Show communication WITH PORT ARTHUR HAS BEEN intercepted JAPANESE HAVE LANDED practically no opposition offered important papers removed to mukden and port arthur garrison is reduced russians through jn mistake annihilate one of their own detachments CUT communications paris slay 6 A dispatch to i a news agency from st peters burg says the japanese troops who landed at yesterday have cut the land communications with port arthur sac petersburg may 6 p m news 0 very heavy fighting near feng wang cheng Is expected in 36 hours large reinforcements have reached the russian position an imperial order bag been issued attaching three batteries of artillery to each of the nine ride divisions LANDING UNOPPOSED st petersburg may 6 the jap tending Is practically unopposed only a few hundred cossacks were eon the beach when the japanese ap bared they alred a few rounds and retired to the rear at the present hour the landing Is proceeding uninterruptedly rail load and telegraph to port arthur are ellal working according to the latest information of the general staff gelt distance along the road to peng wang cheng and then halted there Is said to be a question whether aleut gen received gen ge n Kurop aikins order to retire on sunday rooming in urns to execute it boklo may 6 noon the report of admiral hosoya received today gives details of the landing of japanese troops on the llao tung peninsula suppressing the location of the landing place the admiral says our seventh division with torpedo boats and the hongtong Hong kong maru and the nippon maru arrived from the advance at may 5 discovering a number of the patrols we bombarded them for a short time and then a landing party ot bailers bailors Bai lors capt leading was ordered ashore it being low tide it was impossible to use the boats and the sailors plunged into lue water waded breast deep for about a thousand yards and reached itne beach at p m immediately advancing they took a range of without firing a shot and planted our flag on the hills the gunboats gun boats amagan and Chleo kat wre employed to distract the attention they acted a hundred of the enemy and shell rd them killing several then the first fleet of transports on seeing our flag displayed commenced landing troops in order to facilitate the further 4 4 s PORT ARTHUR INVESTED washington may 6 the state department has received a cable gram from U S minister gria corn at boklo confirming the press report of the landing of the japanese in the llao tung penin 1 about forty miles above port arthur the location as div n in the japanese dispatch how not but kin chau the apparent discrepancy Is ex by the statement that kin chau is a larger town and that la an adjoining sub urb a hamlet this Is the nar lowest point on the peninsula and consequently the minister says the railroad Is practically closed and the investment 0 port ar thur has begun c landing of troops piers are being erected our division is assisting in the work the report of admiral kataoka Ka com t RUSSIANS REMOVE TO MUK DEN rome may 6 according to a telegram received here from che foo the garrison at port arthur has been reduced to 4 men and all the important documents money and field guns have been removed to mukden mander of the third squadron gives additional details ot the landing the admiral reports that his squadron convoyed the first batch of the second army to llao tung base and adds that the kara maru grounded near the base at 3 yesterday afternoon she was assisted by the protected cruiser which succeeded in float ink the transport which reached her destination safely at 5 the samo evening tokeo may 6 noon beyond the announcement that a certain force of the japanese army effected a landing jt jt t t jt t at t t t jt J fr ENTOMBED IN BURNING penn may 6 fire that broke out late last night in the locust gap slope operated by the philadelphia reading coal iron company ts raging fierce ly john aal michael baglan and michael shannon of locust gap who were in the mine when the fire started were unable to reach the surface and a rescuing party is at work endeavoring to reach t the entombed men at an unnamed un named place on the afao tung peninsula yesterday and the rei re i port of admiral hosoya the govern ment refuses absolutely to discuss its plans an officer of the general staff made the announcement of this movement to the foreign correspondents here he said on the fifth of may some strength of the japanese army began to land on the llao tung peninsula where and in what force asked the correspondents the officer smiled in answer but said nothing from the east west north or south was asked out of the skies from answered the officer and the interview ended st petersburg may 6 p the japanese landing at Is expected to be followed almost immediately by the isolation of port arthur landings on the west coast of the peninsula are also anticipated the russian military authorities seem reconciled to the cutting off of their stronghold but they are convinced that the fortress Is impregnable against attack by land or sea though the enemy may invest the place the authorities here do not believe the japanese will undertake to storm he position it Is believed that the greater part of the troops have been withdrawn and that gen sels forces including the garrison of port arthur do not exceed men the fortress is provisioned tor a year further operations on the peninsula on a large scale are dependent upon the development of the campaign on the mainland it Is understood the landing at awo was preceded by a bombardment of the shore and was effected under the guns of japanese warship warsh jp but was practically unopposed by the russians