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v SECTION ONE CMS NS H 1 to 8 A Vol VII R AXiEIG-H. :. N. C, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1904, No; 8 S ! A M S MOVING TO THE NORTH OF TAITSE si ; JUL RVER Kuropatkin Taking an Offensive Position Against Kuroki Lio Yang Not Yet Evacuated. Fighting Goes on Day by Day. Losses Are Enormous Tokio. Pept. 3. The Russian force , Liao Yang-, - the railway station and ,vWront:ns: Field Marshal Oyama's the railroad itself. Our bosses were ln- - left pro rich t!c:i lire Vff center continues slowly to give in retreat and is crossing to the .mk of the Taitse river. A por the Russian army occupies a lefense works extending north o;n a point south of Liao Yang. The- Russians also hold an eminence rorthat of Nutichang, on the right 1 .tr-.k of the Taitse. This evidently is i::: ended to shield the general retreat of both the left and center. The Jap anese armies continued to press the Russians. -yesterday." They moved for ward and occupied a line extending from Tatepjlf to Yangchlalintzu. Oynma telegraphs that he hopes they will reach the right bank of the river ihis morning. . , General Kuroki. after serious fight ing, succeeded yesterday in faking a portion of the eminence near Heiying Ja:. Details of this fighting have not benn received. Russians appear to be again concen trating in the vicinity of Yentai coal riir.es. twelve miles northeast of Liao Van?. Possibly another great battle i r--ni occur there. j The present trend of the movements1 Indicates that possibly the Japanese ' ivni rr.ove past iiao lang, lemporaniy , "earing the city untouched. The following dispatch from Field Marshal Oyama has been received here: "Headquarters of the Manchurian Army, Sept. 3.-9 a. m. The remainder of the defeated Russians are making a ! stand outside the walls of Liao Yang. Our left and center armies are attack- lnp them." An earlier message from Field Mar Fhal '''yaraa says: . "The enemy in front of our left and r?r.tr armies continued to retreat Sep- . . . .. .. - I tfinDer 2 to the right bank or tne Taitse river, except the oortion of his forces occupying the defense works 1 - t from the south to the northwest of I.iao Yang and the heights northeast of Nutichang. Our armies are continuing- the attack. Our right army occu pied in the morning of September 2 part of the heights west of Heiyingtai., Kuropatkin Bombards Kuroki's Position ?t. Petersburg. Sent. 3. Kuropatkin nil not delay after his concentration 1 dered the British docking company not n the right bank. Yesterday morning 1 to repair the cruiser Askold or destroy he massed his artillery and at noon , er Grosovoi after 6 a. m. September 1. began to bombard Kuroki's position j preliminary to an infantry attack. This was the situation when the latest r-ports in possession of the war oTIice were sent. What the authorities at Tokio regard as a Russian concentration at Yentla v.-as probably Kuropatkin's prepara tions for taking the offensive. Telegraphic and. rail way communica tions between the Russians and St. Pe tersburg were still open this morning. In military circles, where the prog ress of the battle is known, Kuropat kin's tactics are approved and con fidence is expressed in the issue. The failure of Tokio to chronicle the voluntary passage of Kuropatkin's main army across the river is believed here to indicate that the Japanese de sire to reap as much glory as possi ble if they succeed in taking posses sion of Liao Yang. Neither Kuropatkin's decision to make the crossing with his army nor the fact that Kuropatkin had begun bis attack upon Kuroki served to re vive the people's snirits. which had been depressed nerrentihlv during th r-:st forty-eight hours without official "ot a single newspaper dispatch di rectly from the front has reached St. Petersburg since Thursday for the rea son explained in these dispatches the transfer of the head telegraph office at I.iao Yang to Shakhe, fifteen miles north. I i--iier in the day the general staff reconsidered its determination not to tta'xe public General Kuropatkin's dis P ' h to the emperor of yesterday, and text was given out as follows: "After nightfall Thursday the Japans- attacked our Sikwantun position, ere repulsed after a hot fight. TV- renewed the attack at night. time with success; driving back re-lTnant . r. J I if M r-. . ! The retreat of this regiment led ' tne evacuation of the position held ' other troops. Towards morning the krr'"ps advanced gradually in order to retake the Sikwantun positions.. "At dawn Friday I assumed the of- against the trrvms rvf dfrtoral ! j,-, " " : vuroKi's army. At midday the heads ' r.