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Officers , and 040 .soldiers woun^iedr. 1
Ninety-six of these soldiers remained onTHE
the battlefield,
"The First .Artillery Brigade lost 10
officers and 103 soldiers killed; the 9th
Brigade of Artillery one officer and 25
soldiers killed; the Tobolk Regiment one
a officer and three soldiers killed; oeie offi-
cer ,*m1 40 men wounded and three miss-
ing, ' The Marsehansk Regiment, •six offu-
eers'and 131 men wounded, 11 men killed
and sigiut .missing:" It S
000
ransports Wds
Bad Blow to Jap nap
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Rep rted to be
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St. Peterspurg cable: A telegram
from Liao -Yang says that a battle is in
progress to-dayat Hai -Cheng, about 35
miles eouth of here: The Russian casu-
alties ase reported to number 5,000.
Trainloads of 'wounded are passing
north.
The. War Office expects news of a fight
'with Gen. Kuroki. It is believed that
Gen. Oku is pursuing Gen, Stakelberg.
In a despatch, dated. yesterday, Gen.
Kouropatkin reports that the enemy in .
the direction of Saimatse and Feng -
Wang -Cheap has not only ceased to ad-
vance, but leas fallen back, evacuating
several points north of Feng-Waang-
Cheng which roue Japanese lately occu-
pied. A Japanese movement Which had
begun in the direction of the Dalime de-
file has stopped, but a rather important
movement of their. troops has been dis-
covered in the direction of Siuyen and
Hai -Cheng or Siuyen acid Tashi-ehao.
There is a rumor in St. Petersburg to-
night that a battle at Hai -Cheng is ac-
tually proceeding, and that there have
teen heavy losses on both sides. There
is, however, no confirmation of this ru-
lnror.
CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH.
Russians Preparing for Great Conflict
That is Imminent.
London cable: A despatch to the
Chronicle from Feng -Wang -Cheng says
that the Russians continue to move
south from Liao -Yang, and are concen-
trating at Iiai-Oheng.
The Daily Mail's correspondent at
Feng -'.Nang -Cheng says that, despite
their defeat at Telissu, the Russians are
actively aggressive.
A despatch to the Daily Mail from
New-Chwang says there was renewed
fighting Saturday at Kwantventi,, be-
tween Siungyo and Kaicbau. Gen. Kou-
ropathin is reported to `be there, per-
sonally directing the Russian 'operations,
Es is constructing field works. The des-
patch adds that during the last forty-
eight hours 3,500 wounded have passed
Tesehiehao, bound for Harbin.
ONLY A SCREEN.
Oku Never Intended. to Attach Port
Arthur. •
A Paris cable: Trustworthy news
has been received that the Japanese
have left before Port Arthur only a
heavy screen of troops to maintain the
blockade, and that the rest of the arms
of Gen. Oku. is advancing by forced
marches to the north to co-operate
with the other two Japanese armies in
delivering a smashing blow before the
rain sets in.
The Japanese are fully advised of the
operations of Gen. K.ouropatkin, who is
preparing to retire, refusing a decisive
combat until he has been reinforced.
No Longer a Mystery. .
Washington report says: An ex-
planation of the Japanese campaign on
the Liao -Tung Peninsula, espeeially
with reference td Port Arthur, is con-
tained, in an advice that has reaehed
this city from a • source believed to
be absolutely reliable, The Japanese
tactics which have so puzzled the Rus-
sians are intended to isolate Port
Arthur, but do not contemplate an at-
tack on the place by Gen. ,Oku's army.
The actual work of reducing fort
'Arthur will be confided to another Jap-
'anese army under the command of
Gen. Nogi, which will be landed on the
peninsula at a point south of Gen. Oku's
position, and considerably nearer Porro
Arthur. On the first of June no less
than 26 transports had been gathered
at one of the Japanese ports to embar r.
this army, and it is said that the ve a-
sels attacked by the 'Vladlvostoel
squadron were of this number.
kitty Russians Killed.
