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ENIVES, RASORES AND SEEARS PICTURE FRAMES OF ALL L.4CRIPTIONS MADE TO ORDER. book you want Baron Hayfishi Says Port Arthur and Vladivostok Are Doomed to Fall Before Autumn. ¥ 2 —Baron Hayashi, [ View of the large number of Russian J finister here, who has | 1:00ps opposed to us. Its significance numerous tele- | Must largely depend on our ability to t the Japan- e sy, ' g the whole future of the struggie that has just commenced in h deadiy earnest on land Baroa hi said: the Yalu, especially e first serious fight- of General The duration of the war must lie will be a |rather with Russia than with Japan. echeng, which For the moment the military advant 5 e et fied with their | 15 With us, for Kuropatkin has extend - E ed his front and we can strike wher oo e the com-|,n3 when we will. Our aggressive m t may be carried on to Muk- to Harbin and perhaps but before long _there come a stage of the campaign where Russia will assume the role cf g power and where we must : s y on the defe the - ng it has been s ag- ion is and has been but a means sns in M the eventual repulsion of an - ki himself probably 7 at this s moment at exactly point our aggression will b | . St 1 into the defemsive. Kuropat- kin, 80 T believe, says he will not un- dertake to drive us back until he has 300,000 men ready to take the field. I nk what that means is that at least r cent of that force will die from | ness, so that to keep his force at | the maximum required Kuropatkin wiil ailways have be transporting 15,000 from St. Petersburg—no small f campaign. men evidently | v 'f Tosist- l RUSSIANS FACE FAMINE. onated OBT | “This year's harvest in Manchuria, 1 venture ' |learn. promises to be bad. - A million 3 “ | Russians there, in addition $0 the Army, must be fed. We have, or shall have dispatch re- | cept by the Siberian railroad. Even ow practically se- | with double tracks and no men or banks of the | munitions of war to transport, the base will | problem of feeding the Russian popu- n jation and army in Manchuria would be in itself intensely serious; but with a single-track road, which is Russia's only vital sinew, it means the almost T must say engagement y in “CLEAN" TASTE — The absence s disagreeable foreign or * after- vess during abibie sadication of body. ks and ’ e 5 of s excelicnce of brewing materisl. “PURITY” — Impossible to find in most bottled beers, because their tion i through preserval s gained 1 Sunday morning. closed every source of food supply ex- | SUMMARY OF THE Petersburg statements declare that near Newchwang. JAPANESE TAKE ANTUNG T L P O R S ! From Toklo, and from St. Petersburg as well, come dispatches adding to the information already re- | | celved concerning the Russian retreat from the Yalu and the advance of the Japanese. The Toklo dispatches describe the actions which led up to the Russians being forced back toward Fengwangcheng, while the St. to be considered in the light of a serious repuise. Military experts disagree as to the importance of the retreat and the advance. It is pointed out, how- ever, that the Russian right wing may have a difficult task in reaching Fengwangcheng and, possibly, may be cut off by the division thrown forward by General Kuroki. % Information is received from a Japanese source to the effect that a Japanese force is expected to land Such an operation would threaten the Russian position at Liaoyang, as General Kuro- patkin is in no condition at present to protect it without expésing his main body to a serious attack. | CALL’'S SPECIALS FROM WAR DISTRICT | the movement was part of General Kuropatkin’s programme and was not 1 | i [ 1 i f | & ‘Brown Men Fight . Foe at Close ‘ Quarters. | 3 TOKIO, May 2.—After the Japanese | | carried the line of hills extending from | Kuliencheng to Yoshoka, on the right bank of the Iho River, yesterday, the Russians made a second stamd on a i hill northwest of Kuliencheng, but they began retreating at 1:50 in the affer- | { noon. | The Tweifth Japanese Division ad- | | vanced toward Tahlangfang, which is due west of the village of Makao: the division of the Imperial Guards ad- vanced toward Hamatan, which is west | of Kuliencheng; while the Second Di- vision moved down the river, with An- tung as its objective. The general re- serve advanced over the main road to Liaoyang, which runs in a westerl§ | direction from the Yalu River. | At 6 o'clock yesterday evening the ;Japanese army heid a line extending {from Antung northwesterly to Lauku- { ku, and running from there in a north- easterly direction to Lishukau. At Hamatan, where the Iho River makes its first bend to the west, the Japanese succeeded in enveloping