| Show J JAPANESE r t tM ARE r M MOVING I G f FORWARD W R k x Advance Guard Occupy the tile Town Of or Seng Selig Cheng Without Any Ally An Opposition iI 1 FORTY MILES SOUTH OF l 1 t It U Was Anticipated That Resistance h front From the Russians Would be lie Met Iet 1 Hut But It Was Rus Not No Noi NoImi i Imi I Toldo April 3 7 p m This nd ad a vanco guard of or the Japanese army In northwestern Korea Koren occupied tho the town lown of at Seng Chen Cheng yesterday afternoon t without opposition Song H is on 1 the road rond 18 mites miles K wort ost of or Chong i Ju Jo nod about 40 10 miles south of or When the Ine Japanese drove tho the Hue Hus slam out of or Cluing Chung Ju lout lent In t Monday Iho tho withdrew In lo tto columns one going over the flue Koak oak San HI an road rond and anti I I tho ilm other over the Pekin rend loud I I the Tho lIo advance from corn hong Cheng Ju JuWan Wan made very er rapidly It was c paled that the tho would resist t title this but they failed to do so Iud It IH Is not probable thAt Hint thero there twill will bo be o nay nn further opposition south of or ortho i tho the Yalu river Chong Ju Jo because of ot Its superior Is the tho strongest place between thew th lo natural there Is Isan ot nn an old ohl Korean tort fort there thero which had hadIt I It tit been beon defended with spirit would have hn been hard to take The so are arc gratified Branded at nl the comparative cane CaBe with which they drove the Russians from Crom this tort fort patrols aro reported to be bo boin beIn beIn in the tho country cost cast of or the Pekin road hut but It Is not probable that there IS IM any considerable force of ot Russians In that section The Tho he patrols are aro withdrawing gradually to the northward towed toward the tho Yalu 1 i It U Is reported that tho the Ice on the Tolu Yalu lIlu Is III well broken up and In III the tho future the river must bo ho crossed either cither In Junks or nr over pontoon bridges A dispatch to the Associated Press from dated April 1 said In Information 1 Information formation hat had been heen received there front from n 1 source that th the Jap t nurse otter after dislodging tho the enemy nt at Chong Chon Ju Jim hind had advanced to Yong t Chun about 4 15 miles west WeB I of ot Chong Jit lu from which place they also III o drove tho Ilio n II bilof el It t Is ms possible that tho Ihu runny many opening spellings given RIon to Korean names In III V 1 and mops maps had Ud led to tJ cordi rOI ca tu fit fity y sine and that the Seng Sena Cheng mn tutu in lit the above ml anil Yong J hun chun referred to tn In III tho the dispatch of ot April 1 I hould be hI the tho same places The Iho ho r 1 1 NN two towns however are quito quite distinct being about 20 miles apart I OFFICERS OF Ol DAYAN DATAN St SI Petersburg Ieter April 3 Tho Novel Krai of or Tort Port Arthur thus describes 11 the scene on board the tho cruiser cruder dur during during ing the recent bombardment In III which sho she distinguished herself herselt nursling shells bowled over man after until tho the decks were ere flip slip flipper slippery per fiery with 1111 blood Amidst this storm the captain stood unmoved In the tho son con conning nine ning tower calmly telephoning orders ordera to the gun captains His Ills wonderful calmness had u a 1 marvelous upon all 1111 the tho Tho Tito was tuna soon Boon crowded 30 tacit men were thoro thero before the tho light fight ended but amidst tho crash of the guns tuns tho iho hiss of or flying Hying projectiles tho the thunder of ot explosions the tho racket of ot splinters and tho the din of or tho working engines tho the surgeons labored over tho the sick as nR at lit atthe the tho hospital operating table Although some serve of ot tho the men sufferer Buffered frightful ag ng agony oily ony Oil thero there were few rew groans In spite of oC the tho tact fact that anesthetics were admin only In ht ono one case hll the tho battle ended and the theon enemy on m began to draw off tho the officers on the bridge cheered c erell and tho the cheering extended ox l down Into the tho hold the tho f h o stok era nIR Ill and even tho tito wounded t a Joining In I III it II Tho The captain signalled for Cor full rull speed ahead after the retreating Japanese e but hut the Iho BI had not gone Rono far before the signalled to return |
