The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 10, 1904, Page 1

SBS 2 SVwr Soeous The Star Is Only O ONE CENT *Fonight and Friday—Rain; brisk to high southeast to southwest winds NIGHT EDITION THE STAR'S WEXT GREAT FICTION OFFERING ARMIES WILL CLASH NEAR NEWCHWANG TO MARK THE SPOT WHERE LINCOLN SPOKE ATGETTYSBURG THUR SDAY, MARCH 10, 1904 Japanese are Rapidly Mov ing Westward from the Yalu--Battle is Expected FUCHOW, MARCH 10—SCOUTING PARTIES BRING THE REPORTS TO THIS CITY THAT A LARGE FORCE OF JAPAN- ESE ARE ADVANCING WESTWARD FROM THE YALU RIVER AND ARE FIFTY MILES NORTHWEST OF ANTUNG RUMORS OF FIGHTING ARE PERSISTENT HERE AND THE RUSSIAN FORCES AT NEWCHWANG AND OTHER NEAR POINTS ARE PREPARING FOR AN ATTACK, WHICH THEY BELIEVE 1S IMMINENT. SEOUL, MARCH 10—A SHARP ENGAGEMENT HAS OC- CURRED BETWEEN A RUSSIAN SCOUTING PARTY AND A DE- TACHMENT OF THE JAPANESE ARMY IN THE NEIGHBOR- HOOD OF HANU. IT 18 REPORTED THAT THE JAPS FORCED THE RUSSIANS TO RETIRE, BUT NOTHING IS KNOWN OF THE LOSS ON EITHER SIDE. THE APPEARANCE OF THE RUS! NS 8O FAR TO THE SOUTHWARD LEADS TO THE BELIEF HERE THAT THEY FEEL FULLY PREPARED TO MEET THE JAPS IN A LAND ENGAGEMENT. HAIJU 18 ABOUT HALF WAY BETWEEN SEOUL AND PING YANG, WHERE IT WAS EXPECTED THE FIRST CLASH OF THE TWO ARMIES WOULD OCCUR. JAPS HAVE A FOOTHOLD THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL AT GETTYSBURG. Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n. WASHINGTON, D. C.—A rial of Line famous addr of the hemioy The central fea to be erected on the field of Ge ture of the memorial will be a Durg. Becretery of War Root signed | granite pedestal eight feet high on the contract for it « few days be-| which will be placed a bronze bust, fore his_retirement from office. The | one-half larger than itfe-size, of the memorial will be orected on ceme- artyred president. tery hill as near as possible to the An extract from the Lincoln ad spot where President Lincoln stood | Gress to be Inseribed on one of th when he delivered the great ad-/ tablets ts as follows dress. | That we here resolve that these The memorial will be In the form | dead xhall not have died tn vain of an exedra, 22 feet long, with two! that this nation, under God, shall bronae tablets and a bry je bust of | have a new birth of freedom, and Lincoln. It will be divided into sec~| that the government of the people tions by three enormous blocks of| by the people and for the people nite, the largest forming the} shall not perish from the earth Yinkow, an Umost certain to fall The Japanese are following exactly the same tac secured " success in the Chinese-Japanese war, and are moving over precisely the xame ground. The rapidity of the Japanese movement has bewlidered the Russian commanders and the result fs that many small parties have TIENSIN, March 10.—The Japanese have secured a foothold in been cut off and compelled to fight All of these # Southern Manchuria, and are now jess than seventy miles east of proven costly to the Russians, who, it is believed, hav Newchwang. They have also succeeded in attaining a position that however, is not the worst the apparent Incompet threatens the Russian columns at Port Arthur and Newchwang. If manders has disheartened the Russian troops, who consequently are they uccessful in the impending battle, they will enabled to co- unable (o fight with the spirit that means victory. Operate with the army now in > hern Koren with headquarters in Ping Yang and make untenable the Russian position along the Yalu river. ‘ By a series of rapid marches the Japanese succeeded in surprising the Russian force that had > sent to throw up entrenchments at Fieng ng Cheng and compelled them to abandon the position, the Russians being outnumbered and unable to secure the commanding position planned. The Japan my then marched northward to an eastern pass to Takung Ling and are now moving on Hai Tcheng and Lio Yang, where a force of 35,000 Russians are strongly entrenched. An engagement is imminent at the latter place, and if the Japanese are guecessful the line of communication with Port Arthur will be cut, en- dangering the safety of the fortress, while Newchwang and its port to prevent t shea have LONDON, March 10.