th=2 Russians on three sides. At this place, | after sharp fighting at close range, the | Japanese captured twenty Russian guns, with their horses, carriages and ammunition and more than twenty officers and many men. The Russian troops at Hamatan retreated toward Fengwangcheng. A Russian officer who was taken prisoner said that the effect of the Jap- apese artillery fire on Saturday and Sunday was enormous. Lieutenant General Sassulitch, commander of the Second Siberian Army Corps, and Ma- Jjor General Kashtalinsky, commander | of the Third East Siberian Rifle Brig- ade, were wounded by shells. A Rus- sian lieutenant colonel was captured. It is estimated that the total Russian casualti amounted to more than 80J. G al Kuroki and his headquarters | entered Kuliencheng at 5:30 on Sunday ral Kuroki has telegraphed that imperial Prince and the officers of in high spirits and are in excellent the his command a that all the troops ealth. Admiral Hosoya reports that Com- mander Nakagawa, the commander of the Japanese gunboat flotilla, has com- municated to him as follows: “The detachment started at It wenit up the River as far as practicable. The boat. Maya bombarded Antushan the Uji bombarded Liudongkau vicinity. ceeded to Sudongkau and bembarded that place. Returning it was suddenly attacked by the enemy from the hiils rortheast of Antushan. It returned the fire and silenced the enemy in thirty minutes. It then returned to Yorga pho at 11:30, There were no casualties Armed . steamers at 10 o'clock for thirty minutes. The enemy replied to this fire. ‘At 9:20 o'clock Sunday morning these steamers exchanged fire with the enemy's infantry and artillery for thir- ty-five minutes. The enemy was dis- — e ] “Fighting Bishop”|Russian Capital Is| Sees Sinking Not Perturbed | of Koreitz. = | by Defeat. j . ST. PETERSBURG, May 2.—The | arrived ‘here | press was informed at 2:30 o'clock this | on the liner | afternoon that, beyond the fact of the Wwas on the firing line at the | retreat of the Russians before the Bishop D. H. Moore of the Methodist Episcopal church, who vesterday a passenger China, | commencement of the Russo-Japanese | overwhelming supericrity of the Japan- war. He was in Chemuipo when the | ese on the Yalu River, no details have Russians blew up the Koreitz to save | been received since the repart of Gen- her from falling into the hands of the | eral Sassulitch, commander of the Sec- enemy. He was on board the Koreitz, ond Siberian Army corps, yeller&ay,' ! hours beforesthe vessel was de- | of the retirement from Kuliencheng. It | CASTORIA For Infants and Children. 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Jaegpe of Ol Lr A UBL PITGRER = Ll ¢ ‘W-_ 288 L . stroyed, and then learned of the Rus- slans’ intention to sacrifice their fight- is quite possible that the losses on both sides in the week’s fighting may reach The torpedo-boat flotilla pro- | on | Saturday night bombarded Sudongkau | ing machine. | the figures given by the Japanese, as '“n“’(’h’f’ll‘rnwfe flsf”‘?(“ at ‘Chhf‘lmuxlg"; the resérves were not brought up to i sunkags‘lé:f;n ";;:nfigf_;u‘r ll(nlcimlf‘ s:pwrl the Russian pesition 2t Kulien- pany with General Allen, chief of :the | mentar e the fghiing' Was the Philippine constabulary and now in Ja-| The Russians made a special effort to pan as one of Uncle Sam’s military eb- | hold as long as possible the heights of servers of the war, Bishop Moore vis-| Kosan, on an island opposite Kulien- ited the Russian war vessel. | cheng, whence their guns commanded “We were graciously received on|a considerable stretch of the river to rd and hospitably entertained. Gen- | the south, but a Japanese battery on a ral Allen, however, was the only one ! hill above Wiju dominated the position, able to take part in the conversation.' which the Russians eventually were He told me as we were leaving that it forced to relinquish, thus losing the key had been decided to biow up the vessel | to the river. at 4 o'clock that afternoon. It was| | startling enough information, but,| gle there may have been due to the strange to say, it slipped from my mind necessity for gaining time for the with- |and I did not remember it again until drawal of the Russian detachments | that afternoon. We were on the bay above and below. General Sassulitch | and almost alongside the Koreitz. Sud- was in comand of the entire force on | denly I remembered. My watch teid the Yalu, which extended over a dis- {me that it was 3:40 o'clock, and you, tance of thirty miles, with reserve sup- may be sure I impressed upon my boat- | ports fifteen miles back. The whole, man the necessity for a speedy retreat. according to the best information ob- I was