The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1904, Page 21

\ P o RN \ Q-c&eczn made at San| Fran- \\m;m for~fiirty hotirs jending —————— ey : i midgicky, February 14: / i a P2z ‘ C.sav rrascisce sut Aloinity— | Pisoners—moly-Poly. | ‘Clonay Sundiy; frefh northeast Grani Y wheop-Des-Doo.” wizas. ~A~C. McADIE, | Oiphenm—Vandeville. Matin 2 ri:jcas: ofctal mfi—z’inn. oJotany Comes OLUX ( NO I OR ]GH r P %GES—S AN FRANCISCO, SU\JDAY : ]—LBRLARY 14, 1904 —P: “\(xES 21.TO RICE FIVE RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE OUTPOSTS CLASH ON YALU TOKIO REPORTS SINKING OF THREE OF FOE'S WARSHIPS PARIS, Feb. 14.---A dispatch received at an early hour this morning at the Chinese Legation, from the Foreign Office in Pekmg, reports that fighting took place yesterday: between the Russian and Japan- ese outposts on the Yalu and that the Japanese were repulsed The Russuans took elghty pnsoners CZAR GIVES ALEXIEFF AN ENORMOUS ARMY Calling Qut of the Siberian Reserves Will Add 300,000 to His Forces. the FFrench 1)05\0\410115 will not be attacked. issian volunteer . PANORAMIC VIEW.OF THE KOREAN PORT OF FUSAN, WHERE JAPAN IS LANDING A'LARGE ARMY TO SEIZE THE KOREAN EMPIRE AND | MARCH 'AGAINST THE'RUSSIANS IN»MAN}.‘HL'RIA. 3 | | Vice Admiral ' Bayle, comman- der of the French squadron in the 1 Far East, has sent a cablegram to { the Navy Department saying that | on the request of the French Min- )5; isters at Seoul and Tokio the l cruiser Gueydon will stop at Che- CORIENT, France, Feb. 13.| mulpo and take on board the Rus- | It is reported here that Minis- | sian marines who were received on red by the Japanese, is reported | safe at Singapore. 3 FRENCH GOVERNMENT MAKING SIGNIFICANT WAR PREPARATIO 1 after the engagement in which the Variag and the Korutz were de- stroyed. The vice admiral adds | that the Japanese Government has | given the Gueydon a safe con- [ duct. that the armored cruisers | and Conde and the cruis- Coetlogon, Isly d Catinat be put into condition or immediate service. PARIS, Feb. 13.—Dispatches 5| received here from Toulon say that ordgrs have been issued for f|the mobilization of additional troops for service in Indo-China. ()lm ials declare, however, that do not apprehcnd an attack | French territory in the Far } st by the Japanese, but that it to be prepared for all emer- oire Lavoisier, of a conflict between France and | Siam has been dissipated by the signing to-night by Foreign Min- ister Delcasse and the Siamese Minister to France of a treaty.de- limiting the frormer between Siam ‘ and Cambodia, a foreign protecto- rate in Indo-China. The treaty secures substantial {territorial and economic advan- tages to France and an increase of her political influence in the coun- try. One article of the conyen- d op- Wiju) | © horecar M. de Lanessan, ex-Minister of ! Marine, has expressed the view . that France is not menaced in LONDO? lis- | Indo-China either: by Japan or patch to the Central News f ..omlL rina, and that even if Japan is the booming of Feb. 14.-—A the trade of all nations PARIS, Feb. 13.—The danger | | | | | tion assures freedom in Siam to | * badvises him..” - |an area as possible and to ter of Marine Pelletan has given| the foreign warships at Chemulpo | swer to Secretary Hay’s note, but . Consul Cassini, the Russian Em- CHEFU, Feb. 14,--A steamer arriving here h'om Port Arthur reports that heavy firing was heard in the straits of Pechili at: mldnight. DlPLOMACY OF HAY SCORES A TRIUMPH WASHINGTON, - Feb. 13.—] Accéptatice ' by the powers of Secretary Hay has added an-|the Washington Government's other to his long list ~of . diplo-!suggestion will be followed by a matic triumphs, and’ the United States is once more: by his dip- lomacy - enabled to lead the na- tions’ in an effort to preserve the integrity of China, Hay’s note of ‘February 10 to Russia and Japan, asking them to confine hostilities within as small re-| further exchange of views as to the practicability of the tion, to the principle of which :\h have gncn their adherence. \\ the note is of the most general | character: it will I)S necessary to discuss at some length the possi- bilities it contains. It is generally understood that hostilities will be confined, so far as China is con- sugges- spect the neutrality and adminis-| trative entity of China avill be ac-| cerned, to Manchuria, Shanhaik- cepted