Show S the main armies are quiet in manchuria sudden activity startles correspondents at mukden streets crowded with carts and pack animals only outpost affairs are reported in dispatches from manchuria the main armies remain quiet but the scouts on both sides continue very active this activity is construed in st petersburg as confirming the general belief that main army is safely at tie pass A dispatch from mukden dated late this afternoon says a sudden activity Is apparent large numbers of carts and pack animals crowding the streets but chers no explanation of the battle st petersburg oct 6 p m nothing beyond skirmishing between advance posts is reported from the front the russian cavalry seem to be pressing southward toward cental on tuesday some russian scouts ran into a squadron of japanese consisting of tour companies at and were forced back until reinforcements came up who flank ed the japanese driving them back on with considerable loss the same evening alio russians approached pro ached to within three miles of the coal mines repulsing four squadrons and three companies of japanese there the russians withdrew with the loss of one cossack killed and one wounded two japanese dragoons were captured the activity along the outposts la considered to confirm tho general belief that the bulk of general kuropat alna army is at tie pass A report from mukden says preparations tor winter quarters are being made adding that saml subterranean huta are being constructed or the men stationed about the city these are described as being warm and comfortable the same report says tho japanese are suffering from privations cold and hunger A chefko special declares the japanese squadron must have been damaged during the great storm which has been raging in the yellow sea SHOULD PREPARE FOR LONG WAR tokio oct 6 in addressing tho members of tho united clearing houses of today count okuma the leader of the progressive party warned the people to prepare for a long war the date of the termination of which it was now impossible to foretell ho predicted that tho cost to japan for a two years war including the loans which had been already placed and the expenses consequent upon the war at ts termination would total one billion dollars which would make tho per capita eitaro amount to twenty dollars ACCLAIM PROGRAM OF NEW MINISTER st petersburg oct C the acm aro acclaiming the program enunciated by tho now minister of the interior among tho many tele graies ho has received Is tho following from tho of nov gorod tho greet your in tho firm conviction that the program proclaimed by you will convince the people of your good they nay repose trust in your at toward communal JAPANESE FLED mukden oct G the main forces of both armies remain quiet but the scouts are active on tuesday a cossack detachment had a short hut sharp brush with some japanese dragoons near the yenthi mines I 1 he japanese lost four men killed and had two captured they then fled and the extension of their sphere ct usefulness thu Zem approve the peaceful movement of russia along the load of progress NO SERIOUS DISEASE AT FRONT moscow oct C prof goowin of the red cross society who has just returned hero from the front that health and general condition of the troops are remarkably good there are no epidemics and no very serious disease the prevailing complaints being a light form of sto typhus and dysentery CAPTURES PROVISION JUK tokio oct G 10 a m tho port arthur blockading fleet has captured a junk laden with provisions the junk was endeavoring to enter tho harbor tho statements of the crew and evidence found aboard the junk indicate the existence of a bicet of eighty junks organized to run the blockade from the vicinity of tsang tau despite the vigilance of the blockading fleet many junks reach the russian lines at a number of landing places on the lower end of the peninsula tho junks enter al night the russian guns and mine fields giving them an advantage advant aga over the vessels of the blockading fleet while it is suspected that ammunition is being sn juggled in none has yet been found in the hundreds of junks that have been overhauled and searched search sd JAPS STOP BRITISH STEAMER che foo oct G 3 p in the british steamer chanan traveling from taku to che foo not hearing the usual blank shots was hove to by n japanese cruiser which two shots across her bows last night after the steamers cargo was examined she was allowed to proceed european and chinese olUcia ls deny tho reported arrest of a chinese suspected of having knowledge concerning the disappearance of do and capt von Gilgen heim respectively the french and german naval attaches at port arthur WANTS ADDITIONS TO ASIATIC FLEET washington oct 6 admiral yalca sterling ln ahlet of tho fleet has mado a report to the department recommending important additions botho asiatic station the report has been under discussion by the general board and liaa now been referred to the bariou bureaus for comi |