no direct information has been received here as to whether gen kuropis Ku army has advanced from its position on the balu yalu rarer but it Is known that the japanese are recon nolt ering south of feng wang chead and along the littoral and a landing near taku shan that the enemy might establish himself on the right flank of the russians is considered probable A sharp lookout Is being kept northeast of fang wang cheng to prevent possibility of a flanking movement from that direction but it Is understood that no signs of the enemy have been discovered gen plans are being carefully guarded the general staff insists that hardly more than russians were actually the enemy had five times tat number and there was an almost similar disparity in the number of the russian guns it is reported that gen kuropatkin has asked the emperor 0 o dismiss lieutenant general for disobedience of orders such action would not be surprising among the many rumors afloat which are not Is one that the emperor intends to proclaim the mobilization of the entire russian army on the occasion of the grand review at st petersburg on may alth and at the timo bid farewell to the famous foot guards who have been selected to go to the front the late vice admiral daughter has been appointed maid of honor to the empress two distinct landing operations by the japanese in the vicinity of port arthur are reported in dispatches to the press according to cables from boklo and st petersburg the japanese effected a landing in force and unopposed at pit awo a point on the east coast of the peninsula about 76 miles above port arthur another successful landing Is reported to have taken place at port adams which is situated on an arm of society bay on the west coat of the peninsula directly opposite and about 20 miles distant from the railroad that connects port arthur with mukden passes close to port adaena and it Is evident that it it now in the possession of tho japanese at this point A dispatch from washington indicates a landing according to advises advices received there at kin chau or kin chow this place is located at the extreme eastern shore of the bay of the same name on the west coast and directly across the peninsula from the russian port of dalny it ie about forty miles north of port the strip of land between dalny and kin chow 1 the narrowest point of tho peninsula kin chow about half way between port arthur and port LANDING OF JAPS A st petersburg may p tho detail of the japanese landing at have just been received by the general from information brought to port arthur by the chinese sixty transports arc dis embarking two divisions numbering altogether men of which were landed yesterday no news has been received up to this hour of any other lindlag lan dlag strict ordera have been given to rear admiral Witt not to take out his war ships arun port arthur jt jt a t X jt jt jt hall BREAKS CAR WINDOWS beaumont Bean mont may the sunset limited ot the southern has encountered a severe hall storm near welsh la all ot the windows on one eldo of the train vero shattered and the lat lice work was splintered by the hailstones passengers were pan ic stricken several of them about the face anac J kohn ot houston was injured by flying debris K C fr C i adams aad Is also on the railroad it is probable however that this landing refers to that at port adams which is on an arm of the sea adjacent to kin chau bay RUSSIAN ERROR COSTLY boklo may 6 noon general kuro kl in reporting yesterday tells ot a bloody encounter during the russian retreat last sunday when a large force of russians mistook a small body of their own men for japanese killing and wounding ISO of them general kuroki gays that a japanese patrol consisting ot fourteen men reached hong on the third instant when a russian patrol posted on a hill south ot the tillage attacked them the japanese patrol thereupon turned and charged them and after an intrepid hand to hand affray the enemy was driven back in the direction of feng wang cheng the japanese patrol pursued them to a stream three miles southwest ot where russian sentries were discovered posted on bills on both sides of the road according to information furnished by a native a body of russian infantry two thousand strong occupying a hill near hong on sunday mistook a detachment of their own infantry about two hundred strong retiring before the japanese troops and fought among themselves in the scuffle were killed and 70 wounded and the russian cars were stampeded leaving their loads of stores behind st petersburg may 6 1248 p m the landing of the japanese at pit two northeast of port arthur 1 officially fici ally confirmed it Is expected that the railroad connecting port arthur walh mukden and harbin will soon be cut the departure of viceroy AndUS rand duke boris tram port arthur was hurried owing to the possibility lity of interruption of railroad communication the japanese landed in sufficient force to dislodge the few hundred russians watching at and prevent them offering any resistance it Is reported at now chwang eliat the troops landed yesterday at on the bao tung peninsula numbered men port arthur according to reliable information Is well supplied with provisions A dispatch to the central news at london from st petersburg today says the japanese landed at port adams on the west coast of the llao tung peninsula as well as at port adams ie situated about fifty miles from port arthur at the head ct society bay and on the railroad connecting port arthur with mukden and harbin consequently it may be interred that it the report of a japanese landing there Is correct communication with port arthia has been cut off |