The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1904, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL FRIDA PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PROCLAIMS NEUTRALITY OF THE UNITED STATES AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WIL® BE IMPARTIAL IN ITS ATTITUDE TOWARD THE TWO POWERS NOW AT WAR | : Country’s Chief Quotes the Law of Nations and Treaty Stipulations Govern- ing the Rights of Combatants and Gives Warning Against a Violation of Their Terms * NATIONS. QUOTES LAW OF America and his the Russlas on the 1854, the following as permanent and free goods; that e r goods belonging | FITTING oF N oUT SHIPS. ntraband of war, and proclaim that tes and the law within declare remain at shall V. and that € & privilege 1l be sccord v rts of the Unite B¢ wccorded to fhe other, join all the geod citizens tates, military forces ot lawfully their juris s and munitions cles ordimarily known et they cannot carry seas for the use | nor can they OPORE TOHN ROOSEVEL’ | HA AMERICAN MINISTER . TO KOREA DESCRIBES it BATTLE OF CHEMULPO o WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Two ca- 4 legrams were received at the State - artment from Minister Allen, dated both referring to the naval en- y 4 s off Chemuipo cn the Sth it o In his first d ch the Min- g rts the arrival of twenty-one { the na at Chemulpo on 9th. Two, Rus- s, the Variag and the were in Chemulpo harbor and pted to prevent the landing of | forces, but with no succes: nese . foreign naval vessels, the Mini were generally leaving the was a report that the | a - vessels had captured | ports off Mukpho on the 9th. The | spatch say ining naval engagement took | place at Chemulpo harbor about noon. | Tthe Variag and the Korutz again at- to escape, but failed. The Va- = injured. On their return the d se naval vessels announced offi- cialy that they would attack the place at 4 p. m. At the latter hour the Ko- rutz blew up and sank. She was a siow vessel, which made it difficult for her to escape. The Japanese naval | vessels attacked the Variag from the outside harbor until she sank. | “Twenty-five hundred Japanese troops e in Seoul.” AEL ISR, 3 | Enlists as War Surgeon. JANESVILLE, Wis, Feb. 1L— Charles F. Donnelly of Madison, Wis., wer, ‘then witn | has been accepted as a member of the h she would be | Japanese army hospital corps now be- ":'m“_""“'{‘"“:;“:? ing organized by Dr. Nicholas Senn, in privatees in ihe same | Chicago, and has been ordered to re- bor. roadstead or | port at once in San Francisco, wherc es without special | pageports will be awaiting. " ——— h No ship of wa gerent shall be except provie- | things a8 may be required f her crew. And except s he sufficient to after the expiration of three i when, such coal may her within the | s *ach shin since last thus sun: ~vernment \PA"I"F\I ITY ON THE SEA. And T further declare and proclaim that by | the first article of the convention @s to the Fights of neutrals et sea, which w ncluded Russian Ships in Suez Canal. PORT SAID, Feb. 11.—The Russian transport Smolensk and one torpedo- | boat have entered the Suez canal. SUEZ, Egypt, Feb. 11.—The Russian volunteer fleet steamship Czaritza and a torpedo-boat have arrived here, ONE RUSSIAN SHIP FIGHTS ENTIRE FLEET £ La How the Korutz and Variag Were Destroyed at Chemulpo. Sp: TOKIO, Feb. 11.—Furthet details of the naval engagement at Chemulpo on Monday, in which Admir anese fleet destroyed al Dispa the cruiser Varlag and the gunboat rutz, show that these vessels fought separate battles and were crushed by the superior force of the Japanese. Th steamship Susyari aiso was « ) and sunk. Both arshivs tried to escap>» from per be dawn on Monday, but eventually put back. t a'clock *hat merning the z accepred the Jeganese challenge and alore went out to fight the whole fleet. She com- pletely outmatched. Japauese broad- raked her continually ghe 3 nuntil of her crew were killed by drowned, and the few who e shore were captured. The steaming out to sea, was met by a ail of shells. Her mast as speedily dismantled. The Russians fought most desperately and retreated te the harbor at 2 o'clock in the ufter- | noon. One account says her craw set her on fire when they saw she must he | captured or sunk. | Another rt has it that the Va- riag's c¢ der, Captain Vladimir Behr, ordered his officers and crew to jump overboard and save themselves if they couid, and then blew up the ship, sacrificing his own life. Some few of the crew were drowned in the