-- attacklnS corps were in line and ; i 'nuons were beine- martp to re. r, by artillery the position captured f .ntry is also advancing to the at- ing the night the Japanese vio lently bombarded the interior of the - - '...uttiueu me mieriur 01 me ; -fcussian position inside the town of j significant. "I have just received a dispatch from the chief of the Liao Yang garrison, timed 10:35 a. m. to the effect that the Japanese attacked the fort situated in the center of pur position,, but they were repulsed with very great loss. We had six men killed in the forts. The fighting at SIkwantun, referred to in General Kuropatkin's telegram, corresponds ' with the Tokto report of the capture by the Japanese of a por tion of the heights" at Helyingtai, which is situated a mile eastward of Sikwan tun. The latter place" is two mile southeast of Siakhoutin, whither, the Russian advance regiment was forced back by " Kuroki during the night or Thursday last. Japanese Stilt Pressing the Fight Tokio, Sept. 3. The Asahi believes that the Russian forces have been en veloped by the Japanese on the ex treme left on the Taitse river north- west of Liao Yang; that the center of the Japanese army is advancing' frorts the southward on both sides of the, river and that the first army is fur-j i" iu me uunu, mc i , way on the extreme right. The Rus sian force was hard pressed by General Oku while crossing to the right bank of the river. : It remarks upon the significant hls- torical parallel between the events at Lteo Yang and those at Sedan, which occurred on the same day of the month thirty-four years ago. ' It estimates that the Russian losses will exceed "those w hich the French suffered at Sedan, both in prisoners and in casualties, probably 7,000 and 60,000 respectively. t The latter are at least . .... - . a ' i t We. ;aouoie mo-e w me Japanese, n iuumo, I in the last two days" operations. y In anticipation of imminent" events. Japan is organising a special fleet of gunboats for patrol operations and other service on the inland rivers of Manchuria. They are to be able to penetrate as far as Mukden. China 'Asked to Pay Tokio, Sept. 3. Telegrams from Shanghai report that the Chinese , or- The company has not been paid Dy Russia and demands payment by the Chinese. Abandonment Decided Upon London, Sept. 3. A news agency dis patch from St. Petersburg says that it is admitted by the highest military authorities that the abandonment of Liao Yang was definitely decided upon in advance, save In the event of an overwhelming Russian victory. Itshan Hill Retaken Paris, Sept. 3. A . dispatch to the Echo de Paris from St. Petersburg says' that General Stoessel telegraphs that the . Russians have retaken the Itshan Hills and are engaged in dis lodging from their base the Japanese who recently landed. Kuroki Captures Positions St. Petersburg, Sept. 3. A dispatch received today confirms the report that General KUroki has' captured several positions in "the direction of the rail way. General Kuropatkin telegraphs tnat ne assaulted and captured a po sition during the night. The Russians began preparations to retake the posi tion this morning. An advance against General Kuroki was also begun and was met by a strong rifle fire from the center of the Japanese position. The Japanese attempted today to capture the railway station at Liao Yang. The attack was repulsed with great loss. y The war department admitted early today that Liao Yang had been cut off. No official messages had been received from Liao Yang since Thursday. Decision Depends Upon Kuroki Paris, Sept. 3. A dispatch . to the Pe tit Parisien from St. Petersburg says that General Kuropatkin has removed the military telegraph from Liao Yang fifteen miles north of Liao Yang. Liao Yang was almost entirely evac uated by the Russians September 1. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo dc Paris says that the gen- , ....