The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1904, Page 3

IAR'S UKASE q THE- SAN FRANCISCO. CALL. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1901 COMMANDS THAT TROOPS BE. IN READINESS FOR BATTLE e Pro7o BY HC BARLE> y SESEISSCRERETN 5 FIGHTING MEN ARE SUMMONED TO A CARNAGE Autocrat ?t-h; Russias Prepares for Great Campaign. Eeealaw Viceroy Alexieff to Have a Final Word About the Chinese. — support and this ve Sec a call at any Japanese Consul ADVERTISEMENTS. OSTETERs | CELEBRATED H - BiyreRS 't sele unknown medicine t rid of stomach, ubles, Wise people s because for 50 years 1 cases of Poor Appetite, Indigestion, spepsia and Constipation. Give it a trial Extract of lemon, full- strength, is made in this way : oil of lemon, alcohol,. jus enough to cut it. .That" Schilling’s Best. The usual : Same, add water A spoonful makes a teacupfu’ Flatulency, Dy- | | | 3 HAKODAT | , AN OPEN SEAPORT TOWN OF JAPAN AT SOUTHWESTERN EXTREMITY OF ISLAND OF YESSO, REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN BOMBARDED " HEAVY LOSSES. Continued From Page 1, Column 7. ing bandages and lint. Dr. Car- lovich, who has had much ex- perience in the field, is already off with a staff of tried physicians. The Red Cross is overwhelmed with volunteers. Each section of the Red Cross engages to equip completely 200 beds. The Holy Synod gives 10,- 000,000 rubles, and members will forego salaries. The same has been done by the principals o | many societies. A manifesto, is |out from Empress Marie calling | for subscriptions for the Red Cross, of which she is president. Over the ice of Lake Baikal great efforts are being made to |lay rails. Three thousand rubles |is the bonus given for every day saved. Sleepers are wanting and |must be found somewhere in jeastern districts. At Irkurtsk. Kurgan and even the famous | prison island of Saghalien mob- |ilization proceeds at high pres- {sure. Bitter are the plaints of a | lack of news. | —_— Japanesce Ships Attacked. LONDON, Feb. 12.—Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Minister here, has re- ceived a dispatch from Tokio an- nouncing that, on February 11, two Japanese merchant steamers, the Nakanoura and Zensho Maru, while on their way from Sakata to Otaru (on the island of Hokkaido), were sur- rounded and shelled by four Russian ships, presumably the Vladivostok squadron of the coast of Herunshi (Okushiru). The Nakanoura was sunk, but the Zensho Maru escaped and ar- rived safely at Fukuyama (island of Hokkaido). e JAPANESE AND RUSSIANS CON_CEAL WAR OPERATIONS Mystery continues to shroud the operations of the sea and land forces of Japan and Russia, but there seems no doubt that engagements of a decisive character have already taken place. Russian warships have || <unk one Japanese merchantman and fired upon another.. Heavy firing has been reported at sea northeast | of Tientsin and the belief exists that a naval engagement has been fought hetween Japanese and Russian vessels, | } The Japanese are endeavoring to destroy the Siberian railway. A Russian torpedo-boat was blown up by accidentally striking a mine and nearly 100 lives were lost. | HEAVY GUNS ROAR OFF SHORE | %+ Continued from Page 1, Column 6. T | eceived from Viceroy Alexieff aving that the Russian torpedo- | boat Yenisei has been blown up | as the result of accidentally strik- ing a mine at Port Arthur. The Yenisei sank, and Captain Itep- | anoff, three officers and ninety- | one men were lost. The report that Russia is nego- | tiating for permission to bring her Black Sea fleet through * the | Dardanelles cannot be confirmed here. In diplomatic circles, while |it is not believed that the Porte would offer objections to this, the impression is that such an at- %empt. would precipitate grave complications with the powers ignatory to the Dardanelles con- vention. ~ It is positively asserted by the Government that no telegrams have been received from Viceroy Ale_x:i;ff except those already given out. It is understood that even the Czar is expectantly waiting for complete direct offi- cial information. The explanation of the Admiralty for the non- | receipt here of direct news of the naval battle off 'Chemulpo was a lack of cable connections. LONDON, Feb. 13—Com- plete silence has fallen over the Far East. Not a word of news is to be had here except the re- port given out at the Japanese legation of the shelling of the Japanese merchant vessels by fcur Russian warships, and the report from Viceroy Alexieff of the blowing up of the Russian torpedo transport Yenisei. This long silence has given rise to the belief that important events are transpiring. ATTEMPTS ON RAILWAY.. A dispatch to the Daily Mirror from Tokio says the Japanese have blown up a portion of the Siberian railroad, but this is prob- ably only a repetition of previous similar reports. The Daily Mail learns that the Japanese will bring into use a new explosive, which is alleged to be more powerful than any hitherto discovered. . It is announced that the Im- perial Bank of Russia at St. Petersburg has raised the rate of discount 1 per cent X The. Russian Government has asked permissipn to dock a dis- abled torpedo-boat destroyer at Suez, but this request was re- fused, as the authorities at Port Said had surveyed the destroyer and declared her fit to proceed. The Sultan received the Rus- sian Embassador to Turkey in private audience yesterday. The * correspondent of the Times at Weihaiwei, in a dis- patch dated February 11, says the steamer Fuping, which