Show COWARDLY w L ACTION r l SHIPS The Tile Cruisers anti and Said to Have Struck Their Flags Without Firing n a I Shot JAPS LAND AT Eight Thousand of or them have ne The March to Seoul Guards Have licen Mobilized London I odon Feb Fob In n a dispatch from Tien Thin 1 In dated daled Fob Feb eb 9 a 1 correspondent dent clent of ot the Dally Mall Mali says It ID is I report reported ed 01 there then that Mint tho the and hauled down their hags without firing n a shot ant that Japan cue immediately landed at o and the march to Corea Corca com commenced commenced It was WIl reported from Crom coin today that hat tho the Japanese c had bad disembarked lit ut notwithstanding the presence there of ot two t ID Hussion warship and amid another dispatch from Che The Foo said mid 11 III Japan had the and tho the l caught at lit Japanese troops troop also landed nt lit all 1111 the tho chief points of ot southern and sest cm ermi Corell One division of the anese guards holds and die lie he timid and altogether three of ot the Japanese o guards each cacti of ot men III en have ha been b en mobilized It appears the correspondent con continues continues that the tho RussIan warships at Rt are arc Icebound Another correspondent of at the tho Daily DRib Malt Inn 11 Port Arthur Arlhur tin un der dale d e ot Fob Feb 9 that i the th M il advance has commenced Gout Oell Keas Kras will leave leao tomorrow for tor the Yulu river at lit the head of af tho the Third brigade of at artillery contesting consisting ron of at atI 21 I guns guilt and An three regiments of at Infantry The rite Third Fourth and Fifth Infantry brigades arc are entrenched along the lie rail railroad railroad road rand nt 01 a distance of ot 40 miles from tram and three batteries of the Fifth brigade are ure nt Rt 1 Feb leb 9 DIt H Is 18 reported r hero that the Japanese Meet engaged and de defeated defeated tented two Russian warships whose who names have not yet t beon iteen learned at today lodo It Is 18 said the en engagement began nt lit 11 u III m and con eon continued until 3 p m ni I The Tho smaller Hus Itus HUl alan vessel elsel Is reported to have hae been ben sunk Hunk nd tho the larger lorger one ivus tired und and hopelessly destroyed A part of ot tho tue crows rows are uro reported to have hn 0 escaped to the tho shore and to have hlo been b n cap captured cp captured t The Japanese ships are ale reported to tobo tobe bo he slightly damaged confirma confirmation tion of time the th battle Is unobtainable It was 11 retorted reported yesterday e that tho tue Russian cruisers I und and the tho lie Yn Va VI ring were ere lying nt at yester yesterday yesterday day and It IB IR po that ta they were the vessels reported to have hare been en cn engaged engaged |