The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN . FRANCISCO CALL RIDAY: MARCH 11, 1904 RUSSIAN Alarming Rumors Are Circulated on Continent. Greater Struggle May | Follow That in Far East. NS REGARD WAR R WITH BRIT IR Epecial Cable to The Call and New York Herald right, 1904, by the New York & Compar £T. PETERSBURG, March 10.—The Novoe Vremya says: “We can scarcely | iew of the English expe- Tibet and the declaration gland is sending the latest type proved cannon and rifles to her n frontier, and of her having sub- the steamers of the Canadian line nd armed and warned to be rea for immediate ser- 'or some days | & been giving kinds of pessimistic ding strained yelations be- e t a and England, It seems to a . certain pleasure va f the newspaper war 1 between the two coun- of all recent ncy by the iing to C Berliner Tageblatt's correspondent, at present in in military circles in al the outlook regard- Great Britain in the pessimistic. ~ The that war with England consequence of the conflict, and prepara- »eing mad ch s is still ine. d of Kotlin i mast be broken off, since by the Admiralty fortifications. A a to vari- nnish and Baltic a reliable source is also at aments on the frontier ports of are o ex- under writes above h ssume that he ighly recognizes the gravity of the statements he 5 Further communications frog the | Caucasus expr the conviction that prevails th hat Russia’is fully pre- | to march against India, but that | ot decided whether the advance | ! be made through ¥ the Pa Berlin rsia or through also give prom- | of the Novoe - | hle Persia and that Teheran is nts, whe tion against R » are Germany,” says the Post t ng was fo many ear by the p: P Chile May Seil the Warships. SANTIAC [ h 10.—The Government discussing the Prat and the cruiser Chacabueo to an | American firm. A decision will be| arrived shortly | THE WAR IN THE EAST| West, North and South That Stuart’ Dyspepsia Tablets Is Wagine Against | All Porms of Stomach Trouble { Can Culy Bnd One Way. Dyspepsia Will Be Drivex Off the Barth. The g nd- effective work of Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets:is no longer tonfined to America. They are being used now all over the world, for their fame has spread throughout foreign countries and they cure dyspepsia in all lands and 21l climates just as well as they do at home. In fact, sur- r -ndings and conditions never inter- fere with the successful work of Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets, not even the conditions of the stomach itself. They go ahead in their own natural way regardiess of the stomach and digest the food that the bad stomach cannot digest and permit that organ to do just as it pleases, rest up, take | # vacation, get well or what not. The stomach, however, always makes it a | point to get well when it has nothing | else to do. That's what stomachs al- ways have done and will continue to do when they have the opportunity. A prominent Detroit physician says: “I prescribe Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets for all cases of stomach trouble. I have tried many prescriptions, includ- ing 2 number of my own, but find nothing that gives such universal re- lief as this remedy. They are natural, harmiless and thoroughly effective in their work, and.while I have a natural entipathy to patent medicines, I do not hesitate to prescribe and recom- mend Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets on all occasions.” Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets are for sale by all druggists at 50 cents a box. They are =0 well known and their popularity is so great that a druggist would as soon think of being out of alcohol or quinine. The above testi- monial of the physician is no excep- tion. In fact physicians are prescrib- ing them all over the land and if your own doctor is real honest with you he will tell you frankly that there is noth- ing on earth so good for dyspepsia as Btuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets, - | the Russian position on t President Prémulgates an Order Adding to the Rigidity of Ame WASHINGTON, March 10.—Pres dent Roosevelt, after a conference with Secretary of State Hay, issued the fol- executive order respecting the observance of the proclamation recent- ¢y promulgated declaring the neutral of the United States between Rus- ond Japan, the combatant nations in the Far Eastern war now in pro- | lowing officials of the Government military and naval—are hers ed not only to observe the Presi dent’s prociamatien of the neutrality in the pending war between Russia | and Japan, but aiso’to abstain from | either action or speech which can legit- | ima irritation to eith A the | The Government of the the United States not only in the cerity h which it is endeavoring ceep the scales of meutrality exact and | but in the sincerity with which it deplores the breaking out of the pres- t war and hopes that it will end at the earliest' possible moment and with the smallest possibie i gaged. Such a war ine tably increases and inflames the susceptibilities of the combatants to anything in the nature of an injury or slight by outsiders. Too often combatants make conflicting claims as to the duties and obligations of neutrals, so that, even when dis- charging these duties and obligations with scrupulcus care, it is difficult to aveid giving offense to one or the other party. “To such unavoidable causes of