is taking Chinese refugees to Shanghai, has brought the following ac- count of the Port Arthur battle: “The garrisons of the Port Arthur forts were absent from their stations, so retaliation was impossible. Daylight showed two Russian battleships and one cruiser apparently total wrecks. The Japanese attack was resumed in.the morning, when another battleship ~was disabled ‘and beached. The fire from the forts compelled the Japanese to re- tire. The Russian fleet appeared to be completely demoralized and their torpedoes weme useless against the Japanese | “The Fuping, which was flying | the British flag, moved out, after | securing a Russian permit to go. | The guard ship, however, fired i | three shells at her, which resulted | in the wounding of five of her| Chinese crew. Captain Gray: | commanding the Fuping, then boarded the guard ship and ob- | tained permission to proceed,| after he had signed a promise not | to divulge what had occurred. | The Russians said they were very | sorry they had fired on his ship.” ENGLAND PREVENTS SHIPMENTS OF GRAIN CONSIGNED TO JAPAN VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 12.—Fif- teen hundred tons of wheat and barley foodstuffs for Japan were unloaded | this afternoon from the royal malil steamship Empress of China, after having first been loaded on that vessel, | bound for Yokohama. The ship dis- charged on orders from the British War | Office that she was not to take any contraband goods from this or any other port. This is to apply to all naval reserve steamers on the Pacific in the British register, and the order will be maintained while Japan and Russia are at war. The order that no contraband | shall be carried is applied to all goods such as foodstuffs, coal or any military or naval équipment. The order does not apply to steamers not in the naval reserve, which take cargoes at their own risk. The Canadian Pacific Rail- | way, owners of Empress liners, has several thousand tons of flour and bar- ley here for shipment immediately to Japan. Some of this may be taken by the Tartar or Athenian, but it is prob- able that consignees will charter a spe- | cial steamer to make the trips nec-| essary. It is reported that agents of the Japanese Government are making arrangements for the purchase of coal from the Dunsmuir collieries, on Van- couver Island. it S i FRANCE WILL BE NEUTRAL. PARIS, Feb. 12.—Instructions have been sent by the Ministers of Marine, Foreign Affairs and Colonies to their respective agents abroad to observe strict neutrality. | reserves | tives | ian e HARBIN PEOPLE Citizens of Manchurian City Believe Czar Will Win. SRR Japanese Have Departed and Many Chinese Hurry Away. Feb, mobili In conseau ing out o an - there i an se the mills ac which has brought about a rests of the output e authorit to have con protection. Enthus to duty prevail among the devotion rad em- ing their s traffic 1. s has € vy, Shanghai and Japan —_— RUSSIAN MINISTER AND LEGATION GUARDS DEPART FROM SEOUL LONDON, Feb. 12.—The advices of the Japanese Minister announce that the Russian Minister at Seoul and the Russian legation guards have departed for China. The telegram adds that all survivors of the Variag and Koruts and the transport Sunguri were taken on board the British, French and Ital- warships off Chemulpo. This is the first reference made in Far Eastern dispatches to the loss of the Sungari, a jian transport. Baron Hayashi, summing up the events in the Far East, so far as they have gone, said to-day: “Whatever may be the eventual re- sult of the war, Russia, in allowing us to occupy and fortify Masampho, has created for herself another Darda- nelles. With fortification of Masampho the integrity of Japan is assured for- ever. No fleet can now pass there against Japan's wishes. Even if we are beaten we would not give up Ma- sampho.” The Associated Press understands the Japanese are advancing tqgvard the Yalu River. There, it is expected, they will engage Russian forces. The Jap- anese declare the number of Russian troops i greatly exaggerated. The plan of the Japanese appears to be to take the road which leads almost to Muk- den. They profess to have no doubt that they will be able to drive back the Russian forces toward Harbin. Pro- ceeding diagonally, the Japanese intend to cut the line of communication be- tween Port Arthur and the mainland of Manchuria, not only preventing rein- forcements from reaching Port Arthur garrison, t inflicting damage on the Manchurian Railroad. The British view that the Japanese will in the meantime be able to occupy Port Arthur is chiefly based on the latest information that Russian gums cannot be brought to bear on any force landing at Pigeon Bay, which is on the western side of Port Arthur, and it is believed that the Japanese admiral will follow tactics almost exactly sim- ilar to those pursued at Santiago, the troops storming the batteries in the rear, while the Japanese fleet lles wait- ing for the ships of Viceroy Alex- ieff. “which, in the event of a land at- tack being successful, must either make a dash for liberty or fight where they are against practically hopeless odds. In spite of the lack of news it is con- fidently held here that the Japanese land forces are actively engaged in a most important movement, which will come to a climax as swiftly as did Japan's first naval attack. —_———————— There is a great demand at the pres- ent time for brick-making machinery in Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony and the Transvaal . _.