The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-01-16
BROKE THE
WAR ZONE
Force OF 10000 Cossacks
Has Invaded China
TOOK A WALLED VILLAGE
Russian Protest TO the Powers
Relative to China's Neutrality
Considered Absurd
TOOK A WALLED VILLAGE

LONDON, Jan. 16N-A Newchwang re
port says that General MischtschenkO,
with 10000 COssacks, has deliberately
invaded the territory of China, 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 Lao river district
The force crossed the Hun river and
swept southwark over the Lao plain
in three columns, commanded by Gen
erals Samsonotf, Abramoff and Tyeles-
choff.
The front extended five miles, one Of
the most magnificent sights of the war.
The column rested the first night
at Sifanatai half way between the
Lao and Hun rivers, when scouts came
upon japanese transport. which they
captured, the Japanese fleeing. When
the main body came up. il found
house in the village burning and send
ing up enormous columns of black
smoke.
When darkness came. signal fires
were seen. one after another, reaching
an extreme distance eastward.
At s O'Clock in the morning they
came into contact with chunchuses.
Captain Chaplin, formerly of the artil-
lery at Warsaw, at that moment in
control of the machine guns Of the
Dnfrtgfon pa,,fpnnpf oh thrnnuh
the heart by the first fire. The Degstan
regiment, commanded by Colonel Blunt
ing, charged with extraordinary swift
ness and ferceness.
The chunchuses. well drilled and
armed with Mausers, resisted bravely,
but 100 of them were cut to pieces.
They numbered 500. A japanese flag
was captured from them. Some Jap
anese were killed among the chun.
chuses.
Farther south the right and central
columns attacked the walled village of
Shontoze, at the bar Of the confluence
of the Taitse!river with the Lao The
village was held by 300 Japanese in
fantry, who resisted stubbornly, but
were driven out.
A Tokyo report says that the Rus
sian note to the powers calling atten-
ton to China's nonenforcement of neu-
trality is regarded there as absurd. 1t
is felt that Chinas weakness and con-
slant failure to enforce neutrality must
release Japan from obligations TO OBJ
serve restrictions which Russia open
ly ignores.
A Nagasaki dispatch says that the
Japanese transport kamakuru, from
Port Dalny, with General Stoessel, his
wife and many other prisoners on
board, has arrived there.
A report from Tasudyapu says that
for whole day the japanese lombard
ed the Russian positions to the right
and left Of the railroad with unaccus-
toned vigor.
A japanese regiment then advanced
in the face Of a furious fire from bat
teries and rifles, drove back the Rus
sian outposts, who drew on the Iapa-
nese to masked battery, and later al
lowed them to come on suddenly, when
the Russians opened murderous fire.
the infantry at the same time falling
on the Japanese TANKS. The japanese
regiment was almost completely an
initiated, and the survivors fed in
wild disorder, leaving heaps Of dead
and wounded on the field.
A St Petersburg dispatch says that
Emperor Nicholas has addressed a
rescript to the army and navy prais-
ing and thanking the garrison Of Port
Arthur for its prolonged defense.
Huanchan reports say that Captains
Kosinoff and Troitgki, with seventy
five Cossacks, lately drove the Japa-
nese out Of the villages Of Mitzi and
Tkhangay and captured large amount
of forage at both places.
The japanese are pushing sapping
operations toward the Russian lines at
several points.
The war Office mt st. Petersburg does
not admit the appearance Of General
Mischtschenko's cavalry southwest Of
Liaoyang is more than a ra!ding expe
dition designed TO strike the railroad
at several points ana interrupt the
transportation of General Nogi's guns
from Port Arthur to Manchuria, but
from certain indications it seems pos
sible that II is preliminary to an opera