landed on the lighthouse fsland, | tainable, did not exceed 17,000 men. about 800 yards from where the Koreitz | What was the actual force engaged is | was anchore | not known at present, though probably “The explosion occurred according to | jt was not more than 5000 men, if it was schedule and I will never forget the sight. The powder smoke rose in two | RS dense, black colamns. These pillars| _ UNCONFIRMED REPORTS. of darkness came together as they| NoO confirmation has yet been re- cended, completely obscuring the sun, | céived of the reported capture of twen- hich had b shining brightly in a | ty-eight Russian quick-firing guns or cloudless skv. r a moment the ,nt the wounding of General Sassulitch black curtain parted, letting through iand General Kashtalinsky, the latter in the sunlight and bringing out in bold | command of the Third Division, East relief that jagged splash of black, a | Siberian troops, at the Yalu River, or ! more realistic pieture of war than ever | the burning of Antung. It is confirmed grew under the brush of artist. And |that a village of thatched huts was set | when the smoke had cleared away the | on fire by a shell maimed and twisted hull of the war- | The statement that the Russians | ship showed the ruin wrought by that | have fallen back as far as Fengwang- awful convulsion.” cheng is declared to be untrue. The During the voyage across the Pacific ] advance has retired and will continue Bishop Moore told the story of -his-{ t0. retire before the main army of the Chemulpo experiences to the Chima’s | €DEMY, according to the Russian pro- passengers in the form of a lecture. gramme, but it will keep in constan Bishop Moore, who is accompanied | touch with the enemy, and skirmish- | by his wife, has been in the Orient four | ing of a more or less serious character years. His tecritory included. China,|i€ expected as General Kuroki ad- Japan and Korea, with headquarters | vances. It is considered very neces- | at Shanghai. The Bishop has ~ome | Sary to always know wheére the main home to attend the conference of his K army of the enemy is. The general { church at Los Angeles. but does not | Staff believes General Kuroki's forward | expect to return to the Far East. march on Fengwangcheng will be ac- | Bishop Moore iz an American and a | companied by landings at Takungkau, | ighter. He favors Japan in her pres- | at the head of Korea Bay, and not far |ent trouble and believes that China | from the mouth of the Yalu River, ana would like to assist the Mikado in [Other places along the coast as far as whipping the bear. | Takushan, under the protection of the “T have the sreatest respect for Rus- | warships. These troops can be kept sia, but as a land-grabber she is to be | in touch with General Kuroki’s left feared in the Orient. T hope Japan | Wing. It might also be easier to get up whips her to a standstill and think she | @ portion of the guns from places will do it.” | down the coast than to drag them all Moore's opinion of Japanese | upD the mountains toward Toitin Pass was seen to be burningz.|milita ability is entitled to respeet. | from the Yal The Japanese are ex- that the epemy set it o= | The Bishop's proudest possession is the | bected to try to turn the Russian po- fire and r ted. We had no casu red, white and blue button of the Loyal | Sition at Fengwangcheng. ties, b ! h this dreadful accompaniment lfof w there is onlv too likely to be a rising among the Manchurians. They may attack the Russians or they may attack us. Either case is bad enough to contemplate. “To help us sit down and awaitjall these contingencies we are working day and night on the Korean railway, and by October the unfinished portions of the road between Fusan and Seoul | will be completed and a new line from | Seoul to Wiju will be ready. -Locomo- tives are coming from the United States and as soon as these arrive we will have communication through all Korea, which will almost touch our mainland, and we will not be likely to suffer from want of supplies or reinforce- ments. “As regards Port Arthur and Viadi- vostok the situation is somewhat dif- ferent. I cannot say anything about the movements of our other armies that have been mobilized, but there is | no doubt that the Liaotung peninsula | wilt be cut off from supplies if any | | success attends our land forces. ( Neither Port Arthur nor Viadivostok can be taken from the sea front, but 1 think you will find Port Arthur| either taken bv our land forces or| | starved out by September. The Chinese are smuggling provisions into Port Ar- | thur now from Chefu, but only to an immaterial extent and that will soon cease. “Vice Admiral Togo doubtless will remain on watch