- .v.i..u.. . tu.i iu erai Bta.ii. triiipxiL n. an j uciiy uiai inc japanese have occupied Liao Yang, They assert that the armies of Gen- erals Oku and Noflzu, though strong, are still held in check by the Russians. It Is General Kuroki's force, they say, that will decide the Issue of the battle. General Kuropatkin has sent a large number of troops across the Taitse to number or troops across me jlhu-s; attack General Kuroki & the rear. ' . ' ' ' ' ' ' - ; ' ' ' X ' " -' (FROM THB Russian Machine Guns Tokio, Sept. 3. Soldiers from " tt-2 front declare that the most unpleasant reminiscence of the fighting is the sound of the enemy's machine guns. No wonder, said one, that Russia, makes a military secret of Its work ing. Its effectiveness Is beyond im agination. It is marvelously accurate in aim and astonishingly great . in range, besides having a firing capacity of four hundred shots a minute.- It requires ho little courage to . march up and face this gun. When , in action it sends forth a succession of peculiar clanging sounds which, when heard at a distance, produce the most unpleas ant effect on the mind. - Abandoned Their Direct Attack Mukden, Friday, Sept. 3. (Delayed in transmission.) After six days of fighting, on the last three of which the heaviest fighting took place, the Jap anese on Wednesday abandoned their direct attack on Liao Yang in favor of a flanking movement. The Russian ar tillery fire was greatly aided by the sending up of balloons southeast of Liao Yang, thus locating the Japanese batteries. The Russians were com pelled to abandon a number of guns, being unable to move them through the mud. Japanese Oceupy Liao Yang St. Petersburg, Sept. 3.The Japan ese have occupied Liao Yang and the Russians are concentrating on positions at Yentai, ten miles to the north. It is reported that the Siberian corps un der command of General , Stakelberg, numbering 25,000 men, is cut off by, the Japanese west of Liao Yang. The outbreaks of fire at Liao Yang which have been mentioned in previous dispatches were caused by the Japanese bombardment and by the Russians, who set fire to the magazines and stores of provisions to prevent them from falling Into the hands of the Japanese. Liao Yang Taken By Assault London, Sept. 4th. A dispatch from Fusan, dated September 3rd, to the Lloyd's Weekly, says that after two days severe artillery fighting the Jap anese by a desperate assault, in which there was some of' the bloodiest fight ing of the campaign, drove the Rus sians from the fortifications at Liao Yang. The final assault lasted several hours. The Japanese are hotly pursu ing the Russians to the north. Gen eral Kuroki is vigorously harassing their retreat, a running fight . being maintained. Bryan's Plans Not Settled Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 3rd. W. J. Bryan made an emphatic denial today to the story sent out from Omaha last night, that he had demanded the retirement of David B. Hill from New York poli tics, on account of his making, speeches in that state for Parker. "I had not heard anything about Hill's retirement," he said, "until i read it in the newspapers, and. I have heard nothing since. I have not dis cussed the . trip to New York with any one. In fact, my plans for the cam paign are not settled. I expect to tatik in Indiana. I will make two or three more speeches in Missouri and I shan devote considerable time to Nebraska, I shall do nothing until, October. To day I leave for the mountains for a rest," . " ; '. HEW YQRK WORLD, AUG. SIGNS OF UNEASINESS Frictien Developing Between Italy and Austria London, Sept. 3rd. Slrn q Interna tional uneasiness in Europe ; became visible this week In - new quarter. The Trelatl m. between Citaly and - Aus tria are developing - a friction which is causing some- alarm in both coun tries. ,The Rome correspondent of the Post, in a telegram which was sup pressed by the Italian government, says the persecution of the Philo-Ital-lans at Trieste, and the Austrian in trigues in Albania have increased the existing tension.. The fortifications at Ancona and Vorna, which r heretofore had -been neglected, have been re paired. The public is incensed by the knowledge that Austrian ships are tak ing soundings at night off the Italian coast. It is hinted in official circles that In case European complications arise ow ing to the war in the far east and the Balkan question, Italy and Austria will take opposite sides, notwithstanding the fact that they are members of the triple-alliance. The Rome Press for the past few days has contained strong anti-Austria