The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 29, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRU ARY 29, 1904. CLASH OF RIVAL ARMIES IN KOREA IS FAST APPROACHING S e - Abdul Hamid May Risk War in Balkans. Turkey Effects an| Alliance With Greece. New York ne New York | 1 —Serious | Sast, giving | sees the | carry out | A Greek for the arm- , says an y where- ill occupy | ent in the such a po y get bey Hamid for atic at The A ons are Govern and Italy mplete consider the in the RUSSIAN CRUISER RUNS GAUNTLET OF A SQUADRON Feb e T e 70 "Russian Cavalry Encounters a Detachment of Japanese Troops South of the Yalu. Continued from Page 1, Columns 6 and 7. K tier have been attacked and Prince 3¢ ved at tl “TOKIO, Feb. been rece e Jaj alry appeared Our livered. of the Japanese at Possiet authentic spor to the is probably only a confirmation. rbor of Port sels to pass between her stern PEKING, Feb. —Since tingent men lent. They will 1 TIENT on two hese troops are persed by k place on the morning of 1e Emperor has contributed 100,000 yen and the Crown ,000 yen to the Japanese a point 700 meters north fired on them, caus Arthur, an have left Paotingfu for the northeastern 1 regnla Russian troops. The the 28th. relief fund. LONDON, Feb. 28.—The following official dispatch has 1 anese legation here: o 28, 9 a. m.—A number of the enemy’s cav- of - Pingyang, Korea. hem to retreat.” The correspondent of the Standard at Tientsin in a dispatch f 26 speaks of the Japanese flanking move- 1 as promising to be the most effective blow yet de- re-echo of the reported landing , which has not yet been given any Dai says that the Retvizan is Mail's 3 Newchwang ast across the middle entrance corre- d that there is only room for ves- and the eastern side at high water. February 23 four troop trains frontier. The last con- completing the force of 10.000 ars and their equipment is excel- troops from Shantung province. -Russians are interfering with the im- -4 i 121 rail . teol il - r. | perial ra y telegraphs. On February 27 they demanded that Steamships Captured by Russians. | 2 2 “".‘ ¢ ’_“‘»’- 1e te thl.‘tmx received at Tienchwang SUEZ Feb. 28.—Tt steamships | Station, where the Chinese authorities have now placed a sentrv Chir at Possiet Bay | PORT ARTHUR, Feb. the situation here during the past ese of north to-day, accompa 3+ R S cials say that the reported landing of tied by thunder and h, rendering impossible any Attempt to e Japanese troops 1as not been confirmed. 8.—There has been no change in two days. A gale blew from the ghitning. The sea ffect a landing. 70 BE DEPENDED 0N Because It Is the Experience of a San Francisco Citizen and Can Readily FOURTEEN JAPANESE | HAVE STUDIED NAVAL TACTICS AT ANNAPOLIS | | { [ States, | Be Investigated. The Congress of the Uniteld b fosk large city would | by act of July 27, 1868, authorized th Y g dependence on the direc cretary of the vy to receive at e 3 21 resident than | the Naval Academy for instruetion not | suid % e L s | exceeding six persons from the empire | e S e s and from 1569 up to 1891 four- ge pilot famil panese naval students were en- | - % P five of which graduated. The | 2, pu war may possibly bring into | g nence others besides the gallant Admiral Uriu, graduate The names of all who en tered institution are given in the | ¢ appended table, the names of those who | - were graduated being marked with a star, the others having with ~ S Ni Entered. i | | e Satarc Dec., | *Koruko K *Giro Kunit gt sie that 1 could not Takahiko Azuma as different with Doan's | © | Kisero Machid do not act on the tly upon the kid- { puri perform their Price 50 cents. [ N. ¥ May, 1887 June, 1 May, 1501/ Mar., 1 sole n's, and take number 23 3 and 4 stood | Number 1 | in a class of 5 in a class of 45 members; anding was 14 in a class of and Uriu's number was 26 in a class | graduated 29; numbe | of members. | illi 1 | Japan has made contracts for two | Millions of dollars a year are! Jeban e e o imo speed with British builders, one to be { built at Elswick and the other at Bar- lost by not using Schilling’s | row. Both ships are to be completed in | Best | eighteen Jnonths. The Els\;;i_(‘k firm} ™ baking-powder wpices | has already vulll two battleships, four osloe flavoring extracts et rmored cruisers and seven prulenled} cruisers for the Japanese navy, while _the Barrow yard has delivered the bat- tleship Mikasa. oo RS D b A baker’s oven, in France, which_is heated by electricity, is said to be a lsucce&s in every particular, and nobody gains by using ; anything else instead. Your groces’s; moneybach. ! now TWO DISABLED JAPANESE WARSHIT RETURN TO SASEBO CHEFU, Feb. 28.