Gen. Nodzu's petrels have had skir-
mishes with the Russians at Chipan-
hing, 36 miles ~vest of Siuyen, and at
other places. The Russian losses are
stated to have been fifty killed and
three captured. A quantity of arms
was also captured. The Japanese
casualties are declared to have been six.
(MO AND 11rno1 L I
g.
War Office points out that since it was
Gen. Oku, and not Gen. Nodzu, who
fought Lieut. -Gen. Baron Stakelgerg at
Vafangow, and that a' ce Gen. Oku
has recently been di 'ng the siege
operations against Por •ur, a cbange
sews to have taken p the plans
of the Japanese.
JAPAN HARD HIT.
General Outcry for 'an Enquiry Into the
Case.
.London cable: A despatch to the
Standard from Tien Tsin says that the
loss of the Japanese transports will de-
lay the operations at Port Arthur. They
carried 5,000 men, and were intended to
reinforce the besiegers.
The Japanese have been undoubtedly
hard hit by the raid of the Vladivostock
squadron, not only to the heavy sacri-
fice of lives and the loss of quantities
of supplies, but also owing to the dislo-
cation of their whole system of commu-
nications. A ,Tokio correspondent says
that the disaster has stirred the nation
more than anything that bas occurred
since the war began. There is a general
outcry for an inquiry to ascertain those
responsible for sending unprotected
transports across the Strait of Corea.
The Progressionist party met Sunday
and demanded that action be taken for
the future safe -guarding of transports,
and that those responsible for the loss
of the Idzuina, Hitachi and Sado be dealt.
with.
MISSED THE SQUADRON.
Was Within Forty Miles of the
Russians.
Tokio cable: Viee-Admiral Kami-
mura made to -day a long report of the
movements of his fleet in searching for
the Russian ships. It lasted four days
and nights, and the Admiral thinks he
was fortunate in raving no accident,
considering the thick+ weather since the
15th inst. Ile regrets that the search
had no results. The Ioss of the trans-
ports on Sunday was due to the fact
that 'the fleet Was too small to watch
both the Russian fleets and convoy the
smaller transports also. Kaminnira
says he was informed by wireless tele-
graph that he was within 40 miles of
the Russians at that time; but the
heavy weather,hid them and prevented.
him from hearing the guns. He could
only guess the direction they hea
taken, and he wrongly guessed that
they were riitrking for Vladivostock.
The authorities greatly regret the in•
cident, and will make safer plans in
future for the protection of trans-
ports.
The naval authorities do not believe
htat svesels of more than 3,000 tons caa
get out of Port Arthur. Therefore the
lives lost in blocking the channel were
not wasted.
The transport Kinshau was really a
collier, and was not regularly in the
transport service.
On the evening of the 16th inst. the
Russian plundered and sank iwo
schooners off Iasasbi,• Island of Hok-
kaido. The crews were saved.
The Nichi Nichi reports a severe en-
gagement off the northwest of
Kyushiu.
Kai imura returned to his base yes-
terday. It is understood that the Rus-
sian ships are now in Vladivostock
harbor.
STA1 ELBERG REPORTS.
Details of the Russians Slain. by
Regiments,
St, Petersburg cable: Gen. Kouro-
patkin has telegraphed to the Emperor
under date of June 18 as follows: "Gen.
Stakelberg report§§ that the enemy has
not advanced beyond Vafangow.
"It is reported that three bodies of
troops are extending their front be-
tween Vafangow and Tsehonjon.
"After two days of fighting ani. two
tiring night marches by difficult moun-
tainous roads the troops have been able
to rest, Their morale is excellent. it.
Will Make Combined .Attack on IKoisro-
patkin.
St, Petersburg cable: The general
staff believes it possible that General
Kuroki and General Oku are meditating .
a. combined attack. on General Kouropet- 1.
zirt before he is further reinforced. In
wiefec to ao so, they int+et act before the
raialg seezon, which it imminent, The
Flay Reach s6,000. "•--
Tokio cable: Further reports re-
ceived. here show that the blow inflicted
by Gen, Oku on the Russians in the
.fighting at Telissu (Vafangow), on June
15th Was, more' severe than .at first be-
lieved.. The number of Russians killed in
this battle will probably exceed two
thousand, and their total loss, including
prisoners. is estimated at 10,000. The
Japs'losses are less than 1,000, or about
one-tenth of the Russian total.