attempt to escape, but the men loyally aided their officers, mot one of whom was lost thus. Mapy swam not to the shore, but to foreign men-of-war in the harbor, which promptly lowered boats and went to their rescue. These were the Italian cruiser Elba, the French cruiser Pascal and the English cruiser Talbot. e Cottonseed Oll in Austria. The imports of cottonseed oil from the United States into Austria de- creased from 161 metric tons in 191 to 120.4 metric tons in 1902 in consequence of the great increase in price of this article. Cottonseed oil is used exten- sively hers as a table ' oil, but the prices at which it has been held during the past two years have placed it be- yond the reach of the'poorer classes and cheaper oils took its place to some extent.—Exchange. —_————— What has become of the old-fash- joned woman, who said, in speaking of the worthless son of worthless parents: “Well, an apple doesn’'t roll far from the trees”? i e Y 1 Uriu's Jap- | Russian | Ko- | Lo g ' RUSSIAN TROOPS IN MAN- i CHURIA EN ROUTE TO : THE YALU RIVER. e N & JAPANESE ADMIRAL IS A GRADUATE OF APOLIS ACADEMY Rear Admiral Sovokichi Uriu was the fifth and last Japanese student at the naval academy at Annapolls to grad- uate. In 1868 Congress passed a law to permit the Empire of Japan to send to Annapolis a limited number of stu- during the succeeding nine years twelve young subjects of the Mikadu dents to obtain a naval education and | | nese merchants, | entered "the naval academy on proba- tion. Seven of 1 withdrew after terms | years and five gradu- class after a four of one to three ated with the first ars' course, The brightest | of the latter was Ta- suker Serato, or “Tim'" Serato, as he was dubbed by his class mates. Serato and Uriu graduated in June, 1881, Ser- ato standing number fourteen and Uriu number twenty-six in a class of seventy-two members. Serato scored 599.47 marks and Urfu 570.45 marks out of a possible aggregate maximum of |-760 for their four years. . Their standing in studies of a nauti- | cal character was good but somewhat backward in such as public law,| French and Spanish, which deficiency pulled down the final aggregate. Their conduct, judging from the number of | demerits, was of the average, Serato having 62 and Uriu 50. Considering the difficulties under which these Japanese students under- | | took to get a naval education those | !who graduated acquitted themselves becoming efficient officers. The | of Serato has not yet been mentioned | in comnection with PRSIt RAILROAD WILL NOT BE HELD FOR GOODS SHIPPED TO WAR ZONE Formal notice was telegraphed by the Southern Pacific Company yester- day to all its railroad connections ad- vising the latter that the company will until further notice refuse to is- sue through bills of lading except at owner's risk for freight destined for the following points in Siberia, Man- churia and Korea: Newchwang, Port Arthur, Dalny, Vladiyostok, Khaba- rovka, .Alexandersvka, Nickolaevosk, Fusan, Gensan, Chemulpo, Chinnampo and Mokpho. These places are now within the war zone and no assurance for the safe delivery of shipments of freight can be had. The Southern Pa- cific Company advises the other roads that are handling Oriental freight to adopt a similar precaution | ! i \ +* LOCAL- JAPANESE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR FATHERLAND | Free Trade With the Orient| of Great Importance to This City. The' Japanese in the United States Ppropose to raise $5,000,000 in aid of their country during her time of peril. Meét- ings are being held in all portions of DAMAGE TO THE RUSSIAN FI.EET AT PORT ARTHUR IS NOT GREAT Alexieff Reports That the Cesarevitch and Pallada Can Be Repaired in a Fortnight and the Others in Three Days. — ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. Czar to-day received a telegram 4 Viceroy Alexieff, describing the dam age done to the Russian warships | ing the bombardment by the Jag | fleet at Port Arthur. It says “The Cesarewitch and Pallada w brought into the harbor on Tu The Retvizan is making tempor le. Repairs to the complicated that i the ship and d I expect t in a fortnight. All injured in the fight d coaling in the har- to be ready in i re pairs to a h ships are so ficult to say ready. The be docked in to be ready other vesels now repairing a bor. I expect them three days. “The wounded well. Four of the A majority of the | to the cruiser Pallada Juries are due | plosion of a » | ful search by | boats day and © the pre: of the It is