—An off the reports of pected an sition on the Yalu river, says that if news of this stra marvelous collapse of Russian power on land is true, there is nothing Japanese from selfing Mukden and the railroad ~ | RUSSIANS WILL HOLD NEWCHWANG the war office, commenting on ful turning of the R will not « Japa | here, and therefore sev neutra interests at Newehwang will be off ally abandoned t eports of Cighting cast of the 2 eis # ide 4 Japanese advance eport sotlon of the SERESERSCSURERERTEeeesace STORM WARNING INFANTRY DRILL AND TARGET PRACTICE IN THE JAPANESE ARMY (From photographs taken at Bokio since the war began.) The Seattle Star. === ing the ends of the two arme/ ns in} } ago. She Is r er way ne ent Everywhere : THE ONLY PAPER IN ‘SEATTLE : THAT DARES, TO PRINT THE NEWS oo | VOL. 6. NO. 16. 25 CENTS PER — WILL BE «THE SORCERESS OF THE STRAND” EXTRA EDITION PORT ARTHUR - BOMBARDED The Japanese Squadron Made Two Ats tacks on the Russian Fortress During the Night. BULLETD --PORT ARTHUR, March 10. -Thd Japanese fleet re-appeared at mid-night last night and bombarded the city intermittently until 8 o’clock this morning and then withdrew. PORT ARTHUR ATTACKED (@y Boripps News Ass'n) | nter section and similar blocks | batteries 0 attacking f DECLARES MARTIAL LAW Lake Baikal railway and all branch- of the road to the eastward. This ed fire, but @ gale sprang up and at thet moment thy et withdrew. LONDON, March 10.—The Central News Agency correspondent at (By Scripps News Ass'n.) Pert Arthur repor ST. PETERSBURG, March 10.—An tm that the Japanese © prepared to bombard the port last night, but owing to a heavy storm were compelied to desist | imperial ukase has been issued de- step taken as an extra precau- at 11 o'clock. | claring martial law in many dis- tion against any surprises to traing ‘The signal station sent messages to the fortremses that a Japanese | tricts of 81 and part of thetransporting troops and supplies te squadron had appeared on the horizon and 50 minutes later the shore | trans Baikal district, also along the the far east. ye, Sain ADVOCATED PURITY | | ) | seein nem | “The attack } Judge Milo A. Root addressed ti Y. MC. A. rooms last night. He and las forty minutes, It ts be-| cussed the aims and objects of thé | Civic union. Judge Root strongly ade |ieved the bombardment was ef-| vocated purity in municipal politics. 4 j ‘ | ene attack on Via-| KING EDWARD MAY Dismiss/ HIS CABINET Viadivostok on the fective and demoralized the enemy,| BANK CHANGES NAME Dy Corinne News Ass'n) jas the Russian Jid not reply.| WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1 BIRMINGHAM, Eng., March 10. (By Beripps News Ass'n.) ently recon- The Cain National Bank of Por@ | authorized t ent places’ Angeles has been © trace| change its name to the Citizen# | National Bank of Port Angeles. KIO, Maorch 10. Admiral | The Gazette this morning prin scn@itional story to the effect that} Kammura sends the following re serigus trouble has arisen betwee King Bawa nd his cabinet | nome propesed changes the offide, It hinted that ¢ avoid more serious fr r | | DESERTERS CAPTURED SNOTOMISIL loseptern army were captured here 7 Jevening. They ¢ the 1 \k 1 and Hendrickson | mitted that they we n took Vaneouver this 1 wore Civilian coats, ognized by thelr b they came into t piles. March 10 the United State | | MERGER GIRL” HUNT OLYMPIA, March 1 M Harteoek, a 47 or w on ty, auffered the t kinng ¢ wrist yesterday inn fall on th of the Worhan's Club buflding Hartsock 4% well known and bea of th the distinction of being Mercer girls,” who came ington territory v New England in a LEIALE KALAMA, March 10.—Judge ( Kalahan, mayor th ity, is no The ades was the only American ship in the harbor of Port Arthur at the time of the first about recove t » his inju tack by ithe Japar et on Febraury 8. She was detained there by the Russians and not allowed to sustained in being run over by a] — discharge her > he quietly slipped her cable and got away by night and unloaded her cargo wagon at Portland some two months} consisting of pr tons and for ef ere she is due to arrive about March 15, oem. | |