—While the Jap- anese report that their fleet is still concentrated in the neighborhood of | Port Arthur, yet endeavors being made to prevent definite information ing public. The survivors of the sunken transports, who were land- ed on & weré not allowed to see nd they wiil be sent homse Japanese fleet originally consisted of sixteen warships, but two battleships and a dispatch boat missing from that number from two sources it has been Jipanese warships returned to ebo in a disabled condition. The report is being circulated among the Chinese that Port Arthur has fallen, —————— GIVES STROLLERS' CLUB A CLOSE CALL are and learned FIRE ] Blaze Breaks Out Dufing an Enter- tainment, Causing Excitement and Injuring One Man. NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—Excitement | was caused in the Strollers’ Club on Madison avenue at the close of musical entertainment to-day by slight fire on the stage, resulting from the explosion of a flashlight cartridge that set fire to some decorations. On the cords carrying the decora- | tions were strung empty’ china flasks, one of which fell, the Metropolitan Opera-house on the head and injuring him so severely that he had to bé taken home in charge of physicians. —_———— Chicago Will Not Hear Patti, CHICAGO, Feb. 28.—Adelina Patti ill ot sing here to-morrow night. A telegram from Indianapolis to-day said she was unable to come because of a cold. It is generally understood, however, that the sudden change in her plans is an unsatisfactory advance &ale of seats. a| a| striking Conried of | + RUSSIA'S ROUGH RIDERS ON GUARD AT THE YALU. e Advancing T Special Cablegram to The Call and N Japanese Forces Totaling 120,000 Men Are hrough Korea. ew York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. CHEFU, Feb. 28.—Following is the substance of numerous cable dis- patches received here from Seoul: One hundred and twenty thousand | Japanese troons have arrived at Seoul up to the present time, consisting of cavalry and infantry! but with no ar- fun Altogether 80,000 men have passed through hul and 40,000 | throv Wasan within a fortn via Pingyang nulpo and the ap- outh of filled northward bound The harbor of Ch proaches to the leading to Seoul river sub base being attack and the h ar the arm, merged torpedoes protected from a se: th reby fully « Korea nment is rendering ev the tary oper army racks and imperial ps have into quart for Japane The much talk of an of- nd defensive alliance between Five sand Russians, with four- teen guns, have appeared on the K rean frontier and : now making preparations for the arrival of large | reinforcement MOVEMENT | The Jar Gover ance ry to Korean also d ace | dist | made s ve Japan HANDLED. ngements WELL nese ar show great perfection of detail. The infantry i= well equipped, but the ¢ alry is poorly mounted. The daily arrival at Chemulpe transports control of the he J nese authorit have issued paper war currency, redeemable in ver for in Northern Korea, The Korean telegraphs are controlled by the Japane: military authorities, and a se exercised. Absolute here and foretgner: no danger. The construction from Seoul to Wiju has aken in con- nectlon with the Seoul-Fusan railway, and this give a railwa Sys theoughout the entire length of the Ko- | rean peninsula lutely into Japanese | control. ADVANCE OF LONDON, Feb. 29.—The Times' Che- | mulpo correspondent, under date of Weihaiwei by De Forrest wireless tele- graph, says that the Japanese disem- | barkations of the last few days were confined to supplies for the transport {corps and to 4500 ponies. The total number of troops landed is 20,000, in- cluding the first division and a portion of larg: indicates Yellow fleets of unprotected Japan's absolute e in railwa of a heen unc JAPANESE of the second division. The guards that | have not yet arrived at the armory consist of six batter the twelfth division. Anothe barkation, believed to be on a scale, is taking place immediate! of Haiju, whence the troops will ] disem- ad- | vance parallel to the railroad, joining the neighborhood of [ those now in | days in the march | - The Daily Telegraph’'s Shanghai cor- | respondent expresses the belief that | the Russian report of the hanging of | three Japanese officers in connection | with the Sungari incident is a fiction. | The correspondent - gives a report | that the Japanese have destroyed a | | large Russian store of provisions and forage at Kinchow, thirfy miles from Port Arthur. According to Seoul reports the de- cision of the Koreans to join the Jap- | anese in the field is due to the killing | of some Koreans in North Korea by ! Russians, who justify the attack upon the Koreans by the fact that Korea had concluded a treaty with Japan. WAR PLAN OF RUSSIANS, PARIS, Feb. 29.