editorials. The Tribuna, a ministerial organ, reproduced articles from the Pesther Lloyd and other "Vienna pa pers, setting forth that the Italian feel ing over the provocation will not check Austria's policy in the Balkans, al though the king of Italy has a father-in-law at Cettlnje and a brother-in-law at Belgrade. The Tribuna sug gests that Italy would better give up her Austrian alliance. BIG FIRE IN MEMPHIS - Loss to Wholesale Houses Nearly a Million Dollars Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 3. Fire in Front street, in the heart of the whole sale district, today, destroyed property approximating a value of $SO0fOOO. The fire originated in the Oliver-Finnie Company's grocery house from an un known cause. The stock and building were destroyed. The building north of the Oliver-Finnie Company, owned by John Denny's Sons, stored with lime, was partly crushed by falling walls. The Memphis Paper Company's build ing was crushed. It was also partially burned, as were the building of W. C. Early & Company, wholesale commis sion merchants, and the rear portion of the J. T. Ferguson & Co. building. The Oliver-Finnie Company's loss is between $400,000 and $500,000. Winnie,' Love & Co. and Beher & Co. were also among the firms who suffered loss. Frank Guffenhaugh, a fireman, was se riously injured by falling from a ladder. Six other firemen were overcome by heat and smoke and were removed to hospitals. All will recover. Invited to Zsopus Indjanapolls, Ind., Sept. 3rd! W.thln the last few days nearly every promi nent gold Democrat in Indlanaplois has received a letter from Judge Alton B, Parker, Inviting him to Esopus for a conference. ' It Is understood that among the persons thus: addressed was 24, I904.)'s Sterling R. Holt, who laid down the chairmanship of the Democratic state committee in 1896 because he did not agree with the financial views of Wil liam , J. Bryan. NO COTTON MOVING H -....-;...- - - Strike "of r Te a m ste rs T fire at-; ens to Tie up the Market New Orleans, Sept., 3.-Today no cot ton was handled here in consequence of the teamsters strike. Today makes the third day that no cotton has been mov ed in New Orleans. " All cotton in the presses. In warehouses and at the rail road yards remains untouched. Up to this time , the tieup has not been se riously felt and as today and Monday are holidays in the cotton market it is probable that no severe effect will be felt until late next -week. Should the strike continue for any length of time," however, it will seriously retard the cotton movement as the season is about to open and in a short time cotton will be coming into New Orleans in large quantities. , All efforts at adjustment so far have been made by Boss Drayman Turner. The union men have taken very little hand In the efforts at settlement. Mr. Turner has summoned them each time that negotiations were opened,, and both of his efforts have now been rejected by the union. The draymen were will ing on both occasions to sign the tariff as amended by Mr. Turner, but the committee from the union have stub bornly refused to sign, after twice In dicating their willingness to stand by the amendments.. The cotton dealers have not taken a hand thus far, as the boss draymen have been at work at tempting to settle the situation. If their efforts fail the merchants will in tervene. ' ' ' CAN NOT HELP Gompers Full of Sympathy for the Butchers Chicago, Sept. 3rd. Word was re ceived at the union headquarters from President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor that he would not call a meeting of the national executive board of the federation to recommend general sympathetic action of the unions throughout the land to support the packers' j walkout. Today -Secretary Nicholls received a' letter from Mr. Gompers, lii which he said: "A meeting of the executive council has been called for September 12, and the members cannot attend a meeting earlier. ' Several of them are away from their headquarters, some of them near ly 1,500 "miles away, to make Labor Day addresses next Monday. It would have been a pleasure for me If I might have complied with the request of the Chicago Federation of Labor, but you will readily see how utterly impossible is such a course. "The strike of the butcher workmen has received, and is receiving my most watchful care, and I would be pleased to do anything