of- fense due to the performance of na- tiona! duty there must not be added any avoidable causes. It is always un- fortunaie to bring Old Werld antipa- |lhles and jealousies into our life or by speech or conduct excite anger and re- sentment toward our nation in friend- { ly foreign lands; but in a Government employe, whose official position makes hinr in scme sense the representative of the people, the mischief of such ac- tion is greatly increased. A strong and self-confident nation should be partic- ularly eareful not only of the rights but of the susceptibilities of its neigh- bors—and nowadays al} of the nations of the world are neighbors, one to the other. Courtesy, moderation and self- restraint should mark international no less than private intercourse. “All of the officials of the Govern- ment—civil, military and naval—are ex- pected 50 to carry themselves, both in act and deed, as to give no cause of just offense to the people of any for- eign and friendly power—and with all mankind we are now i friendship. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT. “White House, March 10, 1904.” R i Crews of Prizeships Released. NAGASAKI, March 10.—The crews of the merchant vessels captured by Japanese warships since the war be- gan have just been released and in all 400 Russians, Chinese and Ger- mans have been turned over to their ? |light upon the movement, except that to those en- | rican Neutrality. ' i respective Consuls to be sent back to their own countries. Forty of the | officers taken at the same time siill remain at Sase The coal cargo of the Norwegian steamship Hermes has | been released. -— | |JAPAN BELIEVES VLADIVOSTOK SHIE ARE IN THE HARBOR | TOKIO, March 10.—The report of Vice Admiral Kamimura, in command of the Viadivostok naval expedition, reached the Navy Department here early this morning. It evidently came by way of Wusan, where the squadron s expected to call upon its return. |The report throws little additional w |it secms to show that the Russian squadron remained safely within the Viadivestok harbor, under the pro- tection of the shore batteries. Admiral Kamimura says that he | bombarded the harbor for forty min- jutes and believes the fire was very | effective. At o'clock on Sunday |evening the Japanese discerned heavy |\'olumes of smoke ascending over the eastern mouth of the harbor and it | was thought for a time that the Rus- |sians were getting steam up to come out and give battle, which was eagen- | }ly awaited; but the smoke gradually | aled away, with no appearance of any {of the Russian ships, The Japanese |squadron searched the surrounding | bays until noon on Monday, when it | again steamed back to the eastern en- !trance of Viadivostok harbor, The lt«';rts there did not filre at the ap- | proaching ships and no trace was !found of the Russian squadron. Ad- miral Kamimura then steamed south- {ward, reconnoitering Possiet Bay and | other inlets in that vicinity, but found no trace of the Russians. | Admiral Kamimura does not men- |tion in his report anything concern- {ing Russian operations in the vicinity of Possiet Bay or Tumen River. | strategic { great POINTS 0CCUPIED BY RIVAL ARMIES IN THE FAR EAST LT S The above map shows the peints oc- cupied by the Russian and Japanese land forces and the significance of the move . of the Japanese in landing at Takushan and driving the | Rusgians from Fungwangcheng, cut- ting the line of communication by the “Peking road” of the Russian forces on the Yalu River with Hai- chipg, on the railroad from Port Ar thur to Mukden. The Japanese thus gain a near point of approach to the raflroad, but at the same time put themselves between two bodies of their enemy. They have a line of retreat to Takushan, however. The Russians on the Yalu River are also placed be- tween two hostile armies, but can re- treat up the Yalu to Chosan, and thence by Fensuling to Liaoyang or Muk- den, unless cut off by a Japanese force advancing west from Gensan or Won- san. Quick action on the part of either force will bring something decisive out of the present situation. e ITO WILL ALLAY FEARS HAUNTING KOREAN EMPEROR TOKIO, March 10.—It is believed in Adiplomatic circles here that Marquis Ito, who is to leave Tokio on March 15 for Korea as a special Embassador from the Emperor of Japan to the Em- peror of Korea, will be able to allay the doubts and imagined dangers which are reported to be haunting the Korean Emperor, who has not yet published the text of the Japanese- Korean protocol ir the official journal of Korea. £ The Japanese Government expects to realize $5,000.000 by increased taxation. The Emperor and Empress have do- nated $60,000 and the Crown Prince and Crown Princess $1250 for the relief of the widows and orphans of Japanese soldiers. The Japanese journalists are rejoic- ing at the friendly tone observable in the American papers, which have just been received in this country. ofe RUSSIAN TORPEDO BOAT LOST NEAR ISLAND OF CRETE CANEA, Island of Crete, March 10. —Members of the crew of a Russian transport which has reached here from Port Said, say Russian torpedo boat No. 221 was lost while on the way to this port. The crew of the torpedo boat was rescued by the trans- port. 3 e Return of the Dmitri Donskoi. SUEZ, March 10.—The Russian ar- mored cruiser Dmitri Donskol has en- tered the canal, bound for the Medit- erranean. - . RUSSIANS MAKE BARRACKS OF CHINESE HOMES YINKOW, March 10.