by Russia, as well as by | wan probably marking the western Japan, and all the nations . will{ hpoundary of the theater of action. join the Washington Goxern-l = No official - definition ment in inviting the combatants| heen given to the term “‘adminis- to agree to the proposition. | trative entity.” It is mot ex- Jusserand, the French® Embas-| pected that a treaty will be neces sador, called tipon Secretary Hay sary to execiite Secretary Hay is at - his residence to-day to propo;ntxon but that an e\chanf'c inform+ . him officially of | ¢ will suffice. France's acceptance, and in-| Russia’s decision to acumeace ferentially- it is known that Rus-|vas reached only aiter consulta- sia's acquiescence will be com- municated very = soon.. At the Russian embassy- to-night no in- formation had been received - of the G oxernment s probable " an- tion with several European pow-! ers. It is understood that Del- casse brought strong pressure to and - that Embassador Porter in Paris was most active in obtain- |1 ing France's approval. inform Secretary as« St Pe“rsburv bassador, will Hay as soon . & Continued on Page 22, Column 1. Russian Fleet Said to has yet| bear in St. Petersburg in suppo‘r’fk 'WARSHIPS PUT IN AT MANILA e s Be in Phillipine ‘ Waters. ! { Spec The Call al Dispatch CHICAGO, Feb. Washington correspondent of the | [TInter Ocean’ telegraphs the fol- lowing : 13.—The| “A fleet of seven Russian war- ships is reported to have been in Manila Bay. Officials of the War| Department refused to confirm the 1 report. It was given to me by a/ friend of Tait, who also is in the| { confidence of the President. “The battleship Osldbya, 12,674 | | tons; the armored cruiser Dmitri | | Donskoi, 3803 tons; the commerce destroyer Aurora, 6360 tons, and | boat destroyers | four torpedo | passed through Suez canal some | weeks ago after the passage of the | warships purchased by Japan from Argentina, built-in Italy. These ian ships have been supposed | in the | Russ to be somewhere Indian | Ocean, but by fast sailing they | could lave reached the Philip- ‘{piues. “The War Department will not | confirm the report. It is pessible | that the administration, iollowing | its policy of trying to restrict the | theater of war, prefers to have the | ships leave before Japan learns of it and brings on a naval battle nL { l’lnlmpxm waters. “I give the rumor for iis worth.” what it } IBLLILF OF THE \\OL\DLD PARIS, Feb. 13.-~The Society | for the Relief of the Wounded dt’ a meeting held here to-day dc-; cided to recommend that the| Central Council of the society; i contribute $350,000 toward the re- i lief 6f the wounded of the two bei- | !ligerent armies. The Russo- | date $11,726 for the relief of Rus- sian wounded l | JAPANESE | While new | ments at sea are hourly expected it | report, th»mgh it has come to { from several i tion's offici mnd~ and Nippon, the central RUMOR OF VICTORY vReported Sinking of Three Russian Warships. Special Dispatch t Call. TOKIO, Feb. 13.—It is re- nur!e(l on excellent authority, but { not yet officially confirmed, that | three of the four ships of the Vladivostok squadron which was cruising off “the coast of Yezo {have been sunk by torpedoes. s of further engage- is not believed that any encounter on land will takesplace for some time. . LONDON, Feb.-13.—A report originating with a fapanese firm having correspondents in Tokio was circulated in London to-night to the effect that(three Russian cruisers, presumably the Vladi- vostok squadron, had been torpe- doed in the straits of Tsugaro ves terday. The Japanese legation heard nothing coafirmatory of thi urces. The leg: received the report with reserve, it being considered “too good to be true.” The Japanese have a str naval base at Kotomari northern end of Nippon, the sonth side of the str: it id the Viadivostok squadron atten to harass the coast about. Ha date, that it will be met by torpedo is considered possible, hoats from Kotomari. ( The straits of Tsugaro are be- | tween the island of Hokkaido, the northern of the three Japanese i { and. Hakodate is on the ern side of the straits.) P R R S JAPAN'S SUCCES AROUSE JUBILATION IN GREAT BRITAIN no\ LONDON, Feb. 13. — The The London Government, it # ! Chinese Bank has collected up tole"d of the first week of the Rus- war brx.lt'w intense so—]apanesc Continued on Pl:e 22, Columl .