The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-08
0YAMA AGAIN BEGINS
 10 ADVANCE HIS ARMY
i PUSHES FORWARD HIS COL
 UMNS ALL ALONG FRONT.

Advance Made Uader Screen of Cay-
 airy and Chinese Bandits-Japanese
 Strength Estimated at 39o,00O Men
 Japanese Feeling Once More Becom-
 ing Intense over Frances Disregard
 of Neutrality Principles.
 Gadgeyadana, Manchuria, May 7.- Since April % the Japanese have been advancing slowly and intermittently, pushing forward their columns success sively from right to left under cover of a screen of cavalry and Chinese ban dits. The advance has resulted in straightening the alignment of the op- posing armies, Russian attachments which were far advanced on the Hanks being forced to retire. Erdagou, to the eastward, was occupied May 5, but un- der pressure by the Russians the Jap anese later evacuated the place. On the left the Russian cavalry retired be- hind the Liao river, the Japanese occu- pping Palaotun, Sanlingan and Batza- va.
 A0 NllidsSE LII SlldlttuZl, llt ran road north of Changtufu, has been oc-. cupied and burned by the Japanese.
 It is reported that the Japanese ar- mics in the center have recently been reinforced. The force at Field Marshal oyama's disposal, according to infor- nation recently received, is 34S battal- ions, or 290,000 men,
 The Japanese are said to have armed 25,000 or 30.000 Chinese bandits with captured Russian rifles. The Chinese population has been drafted by the Japanese for roadmaking and intrench- ing, and roads are being constructed to Sinminpu, Branchenzee and Manga roads are being constructed to Sinmin- pu, Brancbenzee and Manga pass.
 London, May .S.-The Times, in the course of strong editorial warning to France of the extreme danger and gravity of the situation in the Far East and appealing to that government not to treat the Japanese protests light heartedly, says 1t has reason to believe that Foreign Secretary Lansdowne has spoken very strongly to the French government on the breaches of neutral ity permitted to the Russian Pacific squadron.
 Special dispatches from TolSio to the London morning newspapers represent that the Japanese feeling is becoming highly inflamed at Frances alleged failure to prevent ostentatious disre- gard for the principles of neutrality by the Russian Pacific squadron. The To- kio Asahi bluntly describes the French assurances that they would preserve neutrality as falsehoods, and declares that Japan would be justified in bonl- barding French territory, and calls up- on the government to take vigorous ac- tien.
 Among Japanese officials in London it is asserted that France put off Japan by fair promises in order to give Ro- jestvensky time to effect a junction with Nebogatoff's division.
 The report from Tsingtau that the Russian squadron is off Yanfong, which is an inlet containing the port of Honkohe, the Three Kings being rocks near the entrance of Vanfong Bay, is held to confirm the Japanese assertion that Roiestvensky is still cruising in French waters.
 The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at FTOk1O says that III response lo Jap ans second protest France intimated that Rojestvensky had been ordered to leave Honkose.
 The Times correspondent at Tokio re- ports that the Japanese chambers of commerce are concerting measures to cease all commercial transactions with French citizens.
 London May S--A telegram from Hong Kong to a news agency gives a long dispatch which it is alleged the French authorities at Siagon refused to transmit on April 30, detailing how for ten days the Russian Pacific squadron was allowed to convert Kamranh bay practically into a Russian base, freely coaling and provisioning openly under the direction of Prince Lieven, captain of the interned Russion cruiser Diana, the French admiral, De Jonquieres, be- ing present the whole time and until April 2S, making no attempt to check the breach Of neutrality.
 RUSSIA,S NEW MOSQUITO BOATS.