The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-03-28
NOW AFTER
VLADIVOSTOK
laps WiIINext Attack Siberian
Port
WILL HOLD TIE PASS
Only Small Force Will Be Neces'
sary to Keep Russian Man.
churian Army Occupied

LONDON, March 2S.-St. Petersburg
dispatches this morning say that the
Japanese, having removed the POSSIBLE
ity of Russias main army in Manchu
ria assuming the initiative, will now
turn their attention to the next objec
tive of the war, Nladivostok. is
strengthened 10y reports from Gunshu
pass announcing the withdrawal OF the
japanese from the immediate front Of
the Russian army for distance OF
thirty-five miles south. 1t is realized,
of course, that this may be merely a
blind to cover flanllng operations, but
il is not improbable that the japanese,
having cleared southern Manchuria Of
Russian troops and secured position
from whence expulsion would be Il
long and difficult process, may be salts
fed TO hold the Tie pass line without
further extension of communication.
While the voice of the emperor's adj
yisers is for peace if honorable terms
are obtanable, the government as is
the part of wisdom, is going forward
" IVA az lAVf iNANAAN AVA lAAi ANAAAihhsAhAf
Of the war. Preparations are reported
10 be in progress for the mobilization
of five more army corps.
The government is advised that Chi
nese bandits are appearing in great
numbers along the Siberian railroad
and causing interference with the train
service.
The internal situation in Russia is
becoming daily more ominous. The
Polish situation is causing great anxi-
ETY., though it is aid that the intel
| iectuals' and the educated classes gen
| orally dsapproye of the revolutionary
| spirit which is permeating the peas
| antry and laborers in Poland. The
| Crimea IS boiling with discomfort, and
the strong hand of military force has
been invoked to crush it in the bud.
Ambassador Mccormick had farewell
audiences with the emperor and en-
press at Tsarskoe-Selo yesterday, spe-
cial permission having been granted
him TO make his formal adeu without
the presentation OF his official letters
of recall, which have not arrived. This
| arrangement was made in Difference
TO the wish OF President Roosevelt that
Mr.. Mccormick proceed 10 Paris with
out delay.
A Warsaw dispatch says that Baron
Won Noken Is believed to be out OF
danger He is suffering intensely.
Further investigation shows the care
fulness with which the plans of the
| conspirators were laid. A number of
persons of the poorer class proceeding
| on different streets in the direction of
the palace just before the bomb was
thrown were warned by persons evil
IDENTIFY posted for that purpose to go in
some other direction.
There have been great demOnstra.
lions at Abo former capital of Fin
land and Helsingfors, thousands of
workingmen parading with the Fin
nisb national colors. bands playing ma
tional airs and the people singing patri-
otto songs Speeches were made in the
Finnish and Swedish languages and
resolutions We're adopted favoring OPP
position to CONSUMPTION.
The spirit of disorder has spread to
Sevastopol. Moderate Liberals in st.
Petersburg are becoming alarmed at
the situation, reports having been re-
ceived showing that an actual revolu-
tionary propaganda is being pushed
with vigor in many sections of the en-
pire. The authorities of the govern
| ment Of Saratov are closing the schools
there on account of peasant disturb
ances.