu,
defeating Zassulitch.
MAY 3-Togo reports he has "bot-
tled' the Port Arthur harbor.
MAY 5-Oku lands at Pitsewo to
isolate Port Arthur. .r%
MAY 19-Nodzu g army begins land
ing at Takushan.
MAY }26-27-Oku takes Nanshan
hill, the first of Port Arthur 8
defenses.
JUNE l4-15-Oku crushingly de-
feats Stakelberg at Vafangow,
and Nogi's army lands about the
same time to invest Port Arthur.
JUNE 15-Vladivostok squadron
sinks the transports Hitachi and
Sado. - e..
JUNE 27-Kuroki and Nodzu cap
ture Fenshin, Molten and Ia
passes. -
JULY Count Keller loses 1000
men at Molten pass.
JULY 9-Oku occupies Kaiping.
JULY l3-15-The st. Petersburg and
Smolensk, volunteer Russian
cruisers, seize the British steamer
Malacca and the German steamer
! Prinz Heinrich, causing compli
cations with Great Britain.
JULY 17-Count Keller makes an
other Intellectual attempt at Mo
tien pass.
! JULY 20-24-Vladivostok- squadron
! makes a successful raid.
\ JULY 26-30-Japanese take Wolf
! hill, at Port Arthur, opening the
way for general assault.
! JULY 25-Oku occupies Tashichao
! JULY 3l-Oku, Nodzu and Kurok
I advance, driving the Russians tx
the outer line of defenses sur
! rounding Liao-yang.
! AUG. 3-Oku occupies Hai-chen(
! and Niuchuang.
I AUG. 10-Rear Admiral Without
! who makes sortie with the Por
! Arthur fleet, is killed, and hi
! fleet is scattered and damaged
most of the vessels returning tt
Port Arthur.
AUG. 14.-Vice Admiral Kamimur:
defeats the Vladivostok squad
ron, sinking the armored cruise
Rurik.
! AUG. 19-24-Nogi makes the frs
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The first Armenian family has ar
rived in Minneapolis. Armenian bach
elors, widowers and men without their
families have been here by the score,
but Hagop Jorjorian is the first native
Of Armenia to bring his wife and chill
Mr.. Jorjorian is employed as an orien-
tai rug repairer in the rug department
of the New England, and he has been
here for several months. Mrs. Jor-
jorian and the children have just
Joined him and the family Is now COM
fortably settled on Sixth avenue n.
There are three children. all girls,
and their Armenian names sound
strange in American ears. The oldest
girl, Hagonush, is IL years old, Mary
Is s and little Zubel is under two.
Mrs. Jorjorian is as clever at rug
mending as her husband for when she
was IA years old she was initiated into
the mysteries OF weaving The Jorjor
ian.gi1ls don T max make rugs yet s -, They icy
clares, and he is already planning to
send Hogonush to school. In Armenia
children Of IL years old are taught the
simple knots and to fill in the back
grounds Of the rugs which are being
woven by their parents. They grad.
then to designing. Only the very poor
people teach their children under 12 to
make rugs.
Mr.. Jorjorian can piece hole in a
rug SO deftly that not a trace Of the
cavity can be found and he works sur
rounded by woods of all shades and
colors with which he matches the pat
are lust as skillful and she often proves
a substitute in patching Persian rugs
= The Jorjorians came from Sivas
about four years ago and lived in New
York until they came west. There is
a colony Of 5000 Armenians in New
York and large colonies in Chicago and
California, but until the Jorlorian fam
lily of five arrived in the city Mime
apolis had only a floating represents
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-11
A LINCOLN SERVICE
Special Program Arranged for the Peo-
ple's Church Tomorrow.

Rev. G.. T.. Morrill, will speak on
!" Abraham Lincoln tomorrow at the
Peoples church, Unique theater, at IL
am. Mr.. Morrill,, when a boy, saw the
funeral train Of Lincoln pass thru
Newark, Nj. :. This, together with
other incidents, will make Mr.. Morrill, Is
sermon somewhat reminiscent. The
stage will be decorated. with flags
and flowers, and W. t.. Harris Of the
New England has granted the use Of his
Victor graphophone, which will play
various patriotic numbers, while some
original war views are thrown on the
canvas. These views are from photo
graphs taken during the war, and are
out Of the ordinary. &.
The Unique Theater orchestra will
render " American Republic (Thiele);
Irrational Airs,o by Tobani, and the
Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa),
4 The doors Of the theater will be
thrown open at 1880 and left open until
the house is filed.
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lMe0Mavbize the CO,sti,sss-
Gus Record Of Russian
Disasters Shoes That
the Csar's Hopes Of
Victory Deer the M.
kndO Are Futile.