—The concentra- tion of troops at the Russian strate- gical base has resulted in much suffer- ing among the Chinese inhabitants, especially at Liaoyang, where even pri- vate buildings have been appropriated to accommodate the soldiers, and thou- sands of Chinese are consequently without homes. > Russian troops are encamped at all the essential points along the railroad. —_———— ‘The average price of a bushel is 2514 cents. Japanese Admfrals Say Their First Objsct Is Po rt| Arthur’'s Capture at Any Cost ‘, 'ICTORIA, B. C. March 10.—The Northern Pacific liner Olympia arrived from Yokohama to-day. Among her pasengers was Captain Hill, who took the Japanese cruiser Nisshin from Ge- | noa to Yokohama, and he gives a most interesting account of the trip, which included a race with the Russian cruiser Aurora in the Red Sea and the | escape of the Nisshin and Kasaga from possible capture by the Russian squad- | ron. Captain Hill says that when the two Japanese cruisers got through the Suez canal they were closely followed by the Russian squadron, which was evidently trying hard to keep in close touch with them. The Aurora, which enjoys the reputation of being one of the fastest Russian vessels, attempted to overhaul the two cruisers, which, however, put on full steam and ran away from her with the greatest ease. Captain Hill had a long conversation with the Japanese admirals when in Japan shortly before leaving, and they told him that the main object of the Japanese operations at present was Port Arthur. They are to capture the port at any cost and were confident of their ability to do so. No effort, the Japanese Minister assured Hill, would be spared to reduce Port Arthur as quickly as possible. It would then be refortified by the Japanese, who would remain there, instead of following the Russians into the wilds of Northern Manchuria or Siberia. The intention also is to reduce Vladivostok as soon as the ice goes out. In reply to the guestion as to whether the superior gunnery of the Japanese was not due to the experience of the Spapish-American. war gunners, Cap- tain Hill said most emphatically that not one white man was employed on any Japanese warship in any capacity whatsoever. Regarding the war correspondents in Japan, Hill said they were in despair at the reticence of the Government, and the people found it impossible to gain even a scrap of authentic news. So far as Captain Hill was aware there was not a foreign correspondent with either the Japanese fleet or army. AR JAPAN ATTEMPTS TO BUY FRENCH NAVAL SECRETS PARIS, March 11.—In spite of official reticence and denials from the Japanese legation here, it is affirmed that a non- commissioned officer named Martin, who was employed in the anhtry of Marine and who is now under arrest, attempted to sell French naval secrefs to a naval attache at the Japanese le- gation. The discovery of this alleged attempt came as a result of the accidental open- ing of a letter addressed to the non- commissioned. officer by a naval cap-| tain of the same name. This letter was from an intermedia but it indicated | the principals Ii is alleged ! that = icated and | that one of them has confessed. | It appears now. that only one docu- | ment is ng from the Ministry of | Marine, but it is possible that Martin photographed *and renlaced others. It is net lik: that the information al-| leged to have heen stolen got beyond | the intermediary, and it is said that the | Japanese naval attache who is sup-| posed to have been in direct communi- | cation with Martin sailed for home on | board one of the cruisers which Japan | purchased from Argentina. | It is said that documents accessible | to Martin related to the possibility of | joint naval action on the part of Frence and Russia. i DISPATCH SAY QUIET PREVAILS AT VLADIVOSTOK ST. PETERSBURG, March 10.—The only piece of important news received up to to-night from the seat of war was the dispatch from Port Arthur an- nouncing a fresh attack on that place by the Japanese fleet. Another tele- gram from Vladivostok makes no men- tion of recent fighting and says that all is quiet there. The reports that the Japanese have entered Manchuria west of the Yalu River and have reached Fenghuan- cheng, on the Peking road, which is the Russian line of communication to the Yalu, cannot be confirmed. If the information proves true, a land engage- ment of some magnitude cannot long be delayed, as the Russians have a | heavy force south of the line, between Liaoyang and Mukden, and they also are occupying strong positions along the Yalu. A Japanese column between them would be in desperat® straits un- less it moved by flank to attack the Russians on the Yalu in the rear and was energetically supported by a for- ward Japanese movement from Korea. An imperial ukase has been issued, prohibiting the exportation of horses from Russia until further notice. Even for the exportation of single horses! with pedigrees permission from thel head of the Remount Department must be obtained. s SRR B Scouts Encounter Cossacks. LONDON, March 11.