| Show BATTLE IN PROGRESS JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN ARMIES AGAIN CLASH general engagement proceeding at new ala chu trains carrying wounded having passed through llao liao yang according to advices advises from llao liao yang a general engagement between japanese and russian troops Is proceeding at new kin chu although details of the battle have not been received trains bearing wounded men have been passing through liao yang folaga northward it Is reported that the fighting Is fierce and that the losses are heavy it Is reported at boklo that vice admiral kamimura Kaml mura la Is engaging the thai russian vladivostok squadron off the navy department has hall no confirmation of the report but hopes it may be true the war office at st petersburg expects news ot of a fight with general kuroki it Is believed that general oku Is pursuing general Sta kelberg A detailed report ot of the russian losses at the battle of Vata ngow given out at st petersburg places pe the total at killed and wounded mostly men who belonged to t he troops forming the russian right mank an explanation of the japanese earn cam laign on the llao liao tung peninsula especially with reference to port arthur la is contained in an advice that lias has reached washington from a source believed to be ba absolutely reliable the japanese tactics which have so puzzled tho the russians are arc intended to isolate port arthur but do not contemplate an attack on the place by general okus army the actual work of reducing port arthur will be confided to another japanese capane army under command of general bogl which will be landed on the peninsula and indeed may even now bo be landed at a point south of 0 general okus position and considerably nearer port arthur on the of 0 june no less than twenty six transports had bad been gathered at one of 0 the japanese ports to embark this army and it la is probable that the vessels attacked by the vladivostok squadron were of this number |
