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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1905
Page
7
London report quotes Baron Hayashi stating direct negotiations between Russia and Japan, with no intermediaries. He remarks France may seek to influence Russia but stresses no talks have begun and Japan will consider terms when Russia is ready.
Information from the Japanese Left army reports the Mukden area battlefield being cleared of stores and material with prisoners. Engineers repair the Hun river bridge and trains now run to the Hun river, with Mukden reachable in a few days. Weather is warm and ground thawing, hindering gun movement and wagon transport.
Tokyo reports twenty thousand Russian prisoners captured at Mukden. An unofficial revision puts Japanese casualties from Mukden and Tie Pass at 57000. General Mayeda who was wounded at Mukden has died.
A Russian diplomatic briefing notes the government seeks peace while preparing for war. A grand-duke headed commission, including Sakharoff and Lamsdorff, will report in ten days on military, naval, financial and diplomatic aspects for the emperor.
The Associated Press reports Russia has signaled no cession of territory or indemnity as preconditions for peace with Japan. Japan has not replied by noon Wednesday. Russia may have notified through a channel likely including the United States with France and Britain kept informed as allies.
Russian forces retreat from positions near Sipinghi and Choumaodzi as Japanese advances continue. Reports indicate the army sacrificed commissariat stores worth about $1.5 million and corps stores around $500,000 stored at Mukden, largely burned. Most items were boots and uniforms arriving from Europe days before the retreat. Kuropatkin ordered removal, but the order was not executed. An investigation will determine responsibility.
London dispatch reports no private or press telegrams from the front and a Harbin dated message from General Linevitch saying no army reports. Observers fear communications may be cut as Japanese forces overrun Russian positions.
The cruiser Columbia has left Pensacola for New York to transport the remains of the late Mexican ambassador to Vera Cruz, a mission assigned by the navy department.
Riga reports March 29 that the interior minister has ordered a proclamation of a minor state of siege in Livonia. The move signals heightened security measures in the region amid unsettled conditions.
The London portion of the Japanese loan of 150 million dollars was oversubscribed within an hour of bank opening. Crowds thronged issuing houses and applicants, including many women, crowded the banks all morning. The first mail brought thousands of applications with further large deliveries signaling strong public interest.
The British steamer Dart arriving from Rangoon says March 19 thirty warships and fourteen colliers steamed eastward 259 miles northeast of Madagascar. This supports that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's Second Pacific squadron left Nossi Island around March 16. Nearby in Texas Sol Driver and Tom pon, both Black, died after being overcome by damp in a well.
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