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Show RUSSIANS WAITING FOR JAPS TO GOME Plan of Campaign Does Not Contemplate Contem-plate Heavy Resistance of the Enemy's Advance at Yalu. ST. PETERSBURG, Apiil 10, Anticipated Antici-pated attack on Port Arthur did not occur la3t night, although a telegram tele-gram received from Grand Duke Cyrl reports that the enemy's ahlp3 wero sighted on tho horizon. It la presumed pre-sumed that tho Japanese wero warned of tho extra precautions which had been taken to guurd against a surprise. Thcro was no Easter merry making at the front. By special dispensation tho soldiers and sailors thoro wore relieved of all religious observances on account of tho necessities of the military situation. Vice-Admiral Marakoff'a torpedo ilotiila patrolled tho open sea while the warships, with full steam up, remained outBldo Port Arthur. Elsewhere throughout tho theater of war all is reported quiet. A military officer explains why general Kuropatkln's plan of campaign does' not contemplate a heavy resistance of tho Japanese advanco at tho Yalu, saying: "Either defeat or victory' In a battlo thero would be dlsadvatagcous to us. If wo lost wo would -navo '.o fall back through a difficult country. If we won and J say to you that Russian strategy Is based on tho Idea of victory and not defeat success would bo fruitless. Wo could not follow It up without exposing tho army to too great risks. "On account of tho Japaneso control ojC tho sea, if wo pursued tho enemy Into the peninsula or Korea we would open both flanks to a posslblo attack from tho rear. No, tho Japaneso must come on to a point in the interior which, with this end In view, has been selected, where wo can follow up a crushing defeat to tho blttor end with blow after blow, and seal tho fate of tho campaign. "Our plans on sea and land will converge con-verge at a tlmo next summer when Vlco-Admlral Vlco-Admlral Makaroff's fleet will bo relieved by the arrival of relnforcomcnts. Then, if successful on land, wo can clear the sea of tho enemy, cut Ills communications and tho Japanese In Korea and Manchuria Manchu-ria will then be at our mercy. "The world must not bo Impatient. Tho proludo to this war Is not yet finished." It Is understood that as tho result of Gen. Kuropatkln's visit to Newchwang reinforcements of 100,000 men will bo sent forward from Lloaynung. |