—According to the | St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris, the Russian naval gen- eral staff is convinced that if the Jap- anese attack Port Arthur, Vice Ad- miral Stark, commanding the naval forces there, will allow the vessels to aproach the port, confining himself to defensive operations, unless an attempt is made to land troops, in which case the Russian torpedo boats will make m | belonging to | | Hwangju, thus effecting a gain of five | ran effort to destroy ‘the transports at | any cost. The staff is convinced that | Admiral Stark, despite the state of h health, which causes anxiety, will suc The Petersburg | ceed in destroy torpedo boats | Port Arthur is amply supplied with { coal and ammunition. of the that he learns that no sels will leave the Black anding the rumors in n pape The | Manchurian way ’ and telegraph {lines are admirablv g iarded from Port Arthur to Mukden and from Mukden to Harbin. The correspondefit says further that he is assured from -hig cuarters that nothing that is to be repl sian Minister A Mukden the last nassen ward over the ning the ru- er Lamsdorff vresent Rus- known conce reign Minis ced by the to Denma correspondent er train to the s-Siberian F 1d that henceforth r cars for Port be attached to the mili iffic northward continues to i The correspondent adds is falling abundantly after > days. MOSCOW, Feb. 28 —Lieutenant ( sen- eral § nof has left for the Far East to take command of a fortress at Port Arthur, CROWD TRAINS Feb. 28.—The movement | »f troo the Tran v ttained unvrecede p portions. rains going eastward are filled with troops. All trains om Manchu are crowded with women and children and the station here is/| filling with refugees awaiting an op- portunity to urn to Russia, many of them remaining two days before being able to continue their journey. A comotive broke through the ice on Lake Baikal, near the shore, but no loss of life has been reported. LIBAU, Feb., 28.—A shipment of 600 horses was about to be loaded into a amship here when it s stopped by the authorities. The s were believed to have been bought by Brit- ish agents for Japan. { HAYASHI EXPLAIN SEVERITY OF JAPAN'S { PRESS CENSORSHIP LONDON, Feb. 28.—In reference to the severity of the censorship exercised by the Japanese Government over the news dispatches of foreign correspon- dents, Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Minister, to-night said: “I have had numerous representa- tions from English and other newspa- pers on this subject, but I believe that our position in the case Is not only right, but will be admitted to be such | by those who look carefully into the circumstances. We are fighting against numerical odds which are quite out of proportion to the odds against any com- batant in recent wars. We are fighting for our existence and our only hope of maintaining it is to strike swiftly and secretly at the beginning. To get in the first blows means more to us than, I think, it has ever meant to any bellig- erent, and to insure this it is vital for | us to demand a degree of secrecy which has not been necessary in any recent warfare. KEven at the risk of alienat- ing, temporarily, the friendship of the press of the world, we must prevent even a whisper of our real intentions reaching our powerful enemy. “Before war was declared I knew that our military authorities had de- cided that our censorship must be more rigid than ever before attempted. One line would have ruined our first attack on Port Arthur—one line might ruin our projected land operations. “When we fought China we gave the war correspondents free latitude and in [ Port Arthur. and sank, | l Russians Fear Early Land Attack on YINKOW, Feb. 28.—Viceroy Alex- ieff has arrived at Mukden, where he probably will remain until the reor- ganization of the forces has been com- pleted. He has been living aboard a | train, but he will enter his headquar- | ters to-morrpw. The schedule of all | { regular trains on the railway has been | annulled. The’Novikrai declares there | | is great hostility in Korea, especially | in Chemulpo, against the Japanese protectorat reports by eye-witnesses of at Port Arthur in the sday last have the gagement early morning of Wedne | been received here. They say that one | Japs > coal hulk was sunk and one beached near the Retvizan and that nineteen Japanese in civilian clothing reached shor 1d were made pris ers. The Askold and Bayan ap- | proached the Japanese fleet and then retired, being unable to engage the en a long range two shells | str city. Retvizan, though stranded, is as an auxiliary. The for- ign engineer has abandoned hope of serviceable ; Progr abroad. | to the northe Troops of Russia Overrun the Frontier. Moving Southward From the Yalu River. ————— ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 23.