KUROPATKIN SAID TO BE MARCHING SOUTH.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 128, 31 May 1904, Page 5

KUROPATKIN SAID TO BE MARCHING SOUTH.

VAIN ATTEMPT AT RUSSIAN AID. (Received May 31, 10.16 a.m.) LONDON, 30th May. A St. Petersburg message affirms that General Kuropatkin is advancing towards the Liaotung Peninsula to tako the Japaneso in tho rear. When tho Japanese carried Nanshan hill bayonet fighting took place even on the parapet. There wero stubborn conflicts yard By yard. Tho Russians vainly tried to land at Talienwan five transports with troops from Port Arthur, ' PORT ARTHUR'S DEFENCES. CLAIMED TO BE IMPREGNABLE. ST. PETEIiSBURG, 30th May. Captain Yakoliff. who was in charge of tho battleship Potropavlovsk when that vessol was d6«troyod by a mine, stated in the courso of on interview at St. Petersburg, that it will take a hundred and fifty thousand men, with magnificent artillery, to capture Port Arthur. The garrison there considerably^ exceeds twenty-five thousand. There aro a great number of detached forts, Captain Yokoliff states, each of which will involve a sanguinary battic, since each must b© captured before the inner defences can be reached. Even then the citadel is impregnable Numerous twelve-inch guns are mounted on the land sido, combined with a perfect rangefinding system. • Tho fortress is provisioned for a year. The injured warships, ho states, are almost repaired. EVACUATION OF DALNY. RUSSIAN VESSELS IN DANGER. LONDON, 30fch May. Dalny is practically evacuated. The valuables ana ammunition havo been removed to Port Arthur. Electrical engineers remain in order to dro th© harbour mines and destroy the remaining docks and piers. Tho Russian cruiser Bayan, with three torpedo boats, is at Talienwan (Dalny). Fourteen Japttneso vessels are lying nine miles outside Dalny, and are likely to intercept the Russians. THE JAPANESE NAVAL DISASTERS ADMIRAL TOGO'S ACCOUNT. LONDON, 30th May. Admiral Togo overhauled a junk and found letters written by an officer at Port Arthur, stating that' mines outside, had sunk at least two Russian destroyers. The officer admitted that the mine which dostroyed the Japanese battleship Hatfluse on the 16th inst. was laid tho night before the explosion. Tie fatalities on the cruiser Yoshino (which was rammed by the Kasuga) were chiefly due to the masts and davits smashing five boats just when they were manned. When th© ship sank the captain was on the bridge encouraging tho men to save themselves. Lieutenant Nnito sprang overboard, reuched the only remaining boat, and rowed to tho Kasuga. Returning with three boats, no trace was found of tho Yoshino or her crew, with tho oxception of six, who were rescued by tlie cruiser Chiltose. The fog was so dense that th© Kasuga's senroh light was only faintly visible at six hundred yards. The Knsuga struck the Yoshino on the port sido, near tho engines, and destroyed her dynamos, leaving tho ship in darkness.