outside Port Arthur. By September, when the hurricane ' season comes, he should be able to safely house his fleet in a Japanese port. No fleet, Russian or Japanese, could be particularly effective then. 1 scarcely think Russia will send her Baltic fleet to face our autumn hur- ricanes. If the ships go before then, | they will encounter the monsoon period, which lasts from May te Au- gust, and in which coaling at sea en route to Japan would be exceptionally dangerous, if not impossible, and coal- ing at sea is the only way the Baltic | fleet can take a hand in the war.” Referring to the long period which | elapsed between the declaration of war | and the land fighting, Minister Hay- ashi said: “That waiting, which taxed the pa- i tience of the world, has been a bnayi and exciting time for us. Our troops have been continually marching and | working in anticipation of striking the blow which would initiate the cam- paign in Manchuria. “I do not think our morale has been in any way affected by what is so erroneously described as a period of inaction. General Kuroki may, even by his own countrymen, be thought to be rather slow, but it is better to be sure. “The most unfortunate incident of the campaign up to date is Vice Ad- miral Kamimura's misfortune in miss- ing the Viadivostok fleet. It seems from here that it was a pity that the vice admiral did not stay outside of | the port, insteads of trying to find the Russians in the open sea.” a strong and rapid line of | Legion, which looms up in somewhar | STAFF NOT DISCOURAGED. omber clericals. | { ¢ At the army headquarters here there 2s a pastor of a church when the | is not the slightest evidence that the h q(;ppm Phots Ae pulpit into ‘the | Russlans consider they have sustained ranks. He enlisted In the Bighty- | o e oo T e crossing of the Yalu Tovenih OLIa A o a e g A . | by the enemy was taken as a matter of and s course and as part of the programme. mission and promotion to the rank of | T i - captain. He was later made a lieuten- | ar r‘;’:z’a;’: \:;f:gdi‘;" ¥, pewie I ant colonel of the One Hundred and | : Twenty-ffth Ohio and stayed with the |, Xt ¥ the sublect of general remark sword until the war ended. when he |yoi, gdonted amnost identically the jreturned to his church. He is a Man | 4ctice thev followed during the Chi- jot peace. ow, with a keen and edu- | oo Japanese war, forcing the passage jeated appetite for a good fight. at the exact place they did in 18%. | S B i The Emperor is now receiving the | BATTLE FOUGHT AT GENSAN. |war news at Tsarkoe-Selo (fifteen miles south of St. Petersburg) a spe- cial wire having been run into the new palace there. The Dowager Empress and Grand Duke Michael, the heir presumptive, have gone to Gatchina near Tsarkoe- Selo. Except for the big May review of troops on the Champs de Mars the | Russian Column Attacks the Town and Is Engaged by Garrison. ST. PETERSBURG, May 2.—It is| | reported here that a column of about | | 3000 Russians approached Gensan vesterday and a similar number of | The desperate character of the strug- : that large. } i | Japanese sallied forth to repel them. evere fighting ensued, with consid- erable loss on both sides. The Jap-| | anese eventually retired into Gensan: Two important Ruseians officers were imperial family will pot return to St. Petersburg again until they go to Peterhof on the gulf, at the end uf‘ June. | A | Remedy for Cons| -fiofifse;ur& X L aflg: | Worms Convulsions, Feverish- | ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. FacSimile Signature of lomach, Di NEW YORK. M b novihs old i }')"n\i\"gs(l\l\ | , For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA | | 'Japanese Imperial Guards Sustain the Brunt of the Battle and LONDON, May 3.—The latest dis-| patches received here confirming the completeness ¢f the Japanese victory on the Yalu River could hardly have | given greater satisfaction in Tokio than in London. The editorials in the morning papers ring with admiration | {at the success of General Kuroki's| strategy, in a manner indicating that Great Britain had been in considerable doubt of the capacity of her ally's| troops when matched against the Rus- stan Despite Japan's lack of good ry with which to follow up the| ictory, it is believed that she w!ll! speedily drive the Russians out of | | Fengwangcheng also: A Few further details have yet been | received, but it seems that the Jap- anese Imperial Guards fought with conspicuous bravery and sustained the brunt of the fighting, lesing heavily. Some accounts speak of bayonet| charges. It is evident that the Japanese suc- cess is largely due to the superiority of | their artillery, the Russians' guns being | too light. § ! The