The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1904, Page 1

THE WEATHER. " Porecast made mt San Fran- “etece gor” thirty hours ending m\\{s;{ February 16: San Francisco and vicinity— Rain Tuesday; high southerly Central—“The Men olQ Fmtowe.” Chutes—Vaundeville. N Columbia—-Othello.” \\ Pischer's—"Raly-Poly.” < Grand—""Whoop-Dee-Doo.” Lyric Hall—Blauvelt Conmcert. Orpheum—Vaudeville. | Tivoll—“When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. VOLUA XCV—NO. 78. SIXTEEN PAG E A N FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1904—PAGES 1 TO 8. PRICE FIVE CENTS RUSSIAN FLEET LEAVES PORT ARTHUR TO ATTACK THE SEAPORTS OF JAPAN Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. PORT ARTHUR, Feb. 15.---The Russian fleet is moving in the direction of Korea or South Japan. If is reported that the Rus- sian fleet intends to bombard the nearest port and will leave the forts to defend Port Arthur. first engagement have been repaired and have joined the fleet. The third probably will be repaired within a week. VANCOUVER, B. C,, Feb. 15.---Instructions were received to-day by the Canadian Pacific Railroad officials containing permission from the British War Office for British naval reserve steamships on the Pacific to carry foodstuffs of all kinds to Japan during the war between Japan and Russia, Two of the vessels damaged in the LEXIEFF TO HAVE AN IMMENSE ARMY Sixty Thousand More Russian Sol- diers Arrive Over the Siberian Railroad. s ;g Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. PORT ARTHUR, Feb. 15 eastern t he engagement were driven back to ostok by a storm (3p issian Vladivostok squadron is still it, cruiSing in the Sea of Japan. eport to the effect that Matsumae, the Inland Sea, has been bom- 1 by the Russian squadron is un- Cossack which they ts, completel Bir e L >ANICKY STAMPEDE FROM PORT ARTHUR AFTER THE BATTLE ins arriving at huria are greeted v and music. h| Admiral) % | exie Czar’s Viceroy. is mak-| il d The Call and New York ters at Mukden. M ht, 1904, by the New York now running | y. 2 ign torpedo attack on Wi Stark’ m Port Arthur, r Admiral Stark’s 10 new engageme: The occasion was being s from Port Arthur re- ed with a banquet, at which k is operat | were present many naval officers. i deposits from | ,, 11 stampede at Port Arthur on prices have risen | oot day gave rise to dreadiul scenes. g A | Hundreds of persons rushed to the | streets from shops and houses, leav- et. The b: BPRd, 1.5 & S |ing everything, even their b: | CONFLICTING REPORTS |books, behind. - They boaries tramn AS TO WHEREABOUTS | where they were packed like herrings. N Among them, cowering ir - OF VLADIVOSTOK SHIPS/ class carriage, was naf,n‘&f‘?fi:lrlfz‘ whose tin: concessions on the Yalu | practically sed the war. A shell | burst in front of his office. The rail- rv 12 a cor- | way officials wanted the men to leave es says that|the train entirely to the women and suadron is | children, but they refused. ngm'u' eastern exit being guarded| Grand Duke Michael's Patriotism. CANNES, France, Feb. 15.—Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich, president of the Russian Council of State, who is ill, remained in his carriage to-day before the open doors of the Orthodox church, where prayers were rendered In a dispatch he - westward of - 16.—A dispatch to the Petersburg says it is > that after the bombard- T t of Hakodate (which has not been offic corroborated) the four Russian cruisers which took part in! Ruselan arms. KIO, Saturday, Feb. 13.—The | | | | | * % 1 | % T THE INVADED EMPIRE. KOREAN HARBOR AT WHICH 20,000 .urmmn TROOPS HAVE BEEN ‘LANDED UNDER COVER OF A FLEET OF WARSHIPS AND THE mm RUSSIAN LEGATION IN SEOUL, THE CAPITAL OF Sy e o A unless the latter should successfully blockade the ports of the former. E3 POWERS WILL SEND TROOPS . IF WARF ORCES INVADE CHINA Provisions of Secretary Hay's Neutrality Scheme to Be| Enforced by Concurrent Action Should Any Violation Be Attempted. