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Show Japanese Command the Entire Liao Tung Peninsula. ST. PETERSBURG, May 12. Impending Im-pending events of great importance to the military situation in Manchuria Man-churia are foreshadowed in official offi-cial dispatches given out late last night by the War Commission. On May S the Japanese forces cautiously cau-tiously moved from Feng Wang Cheng toward Hal Cheng, which Is thirty-two miles east by north of Newchwang, nnd It is the opinion of the General Staff that they should certainly reach their destination within two days. If the Japanese occupy Hal Cheng, with Port Arthur effectively cut off, Newchwang, which thc Russians have already dismantled, dis-mantled, would pass Into their hands the entire Llao Tung peninsula, in fact, save. Port Arthur, and perhaps Ralplng, would be commanded by them. The satisfaction felt at tho re-estab-llshmcnt of communication with Port Arthur is increased by tho knowledge that a tralnloud of ammunition has been safely delivered to the fortress. , This was done In the presence of the ! enemy's army, which landed at Pltse-wo, Pltse-wo, and which la apparently on the eve of being reinforced by another division on board thirty transports now lying off Port Arthur. Gen. Saknrohoff sent a dispatch to the General Staff yesterday, communicating communi-cating a report of LleuL-Gen. Zuaea-lltch. Zuaea-lltch. dated May 10, as follows: "Troops, which appeared to be a division di-vision of thc Japanese guard, have been advancing for the last two days from Feng Wang Cheng westerly in the direction di-rection of Hal Cheng. "It is reported that a Japanese rorce , consisting of about a division of infantry in-fantry Intended to march on Salmadza with forty guns and luOO cavalry. "From "reports received from the Dazaw river, It may be concluded that tho Japanese army Is concentrated in three groups, the two southern groups being on the lower section of the Ta-yang Ta-yang river, at Hondouhnnya, on the left bank of thc river at Daynn, and at Douamyo In the same locality, and the -northern group opposite Habalina. on thc road from Feng Wang Cheng to Sulidzo, fourteen to sixteen miles from Feng Wang Cheng. "It is difficult to obtain Information from the local Chinese. In one case we discovered that tho Chinese had 1 warned Japanese troop3 of an ambus cade which had been arranged by Cossacks." Cos-sacks." Gn. Kuropatkln in a dispatch says: "Reconnaissances between Salltszal- j pudsa and Feng Wang Cheng fulled to discover Japnnene troops. A Japanese column of considerable strength advanced ad-vanced from Feng Wang Cheng May S in the direction of Hnl Cheng, "Pulen-Cheng station Is occupied by our frontier guards, and the damage to the railway by the Japanese as far as Sauchlllpu has been repaired. All tho work was curried out under the supervision of Llout.-Col. Spirldonoff of the Fourth railway battalion. This gallant gal-lant officor undertook to get through to Port Arthur a tralnful of ammunition ammu-nition which had arrived at Llao Yang after the landing of the Japanese at Pltsewo, Every preparation was mode to blow up the train, in case of neces sity, In order to prevent its falling into the hands of the Japanese. The task was carried out and the self-sacrifice of the men of tho Fourth railroad battalion bat-talion was crowned Avlth complete success. suc-cess. "Shortly after 4 o'clock in the afternoon af-ternoon the train arrived at Jin Slum station, forty miles from Port Arthur, where It was handed over to Gen. Jo-koff, Jo-koff, who Immediately dispatched it under proper protection to Port Arthur. Ar-thur. Lleut.-Col. Splridonoff returned on a locomotive. "After landing at Pltsewo tho Japanese Japa-nese began marching toward Kin Chau. On the night of May 10 their forward guard, consisting of about two regiments of Infantry, passed the night on tho heights above Sauchlllpu, on the railroad about sixty miles from Port Arthur. |