in my power and 1 know my colleagues of the council would join me In this expression If I could.be of any service In the Interest of our fellow workmen." The Kaiser's Idea Entirely Visionary Russia Not Open to Proposals While Suffering Sting of Defeat London, Sept. 3. The latest successes of the Japanese army are naturally co incident with fresh reports of interven tion and the probable form thereof. The most extraordinary of them is the St. Petersburg report which was cabled briefly today to the effect" that the kai ser hopes to organize a Russo-German-Japanese alliance. This bold project is advanced in quite plausible fashion. It is even said that Gen. Kurino,, the for mer Japanese minister to Russia, went to St. Petersburg originally in behalf of Japan to advocate this policy, or rather a Russo-Japanese alliance, and it was the spurning of his overtures by the grand ducal cabal which led the Japanese to turn to Great Britain. It i3 now argued that Russia must realize that she can not single handed acquire predominance in the Pacific, whereas a combination with Japan and Germany could dominate Asia and Europe. There are plenty of historic prece dents for belligerents becoming allies, notably Austria and Prussia, after a sanguinary war. A power' tl argument advanced is that the Russian autocracy demand the concentration of all forces in the interior to meet the serious diffi culties which are anticipated in the near future. Moreover, far-seeing Rus sians are becoming convinced that, however long the war may last, the terms of peace will not be one whit more favorable than those which are available today. The loss of the fleet destroyed Russia's last vestige of hope of dictating terms in Tokio. It is easy to understand how such a scheme would commend itself to the kaiser and the caar, but the presump tion that the mikado ; would also wel come it is little- short of ridiculous. Such an alliance would be not only a Casln New Owner of the Atlantic Road Visits Goldsboro-rlm-provements on the Pro gram to ge Into Ef fect at an Early Day Goldsboro, N. C, Sept. 3. Special. The first private special on the old Mullet to arrive in the city since the lease came in last night and brought Mr. Richard S. Howland, the president of the Howland Improvement Com pany, who has just leased and will op erate the road. He was accompanied by Governor Aycock, Theo. F. David son, Esq., Maj. W. H. Smith, Mr. Regi nald Howland, son of the lessee, Mr. F. L. Merritt, private secretary to the new president of the road, F. B. Aren dell, B. C. Bee V with, B. W. Ballard and others. Governor Aycock and party went on to Raleigh. Mr. Howland, with his son and pri vate secretary, spent the night at the Hotel Kennon and left for New Bern this fnomlng at 11 o'clock. While in the city Mr. Howland drove over the town with Maj. W. H. Smith 'and met several of the leading business men. He expressed himself as very well pleased with Goldsboro " and 1 ventured the opinion that it would some day be come a large city. Before leaving for New Bern Mr. Howland deposited with the Bank of Wayne a certified check for $100,000, which is to guarantee the performance of his lease of the road. This check is in place of bonds to that amount which are to be put up as soon as they are registered. Immediately after the deposit was made this morn ing the bank notified Governor Aycock with the following telegram: Goldsboro, N..C, Sept. 3. Governor C. B. Aycock, Raleigh, . N. C. I have this day received from R. S. Howland for collection a draft drawn by the Union Trust Company,' of Prov idence, R. I., on the National Bank of New York for $100,000, which has been placed here subject to your order. THE BANK OF WAYNE, W. E. Borden, Cashier. The draft for the above amount should have arrived here Thursday, and did arrive, but It did not come Inrrordine to the Instructions- which Mr. Howland had given, and he was at first somewhat puzzled. He directed that the draft be sent by registered letter, and when he went to the post officer and called for a registered pack jage he did not get it. This morning 1 he went to the general delivery and cfowlaiM direct menace. to the United States and Great Britain, but would be equally pregnant to France, and the effect would- be to throw those countries Into' an opposing coalition. The prospects of intervention, , even assuming that Japan succeeds