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Show RUSSIAN SQUADRONS'- JOIN ' AFTER Hffll WITH: J APS; .' AKMl STILL Oi MMEAI Newchwang Abandoned by Czar's Forces; Japs Pushing Push-ing Forward to Occupy the Deserted Position. - BULLETIN, . 7 ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 10, 7:49 ! P. SI. A FOREIGN EMBASSY HEEE PROFESSES TO HAVE INTO RMATION TO THE EFFECT THAT Tr VLADIVOSTOK AND POET ARTHUR SQUADRONS HAVE EF-FX-jVeD A JUNCTURE AFTER A NAVAL BATTLE, IN WHICH THE JAPANESE LOST THREE CRUISERS AND THE RUSSIANS TWO AND ONE TORPEDO BOAT-DESTROYER. ) BULLETIN. . ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 10, 10:10 P. M. AN OPFICIAL INVESTIGATION INVESTI-GATION SHOWS THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE REPORT THAT THE VLADIVOSTOK AND PORT ARTHUR SQUADRONS HAVE EFFECTED A JUNCTURE AFTER A NAVAL BATTLE, IN WHICH BOTH SQUADRONS SQUAD-RONS SUFFERED LOSSES. BULLETIN. , ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 10. A SEMI-OFFICIAL DISPATCH FROM MUKDEN, DATED TODAY, DENIES THE REPORTS THAT THE JAPANESE JAPA-NESE HAVE CAPTURED PORT DALNY. SHAN HAI KWAN, May 10.-11 a. in. ' -It Is reported that the First Japanese corps, haying followed the Russians retreating re-treating from the Yalu river, overtook them twenty miles south of Llao Tang yesterday and & severe engagement -ensued. The Japanese dragged their guns up hills believed to be unsurmountable. The Russians thereupon continued to retreat north. A division of the First corps is approaching Newchwang, which is now garrisoned by a handful of Russians. Rus-sians. Japanese scouts have been seen some six miles from the city. A party oT ' nineteen women were the last refugees to leave Newchwang. They arrived here today and they confirm previous reports of the evacuation of the city. KUROPATKIN BACKS AWAY FROM THE YALU; NEWCHWANG, May 9. (Delayed lit transmission) o the five Russian regiments regi-ments which have been stationed here, four have left already and the other has been ordered to leave today. A report has been received here from a source which always has been reliable relia-ble to the effect that the Japanese 'are landing on Kat Chou bay and that a feint at landing was made some fifty miles to the south. The Japanese are said to be 30,000 strong. ' This report, however, has been contradicted. The Russians are intrenched strongly at Anping, whither the guns from the Newchwang forts have been sent. The Russians are known to be in communication com-munication with the Chinese brigands and they have been stirring up the natives na-tives to a state of terror. The ' Russian authorities prevented United States Consul Miller from telegraphing tele-graphing the condition of affairs here to Mr. Conger, the United States Minister Min-ister at Peking. After a strongly word- ed protest, however, "Mr. Miller s message mes-sage to the Minister was released. NOTHING ALARMING ' IN HEALTH SITUATION AT MUKDEN, 'TIS SAID. ST. PETERSBURG, May 10. (3:0 p. m.) The following statement was made to the Associated Press today regarding the reported epidemics at Mukden: There are some cases of dysentery and smallpox and several cases of typhus in the Mukden hospital but there has been no application for more surgeons nor for special remedies or scrum, and it la entirely misleading to say that epidemics epi-demics exist. Smallpox and typhus are epidemic in Manchuria and dysentery Is inevitable where large bodies of men are crowded together. There Is nothing alarming in the situation. RUSSIAN RUMOR THAT JAPS WERE DRIVEN OFF . FROM PORT ARTHUR. ST. PETERSBURG, May 10. According Accord-ing to Information received by the general gen-eral staff the bridge blown up by the Japanese near Port Adams, Llao Tung peninsula, has been repaired and the permanent way is unlnjuroC Telegraphic Tele-graphic communication with' Port Arthur Ar-thur Is not yet open. It is rumored that Lleut.-Gen. Stoes-sel, Stoes-sel, commander of the military forces at Port Arthur, has successfully engaged and driven off the enemy. RAILROAD REPAIRED y MsaBaMBaasaBsaBaaaasjB ST. PETERSBURG. May 10, 2:15 p. m. Although it Is hardly credited here (as It is known that Gen. Kuropatktn Is Withdrawing bis advance posts along the Manchurian littoral on Llao Yang), it Is announced this morning from Mukden Muk-den that the railroad between Port Ar-. Ar-. thur and Llao Yang has been repaired and is working. Hal. Cheng, north of Newchwang, Is already reported to have been evacuated, evacu-ated, but there is nothing official on this point. The Russian garrison still remains at Newchwang, but the abandonment aban-donment of that place Is considered only to be a question of days. View of Army Organ. , The army organ assumes that ths Russians are retiring on Llao Yang, leaving "temporarily" the defense of Port Arthur to the naval squadron and , garrlscru The organ assumes that the " Japanese have already landed at Taku Shan, west of the Yalu river, thus assuring as-suring Junction between Gen. Kuro-kl's Kuro-kl's army and tha Japanese forces on the peninsula. The army organ thinks the force disembarked at Taku Shan is probably part of the third army "concerning "con-cerning the mobilization of which the Japanese have so sedulously spread misleading reports." - It commends ths retirement from Feng Wang Cheng, which it considers to be of no strategical importance. Confidence in Kuropatkin. There is a complete absence of official offi-cial information. The authorities are as silent as ths grave concerning Gen. Kuropatkin's plans, only declaring that his tactics will be vindicated. The report of the appearance of the enemy at Kwan Tien Sien, on the Mukden Muk-den road from the Yalu, causes some disquietude. The report is three days old. Only small detachments of infantry infan-try and cavalry then appeared, but it Is possible that they were advance skirmishers skir-mishers of Gen. Kurokl's division, who wer sent northward to protect the jar 'ese right flank. If the Japanese ' cou'Vret on this road above Liao Yang the-Rusilan position there would be threatened. The papers here sm more concerned about the effect of the Japanese successes suc-cesses upon the Chlneso than about the ultimate result of the campaign. |