| Show SPARING OF ST petersburg russians not overlooking any possible contingency tin gency arising from war port arthur fleet to make break to get away sharp skirmishes still continue st petersburg june 10 I 1 p m remote as now appears the chance that the japanese fleet will ever be in a position to venture up the baille and make a demonstration against the rus elan capital or that a european power will be drawn into the war russia evidently Is taking nothing or granted the possibility 0 the fall of port arthur or a disaster to the baltic squadron after the latter balls tor the far bast has been considered and no precaution will be omitted to protect st petersburg against attack the fortifications of riga in the southern part of the gul of riga and at the entrance of the gulf of finland have been strengthened some new guns of the latest pattern having been mounted in the fortress of cronstedt Cron stadt and a chain of water batteries running out on either side 0 the shores of the bultot finland will guard the entrance 0 o the raguth of the neva this system of was sufficient to discourage the attack planned by the british fleet during the crimean war in add Flon however shore batteries have a constructed near cranden baem on the gulf of cronstedt Cron stadt 19 miles from bt petersburg and on the cestra river and 17 milea from SL petersburg probably as a pre aurlon aut lon landings as it Is believed the borts torts are about to stop the advance att a hostile fleet approaches to are also being mined and are being forbidden to enter the port without a pilot to conduct them through the mine fields owing to tha extensive work in progress at Oton stadt the central basin tere reserved ye served tor merchant ships jia s by the navy rigid regulations are enforced against any one approaching the fortifications the grand duke vladimir commander of the military district of st petersburg burg cas lust completed an in of the shore batteries the russian rules for the treatment of prisoners of war were promulgated today thy are of a most humane character following the most advanced ideas on the subject of care of prisoners A war bureau for the collection and of every possible kind of concerning prisoners has be A established by the red cross society under the presidency of prof de martens professor of tho international law at the university of st petersburg and recently president of the hague court which the fund claims the novo eremya editorially scouts the idea fostered by a section of the pree that the fall of port arthur will eni the war the government Is considering the question of increasing the scale of pensions for soldiers and sailors widows i operations fusan corca june 10 the first japanese antny has recently been engaged in important operations for two days past four columns have been the roads toward llao yang hal cheng and yen and have towns on those roads dislodging the russians numbering several hundred from each after sharp fighting the japanese casualties 63 men killed or wound el RUSSIA LAYING MIMES che foo 10 m the associated socia ted correspondent at ting chou Sh promontory reports that the chinese guard there has been punished by the officials of teng chou for falling ta report the presence of a russian laying mines among the alao tao hinds IMPORTANT developments EXPECTED russian headquarters atao yang thursday june 9 3 p m general kuropatkin Is expecting reinforcements for cements which as soon as they arrive will advance from liao yang and important developments are expected persistent reports are in circulation ot battle at port arthur that place being at tacked by land and sea nothing definite Is known however ex capt that an attack made by the japanese did not succeed CARRIED contraband COAL nagasaki june 10 noon the norwegian steamer agat chic harrivel har rived at nagasaki june 4 from cardiff with coal and was arrested tor unknown reasons by the japanese june 7 has been taken to aasebo for the decision 0 the prize court the apparent reason for her seizure Is that she cleared from cardiff for singapore tor orders but her cargo Is aalde to have been secretly destined tor the russians ow ipg to the agals inability to deliver the coal at port arthur it Is added her cargo was brought to japan or sale PLANS FOR PORT ARTHUR SQUADRON 10 there la reason to believe th atthe plane tor the departure ot the port arthur squadron in the event the ot the fortress becomer imminent have been completed they involve the operation cooperation co ot the vladivostok squadron equa dron after the blockading fleet has been engaged the uninjured russian ships will effect a juncture with the vladivostok squadron and make their way to vladivostok the tact that the korean straits are mined and guarded by a japanese torpedo boat flotilla which has been established to the satisfaction ot the admiralty here greatly increases the difficulty of tho operation but russians probably will prefer to take chances of getting through rather than of making a two thousand mile journey around japan the attempt may occur at the first favorable opportunity the squadron Is useless tor the defense of port arthur while it preserved entire or in major portion even the fall ot port arthur would be robbed of much of its importance from the standpoint of dussias Rus sias future plans the repairs to the russian battleship robleda are now practically completed OCCUPIED BY JAPS washington june 10 the following dispatch has been received at the japanese li gatlon from boklo general kuroki reports that a detachment tach ment of our troops occupied salm on june ath our casualties were three killed and 21 men wounded the enemy left on the battlefield 23 killed besides two officers and five men who were made prisoners general kuro als army operating cooperating co with the forces that landed at Ta kushan occupied siu ruen on june ath driving the enemy toward and kal ping the enemy consisted of four thousand cavalry and six guns our casualties were three men killed one lieutenant one lieutenant sub and 28 men wounded ANOTHER SMAIL AFFAIR boklo june 10 5 p general kuroki that a detachment of japanese troops on tuesday routed a battalion of russian infantry with two guns at hal machla the japanese losing three men killed and 24 roundel woun del the japanese captured two offers and five men the russians left on the field 23 men dead or wounded and probably lost seventy men A japanese detachment dispatched in the direction of tung yuan pu repulsed sixty or seventy of the infantry at lin cha tal monday aej on tuesday encountered six companies of russian infantry and three hundred cavalry at chan chia sah after two hours engagement the japanese drove the russians off la the direction of tung yuan pa the russian casualties seventy or eighty men killed or wounded the japanese lost four men killed and 16 wounded on wednesday a japanese detach ment operating cooperating co with another detachment tach ment from the force landed at Ta kushan encountered a russian force of tour thousand cavalry with six guns near yen and drove them back toward 7 ii chang and kal chou losing three men killed and two officers and 28 men wounded RUSSIAN TROOPS MOVING seoul june 10 A force of russian troops the strength of which Is not known la reported to have arrived at cen yong and to be moving west A japanese merchant who has returned beere from the north says the small merchants wha have been following tho army are practically bankrupt owing to the chinese underselling them and that the majority malo rity are returning to japan SUDDEN ACTIVITY llao yang june 10 the suddenly increased japanese activity near n yen west of feng wang cheng is b e cleved to be rather in the nature of feints to distract attention from port arthur whither it Is believed that more than halt the forces have jonethan go S serious forward movement kuropis Ku bombardment of the coast probably has the same end in view but the developments are closely watched at headquarters kuropatkin Is in a position to act promptly in uie event of developments of real importance |