Up to June 17th Gen. 'Oka had buried
1,516 Russian dead, and he reports that
many more dead. have been found. Chin-
ese who watched the fighting from the
Russian side report that the •Russians
removed many dead to -the trains with
their wounded; and that they buried or
cremated many. &orpses in the village of
1•-1ua-Sung-Kou, before they retreated.
The number •nf prisoners and trophies
taken by the Japs is increasing. Gen.
O1:n is not yet able to report the number
of poisoners.•
THE 0]fFICIAL COUNT.
sea Officers and Men Killed, s,o85 Wound
ed, and 8o5 Missing.
London. cable: The correspondent
of the Central News Agency at Mukden
says it has been officially announced
there that the Russian losses at the bat-
tle of Vafangow were:
Officers killed .... ...... 17
Officers wounded ........97
Officers missing 12
Men killed . .... .... 519
Men wounded .... ...... 1,988
Men missing .... .... . , 7 93
^otal ..... 3,426
JAPAN MUST WIN.
Determination Thralls' Himblest of Her
Subjeots.
Tokio cable: In an interview to-
day Count Katsura, • the Prime Minis-
ter, said: "In going to war Japan did
not contemplate the acquisition of ter-
ritory, and did not consider ebior • or
creed, despite Russia's attempts to
create the impression that there is
danger of yellow Asiatic combinations.
Japan indulges in no personal ambi-
tions. The whole nation actively sup-
ports the Government, and sympa-
thises with it. War was not sought,
but now it has come, the country will
fight until the past man is extermin-,
atecl. Japan masa win this supremo,
struggle for eatronai existence. De-
termination thi''I1,1 the,humblest of my
eountrymeia. 1 •beliete that Japan's
demands will be . extremely moderate,
as the world may infer from the nego-
tiations which preceded the war, when
Janan rerely requested Russia to fulfil
her promises, The progress of the
war ma r influence the demands that
Japan will make, but I do not antici-
pate that there will. be any serious de-
viation from her original demands.
Strong reformation has been already
initiated in Corea, without, however,
destroying. t]ie essential features of the
present Government. The time is ripe
for disciplining the troublesome ele-
ment in Corea, and elevating that
country to a position among progres-
sive nations: Coreas is so intimately re-
laf:xi to Japan that misfortune would
affect both alike.'
Life at Port Arthur.
Liao Yang cable: Delayed in trans-
mission) -f merchant of Port Arthur,
who has arrived here, says life in that
town is practically unchanged. There is,
he declares, no sbortage of provisions,
and the garrison is in excellent health. No
land attack has been made upon Port Ar-
thur, but there have been frequent bom-
bardments at long range by the Japanese
squadron,' which is cruising constantly
off shore. Dalny, according to this mer-
chant, is occupied by a Japanese bat-
talion. The destruction of the pier there
rendered Dalny useless for the landing
of• siege guns. Chinese arriving here
from Vafangow say the Japanese losses
in the fight there were 3,600.
had not yet been possible to procure are.
cine details of our losses. A.eeurate nua,c.
hers are only proourable in the follo
ing xregintents:
"First Division, East 'Siberian Ride.
15 'officers filled and 40 wounded, 12 c
whom' remained on the battlefield; 38e
soldiers killed and 092 tt*on ndoal, 568 o'
whom romeined on the battlefield, 'bra'
-some of whoiii, however, were Octicecl rel.
by the ambulance train. In the 33x;1
and 35th and 30tli Regiments one ofia-
eer and 80 soldiers were Iii?led and 10
War Corespondent Shot. •
New York report: A cable message
to the World, which was unsigned, but
which the World says probably was for-
warded by the American legation, an-
nounces the shooting of Col. Edwin Em-
erson, jun., one of . the World's corre-
spondents in the las', and conveyed the
impression that he bad been killed. The
cable stated, it was reported, that Col.