officially when ot Pallada a Vovik w n officers are doing vounded have died. wounded belonged ir Ac torpedo- revealed torpede ruisers and ght has not nced nce owing up of a bridge Ralilroad. The admiralty has issued specifi orders that no telegrams from the Far Sast, whet for private persons newspapers or news agencles, 1 admiralty will or the anese on the Manchurian give out | Admiral | | the Russian Black Sea Iy left for the Far E: mand of the Russian fleet there | | the unattached naval officials Petersburg and Kronstadt ha | orderea to go East promptly, | making far calls. Student niform and bareheaded | | this afternoon paraded in front of the Kazan Cathedral and went to the W | | ter Palace. They were followed by several thousand persons singing the national antherm The thanked dences of | | them | | Th commander of fleet, has quiet- Ry w of ant C student of Poli for ev patriotism, but he requeste to no longer disturb the Czar. crowds then returned, singing. srious dis s are repol h broken o seaport on the G compar 1 dispa ne s Ave £ of Fir es of soldiers ar s R T e TSP R n,.-the greatest value of imperts to hed to suppres: San Francisco came from Japan. Here- sturbances are believed to | | toforg flour has figured as an export with labor tro N more than it may in the future. espe- . general WOV ially into the country that is tribu- publ ise money tary to Manchuria. | the Rav Jose of increasing The exploits of Japan in destroying | ¥ - the Russian war vessels, by which it | The Red Cro S has secured predominating naval force | steamship Mongc SGen _ Wits - | pital stores, to the Far East on Sun- In the Pacific, makes the chance bet- |} as ter that shipments between Japan and | the United States will not be interfered The question of abandoning Russian with as a result of the war. It is |participatior St. Louis Exposi- reported cn excellent authority that |tion is under consideration. The mer- a shipment of 5,000,000 pounds of bar- | chants of Moscow to-day notified Com- | rel” beef for fa will soon pass |missioner General Alexandrovisky t through this city. they would devote the money intended Not long ago 1,000,000 pounds of beef | for th xpositic to the Red Cross So- went out through the Golden uate for | city and to sting the war orphans Rus: ,000,000 pounds to ccme | and widows. The; intend to con- are War us tribute $500,000. previou If it is decided to abandon the Rus- nual supply | sian exhibit the Government will fol to be const | 1 low the example of the Moscow mer- isoners and others at Saghalien. pris chapnts and appropriate the St. Louis (\"fli,‘;;‘:f gl *l"?;'f““ha‘w’ 'I‘}r""r;\“"p;‘af | fund and the remainder of previous | ent vear there would be at least tenm | ®XPoOsition funds. amountihg to about flouring mills in operation at Harbin, | $225.000, to the Red Cross Soclety. anew Russian town in Mancharia that | B, e & now has a population of 60,000, but | KING EDWARD SIGNS which two vears ago was only a ham- | i § {let. These ten mills, of which eight | THE PROCLAMATION OF | are al n op on, will have a | capaci 00 barrels of flour a day. | BRITAIN'S NEUTRALITY It is freely predicted in the consular | | America and much enthusiasm has | been manifested. Yesterday being a | holiday, the twenty-five hundred | and sixty-fourth anniversary of the birth of Jiminu, founder of the Japa- nese empire, was selected as a day par- ticularly fitting to call together the lt- tle brown men who love their country. A meeting was held in this city Jaat | night, attended by more than 200 Japa- and the situation was fully discussed. It was the consensus of opilon that the Pacific Coast States, which include California, Arizona, Colo- rado, New Mexico and Idaho, should contribute $500,000. Consul Uyeno, who presided at the meeting, was given charge of the col- lection of funds and the appointment of such committees as he might deem | necessary. No subscriptions will be so- | licited, and those contributing meney will have the privilege of offering their coin either to the war fund, the family | fund or the Red Cross fund. Money report referred to that Manchuria will be able to supply the Asiatic demand| LONDON, F King Edward, at for wheat in_a few years and will also | a couneil held hinain: Palhes | have wheat tc export to Europe. A N p . | v this afternoon ed a proclamation fertile valley that is 1000 miles long | ¢ - - o . r declaring G Britain's neutralit s FIROIEY: to RuSin luring the war between Russia and KS WELL OF JAPANE! Japan. The