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Feb. 15— Baron von Sternberg, the German Embassador, held an important con- ference with President Roosevelt at the White House this morning and then called upon Secretary Hay. The Russian delay in replying to Hay's note is attributed to the desire of the St. Petersburg Government to communicate with its commanders in the field concerning it. The ques- during the service for the success of | tion now is: “What will be the next | against Special Dispatch to The Call. principle of China’s neutrality and the restriction of hostilities?” On the authority of a high State Department official it can be said that this Government is disposed to “rest on its oars,” now. that the powers are committed to the principle. - This offi- eial said that there would be no fur- ther circular notes, but that the pow- ers would merely await such time as there might be.a violation of neutral- ity before taking concurrent action ; such breach. For instance,|= - ————" === ~_ bgtep of the powers committed to the “if Japanese troops should progress into Chinese “territory beyond Manchuria, or the Russian soldiery occupy towns in the same region, the powers which’ have agreed to insure China’s neutral- ity would confer and give China the alternative of correcting this breach of neutrality herself or having foreign troops go in to do-it. Hay's idea in sending the note was, however, to prevent the powers inter- ested in China being compelled to send troops there. In 1900 the out- . Continued on Page 2, Column 1, _ JAPANESE TO LAND | steamship | he says, declare that th NEAR NEWCHWANG Russians Sight the Enemy's Patrols at Points Far Inland in Manchuria. ST. PETERSBURG. atch has been received Feb. 16—A m Vice- roy Alexieff, dated February 13, say- ing | Japanese flec | ing in the Gulf of with t idea ¢ Port I In connec another bombardn the owners of Foxton Hall (from Barry via Port P yarently “aptain Reitzenstein, commanding the Russian tele- graphs that his division destroyed a Sangari (Tsugaru?) Straits. | | landing cruiser division, pear t at Po the British in teamsh: “A violent storm, accompanied by December heavy snow, has been raging for three | 12 s aid, for 4 days and nine degrees of frost has ;\]HI\RCM} I Wit R e, ned by . E he Russians ort Ar ve re- s E not beetiiregistered. i The cnengy has | ceived news that she has been de- been encountered.” Major General Pflug, Viceroy Alex- ieff’s chief of staff, telegraphs that the vation at Port Arthur yesterday was unchanged. Reports from Yinkau. Newchwang, e Japanese are preparing to land at Tsinjenda. :\' message received from the frontier guard says that mounted patrols, be- | lieved to be Japanese, were seen yes- stroyed by fir PR A JAPAN E DETAIN THE FRENCH CRUISER PASCAL AT CHEMULPO 15.—The French has been detained at Chemulpo, owing ed by the Japan SEOUL, Feb. cruiser Pascal the last moment at to the objections ra terday in the vicinity of Hsinming-|ese authorities to o 48 ting, northwest of Mukden. | the Rus refuge: P No Japanese battleships have been|sidered by them most Y. wounded Rus- ulpo are now in Red C seen in the roadstead of Tatungkau, | Twenty-three “f.” at the mouth of the Yalu River. | sians landed at C i e e : | care of the Japanese LONDON, Feb. 16—The volumi-|¢are of t panese. nous dispatches: from the Far East |y The Russian gunboat Rasboynik has - een captured at Masampho the published here this morning are again | yananese, who took her to Sasebo. characterized by absence of real light | The capture is unimportant, the vesse! on-the situation. Numerous uncen- | being of an obsolete type and almost firmed and conflicting rumors are | valueless. given, and among them is a report of another engagement at Port Arthur, in which the Russians lost eight ves- sels sunk and ten captured. A correspondent of the Daily Mail who witnessed the engagement off|jng the war between Russia and Ja- Port Arthur confirms this morning | pan, to-night received a ecablegram his previous accounts of the fight and a not Be needed. asserts again that one Japanese tor-| pedo boat was sunk and another de- serted by its crew in a sinking condi- tion and probably captured by the Russians. He says also that the Japanese lost one battleship and had | o¢ yupan, the corres dent says, pre- one cruiser put out of action and that | gented splendid gifts to Baroness de the colonel of the Fifteenth Russian| Rosen, wife of the Russian Minister, Regiment was killed by a shell dur- before her departure from Tokigy SAGELT T Japan Does Not Need Dr. Senn. CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Dr. Nicholas Senn, one of the organizers of the | Japanese Red Cross So , who of- | fered his services to the Mikado dur- Gifts to Baroness de Rosen. PARIS, Feb. 15.—The correspond- ent in Tokio of the Petit Parisien ca- | bles that subseriptions to the war loa will close on March 19. The Empress