Eureka Reporter | 1904-05-13 | Page 2 | Russians Preparing to Evacuate New Chuang

RUSSIANS PREPARING TO EVACUATE NEW CHUANG forts hava been dismantled and ar tillery made ready for shipment i advices chuang under diate of april 7 say there Is every fn dT catlon that the russians have de aided to evacuate new chuang troops have bee rang here all day oas the forts have been dismantled and all the artillery has been placed on board trains all the local tran has been by tha russian authorities native that japanese ta are InFo oa barf on the jest side 0 tha peninsula and about sixty miles north of port arthur but this report lacks confirmation the fear Is held here that if the russians leave and the japanese do not at once take possession of new chuang the brigands who are new across the river near will dents are the prepared to res sc the 1 gands should they come over the british consul has requested that a gunboat be sent to new chuang the lussiana Hus siana probably will destroy the gunboat Siv before leaving the vessel Is at new chuang passengers arriving at chetko on the steamer petrarca Petr arch from new chu ang say that when they left new chuang the russians had commenced to evacuate some guns had been taken from the torts and many troops had already gone in other respects new chuang was quiet the aers understood before their depar ure that the japanese had cut the allway but learned no lars