Emerson had been shot by retreating
Russians, who mistook him for, a spy.
;Che spceial cable to the World from
Pekin says:, There are indications that
the Russians have Been routed. There
;s panic in 1iuleden.
"Emerson, the war correspondent, is
aep:sited to have been sbot. The re-
tr eating Russians belie:*ed him to be a
spy.„
A Sitter from
by. the World s
if tl ble,
thes
Emerson was received
before the receipt
ay 14, containing
ikclen is muzzled;
there" "I find
ssian lines" Ein-
e army some time.
o Mukdcn.
Xdzumi.
cable: Lying in the
e three Russian cruisers
returned from their sic
ire Japanese Sea and
Vice -Admiral Bezo-
ren on June 12
hips were
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SL
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CALAMITY.
Nearly.
of Known Dead Numbers
900.
New York despatch: A determined
effort to ascertain as nearly as possi-
ble the number of persons who took
passage on the excursion steamer Gen-
eral Slocum when she started on her ill-
fated trip up the Sound one week ago
to -day, has been begun. under the direc•
tion of the police department. One
hundred patrolmen, specially selected
from the various precincts, have been
detailed to visit the homes of every
person whose name has been in anyway
mentioned in connection with the dis-
aster, These officers will make up a
list of names of all persons who went
on the excursion from their several
districts with their individual fates„ '
From these lists a final report, embody-
ing all the names, will be prepared. The•
list of known dead, which had. reache.l
846 up to 2 o'clock, has steadily in-
creased since that hour. Before day-
light twelve more bodies had been tak-
en from the river and nearly every suc-
ceeding hour added to the total.
sued a vessel resembling a yacht, which
escaped in shore. They sank the Japan-
ese transport Idzumi off Kotsu Island.
The Idzumi was bringing back invalid
soldiers from Port Dalny, 105 of whom
were rescued by one of the Russian crui-
sers.
The Japanese transports Hitachi and.
Sado were next sighted, and soon after
the Hitachi, which was filled with
troops, disregarding the signal to stop,
put on full speed. The Russian cruisers
thereupon opened fire upon the Hitachi,
tripling her engines and setting her
decks aflame. Still the Japanese refused
to haul down their, flag. The vessel was
then seen to heel' over, and hundreds of
the Japanese jumped into the sea. They
were all drowned. The Hitachi was then
sunk by a torpedo: The Sado obeyed
the sunmions to stop. She carried 1,350
coolies for railroad- work in Corea and
1,200 tons of coal, 1,000 tons of rice, raid
road and telegraph equipment, a hundred
horses and a large amount of specie. The
specie was thrown overboard by the pur-
ser. Besides ten boats, the Sado carried
twelve rafts, each capable of carrying
100 men. So soon as the
crew was ordered to leave the ship
coolies rushed on deck, filled the boats
and headed them for the coast. Admiral
Bezobrazoff sent boats to the Sado to
take off the captain and officers, Capt.
'Oguro, twelve military officers and three
Englishmen in the Japanese service
came. The others refused to Ieave the
ship. The Russians having done every-
thing possible to save the lives of those
on board, discharged two torpedoes
against the vessel. A heavy squallnbroke
at that time and hid the sinking trans-
port from view. A three -masted cruiser
witne;.sed the whole affair. The Rus-
sians caught her wireless message. The
apraratus on the enemy's cruiser worked
in,aeesantly, and messages were recorded
on board the Russian cruisers, and were
translated by seine of the Japanese pris-
oners. One in: ssage read: "The Russians
are in the straits; run for safety."
The Flee f. urt is certain to condemn
the collier ^.' tnton, captured by the
Russian squadron during the raid. She
came out at the beginning of the war
and went around the Cape of Good Hope.
ne
AUTUMN ASSIZES, 1904.
The Chancellor.
1, Monday, Oct. 3, Toronto civil, jury,
third week; 2, Monday, Oct. 24, Chat-
ham, jury; 3, Tuesday, Nov. 1, Barrie,
jury; 4, Tuesday, Nov. 8, Cayuga,
jury and non -jury; 5, Monday, Nov. 21,
'Welland, jury and non -jury; 6, Monday,
Nov. 28, Toronto, non -jury, ninth week;
7, Monday, Dee. 5, Simcoe, non -jury; 8,
Monday, Dec, 10, St. Thomas, non -jury.
