Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-03 | Page 5 | Russians Prepare a Line

RUSSIANS PREPARE A LINE. While Six Jap Armies Are Advancing Toward Their Position. VICTORIA. B. C, May :. The steamer Pleiades brought news today that protests pro-tests are being made l,y ship owners and underwriters concerning the summary proceedings of Japanese prize courts trying try-ing to seize steamers. Captains have been obliged t tdtcn depositions In Japanese which they could not understand and representatives rep-resentatives of underwriters were refused a hearing Officers from the front tell Japanese pa. pen that the Russian armies are concentrating concen-trating and preparing for defense B line between Changchun and Klrln. and a light military railway sixty miles long Is being built between the two places. Six Japanese armlo.s are advancing In a Widely extended form toward the Russian position Bishop Fayler, whose defense of the PeltanK e.uhedral was one of the brilliant bril-liant episodes .if the PekltlK slee during thw Boxer trouble ll dead at Peking Several hundred Chinese were killed by the collapse Of a portion of the city wall of Nanking In April