—The of- ficial announcement by Major General Pflug, chief of staff of Viceroy Alex- ieff, that Russian cavalry had crossed the Yalu River, is expected to be fol- lowed shortly by news of rather heavy land fighting, as, according to seem- ingly trustworthy reports, General Len- evitch has sent an entire army corps of infantry to support the Cossacks. who have penetrated to a point below Anju and who are reported to have beaten the Japanese in several skir- mishes. Nevertheless, if this move- ment in force is progressing, it must | not be assumed that the Russians have taken the offensive, but rather that they are taking up a strong position in Northern Korea in order to check the advance of the formidable army of Japanese landing on both shores ‘of Korea, while the concentration of Rus- sian troops behind Yalu is being completed. This concentration is making better s than is generally believed The movement of troops east- ward over the Trans-Siberian railroad will be greatly accelerated henceforth, as telegraphic reports say that the ice railroad over Lake Baikal was com- pleted to-day Up to this time the | tracks have been used as far as laid, | the soldiers marching from the termin- us of the line to the other shore CHINA'S SINISTER COURS Major General Pflug’s report that neral Ma's army is west of the Liao ver agrees with the statement of the special correspondent of the Russ at Tientsin that the Chinese War Minis ter is hurrying large bodies of troops stern frontier Pechil This report says the troops are not go- ing by rail, but are marching by nigh The military situation will be great complicated if General Ma's army really moving to the rear of the Rus- sian position with the intention of mak- ing common cause with the Japane as it will expose both Russian flanks attack. The blockade of Port Arthur contin- ues. The Russians seem resigned for the present not to expect to accomplish much by sea, realizing that the Port Arthur fleet is overmatched in both ships and guns, but they hint that things may be different in the spring if the Baltic fleet goes out and effects a junction with the Port Arthur fleet Serious consideration also is being given to the feasibility of spending about $5,000,000 on torpedo-boat de- stroyers, to be sent in sections to Viadi- vostok and Port Arthur, Three hundred mechanics and dry- G ¥ | dock yard artificers were sent to.the Far East last week, and experts declars that the boats could be built, sent and fitted out in ht months HOPE C TERS IN ARMY. After all, however, the hope of the Russians is centered in their army, and with General Kuropatkin at its head although he has not faced a f the siege of Plevna, victory is cons ered assured The war throughout excitement here and Russia generally seems to be dying down. The patriotic demon- strations which everywhere owed the outbreak of hostilities have been succeeded by calmness on the part of the people, but the crowds still eagerly gather about the bulletins from Viceroy her, as the patching on the | Ji oo “which are posted in various foot cleft made by a Japanese | Lo.io of the city and which are issued torpedo has given way and stopped | coon after they Are received. Th progress, and the Russian engineers | gronwnoce with which the Government have interfered with the original plans publicly announced the initial reverses, for ng the vessel. as well as the stringent measures taken | Cesarevitch is kept afloat by | yo prevent the dissemination of all false | constant pumping. The Novik has yorts of successes, is perhaps the best been repaired and the Pallada has dence of the complete confidence been ddcked. which the authorities have in the loy- Repeated attac by the Japanese | a1¢v of the people during the past week have resulted in Y ting Incident red on the consta shifting of the troops, news was r of tl including the naval contingent organ- | ginking of the four steamships with ized from the crews of the disabled | which the Japanese sought to block the and idle warships, to all parts of the | antrance to the harbor of Port Arthur defen and also to the Hinterland. | The original report was to the effect Refugees who have arrived here re-|ihat four battleships and two trans- port that the Ru s momentarily | ports had been sunk and this caused fear a land investment of Port Arthur | go much enthusiasm that a session of from Pigeon Bay. the council immediately ordered a | Four tra Russian refugees | jouym. A