The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
1. Monday, Oct. 3, Bracebridge, jury
and non -jury; 2, Thursday, Oct. 6,
Parry Sound, jury and non -jury; 3, Tues-
day, Oct. 11, North Bay, jury and non -
jury; 4, Monday, Oat. 31, Brantford,
jury; 5, Monday, Nov. 14, Toronto, non -
Jury, seventh week; 6. Monday. Nov. 28,
London, non -jury; 7," Monday, Dec. 5, St.
Catharines, non -jury.
The Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
1, Tuesday, Sept. 20, Pembroke, jury
and non -jury; 2, Monday, Sept. 26, Pet-
erboro', jury; 3, Monday, Oct. 10, Guelph,
juty; 4, Monday, Oct. 17, Napanee, jury;
5, Monday, Oct. 25, Toronto, non -jury,
fourth week; 6, Monday, Nov, 7. Toronto,
criminal, second week; 7, Monday, Nov.
14, Kingston, non -jury; 8, Monday, Dec.
5, Chatham, non -jury; 9, Monday, Jan.
9, 1905, Toronto, Winter Assizes, first
week,
The Chief Justice of the Exchequer.
1, Monday, Sept. 19, Whitby, jury; 2,
Monday, Sept. 26, Toronto, civil, jury,
second week; 3, Monday, Oet. 3. Toron-
to, non -jury, first week; 4, Monday, Oct.
17, Sault,, Ste. Marie, jury and non -jury;
5, Monday, Oct. 24. Port Arthur, jury
and non -jury; 6,• Monday, Oct. 31, Rat
Portage, jury and non -jury; 7, Monday,
Nov. 28, Hamilton, non -jury; 3, Mon-
day, Dec. 19, Stratford, non -jury; 9,
Monday, Jan. 9, 1905, Cornwall, Winter
Assizes.
Machlabon, J..
1, Tuesday, Sept. 20, Berlin, jury;
2. Monday, Oct. 3, Simcoe, jury; 3, Moit-
day, Oct. 10, St. Catharines, jury; 4.
Monday, Oct, 31, Toronto, criminal, first
week; 5, Monday, Nov. 7, Toronto, non -
jury, sixth week; 6, Monday, Nov. 14,
Guelph, non -jury; 7. Monday, Nov. 28,
Brantford, non -jury; 8, Monday, Dec. 5,
Brocicvi]le, non -jury.
Street, J.
1, Moncl Oct. 10, Hamilton, jury;
2, M t, 17, Toronto, non -jury,
Chir ondav, Oct. 4, Orange-
-jury; 4, Monday, Noy.
enol non -jury; 5, Mon -
let elle, non -jury; 6,
indsay, non -jury; 7,
non -jury; 8,
ito,• Winter
ry; 2,
lira,
ton, jury and non -jury; 4, Monday, Ode
31, St. Thomas, jury; 5, Tuesday, Nov.
22, Owen Sound, non -jury; 6, Monday,,
Nov. 28, Sandwich, non -jury; 7, Tues-
day, Dec. 6, Napanee, non -jury.
Britton, J.
1, Monday, Sept. 19, L'Orignal, jury
and non -jury; 2, Thursday, Sept. 22, Ot-
tawa, jury; 3, Monday, Oet. 10, To-
ronto, non -jury, second week; 4, Tues-
day, Oct. 18, Lindsay, jury; 5, Monday,
Oct. 24. Toronto, civil. jury, sixth week;
6, Monday, Nov. 7, Milton, jury and non -
jury; 7, Monday, Dee. 5, Peterboro', non -
jury; 8, Monday, Dec. 19, Goderich, non -
jury.
Teetzel, J.
1, Monday, October 3, Sandwich, jury;•
2, Monday, October 10, Sarnia, jury; 3.
