SUGGESTED ABANDONMENT OF THE PENINSULA.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1904, Page 5

SUGGESTED ABANDONMENT OF THE PENINSULA.

MOVEMENT OF TUE FORCES. . | LONDO-N", 25th June. The Japaneso troops are now converging on Kuiping, south of Niuchwnug, iv the north-western p.irt of tho Liaolung Peninsula. They have with them an enormous number of guns. Apparently only two divisions nre left, to besiege Port Art-hnr. Tho Japanoao censorship every where is so rigorous that tlio datea of correspondents mos?age» are freaoently suppressed k"il information nsolul to the enemy should becQino availablo to' the Russians. Tlio RuM»iuus rejiurl- Uiat the Japanese are throwing up oarthwortet at ICaipaliug, twelve miles aontlwnrd of Fcnglxsvatig-

cheng, and are making roads in various diicctions. Rcutrr'rt St. Petersburg correspondent KUtt-c.H thiit tho latent news from the Far Kn»t. indicates (hat thu Rusbiau Com-inanilei-in-l'liiof, General Kuropatkin, will nol give battle to the combined iiimiov nor Kalping. Tho authoiitiea In the Russian War Oflice say it is not intended to eeriously conU-ist nu* advance to Kniping. This decision implies tho abandonment of tlio ontiie peniuKtila, uir.l also of Yingkow and Niuihw.uic. • v General Oko i« Tour Tnilc"» gouth of Siungyucnchcng (on tho west coast of tho peiiintmla-), from M^UicU placo tho Russians «iro retreating. Military critics at St. Petersburg approve Qenevnl Kuropntkin's plans, inasniueli as Kniping is, in an utffavourablo position, with one Dank opposed to General Knioki, while tho other is threatened by troops landing at Yingkow.