The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1904, Page 1

THE TEEATERS. “The Gay Parisians.” “A Night on 3 way.” Ceztral—“In Sight of St. Paul's.” ry 10: deville. o and vicinity— day, with show- the ‘Roly-Pely.” ‘Whoop-Dee-Dco.” Mat- inee To-day. Orpheum—7Vaudeville. | _ To-Day. | Tivoli--“When Johzny Comes Marching Nome.” Matines G. H. WILLSOX, [ Zocal Forecaster. SAN: FRANCI PRICI FIVI CEN APANESE DESTROY OR DISABLE NINE RUSSIAN WARSHIPS AT PORT ARTHUR AND CHEMULPO AND RULE THE SEA JAPANESE torpedoes sank two Russian battleships and a cruiser in an attack.at Port Arthur on Monday. On Tuesday the entire Japanese fleet engaged the Russian warships, its fire disabling four vessels. Tokio dispatches report the destruction of two Russian warships off the harbor of Chemulpo, Korea. Russia’s land forces have begun the advance toward Korea to engage the army landed by Japan. { — =5 Russian Cruie Reported Sunk at Chemulpo. ~PUTTLESHT CZAR Z'///zgz‘.‘ - e — e — - | TOKIO, Feb. 9—lt is {reported here that the | Japanese fleet engaged and | defeated two Russian war- {ships, whose names have not vet been learned, at {Chemulpo to-day. It is | said the engagement began tat 11 o'clock in the morn- LAITLEITLE FOLIAVE Viceroy Al TROTECTEY (RULIER. : AOVIK.. . & RUSSIAN WAR VESSELS WHICH HAVE ALREADY SUFFERED IN CONFLICT WITH THE SHIPS OF JAPAN. ‘ THE CZAREVITCH WAS SUNK BY TORPEDO-BOATS OF THE RANC TO PORT ARTHU'R HARBOR, AND THE POLTAVA AND NOVIK WERE DAMAGED BY SHELLS IN A SUBSEQUENT ENCOUNTER. \ Call-Herald s Spitial Staff Enne's‘pnndem Gives EmphiE ~ hocount of the Batlle of Porl Ahur Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. Russian A%my Beg}ns Forward Movement to Engage Japanese on Korean Fronlir, Special Dispatch to The Call. this day, {ing and continued until 3 {o’clock in the afternoon. [ The smaller Russian ves- tone was fired and hope- {lessly destroyed. A part {of the crews are reported i {to have escaped to the Reverses. St | The Japanese ships are oT- PETERSBURG, Feb. 10| reported to be ‘slightly (1 a. m.)—The following officral damaged bulletin has just | issued in the | LR i . o oulietin has Ju een 1ssued 1 | Ofi[ ldl Con“rlnatlon Ot February 9: {It was reported yesterday “By order of the Viceroy I beg |that the Russian cruiser to" report that at| Korutz and the Variag about 11 o'clock in the mr)ming,fiwere l\'ing at ChCle]p') ers approached Port Arthur and| P Lo i opened firc. ‘The enemy was rc‘:to have been eng‘]g"d' ceived with a cannonade from the | ([ ATMS RUSSIANS shore batteries and the guns of| HAULED DOWN FLAGS ’ Isel 1s reported to have E S;been sunk and the larger {shore and to have been | captured. form of a telegram from Viceroy | 2 > Alexieff’s chief of staff, (Iated‘[he battle 'is unobtainable. a']a.[ra?;sc sqlulafl{;'o_? ,C(tn:\is:il‘]g f,yf 1 and it is pOSSib!C that thC)’ ]fl)Olu irtteen battleships and cruis- were the \CSSL‘IS l’CpOrICd WITHOUT FIRING SHOT e —— | CHEFU, Tuesday, 7:30] |p. m. (eastern time) Feb. | ed along One of the Russianjand a Russian official told | warships was using Search- |us he expected the Japan- |9.—1 was lying on Mon-|lights. In a leisurely fash- |ese fleet in three or four \ special the railway for a dis-| tance of for squadron, which also par-| says our ticipated in the engagement. ty miles from Hai- t{chen, and three batteries of the e | Kras-| Fifth Briga ¢ at Kinchau. " - o 4 “At midday the Ja!:zmcseé LONDON, Feb. 10—In a i will Jea o gt - Aty y-six East s;,!C!ay night n the quaran-|ion only three torpedo-|days. 1l!e lighthouse Was | squadron ceased the fire and leit; | dispatch from Tientsin dated Feb- for. the at giments are in Manchu- | tined Iado-China steam-|boats were pgtrolling the |already lighted and guid- l’“j}‘(f)fll"l“»' south. o | ruary z)fi w{‘-'”‘*x"fl"‘filt of t"tl' ; igade of | our have been moved "'i’g in COl 1mhia b W . T - . . l ur losses in the fieet were| Daily Mail says it is reportec ing of twenty-| livostok since Thursday. 'I'hc“hlL ; etween OUtbk”tS Ot the fleet' A” mg 1|ght5 ey bum l]g. two ‘officers wounded, nine ll!cll; that the Russian cruiser Variag and the Third, regiments of 8| guar I'ourth | Railway Manchurian g the ¢ been increased and S éthe entrance to Port Ar- 'thur and the Russian fleet and Fiith brigades are cntrench-| ™ Cominuca on Page 4, comn 2. |ad close to the latter. ’ of the other torpedo-boats were inside * the = basin. Everything was\ tranquil About 8 o’clock. the Rus- sian sailors chanted their 3 killed and forty-one men wounl-|and the gunboat Korutz hauled ed. The battleship Poltava and | down their flags without firi Continued on Page 5, Column 1. Continucd on Page 4, Column 5. Continued on Page 4, Column &