%, when it made a sortie under Rear
Admiral Without, but retired to the
harbor when the Japanese feet came up.
On Aug. 10 it made it's last sortie
under Without, who was killed in a
vain attempt to effect junction with
the Vladivostok squadron. All tbs bat
tleships were more or less damaged,
Most Of the larger ships returned to
Port Arthur in strict defiance Of or
,ders. Rear Admiral Prince Oukhtom-
sky, who succeeded to Withoft's COM
mand, and Captain Wren, of the cruiser
Bayan, was placed in charge Of the
feet. He never attempted to sortie
again, however, the naval guns being
mounted in the forts, where they did
great execution.
Fate Of Russian Fleet
The fate Of the Russian vessels which
were at the fortress when the wac broke
out has been as follows.
ssss'as.g :s
i: 's X. sa ss
X Rstvissn. sstt1..hiD. 1aooe ,o... sun. IA
Poltaya, .battieship, 10000 tons, suua IN Post
sebastopol. battlssaip, 1o,seo tons, disabled
Psresyiet. battleship. 1894 tons, snA in
Pobieda, battisship 1854 tons, badly dam
aged and listed over in Port Arthur hasbor.
Boyarin, cruiser. $500 tons. sunk in Pigeon
| bay by q mine or by Japanese torpedoboats.
Diana, cruiser, 1851 tons, disarmed at Saigon,
Askold. cruiser, b,s06 tons, disarnsd al
| Shanghai
Novik, cruiser, 5000 tons, run ashore and de-
| stroyed by the Japanese at Korsakoff bay.
Bayan. armored cruiser. 1925 TONS Destroyed
| at Port Arthur.
,Paiiads, cruiser. eeso tons, sunk b. yapaass.
at Port Arthur.
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NEW LESSON FOR PUPILS
They Will Be Asked to Learn the Cos
pel Of Fresh Air.

In preparation for the battle which
the antituberculosis committee proposes
to wage against the great white plague
in Minneapolis, pamphlet is being
prepared which will be put in the hands
Of every pupil in the public schools.
The language will be of the simplest
and will seek to SO interest the school
children that they will cooperate with
the committee.
The facts touched upon will be that
100000 people die every year in the
] United States from consumption; that
the cause lies largely in the germs aris-
ing from the dried expeet6ration Of
consumptives. The children will be
asked to learn the gospel Of fresh ali.
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The above reproduction is from q pho
tograph Of a new and ingenious steam
engine on which Charles G. Holmberg
Of Woonsocket, s. D., has been at work
for some time. The engine proper is Of
the oscillating piston type, Mr.. Holm
berg . improvements consisting mainly
Of new crank and valve mechanism. The
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of Europe. Both have been charged
with the same mistake-over- cautious

Of Europe. Both have been charged
ness.
The first campaign, consequently, has
been marked by much Individual brav-
cry, but by no particularly brilliant
strategic movements. Oyama went
about the business of driving Kuropat-
kin first into, and then out of Liao-yang,
very much as everyone expected him to
do. Kuropatkin, on his part, judged his
rivals movements to- nicely. He held
the last possible moment. All his tao
tical skill was required to get his forces
| together, while Oyama was .struggllng
| to cut them up and destroy thsm piece
meal.
| As a rule, the Japanese have been by
far the most effective long-range light
ers, and have shown, as individuals, an
Initiative which the Russians entirely
lack. Indeed, Russian never has a
chance with a Japanese under any cir
cumstance, unless he can get at the little
Oriental with bayonet. In the latter
event the Slav generally wins.
Cossack Raids. =
The most picturesque events of the
war have been the Cossack raids, car
ried out with great daring. In cavalry
alone, the Russians are superior to their
. enemies, for the Japanese cavalry has
been a nonentity. On the other hand, the
names Of Rennenkampff, Mistchenko
and Samsonoff, the Cossack generals
are almost as we'll known as those OF
Oku and Kuroki.
/ When the war broke out, the impress
j sion became general that the Cossacks
\ couldn't fight. But they have proved
! the contrary. At Liao-yang, when Or
loft blundered, mere handful OF Sam
sonoff g Cossacks held Kuroki at bay un
til Stakelberg arrived.
And recently, by a wide detour, Gen
eral Rennenkampff, with 5000 men
swept around the Japanese rear to thu
|seacoast, burning stores and destroying
the railway to Niu-chuang and Yin
kow, it's port.
Struggle at Port Arthur.