proclamation is on the Lieutenant Charles W. Farr, medical | usual lines and covers all the British department, U. S. A, who is now sta- | dominions tioned at Fort ‘Mason, has had consid- | The report that Ruasia is attempt- erable experience in Japan. In speak- | ng to arrange with the Turkish Ge ‘ernment to vermit the Black Sea fi ing of the Japanese army he said yes- | | terda | to pass through the Dardanelles is “The Japanese are thoroughly well | vived, and it is added that Russia drilled and equipped. The nation is | trying to secure Great Britain's con- very proud of the army and alt tender | sent. There is no confirmation of the to it the most loyal support. A fea- | report in authoritative quarters. ture which strongly impressed me was i L Rl B smail boys ranging | Qussia Withdraws Tientsin Garrison. rom 5 to years of age were in- ey o T i gt S structed in military training. 1 went| TIENTSIN, Feb. 1L.—The Russian { to severa! of the large schools in Yo- | 8arrison was withdrawn yesterday to kohama and I saw these little v -ung- | Shanhaikwan. The postoffic was sters going through a precise mutary transferred to the French authorities. and all carrying little wooden | Yuan Shi Kai, Governor of Chili prov- which they seemed to manipu- | imte and commander in chief of the late with natural aptitude. | army, has issued a proclamation for- donated to the war fund will be for-| warded at once to the Government, be used in the equipment of the army. 11)1 ‘ Funds donated toward the family lund\ | | remarkably well and gave promise of | the late brilliant | state that while there { naval attack, but if he is still alive he | Japanese is likely to distinguish himself as| ealthy and wi greatly as his class mate, Sovokichi Uriu. will be used in alleviating the distress | of those who are unfortunate enough | as to be deprived of their means of| support by the war, while donations to | the Red Cross fund will be used for| the relief of those stricken on the bat- | tle-field, no matter may fight. under what flag of Ameérica will raise of the $5,000,000, as they | may not be many | the Kast, the few are ill contribute liberally. SAN FRANCISCO'S INTERESTS, The size of the commercial stake that San PFrancisco has in the maintenance of free communication by sea with Chi- na, Japan and that part of China that is known as Russian China, Korea and Hongkong is made clear by figures that were secured at the Custom-house in this city yesterday. The exports for the calendar year ending December 31, 1903, to each of the regions indicated in the foregoing were in total as follows: To the Chinese em- pire, $2,363,985; to Russian China, $134,- 466; Hongkong, $3,682,798; Japan, $3,980,- 697; Asiatic Russia, $114,622; Korea, $85,153. The imports as tabulated in the Custom-house were as follows: From their share in | the Chinese empire, $5,903,095; Japan, $10,182,213. Adding together the exports and imports shows the total interest that San Francisco alone had in open transportation last year amounted to $25,417,024 to and from the places men-x tioned. From the bmelnl figures it appears that Japan was the largest customer | Local Japanese are sanguine that the | name | Eastern States | biddipg m ings of secret societ > sediticus meetings. The Japanese ar flooding Peking with gratis newspape containing reports of the Japanese suc- cesses against Russia. “They all entered into the spirit of the drilling with great enthusiasm and it was quite remarkable to see the in- telligence displayed by the little chaps in executing the difficult maneuvers.” STRENGTH OF WORLD'S NAVIES | GIVEN IN OFFICIAL FIGURESi CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The fighting strengthof the various navies of the worid, together with details of the building programme of each for the eoming year, has been compiled by Chairman Foss, of the House Naval Affairs Committee, and made an appendix to the report on the naval bill. 1In it the relative order of | warship strength is given in tonnage, as follows: | & 5 Present Eventual - Countries. Tonnage. Tonnage. | Great Britain ............1,516,040 1,867,250 Fa T R RS TP e [ A [ T 755,757 | T R R R S ] 616,275 | AR o oo v i veve o BT BTH 558,432 United States ............ 294405 505,619 | JOPER | R v ¢ us R0, 506 253,681 Bushrll . RN Nk e o SIS 149,833 Eventual tonnage ineludes completed vessels and those under construetion or for which provision has been made. | of all for American exports. and. i ' d———————————————