The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1904, Page 5

s THE SAN FRANCISCO €ALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1904. ARMY OF ALBANIANS IS BESIEGING TURKISH FORCE American Bluejackets May Land at Newchwang to Protect Russian Troops Crossing Lake Baikal at Rate of Three Thousand a Day. - has | said, that orders for material and sup- | plies for Port Arthur and Vladivostok gram say have so increased within late years. | . hur o cor.| SECRETARY MOODY - Chronicle re- DRAWS LESSON FROM effect that “mt sador & ed fo RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR | BOSTON, Feb. Secretary of the ke his Government prop S fing ir Navy Moody, speaking at the annual dinner of the New England Rubber Club to-night, strongly advocated a large navy and declared that if the United States desired to maintain peace it must be known that at all times it was ready for war. Secretary Moody declared that there was never a time when the importance | of power upon the sea was more mani- fest than it was to-day. He referred to the Russo-Japanese war, and pointed out that, although one of the nations was superior in many ways to the other, yef the weaker nation, by her success on the sea, had rendered every part of her territory secure from in- vasion. He said in part: “The United States is weaker than the other powers so far as submarine and surface torpedo boats and other boats under 1000 tons displacement are concerned, but still is fifth in relative naval strength and has under construc- tion a greater amount tonnage in ships than any other country except Great Britain and almost as much as that country. This is a great country Feb Port Arthur- | e has been cut 18.—Th Cheft CAREER OF ALEXIEFF, REPRESENTATIVE OF CZAR IN FAR EAST of gene Alexieff of the Rus- | and it can afford a great navy, and the gian mavy and the Czar's representative | world must know that we are at all ir > sixty years of | times ready for war. br “We are at peace with all countries; d shouldered 1 11 the | we wish to continue and will continue in that happy relation if honest diplo- macy and just regard for the rights of y nation will ain peace, but we m provide a navy so as to pro- vide for war. If we are strong enough to enforce the Monroe doctrine, we shall Let us, then, be n eve mai 1 warscape man,” never have to do it. g is d backed by God and by the sea, which = fi he hath given us for defense. In them Siness 1 fact few | and ourselves our safety lies. re widely | “To bring about the sea strength, I € He be- | believe national honesty at home is| nt. We must fight pub- I as if it were a loath- some disease. If money that is appr r ted to the building of ships be d rected to improper uses, then the United States ships will be as if they were painted coffins.” & ST. most da im N PATRICK’S DAY CONVENTION DELEGATES | 1gh the United The following delegates have been elected to the St. Patrick's day con- sover Y n sugges- | to a then vention 1 Russia and O. H.—Danlel Fitzpat- Sl aerival S0 8¢ Barry, James Barry, T. E. Dun- < a captain and 0. H.—John Conboy, Gorham, John Rober- was made commanded it C ames Kelly, M. , T. McDermott, 0. H eardon, J —Richard J. Cur- Connell, Edward - A. O. H.—M. Regan, M. Mc- ¢ Jnnelly, W. Casserly, J. Cum- A. O. H.—James McLaugh- & h, Jobn Kerwin, Peter J he Lynch. p A. O. H—M. Fitzgerald, J. es McCrystal, J. J. Dono- . 0. H.—James C. Daly, Patrick Mannion, Martin M. J. Pierce, Thomas Ward, 0. H.—John ene O'Sulivan, M Daniel 12, A 2 o. L. Barry H P, Thomas Doyle, O'Donnell, J M A. O. H. o E. *. Brannan, D. Kelly, Coilins, F. Jarhes ? ¢ Auxiliary James Smith, Mrs, M. Brady, Mrs P. Chinese- ha Washington avert- between the 2, Tadies’ Auxiliary— | gins. Miss Della Co Miss Bessie Hennessy, 3 congic rate of his when ¢ with them. on No_5. O'Brien. A0 H Mrs. W. Moll Finn, Mise K Ladies jeff always appears in full regi- with all of his decorations in of them he has an un- en for a Russian Vice- Among these is the Cross of St o he wearers of which, whether vates or moble officers, are privi- ged 10 & table with the Czar him- . As Vice on the last ti f the Port Arthur Ao at the table for several hours ring in which there te soldiers and he least of s recognized cisco several times a liking for this due to th it is ADVERTISEMENTS. uite ely "DON'T NEGLECT ur Stomach and Bowels. So h depends upon them. Your ith, happiness, and even your ¢ is controlled largely by these | It is therefore very im- portant at the first symptom of | Iif stomach becoming weak or| he bowels constipated that you take a few doses of Hostetter’s | Stomach Bitters. It is the best Stomach and Bowel medicine in | existence, and