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Show RUSSIAN FLEET LINED UP READY FOR SIGNAL . j Despite Ta!k of Peace Czar's War Agents Are Seeking: Strategic Stra-tegic Points for Assembling: of Armies in the Orient j --Naval Stronghold at Port Arthur. j W 'f&fJSJgl' -the, ftfi!&C&X&Savc crfcpicntZJMrKEJ New York, Jan. 30. Small parties of Russian soldiers are beginning to appear ap-pear on the banks of the Yalu river, cables the Seoul, Korea, correspondent of the Herald. Twenty mounted troopers crossed Into Korea at Sameao, near the headwaters, and twenty-four reached Antung. They were officers, said to be Investigating sites for barracks. . Dispatches from Port Arthur state a Russian Siberian regiment and a battery bat-tery of artillery have been ordered to tho Yalu river, Koroa. to seize an advantageous ad-vantageous position on the stream, which divides Korea from Manchuria, thus forestalling a Japanese invasion. A Russian fleet hovers off Port Arthur, the Russlnn naval stronghold at the entrance to the Gulf of Pechlll, and another If at Vladlvostock, the Siberian port. The Japanese have a great fleet in the Korean straits. In communication with Toklo by way of Saheho. |