Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-03-29
TelegraphiC Briefs


 Chuhch1atsu, it may be compel
 led to retreat, not only to Harbiu
 but also further westward along tht
 railroad, abandoning to the Japanest
 all of northern Manchuria and the Russian maritime Amur provinces a:
 well, is the latest startling news from the front.
 The strategic weakness of General Linevitch's position as he falls nortii ward is made clear by Gunshu dis patches 10 ihe associated press, il which it is pD.4ted out that unless tbe Chuncniatsu nd Sungari lines, which are scant oI;e hundred miles be1Ow Harbin, can le held, It will be diff cult to ma,iiain a position farther back before Iarbin, where, with the front of the army paralleling the rail road, the practicability of turning movement to completely sever com munication and isolate the army, six thousand miles from home, is too ser ious for Russian consideration.
 GUNSHU PASS, March 23.-Gener- al LiIeyitch, the new commander iD chief of the eastern army today re- ceived members of his staff. The re- ports persist in a story of Japanese turning movements on both Hanks of the Russian army.
 The Chinese state that the Japanese have recruited many Chinese bandits and that probably they will now be able to count superiority iD cavalry as we'll as in infantry. The branch of the Russian Chinese bank has removed from Kirin to Harbin after an attack on the bank office in which two bank guards were wounded.
 Captured Japanese report a terrible affray in the streets of Mukden on March 10th, when big detachment of Russians, the last to leave the city were entrarped by Chinese bandits and few Japanese soldiers, who clos ed the city gates and blocked the mar row streets. According to the report, which is not yet confirmed, not a sin gle Russian escaped.
 Marshal Oyama has communicated to General Linevitch that the entire Russian medical staff left at Mukden is we'll.
 ST. PETERSBURG. March 24. 1:5O a. m.-The successful conclusion of the internal loan of slOO, GOO, 900 at the emission price of ninety six certs comes like a gleam of sunshine in the otherwise clouded situation. Of this l amount the government savings bank | takes one quarter and the private l banks and an underwriting syndicate | takes the remainder. The internal sit | uation of Russia is a source of contin- ! ued apprehension. In the south of Russia workingmen and peasants are already joining hands and from the | Caucusns, Poland and other quarters l encounters are being continued be- tween the workers and the police and | fatal consequences are reported.
 WARSAW, March 23.-The new gov ernor general, Maximovitch, arrived | at Warsaw today. His official entrance to the city favorably impressed the public. After attending service at the church, he visited the Cath olic cathedral where he was received | by the bishop and remained for mass. He was the first governor general to . attend Catholic services on assuming office since the revolution of 1881.
 ST. PETERSBURG, March 23-A revolutionary committee has warned Father John, of Cronstadt, to cease his anti revolutionary propaganda either by sermon or by writing. The governor of Cronstadt has taken measures for Father Johns pro- tectiOn.
 ST. PETERSBURG, March 23.-A contract was signed today with a number of Russian banks for the issue of s75, ,OOO,OOO of a proposed internal loan of sIOO, GOO, GOO. The bonds bear interest at the rate of five per cent per annum and are redeem able in fifty years. The issue price is ninety six cents on the dollar.
 ST. PETERSBURG, March 24, 12:l5 T. m.-rhe Novoe Vremya, today, will publish a remarkable dispatch from it's correspondent in the field, who, with the bitter taste of defeat still on his palate, discusses the causes of the Russian IeveTses and contrasts the iDirit with which Russia and Japan Ire conducting the war, and with slow ; md disheartment, arraigns the ele- nents in Russia who are furnishing heir propaganda on defeats, in the l ar east, scattering them in the very