positively cures Heartburn, Indigestion, Dyspep-| sia, Constipation and Malaria. | Try it i the STOMACH BITTERS| Ciub—Theodore McCormick, Alliance—Thoma Wiiliam Brod . Hare. n ] 15—Jokn J. O’Brien, William F. Coleman, James T. Wren, Call, F. A. O'Brien Knights of Tara—William Mulvin, O, B. O'Reilly, M, Hesslan, John Burns J. J. Smith ts of the Red Branch—T. J. Mellof niffe, William Hudson, M. Case; Mahoney Leitrim _ Soctal J. O'Rellly Morton. nce—William Mulvin, Timothy Ryan, James McGovern, Wil- Club—P. M. John Kenny, Dancing _Club—Joseph P. Kelleher, J. Madigan, J. O'Connell, James Scully, C 3 c Ceit Unfon Hall Association—Mfss Joste Dillon, Colonel Thomas F. Barry, John Mul- hern, John Ganey Knights of the Red Branch Hall Assoclation J J. O'Connor. James Smith, J. Downs, Wiitam Murphy. P. &. O’ Looney. Hennebery Branch, Gaelic League—Mies | Margaret Clarke, Miss Nellie Twohig, Patrick Kelly, Maurice Murphy. M. Irish Volunteers—Captain H utenant J. J. Sulliva rgeant Dan Harned Sergea Reynolds, Denis O'Connor. thy, Miss Katie O'Le Carthy Celtic Union—John H. McGinney. Miss An- nie Deasy, Thomas O'Connor, William Lynch, James Cox Emcrald_Glee Club—E. P. Hogan. M. J. Leonard, H. H. Londerville, Dr. W. H. How- ard. J. Devine Columbia Hurling Club—Wililam Kelly, Pat- rick Stapleton, Tim Mannion, Michael Buckley, Willam Finn Foottall e McMahon ‘Wolfe Tone John ‘.‘. wior, J. Foley. l‘!mm’l Hurling Club—William Minahan Club—Patrick Lynch, T. J. Gallagher, William Duane, Club—P. P. Kearny, Gaelic Football Hurley, J. Joseph Crane. Martin Lasey, Jeremiah O'Dowd, Jonnston. The following officers have been elected: President, Michael Case first vice president, Thomas Seare: second vice president, Miss Kate . Curtin; financial secretary, Martin Lacey; sergeant at arms, Patrick Mc- Grath. O’Brien; recording secretary, Richard | HOSTETTER'S | | the rebels. order cannot be restored by the paper { | THREE THOUSAND * Rebels Kill One Hun- dred Ottoman Soldiers, . i | = SALONICA, Macedonia, Feb. 1 | Shemsi Pasha, with 2500 Turkish troops and three guns, sieged by 20,000 Albanians at Babajhosi, | between Diakova and Ipek. The Turks | are said to be without food and water and have already lost 100 men. Strong reinforcements under Shakir Pasha are hurrying to the CONSTANTINOPLE, teen thousand Albanians are in tevolt in the district of Diako reform plans of the powers for Mace- donia, and obnoxious taxes. In con- flicts which have taken place between is reported to be be- | Alban s and Ottoman troops, the lat- ter were worsted. Large reinforce- | ments have been dispatched to Dia- kova. The Albanians attacked the town of Diakova on February 13 and plundered and burned a number of | house: Turkish forces attacked the | | rgents’ main position at Babajhosi, t were repulsed with heavy loss Feverish activity among b continues | the Turkish authorities on the Bul- garian frontier, in accumulating stores and repairing roads for the expected | massing of troops. LONDON, Feb. A dispatch re- ceived here from Sofia says that Rus- sia has officially notified the Bulgarian Government that any encouragement given by Buigaria for the renewal of ' the insurrection in Macedonid will be | regarded as an act of hostility which | promptly and forcibly re-| 1 would be sented. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Taking ad- vantage of Rus preoccupation in the Far East, Turkey is preparing for war with Bulgaria. It is learned that a march into Bulgarian territory is likely to be made very soon. In prep- has addressed a note to each of the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin, in which she gives the reasons for her attitude. Besides legitimate war preparations, | it is learned that Turkey believes Bul- aration Turkey | garia to be guilty of unlawful and | criminal traffic with dynamite, which | is being supplied publicly to the rebels. | The revolutionary committees, it is| stated, act undisturbed In all impor- tant Bulgarian cities, notably in Sofia, under the eyes of the Government and with its encouragement. Active offi- cers of the army are permitted to join Turkey is convinced that peace and reforms conducted by foreign police ignorant of the complicated racial con- ditions of those regions and that they can be restored only by war. The Moslem population, it is said, is beginning to take the matter of its own protection against Macedonian dynamiters and terrorists into its own hands. The note sent to the signatory pow- ers is likely to be the last information given by Turkey before the rupture takes place. . RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ; CROSS YALU RIVER SEOUL, Feb. 16.