Japanese victory has caused| complete surprise in the European capi- | tals and is expected to lead to difficulty | in Russia’s efforts to raise a loan. The Stapdard’s Tientsin correspond- | ent, cabling under date of May 2, says| that Viceroy Alexieff has sent a lengthy | dispatch to General Ma, commanding | the Chinese troops, informing him that | the occasion may arise for Russia to| mcrease her forces in Sinmintung, /Chengyang and other places, and re- questing him to withdraw the Chinese military and police. An answer, the | correspondent says, Is required within | three days. As an indication of General Kuropat- kin's anxiety regarding the where- abouts of Japan’'s second army, the Morning Post's Shanghai correspondent cays that all the Russian trops sta- | tioned in Chanchu, Fuchau, Haicheng, | Kaiping and other. places have been | | dispatched along the seacoast to watch | for a Japanese landing. According to the Shanhaikwan corre- spondent of the Daily Telegraph, evi dence is accruing that China's neutral | ity is tottering. The Tartar generals in | Kirin and Fengtien, the correspondent | is advancing. Lose Heavily, says, are urging the Peking Govern- ment to adopt a strong policy against Russian aggression west of the Liao River. It is alleged that Viceroy Yuan Shai Kai is secretly making war prepa- rations, and everything, in the o ion of the correspondent, points toward China making a military demonst tion against either belligerent fighti west of the Liao River. A special dispateh from Port Arthur says that about 100 Chinese junks were observed on the horizon yesterday be- tween the mouth of the Yalu and Liao- tung peninsula. g 2 T3P S GERMANY'S AID TO RUSSIA. New Socialist Journal Notes Alleged Violations of Neutrality. BERLIN, May 2.—Edward Bern- stein, a member of the Reichstag, be- gins the publication to-day of a new Socialist weekly, entitled Das Neue Montagsblatt, wherein he advocates the revision of the socialist creed so that it shall be less idealistic and more a programme of practical reform. Herr Bernstein prefaces his editorial column with the following questions: “Is it known to the German Gov- ernment that torpedo-boats and de- stroyers for the Russian Government are being built at one of the largest German shipyards? Is it known to the Government that in order to dis- guise this breach of neutrality the several parts of the vessels are ex- ported as half-finished manufactures and put together in Libau, Russia? Is it known, finally, that the bullding of these war vessels is so urgent that work proceeds from 5 a. m. teo 9 p. m.2" — e Rattleships Repaired. MOSCOW, May 2.—The Slav's Port Arthur correspondent reports that the repairs to the damaged battleships have been almost completed. The pro- tected cruiser Pallada is out of dock and work on the battleship Retvizan The divers who have been searching the wreck of the bat- leship Petropaviovsk in the hope of recovering the body of Viee Admiral Makaroff have practically abandoned their efforts. ADVERTISEMENTS The new Russian battleship Orel, to which the finishing tduches are being put, ran aground on a sandbank in the Neva yesterday. As difficulty is expected in refloating her the ice- breaker Ermgk has been sent from | Kronstadt to assist the tugs in pulling ‘ wounded. % B Intrenching on Liao River. TIENTSIN, May 2.—Two hundred Russians are intrenching themselves on the Liao River, three miles from' Sinmintung, employing Chinese labor- ers. Sinmintung is twd miles from Koupangtse, a permanent Russian camp. A detachment of 180 men is her off. e ke S S FOG SAVES RUSSIAN SHIPS. Admiral Kamimura’s Report of Viad- 2 ivostok Squadron’s Escape. TOKIO, May 2.—Vice Admiral Kamimura, whe is in command of !nei Japanese squadron which has been | operating recently against Vhdlvos-l tok, has sent in a report from Gen- san, Korea, dated Sunday, in which he | | says that the impenetrable fog twice forced the abandonment of the at- tack on Vladivostok, and twice spared | the Russian squadron a sea fight. I While Kamimura was steaming | northward the first time he 1 the Russian squadron bound south on | the raid to Gensan, which resuited in | the sinking of the Japanese merchant | steamship Goyo Maru and the trans- port Kinshiu Maru. The Japanese and | Russian squadrons must have passed very close to each other, for the Jap- anese were conscious of the presence | of the enemy. ‘When, Kamimura was compelled to suspend his attack upon Vladivostok = he moved to the southward and again | passed the Russians on their wnyl patrolling the railroad lines. ADVERTISEMENTS. THE DISEASE OF CIVILIZATION IS CONSTIPATION. 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