member of the counecil just | from points south of Taschischias | grom the Winter Palace burSt into the | went northward yesterday One | gession and said American citizen and two British sub- | ~Gentlemen, countermand the order jects, who were expelled from Port|QOnly four old steamers were sunk. Th Arthur without being given thegright | Emperor does not wish a thanksgiving to review their property, declare they | gervice to be held were expelled because of alleged re- PAINTED LIKE WARSHIPS. lations with newspaper correspond- ; ’ % |e This charge, they say, was un- | In connection with this attempt of fiable, though the authorities de- | the Japanese on Port Arthur a story clare that they are justified in expell- | is current here that the steamsh | ing all civilians who are not required for defense. The authorities have refused to per- mit the British captain, Riddle, to take his ship, the Foxton Hall, to | { Chefu. It is understood that if the | ship be released a Russian skipper | will be sent with ber for the purpose | of preventing intelligence of the Rus- | sian operations being given to the | | Japanese blockaders. * ke .- +| many cases they took advantage of this to predict our future movements. That did not matter much when China was our enemy, but against a power like Russia, so immensely superior in event- ual resources, it might turn the scale. When you fight for life everything else becomes of minor importance. “T cannot believe that Japan will lose friends in the world because 'she has | been obliged to impose such a careful consorship. I do not think the' present rigor of this censorship will be contin- ued very long, but momentarily the conditions of the campaign make even insignificant movements clews toward our main naval and military objectiv When our preliminary operations are complete I have no doubt the censor- ship will be relaxed. “Our own press and people are under- going the same regime. There is no dis- crimination, and I think you will find as .much news of the war from the| Japanese side in the New York and | London papers as you will in the lead- | ing Japanese organs.” Baron Hayashi does not expect that his Government will issue any procla- mation of the blockade of Port Arthur until the Japanese are able to cut the communication by which food supplic8 now reach that place. He points out that Newchwang is practically block- aded by the ice. When the ice breaks and if the naval necessity still exists, the Minister says, Japan probably will issue a blockade proclamation. It does not look as if there will be any imme- diate serious land action, but it ap- pears possible that Vice Admiral Togo may make another attempt to bottle up | Port Arthur by sinking across the channel one aof the old Chinese battle- ships captured during the war between Japan and China. 4 | ships and that on arriving clo | channel the sent in were painted §o represent dropped contact mines This story, wever, lacks confirmation from any authoritative souree Grave rumors were in circulation here concerning the suffering of the troops crossing Lake Bailkal and were communicated to the officer in charge, who telegraphed that there were no cases of severe frostbite occasioning either death or amputation. He says that the journey of twenty-flve miles, which takes twelve hours, is broken at a relay station in the center of the lake, where a hot dinner is served. and that particular care is taken of the weaker® men during transit. A decision of the Council of Ministers, approved by the Emperor and pub- lished to-day, extends for a period of one year the tariff on European imports to Russia, which was fixed on February 26, 1903. A similar extension of time i3 made in the case of the free admissioa of tin plate used in the manufacture of kerosene barrels and also on packing cases used in the export trade. ———— e War News Continued on Page 4. — - OOM PAUL 1S SLOWLY DYING AS AN EXILE Former President Kruger Is Failing in Health and the End Is Not Far. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 28.—A letter re- ceived in this city by General Ben- jamin Viljoen, formerly of the Boer army, announces that ex-President Kruger of the Boer republic is slowly dying as an exile at Mentone, France, and that Dr. Reitz, State Secretary un- der President Kruger, is also in exile in Holland and a constant sufferes from nervous prostration. Speaking of Kruger, General jobn said: “My information regarding the late President of the republic comes from a member of his household. The poor ol man's mind is decaying rapidly, his health is very poor and it is ap- parent to those close to him that the end is approaching.” Vil-