—The arrival of 3000 Russian troons across the Yalu River, opposite Wiju, is officially re- ported by the Japanese authorities. —_————— New Opera Coldly Received. MILAN, Feb. 17.—“Madame Butter- fly,” an opera by Giacomo Puccini, was produced for the first time here at the Scala Theater to-night. It was re- ceived rather coldly. Signor Mascagni was among those present. — A | ISH C ALBANTAN TROOPS PREPARING TO TAKE THE FIELD AND TURK- ERAL WHO IS HURRYING WITH REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE BESIEGED GARRISON AT BABAJHOSI —~—+| | R —t EBEL FORCES ARE REPULSED i | | | PUERTO PLATA, Santo Domingo, Feb. 17.—A savage attack on the city of -Santiago has resulted in the com- plete rout of the rebels by the Govern- ment forces. Many were killed and wounded on both sides. The attack of the revolutionists had been expected for some time. On Tuesday they entered the city un- molested until they had reached the, Government house. Then the Govern- | ment forces opened fire. The rebels | answered and the battle raged for sev- | eral hours. Polin Espaillat, one of the rebel leaders, fell with a bullet wound ! that broke his leg. | Panchito Perez and many other revolutionists were killed, and, seeing that their attack was futile, the rebels fled, closely pursued by the Govern- | ment soldiers. Espaillat was left on | the field of battle and made a prisoner | by the Government troops. The Government losses are - not stated, but two officers are known to have been killed and several men | wounded. + RADION ACTS AS PAIN KILLER Feb. 17.—A dispatch to from Ann Arbor, Mich., says: The possibility of us- ing radium to convert ordinary rain and well water into a min- eral water, more highly medicinal than any known natural mineral water, has | been demonstrated at the University of | Michigan in a series of experiments covering the last ten weeks. In search- ing for a method by which radium could be applied to the interior of a cancer without danger of the terrible radium or X-ray burns, it has been demonstrated that the immersion of a sealed tube in pure, distilled water for twenty-four hours produces radio-ac- tive water of powerful effects. In the| treatment of cancer this water stopped pain in ten minutes. The patients now under the radiunr water treatment at the university are one with a cancer of eighteen years' standing, and several with the ordi- nary nose and breast cancers. The eighteen-year-old cancer has had six weeks of water treatment, and from the first five minutes’ treatment pain has been almost wholly absent. In each of the other cases pains stopped im. mediately. CHICAGO, the Tribune | Kaisha Steamship Company, and R. P. | Schwerin, manager of the Pacific Mail ! Oriental — COMPANIES MAY | RENEW COMPACT — The return to this city of W, H. Av- ery, general agent of the Toyo Kisen Steamship Compan is anxiously awaited by the many who are eager to learn whether the two cencerns, in conjunction with the Occidental and Steamship Company, are to on business between this port and the Orient in the future, as they have in the past, under an agreement entered into five years ago. This agree- ment expired two days ago and there is much speculation as to whether the representatives of the three steamship companies have renewéd it for another fire years or some other period. A report was in circulation yesterday to the effect that the agreement had been renewed, but no one here‘*was willing to confirm the story or to suggest just what understanding had been arrived at between General Agent Avery of the Japanese line and Manager Schwerin, representing the two Harri- man companies. Five years ago, when the Spanish war demanded the services of the Pa- cific Mail Company’'s vessels for the transportation of Government troops and material to the Philippines, the Harriman people found it convenient to enter into an agreement with their Japanese rival, whereby{the latter should, for a period of five years. re- ceive a one-third share in all the Ori- ental business originating in this city or at points afong the railroad lines of the Harriman syndicate. Without railroad connections the Japanese com- pany had found itself seriously handi- capped in competing for passenger and freight business, and its agent gladly accepted the proposition made by Man- ager Schwerin, and its boats, the Nip- pon Maru, America Maru and the Hongkong Maru, were quickly placed on the schedule time of the boats the other company had been forced to use for the Philippine traffic. carry . Lately these conditions have been reversed, the war with Russia having compelled Japan to appropriate the Nippon Maru and the Hongkong Maru for military service