in cap turlng Gen. Kuropatkin's army, are extremely small. No combination ofi powers for this object is possible and not action by a single power could win ac ceptance from both belligerents. JapanA for Instance, would regard ; overturea from Russia's ally, France, far more) favorably than from Germany. Japan'd mistrust ' of Germany; is deep and in eradicable. .. Peace, if it comes in the near future'-', will be due to Japan's direct initiative.' There is strong reason for believingtl that if the present campaign results ir complete Japanese success the Mikado's! government will propose liberal termai to Russia, but the question of their ac-' centance la extremelv rtnuMftii t1 " (. kA.a . Altfv must be remembered that while Japan has won the present campaign she has t not won the war. Russia must decide in the next few weeks whether she will embark or another campaign. If words, appa rently sincere, count for anything, thenJ it must be said that Russia has already decided to'do so. Every assurance frorrr official quarters during the writer's re cent visit to St." Petersburg was to thia effect. Nevertheless ,the. Internal crisis, in Russia Is so acute and' the will of thai czar so unstable that it would be follyi to assert with confidence wihlch, policy! will prevail. New and startling fea turesof the International sttuatlon 'mayj develop at any moment and'alter every4 thing. . . j - It must be said that the effect of an' overwhelming defeat of Gen. Kuropat kin upon the Russian policy would ba in favor of the continuation of the wan instead of peace. Resentment againstt the high placed scoundrels who are re--sponsible for the war is rapidly increas ing among true Russians, but they also1 regard defeat by an Asiatic power atf an inexpiable shame. They might subV mlt to partial humiliation if there werat a drawn battle, but the disgrace whlchf . attaches to the present situation , wllf not allow them to advocate a shameful peace. psits Security received the letter which contained thai valuable document. Mr. .Merritt, the private secretary t Mr. -Howland in the railroad business,, informed the reporter that he had al ready advertised for one hundred thou-, sand crosstiea and that new rails of, the weight of seventy pounds woult, be put : down as soon as they coul&j be purchased to replace the light rails; now in use. He also said that wood-i burning locomotives would be changed!; at once to coal-burners, which would cut down the schedule at least a half hour from here to Morehead City. , " HORRORS OF WAR Russian Wounded Suffering Privation and Neglect St. Petersburg, Sept. 3rd. The Russ kia ; Viedomostl publishes an account of the awful needless sufferings of Rus sian sick and wounded, which, though., a Russian journal dare not say so, are due to the fact that the greater por tion of the money which should have ben spent In equipping hospitals haw been the spoil of grand dukes, notablyj the Grand Duke Vladimir, father ofi Boris. One hospital, which was almost with out sugar, milk and lamp oil, and ab solutely without soap-and dry produce, was obliged to. take in whole wagon-f loads of General Count Keller's woun-; ded beyond what it could accommo date and feed. The wounded and slclc ; are invariably brought in clad In thein shirts only. When they recover thas hospitals are without garments to re clothe them. The unfortunates arrival at the hospitals in shocking condi-' tions, most of them being obliged tor chance help during the long train , jour ney In common freight cars, uncovered or covered, but invariably dirty. ..The railroad cars are not provided even with a litter for the miserable, inmates, so a soldier who is seriously?, wounded , is laid down on bare boards; and left there for several days and nights. There are no sanitary arrange ments, not even those of the most.' primlntlve character. Strike Called Off New York, Sept. 3. The strike of the meat cutters and butchers in this city) " was declared off. tonight by a referen- dum vote of the thirteen locals of thar Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butch er Workmen held in different halls. The executive board of the unions met ear lier and decided on this action, . but thought it best to, refer the matter to the locals. The strikers will return tcj work on Tuesday, ., . Pep for ... t ..
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