The Japanese Advance. Counter Russian Movements.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 6208, 2 March 1904, Page 2

The Japanese Advance. Counter Russian Movements.

Japanese Mail Service Resumed,

25,000 Russians on the Yalu.

America's Assistance not Wanted

(Received March 2, 8.37 a.m.)

* London, March 1 The Japanese have occupied and fortified Ichiogang in Corea. There are Russian troops in the vicinity. The Japanese mail service to Shanghai baa been resumed without escort.

There is an impression that, the Japanese are concentrating troops at Liotao and Elliott Islands, preparatory to a descent on the Liaotong Peninsula.

While it formerly took vessels half an hour to enter Porfc Arthur it now takes two hows.

Eeuter's Tientsin correspondent: states there are twenty-five thousand Russians on the Yalu, and that ten regiments of mounted infantcy hold the mountain passes thirty five miles south of Fiji.

Russia has declined American medical assistance for the wounded, on the ground that she had sufficient of her own, although, she has accepted Dutch assistance.