and no other boats have been | put in their places. With the agree- ment between the steamship com- panies expired a few days ago, the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Company was without a boat on the Oriental run and the Pacific Mail and the Occi- dental and Oriental companies were practically masters of the situation. Just how long the war will last is un- certain, but it is certain that the Jap- anese company has no idea of aban- doning its ship connections with thig port and will have its steamers run- Consul Miller. —_— WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Rear Ad- miral Evans, commanding the Asiatic station, to-day transmitted to the Navy Department a cablegram from Com- mander Staunton of the gunboat Helena, now in the mud dock at New- chwang, China, in which he says that conditions there are. greatly disturbed and that he is vigorously investigating the report that Russian officials have | delayed certain American and British merchantmen. In the event that the American Con- sulate is endangered, it is said, Com- mander Staunton will land bluejackets and marines for the protection of Con- | sul Miller. There is every wish on the part of this Government not to give the. slightest cause for complaint by | either Russia or Japan, but the un- alterable American policy of protect- ing American interests at all hazards will be adhered to. The Russian Embassy is being flood- ed with offers of assistance from Americans in various walks of life. Letters from twelve physicians arriyed to-day. The Russian Embassador has | been obliged to abandon his original | intention to answer each of these of- | fers with a personal letter, but a cor- | dial letter of thanks is sent by the em- bassy to each writer. The offers are declined, as Ruuiai does not stand in need of medical or military aid. pentlbl o AR TREND OF BRITISH SENTIMENT IN LONDON AND IN THE FAR EAST written about her, the Kokumin has written about her and the Niroku has written about her. This last journal calls her a kwaji-dorobo and affirms that for many years she has been nothing else. Kwaji-dorobo is a term vulgarly applied to a man that takes advantage of a conflagration to pur- loin the property of the unfortunate victims of the catastrophe; a fellow, in short, that profits by his neighbor's calamities. The Niroku is always more vigorous than polite. Less indiscreet, the Nippon affirms that among all na- tions Russia is regarded by the world as the most untrustworthy, and that next to her in that unenviable distinc- | tion stands Germany, for whose sake the Nippon professes to be sorry that things are so. This opinion is elicited from our contemporary by the fact that whereas the attitude of all the | other powers with regard to the situa- tion in the Far East is clearly known, the attitude of Germany remains still obscure.” ‘The Mail also clai will justify confidence in her inter- national morality. It continues: “Less than four years ago, when the foreign community in Peking, threat- ened with sanguinary destruction, re- posed its only hope of salvation in the promptitude of succor from Japan, not a few voices were loudly raised in Europe against the danger of in- trusting to Japan a task which, if successfully carried out, might invest her with the practical hegemony of Oriental races and thus call into real existence the yellow peril. To-day, on the eve of a war from which, if she emerge successfully, it would be na- tural and reasonable that she should claim some overlordship of the ter- ritory in dispute, we have the British Government placing such confidence in Japanese self-restraint and Japan- ese pacific impulses that they guar- antee her freedom from ambition in that Japan | the presence of temptations to which The London Daily News (Liberal) dis- trusts Germany’s motives in the pres- | ent crisls, and counsels non-interference with Russia in her dispute with Japan over Manchuria and Korea. It says in an editorial on Jaruary 29: ““Will it profit us substantially to lose | the new-born friendship of France and | to aid the deep-laid plans of German | extension? Would it even profit us in the Far East to find Russia hurled back | and her movement directed southward to the Indian Ocean? Are we quite sure | that Russia is not a bulwark against something even more to be feared—a great Asiatic rising under Japan against the dominion of the white man? Do not let us dwell in any fool's para- dise as to the aims and motives of the Japanese., They do not love us any | | more thafi they love any other inter- loper in Asia. Russia stands in her way to-day. If she win she will kill two | birds with one stone—she