The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-22
RUSSIANSATTACK
Three Small FOrWardM0vements
in Manchuria Repulsed.
Admiral De JOnQuieres Fails to
Find Rojestyensky's Fleet.
THE PRICE OF PEACE.
Japan WilIDemand an Indemnity
Of 81 ,OOO,0OO,OOO.
CessiOn Of Sakbalien and Dis
mantling of Yladiv0stok.
THE PRICE OF PEACE.

Toxic, May 22.-ImperiaI army
headquarters made the following an
nouneement today:
In the direction of Chang Tu on
May 20. force of the enemy consist
ing OF over q battalion of infantry. a
regiment of cavalry and two guns
made a detour TO the eastern height
at Santaokou, eight miles east of
Chang Tu, and from the vicinity of a !
coal mine ten miles east of Chang Tu. !
at 1870 o'clock in the morning, com
menced bombardment.
subsequently another Russian
force with four guns appeared on the
northern height of Chin Yangpao and
at p. m. two battaHons of the enemy
advanced from the eastern side of the /
village but We're repulsed-
Another mixed force of the enemy
entered Erhsfih Lipao where they set
ire to the village and retreated.
"A body of the eneny's cavalry dis
noun Ted, attacked Tangled on the
right bank of the Lao river. 13 miles
southwest of F'akumen, on the morn
ing of May 20 After an engagement
lasting two hours the enemy retreat
ed in disorder toward the southwest
abandoning 500 men killed and
Except the collisions between small
forces, the situation is otherwise IN
changed"
Found No Russians.
Saigon, May 22.=AdmiraI de jon
quieres. the French commander, re-
turned here today after an inspection
of the Annamese coast. He reports
that no beIligerent ships have returned
to French territorial waters since
May IA.
Seen in Hainan Straits.
Hong Kong May 22.-The latest
-fa- r77ar IN arrive here ranOTfS sighting
a Russian volunteer feet steamer ac-|
cOmpanied by d large transport in the
Hainan straits on the morning of May
20. They We're steaming west
VIII Keep the Kazan.
Che Foo. May 22-TraVelers who ar
rived here today from Port Arthur say
that a japanese armed force of a hun
dred men boarded the Russian steamer
Kazan On Saturday in Port Arthur mar
Dor on receipt of dispatch from TOXIC
announcing that the japanese govern
ment had decided to retain her as
prize on the ground that she is a war
vessel The Russians used the kazan
as a hospital ship during the siege.
The last of the Russian wounded at
Port Arthur will leave there tomorrow
Barashof Langa, the superintendent OF
the Russian Red Cross at Port Arthur,
will leave there in ten days. The next
party of Russians to leave for Che Foo
will include 40 insane sailors and sol
diers who will be taken on board the
British steamer WhampOa now here
The WhampOa has been fitted up espec-
iallv to transport the lunatics from Che
Foo to Odessa. She will not take any
other passengers
Junk Load of Russians Captured.
Toxic. May 22.-It is reported that
q junk filled with Russian officers has
been captured 1t is presumed that
thew were making a recOnna iSSance
from VladivOstOlS.
I4inevitch Reports Successes.
St. Petersburg, May 22-General Line
witch in a dispatch from the front, dated
May p, announces that two Russian
detaChments occupied the valleys Of the
Kaak and Khanda rivers westward of
Nanshentsi on the Mandarian road af-
ter dislodging forces of japanese cav
airy and infantry. The dispatch adds
that General Martinoff's detachment
from Tadlu also drove back the lap
anese advanced cavalry 1utposts-
General Linevitch also reported fight
ing near Shahotze May Is, but did not
give the result He said a Russian de-
tachment east Of the railroad which ap-
preached the village of Shahotze was
attacked by a considerable force of Jap
anese from the coal mines south of that
place.
Where ROjestvensky May Coal.
Paris, May 22.-The reports in eireu1a-
ton here to the effect that golfers be-
longing to the Russian feet intend to
rendezvous at the Babuyan Islands
north of the island of Luzon, Philippine
islands are not based on precise infOr-
nation, but are the results of figuring
on the latitude and longitude where a
portion of the fleet was last observed.
This course, if continued, is pointed out
would take the ships into the Balm
tang channel near which the Babuzan
Islands are situated. It is therefore in
ferred that the Russians viii rendezvous
In that locality for the purpose OF coal
ing