While the battles in the north wer
going on, others even more terrible wer
being waged in the south, where tn
greatest siege in history ended on Jan
: I, with the fall Of Port Arthur. From
j Aug. 10, when the first general assault
: began, until the fortress fell, there wa
3 at least one general assault, Of six days
r duration, each month, while from tn
i latter part Of November fighting wa
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practically continuous. Never before
were fortified positions subjected to such
3 terrific fire of heavy artillery-the
Japanese bill for ammunition alone be-
ing $30,000,000. Never before were
Notifications SO perfectly constructed
assailed. On both sides bravery unsur-
passed was shown.
With. the death Of General Kond.
ratenko-for he and not General Stoes-
sci has turned out to be the real de-
fender Of the fortress-and the capture
Of 203 Meter hill on Nov. 30, which en-
abled the Japanese to destroy the Rus
sian feet, the doom Of the fortress was
(sealed.
Wedge Driven IA Main Line.
Up to Dec. Is the Japanese had not
permanently occupied one Of the maiI
| line forts. But when, with dynamite
mines, they drove wedge into the
Keekwan group to the north, along thu
railway, their progress was rapid.
One great position after another fell
the morale Of the garrison was broken
the 11-inch howitzers Of the Japanese
wreaked terrible havoc, while the biz
gun ammunition of the Russians was
nearly exhausted, the scurvy made rapii
Threads on the exhausted soldiers. Hat
Kondratenko lived the fortress NIGH
have held out month or more. Bu
EStoessel thought it wise to surrender
Consequently, on Jan. 2, the fortress be
came Japanese property.
Facts About Siege.
Some of the facts about the siege fol
low: ny:
Japanese losses (killed and wound
Russian uaS losses i(kiiled and wound :.
Cost Of siege to Japanese. 500, oOo, 0l
Cost of siege to Russians. $1OO, 0OO, OC
Value of Russian feet destroyed. =. $50, 000, 0C
Spent on Port Arthur by Russia. 500. 600 .0t
Naval Campaign.
| All the Japanese military problem
were simplifed by Admiral Togo's frs
victory at Port Arthur Control Of tn
sea was essential. They had to trans
port armies and keep them supplied
one Of the greatest tasks in war. A
. no time has their naval supremacy bee
seriously menaced.
i Their most serious loss was the bal
4 tleship Hatsuse, Of $4,000 tons, sun
q by mine May 20. The battleshi
). Yashima, Of 1880 tons, has also bee
i reported emi-officially to have bee
sunk by a mine.
i After Makaroff's death the Russia
fleet was comparatively idle until Jun
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thus making a saving Of from IS to 20
per cent in fuel. This engine will
weigh SO per cent less for given size
than other forms.
A 25-horsepower model is now on ex-.
hibition at the Union iron works, and -;
300 horsepower size is about to be cons
structed. Mr.. Holmberg expecta TO haves
his engines manufactured in MiEneap-
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the
the anges in the above the triangle With Port Arthur at the
the Yau and the Yau Liaoyang
After year Of war the have won the entire triangle with
The Ruan hold only Mukdea and little territory
to and from Hardin to The center Of the Manchu
both sides having predatory raids accommodating
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forces, and Vice Admiral Makaroff com
mander of the Port Arthur fleet. The
latter proved a gallant and efficient Of
fcer, but on April 13 he was decoyed
out Of the harbor by Japanese cruiser
fleet, and on the return trip his flagship,
mine, carrying down the admiral and
about $50 officers and men. ~
First Land Fighting. .t
The first land fighting of consequence
began on May l, when General Kuroki.
with from $4,000 to 60 900 men, crossed
the Yalu river from Korea into Manchu-
ria. General Zassulitch, who com
manded the Russians, numbering about
losing about 1000 men, while the Jap
anese lost less than 1000. NJ
Only two days afterward Admiral
Togo announced that, after many efforts
| he had blocked the narrow entrance to
the Port Arthur harbor. Every prepar-
alton had been made for the event, and
on May S the first detachment Of Gen,
eral Oku's army landed at Pitsewo
where the Japanese first landed during
the war with China. :
The next landing was made on May
10, at Takushan, about midway be-
tween the Liao-tung peninsula and the
mouth Of the Yalu, General Nodzu being
in command. 81 -. .5.5.-.s !
Next the battle of Nanshan hill, the
first of the outlying Notifications OF
Port Arthur, was fought on May 81, the
Japanese taking the position by the aie
Of the fanking fire Of the gunboats
with a loss of 1850 men. The Russians
lost 1000 men and 70 guns.
Then General Stakelberg was des
patched to make a diversion to relieve
Port Arthur, drawing northward thu
army Of about 10000 men under Genera
Oku, while another under General Nog
was landed to invest the fortress.
q stakelberg's Defeat.