Monday, October 17, Walkerton, jury; 4,
Monday, October 31, Toronto, non -jury,
fifth week; 5, Monday, November 7,.
Stratford, jury; 6, Monday, November 7,
Whitby, non -jury; 7, Monday, December
12, Toronto, non -jury, tenth week; '3,
Monday, January 9, 1905, London Win-
ter Assizes.
Anglin, J.
1, Monday, September 19, Toronto, civ-
il, jury, first week;' 2, Monday, October
5, London, jury; 4, Monday, October 24,
Perth, jury and non -jury; 5, Monday.
November 21, Cornwall, non -jury; 6. De-
cember 19, Ottawa, non -jury; 7, Monday,
January 9, 1905, Hamilton Winter As-
sizes; 8, Monday, January 30, 1905, To-
ronto Winter Assizes, fourth week.
Idington, J.
1, Monday, September 26, Cobourg,
jury; 2, Tuesday, October 4, Belleville,
jury; 3, Monday, October 17, Toronto
civil, jury, fifth week; 4, Monday, Octob-
er 31, Goderich, jury; 5, Monday, Novem-
ber 28, Sarnia, non -jury; 0, Monday, De-
cember 19, Woodstock, non -jury; 7, Mon-
day, January 9, 1905, Ottawa Winter
Assizes.
New Judge of Chancery Division.
1, Tuesday, September 27, Kingston,
jury; 2, Monday, October 10,Owen Sound.
jury; 3, Monday, October 24, Wood-
stock, jury; 4, Monday, November 7,
Cobourg, non -jury; 5, Monday, Nov. 21,
Toronto, non -jury, eighth week; 6, Mon-
day, November 28, Berlin, non -jury; 7,
Monday, December 5, Walkerton, non -
jury; 8. Monday, January 16, 1905, To-
ronto Winter Assizes, second week.
SUSPENDERSOF U1®LD THREAD
Marquis of Anglesey Teiis How Re
Spent ti is Father's Fortune.
• P Dris, Jun•a 2,7-A 'writer, in one o't
the Paris papers saw the Marquis
of Anglesey at Longehamps when the
Grand Prix was being run. He found
the bankrupt but still cheerful young
nobleman ii. -; communicative mood.
Tile general run of Paris newspaper
interviews must be taken with con-
sideral*Le allowance for ienagina-
tion, ,axed the things the bflarquis =OM
have said are given in the following
-thee things that he could not have
said being oimitted:
"I (shall not return to England. You
have heard that I lent there {debts
amounting 1:0 $2,800,000. That
scmnds like ua versl large amount of
money, I much prefer, for my own
reasons to regard it as £550,000
pounds sterling, which X really owe.
I
arm 29 years odd, I inherited in
1898 0, vor'y considerable fortune
from, my 'fat'h'er. In Six years I -have
run through that fortune, Just how.
I could 'no 'tell y,ou.
"How could Ispend so much. I
had ideas of nr'y, own on that sub -
Rot. 1 bad suspenders woven, of
threads of ,gold instead of the ;usu'al
elastic webbing that other men re-
ly upon to ,support their trousers.
The :buckles were of gold too. Everyl-
body knows 'that private theatrical
productions, in 'which I took .part,
at my estates in Anglesey, were car-
ried out in a magnificent way;. It'
costs money' to do those things. I
took ploaisure In doing things that
svialy.91 ,
$5,000 FOR PUBLIC PARK.
Guelph Board of Trado Recommends
a Conditional Deal..
t1ue pb, Ont., lispart.--A large anid
representative meeting of the Board
of Trade was hotel here to-night,when.
the Grand( Trunk Railw'ay's action to
apply to the Railway Commission to
expropriate Jubilee Park for station(
purposes was taken up. After thor-
oughly discussing tile matter the fol-
lowing motion was carried;;
"That the city of Guelph offer to
the Grand Trunk Railway Jubilee
Park . for the sum ' of 550300 to be
used for railway purprivaes, providing
the company erect a station cost-
ing not less than $54000, and the•
company to protect the city's pro-
perty. This agreement to be first
eubmlttefe -ems^ -lacca the
zeas. ,