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Show ADVANCE COLUMNS OF ARMY OF THE CZAR MOVING MJTH TO. MEET JAPS Russian Forces Slave Crossed the Yaiu and Are Concentrating at Feng Huang Cheng, South of Which St Is Expected the First Great Battle of the War Will Be Fought LONDON; March" 16. "War cables today to-day deal principally with' tho ; move-; ment of Russian land forces. They. indicate in-dicate that, the .principal body of the Russian force" has crossed the Yalu and must soon; come upon ; the advance of the Japanese, when a great battle is expected. A Yinkow dispatch, under today's date, says: ' The only reliable reports at the present pres-ent moment from the main Manchurlan cities show a quiet. movement along the railway, and sucl cities as Mukden, which are off the main line, aro undisturbed. undis-turbed. The people here aro not In pos- i session of 'definite news ' of outside events. The chief movement on the Feng Huang Cheng military road 1b tho dispatch dis-patch of riders to and from the Russian Rus-sian advance forces. RUSSIANS CROSS THE YALU. A creditable native arrived hero today to-day bringing a report, as late as March 12th, from Feng Huang Cheng to tho effect, that -the njain bocly of the concentrated, concen-trated, Russian forces, had . crossed, tho Yalui leaving small bodies of troops at Antung and other points 'to guard' the river. A fortnight ago a few spies visited Antung,' but since then no Japanese have been seen west of the Yalu. The continuous attacks of the Japanese Japan-ese have compelled the steady occupation occupa-tion of the Llao Tung peninsula. The last bombardment of 'Port Arthur rendered ren-dered every part of the fortress of Port Arthur unsafe. Residents assert that fragments of Japanese shells fell everywhere every-where and that some coaches and bulldingu were destroyed, though most of the damage on shore was unimportant. unim-portant. Foreigners choosing to remain in the Interior must now sign an agreement restricting their movements and stipulating stipu-lating that a special pass is necessary when leaving their bounds. It Is" authentically reported that for a week past there has been only a small and changing military garrison at 4 4-4-4-, 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4- 30,000 MEN AT ARTHUR 4- AND YEAR'S PROVISIONS 4-4- ' PARIS, March 1C Tho Temps' 4-4- correspondent at St. Petersburg as- 4-4- serts that a Russian army corps Is 4-4- descending from Vladivostok' to- 4-4- ward Korea. Ho adds that Port 4- Arthur has a garrison of 30,000 mon 4-4- and Is provisioned for a year. 4-4- The Russian Ministry of Marine, 4-4- the Temps' correspondent further 4-4- asserts, claims that Japan's losses 4-4- slnco the opening of tho war aro 4-4- four cruisers and five torpedo-boat 4-4- destroyers and the machinery of a 4- 12,000-ton battleship seriously In- 4-4- Jured. 4- Halchcng. hut that a large force has been stationed at the Invaluable fortl-llod fortl-llod and ' atrateglcal town of Aahan-Shan, Aahan-Shan, where the Japanese army concluded con-cluded its advance during the war between be-tween China and Japan. A dispatch from Paris says the Toklo correspondent of the Matin sends this formation, which, he says, comes from a reliable authority, concerning the Japanese Jap-anese military situation up to March 10th; "The IlrBt army of 70.000 troops, under Gen. Kurokln, occupies northern Korea. Tho brigade landed at Gensan forma part of a second army of slmllur strength. Tho mobilization of the latter lat-ter has been completed and tho troops will sail shortly for an unknown destination. des-tination. The mobilization of a third army bogan on March 7th." (Additional "War News on. Pajre 2.) ! ADVANCE COLUMNS :l OF ARMY OF CZAR I I , - I i I: i (Continued Prom Pago 1.) II ; m ' . J j S ATYWTR.ATi STARK RELIEVED IP J , FROM COMMAND OP FLEET I' ' 1 ' T ST. PETERSBURG, March 1C Official J, "Z orders wcro pubjlahcd today relieving i ' Vico-Admlral Stark from command of tho I 1 , Port Arthur division of tho navy osten- Z slbly on account of Ill-health. No suc- I cosaor will bo appointed, Vice-Admlral i Malcaroff having determined to servo as J H squadron commander as well oa comman- l II der-ln-chlcf of tho entire Russian naval 1 ill forces In the far East. , I H Capt. Shtchensnovltch, commander of tho i I 1 i battleship Retvlzan, has b;en decorated ! I HI. -'- with tho Cross of St. George for repelling ! I the Inst Japanese torpedo attack and sink- il In 'np -no Japanese llrcshlps. i ill Tho talk of "Pyroxlllno" (poisoned) ; n 3word3 having been loft behind by tho I U Japaneso Is based on the mistranslation I Hi 'O" of a Russian technical term. I m Gen. ZHInskl, chief of staff to Viceroy JJ j i Alcxleff, In a telegram said that pyroxlllno f n had been found In tho form of disc-shaped I II - torpedoes, six Inches In diameter, which I I - the Janase30 Intended to uso in bestrow-I bestrow-I ' Ing tho road over which tho Russians wcro II expected to pass, In order that the cxplo-1 cxplo-1 1 sSons resulting from tho Impact of tho it t.i horoes' hoofs might causo a stampede. |