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Show FROM THE WAR ZONE. Japs demand surrender of Russians At Port Arthur; are moving Northward. All advices from the Far Hast Indicate Indi-cate that another battle is not Imminent, Immi-nent, but that the Japanese arc carefully care-fully preparing for a further advance northwaid. They arc preparing to send a laigc force up the Llao river to Tie pass with boats while small detachments de-tachments arc moving north of the Taitsc rhcr daily. A dispatch from Mukden sajs the Japanese preliminary prelimin-ary movements will probably occupy a month. There aic no olllctal reports fiom St. Petersburg, but Marshal Oyama reports that the positions of the Russians around Mukden aro unchanged. un-changed. General Stoesscl reports that the Japanese continue to bombard Port Arthur and arc actively constructing fortifications in positions they have occupied. St. Petersburg, Sept. 15. -A dispatch dis-patch from Gen. Stoessel at Part Arthur, Ar-thur, says the Japanese are actively constructing fortifications on the Sam-lion Sam-lion mountain and at other points and that they continue to bombard the forts and harbor. On Sopf 2, they threw 2.50 shells into the town. The Japanese, the dispatch adds, have issued a proclamation to the Russians troops, demanding their surrender. Ciikkkoo, Sept. 14. A communication communica-tion has been received by the Russian consul heie from General lialashotT, chief of the Red Cross at Poit Arthur, lequestlng that the same be made public. The general charges the Japanese Jap-anese with gross violations of the Red Cross. He says on Japanese dead have been found notes, written In Russian, requesting that their bodies be burled, but when Russian burial pai ties attempted at-tempted to fulfill tho requests they were llrcd on. Such Instances, says the general, are numerous and the Russians arc now afraid to trust to the Red Cioss Hag. I He states that the Japanese also protect pro-tect movements of their troops by the , unlawful use of the Red Cross Hag. The Russians at Cheefoo aro .endeavoring .en-deavoring to putchaso a wireless telegraph tele-graph outfit at Manila presumably to replace the one here which has been useless for some time. Field Marshal Oyama reports toTo-kio toTo-kio that a considerable Russian force remains south of the Hun liver, while Gen. Kuropatkln today telegraphs to St. Petersburg that the bulk of the Japanese force is still south of the Yental branch railroad. Oyama also says that the Russians aro fortlllying the heights on both sides of the Llao river at Tie pass. Reyond this today's dispatches from the scat of war l elate to details of previous lighting and no light is thrown upon the all absorbing! question, of where the next engagement engage-ment In force will occur. Gen. Kuropatkln's estimate of his losses In the fighting at Llao Yang are far under the ilrst leports. He reports from August 28 to September 5 he lost 4,000 killed and 12,000 wounded. wound-ed. Marsha) Oyama places tho total Japanese casual I ties at 17,500, making the total for both armies in round numbers 23,500. Accepting these figures fig-ures as correct tho battle of Llao Yang in killed and wounded falls much lower In the scale of tlrfc woild's great battles. |