; ~Stakelberg Is diversion, which was tn,
first Russian move in the war, ended il
crushing defeat. He and Oku met a
, Vafangow on June l4-15, the Russian
, being routed with a loss of from 500
to 1000, the Japanese losing hardly
third as many. q. -
From that on the three -.Japanes
armies, under Oku, Nodzu and Kurok
converged steadily on Liao-yang. TIL
Russians were at all times Outnumbere
= at least three to one, and the Japanes
: were able to flank. them out of stron
positions with slight loss. Practical
: nothing but rear-guard actions wer
I fOu uht for two months
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Japanese Naval Losses.
The Japanese naval losses, exclusiv,
Of small boats, have been as follows:

The Japanese naval losses, exclusive
Of small boats, have been as follows:
:Hatsuse. battleship, $4,000 tons, sunk by
Ys.h ii baftlesSip, $4,000 ton. tpo..fOly
b. e. sSsi.sr 41so TONS r.n.a and sun.
Hsi Yen cruiser 21o e, tons ts.gtured from
fsn cruiser sss a teas Captured from
Ctina). sunk by. a mine off Port Arthur.
Tabasago: cruiser, Also tons, sunk by mine
Kaimon, cruiser. 1,s45 tens, sunk by q mine
Miyako. cruiser. 1900 tons, sunk by mine
| of Port Arthur.
In their naval operations. the jap
has aroused the worlds admira-
ton. When they tried for months to
"bottleo the Port Arthur harbor, vol
unteers wrote letters in their own blood
begging the honor Of facing almost
certain. death in stone-laden vessels,
exposed to whitening fire from both
all sorts of weather, they took nearly
twenty vessels into the harbor, nearly
all of which were sunk before they
reached the narrow entrance.
The Russian naval campaign, on the
| contrary, has been a record Of incom-
petence. From the very first irrepara-
BILE mistakes were made. The far east
ern fleet was divided. After Togo's
first victory the sole aim of the Rus
slams was to effect a junction with the
! Vladivostok squadron, which should
have been at Port Arthur when the
war began.
| Greatest Naval Battle to Come.
Meantime, Japan is facing the great
est battle Of all with the Russian Bal
tic squadron, under Vice Admiral Ro-
! jestvensky, which on Oct. FL fred on
British fishing boats in the North sea
and nearly brought on war be-
tween Russia and England. Roiest-
vensky has seven battleships and eight
J, cruisers, only two of which are armorsd,
and possibly twenty or thirty armed
colliers-most of which are converted
) ing achievements off Madagascar.
The Russians expect to start four
iisht cruisers. to Roiestvensky's aid.
This will give him eleven battleships
; and eleven cruisers, beside q host Of
smaller boats.
I BUT with the demonstrations already
made of the Russian Incompetence at
sea it seems hardly possible that any
| reinforcements that Russia can send
Roiestvensky will enable him to over
: come the superior efficiency Of Togo Z
( men and warships.
) Single vessels, such as the armofed
cruiser Bayan, ands the protected cruis;
4 er Novik, were magnifcently handled,
and, comparatively small tho they
4 were, doomed up in the forefront OF oil
e the fighting.
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Meanwhile Russia had appointed Gen
raj Kuropatkin commander of her Ian,
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Tacticians seem to agree that the cam
paign has been conducted by both sides
in a very scholarly manner. Both Kuro-
patkin and TOyama are well versed in the
theory and practice Of war the former
ranking as perhaps the ablest tactician
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-31
STEVENS PRAISES ROOSEVELT
Leading Democrat of Marshall Coun-
ty Believes President is Sincere.

Smith Ney Stevens of this city, de-
livered the annual address to an i'm
|mense audience at the "Old Settlers"
picnic at Lapaz last Saturday. The
address was replete with good things
and elected applause. The speaker
gave President Roosevelt unstinted
praise and declared that the people
regardless of party are with him in
his efforts to purify the government
and bring peace to the entire world
as far as possible. He said he be-
lieved the president was honest and
sincere in his efforts to curb the
trusts and give the people the best
government possible, and said that at
least eighty per cent of the Ameri-
can people were proud of President
Roosevelt.
These sentiments falling from the
lips of one of the most prominent
democrats of Marshall county met a
hearty response in the minds and
hearts of his hearers. Mr.. Stevens
was always little ahead of his party,
but it is evident that democrats gen.
orally are catching up with republican
doctrines great deal faster than they
did few years ago and the whole
country may be in the republican par
ty before 1908. If this should be the
case it will not hurt the country if
the best men are chosen as leaders.