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Show SUPPLIES FOR JAPS i 4 LONDON, May 2?. The correspondent corre-spondent of the Morning Post at Mukden, under date of May 24, says it is believed there that Gen. Rcnuenkampff's cossacks captured two Japanese transport columns, thus leaving leav-ing the Japanese army without supplies sup-plies in a difficult country. Four Japanese cruisers and a licet of torpedo boats and torpedo-boat destroyers destroy-ers are reported to have passed mld-( mld-( way between Port Arthur and the Mlao Tao islands at 4 o'clock this (Wednesday) (Wednes-day) morning, but no sounds of firing have yet ben heard. A report has been received from, New Chwang saying that on May IS five battalions of Japanese troops recon-noltered recon-noltered to the south, almost as far as Kin Chou, and ran into Maj,-Gcn. Fock's artillery, which was strongly posted on the heights In a narrow section sec-tion of the Llao Tung peninsula, and that the Japanese were entirely wiped ouL Tho report lacks confirmation. It Is reported from a Chinese source that the Japanese havo evacuated Feng Wang Cheng, nnd are occupying villages vil-lages ln tho surrounding- territory. There Is no explanation of this move, but It is thought that it may bo( connected con-nected with the prevailing cholera epidemic. |