will have| turned Russia and England against | each other in Southern Asia. And then | in due season she will enjoy the plun- der and will realize her dreams of ‘Asia for the Asiatics,” with herself as the leader In the new empire. We heartily detest Russian diplomacy, but it is no:; our business to cure those evils of her | sovernmental system while under our own flag we are setting up such a con- dition of things as that which prevails | | in the Transvaal. “So far as the antagonists are con- cerned we repeat what we have said throughout the crisis—that true wis dom consists In recognizing the fact that they have to accept each other as neighbors. If Japan hopes to beat back | Russia utterly she is nursing a vain| dream; if Russia imagines that Japan is a mere Orlental barbarian to be bul- | lled into surrender, that, too, is to in- vite disaster. We do not take the view | that the trouble is incapable of cure without a surgical operation. Russia must recognize that Korea is not her | portion, and on the other hand Japan | must not take too high-handed a course | in regard to Manchuria. In Europe we | have learned to tolerate near neighbors | with a certain amount of cheerfulness and even security. There is no reason | why the same thing should not be pos- | sible in Asia.” | The Japan Mail, an English paper | of Yokohama, said on January 23: | “Germany has received a good deal of attention at the hands of Japanese journalists of late—the Nippon has‘ * | | CARNIVAL ENDS LN BLOODSHED |any other nation, | retaining | national moralit if history has been truly written, would yield incontinent- ly and would not be condemned for vielding. To-day no one seems to fear that if Japan force her adve: loosen his grip upon Manchuria will herself take his place or think of hat she has won by strength of arm It is a mor - gular transition from unconcealed doubt to unprecedented faith, and yet we are absolutely nfident that if subjected to such a W il of her inte: n would justify England’s confi . The following inte is contained in uary 1 News from Vladivestok says that the ice is now a foot thick in the har- bor and that it has been found neces- sary to beach the torpedo craft. The ting news item the Japan Mail of Jan- squadron of vessels lately renorted as anchored in the port seems to have taken its departure, but nothing is publicly known about its destination There can be no doubt that the de- gree of frost this year is exeeptional tbrcughout the whole of the Far | Ea ADVERTISEMENTS. . Special to-day . $10.50 A thirty - dollar dresser and in three woods—golden oak, birdseye maple and mahoganized birch. The drawers all have swelled fronts, and the oval mirror is a genuine French bevel ROME, Feb. 17.—The carnival fes- tivities have resulted in disorder and bloodshed in Southern Italy and Sicily. Troops and police were obliged to in- tervene and a score or more persons | have been wounded. Many arrests have also been made. At Trani a number of Socialists in masquerade costumes started the | trouble by insulting state institutions | and in the fighting which followed several officers and soldiers were | wounded. The police then stepped in | and as a result the jail is now full. | At Piazza Ameria, in Sicily, the mas- N querading brought on a conflict be- plate, 23 by =29 inches. tween members of two local political Height to top of mirror parties and an attack was made on the ; P TR s raRar s bt City Hall. The disorder became so | !ra‘l“e' 70 inches; width, 45 inches. great that troops were called out and | fired on the people to disperse them. Fourteen of the rioters were wounded. | Quiet was then restored. o e ning again as soon as the Japanese Government sees fit to release them. It is generally believed that General Agent Avery, who is invested with full power to act in all matters concerning | the foreikn company, has come to! some understandi th the Harriman representatives d g his stay in the East and that the three lines will con- tinue to operate under an- extension of the agreement of the last five years. | The fact that Avery has been paying his usual annual visit to Washing- ton for the purpose of arranging rates for the carrying of Government of- | ficlals to and from the Orient| strengthens the opinion here that the | American and foreign lines will con- | tinue business on a friendly basis. This offer is positively for to-day (Thursday) only, and we have decided to sell only one dresset to each buyer at the special figure. A genuine “ Breuner” value, remember—the kind that made many friends for us in our old store. 261 to 281 Geary Street KISHINEV, Feb. 17.—The second trial of e e e G o At Union Square