—The Times publishes a dispatch from Tokio say- ing tke ice on the Yalu River has be- gun to melt. Japanese scouts have encountered forty Cossacks, the cor- respondent continues, at Kazan, fifty- eight miles north of Pingyang, on the road to Wiju. \ ———————— The average family in: the United States has four and seven-tenths per- sons. | surp | reasons stated. | | pectea to hear of ¥ { and believe | ancient strategy | soldiers near Pingyang, 150 miles AIN AS NATURAL RESULT OF PRESENT CONFLICT German War Experts Doubt Wisdom of Japan. —_— 'Fear Brown Men Are Being Lured on to Disaster. —_— New Yotk Special Cable to The Call and New ¥ PHerald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. BERLIN. March 11.—German mili- tary experts are disposed to accept with reserve the reports that a Jap- anese force has landed in the rear of he Yalu and captured Fungyangcheng. The dar- ing of this dash, which, if made at -lll. musf have been by a comparatively small force, would excite admiration, but at the same time there is a dis- position to criticize the movement on strategical grounds. If the Japanese have occupied the Manchurian terri- tory reported in the dispatches, their position would be extremely critical should the Russian forces on the Yalu and along the Manchurian railroad make a combined attack. Unless the Japanese force is exceedingly strong, which can scarcely be the case. con- sidering the quickness with which its landing was effected, it is so far out- numbered by the Russians that the latter should sweep it back into the sea. German military men are of the be- liet that the Japanese are being lured on to disaster by tactics which have characterized the Muscovite in all of his wars. “Beware of the Russian re- treat” is a maxim in European armies. Russan leaders long ago learned the effectiveness of pretending defeat and falling back, luring the pursuing army far from its base of supplies and strik- ing a crushing blow whem the enemy had been placed at a disadvantag It is felt that the Japanese, becauss of their lack of cavalry, must be par- ticularly cautious in their advance in Manchuria and that they should make no forward movement except in strength sufficient to hold any position they may capture and at the same time protect their line of communications. It has been expected from the outset in local military circles that the Rus- sians would feign defeat and fall back in Manchuria until the Japanese forces had been attracted far inland. Then, while the infantry attacks in front, a swarm of Cossacks would be hurled down the filanks the Japanese, Should the “little brown men's ever meet a reverse and be compelled to fall back, they would find a Cossack horde om all sides, like hounds worry- ing a fleeing stag. f News of a series of minor Japanese victories on the frontier would the German experts, for the In fact, they have ex- ssian “retreats.” is pursuing his falling back until the pursuit reaches ground where he can deal a crushing blow. Whether the shrewdness of the Japanese leaders will prevent their being lured into a of 't the Slav trep remains to -be seem, but it is feared that the flush of seeming vic- tory will prove the undoing of the Orientals in their first brush with the trained leaders of a European army. LONDO! March 11.—Most of the newspaper commentators on the Far Eastern military and naval situation this morning content themselves with pulverizing the reports of a Japanese invasion of Manchuria and of a re- rewed bombardment of Port Arthur, The military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. however, writes “It is more than probable that the successive alarms at Possiet Bay and Liangchen were only designed to creats seares that would keep the Russia uncertainty at evety point of the long line in order the more easily to effect a landing where the Japanese had made no demonstration. Therefore, I am in- clined to think it is probable, though still uncertain, that the news of yos- terday will so far be substantially con- firmed that we shall find the Japancse have landed virtually unoppesed some- where on the northern shore of Korea Bay, probably in the neighborheod of Takushan, and that from there they have advanced “to Fungwangchens, pushing on an advanced detachment to Tatungling.” < The Daily Mail believes the alleged presence of Japanese at Fungwangz- cheng is finally disproved by the news that there has been an important en- ccunter between Japanese and Russian to n the south of Fungwangcheng. BER e ALLEGED HEAVY RUSSIAN LOSSES ON YALU RIVER TIENTSIN, March 10.—The Russian lesses on the Yalu River during the many skirmishes which are reported to have taken place with the Japanese ara said to have been more than 2000 men. The Russian soldiers in Manchuria are said to be almost spirit broken. Cold, lack of food and the brutal treat- ment they receive from their officers have caused them to become greatly disheartened, this being the case par- ticularly with the young recruits. The shortness of provisions in Port Arthur has caused, it is said, the Russian au- thorities to withdraw all superfluous troops from there to Harbin and Kirin. At Dalny explosives are being placed in the houses in expectation of a Jap- anese occupation of the town. The Russians are prepared to scuttle the gunboat Sivoutch at Newchwang and block the channel with it and with stone-laden scows. A Japanese attack is expected there and it is consideres, doubtful here that the Czar's troes® could hold the town against a deter- mined advance. il . § Japanese Steamship Wrecked. YOKOHAMA, March 10.—The Jap- anese steamship Shinshiu Maru has been wrecked off Chemulpo, Korea. Both ship and cargo were lost. —_—————— France produces more than twice as many potatoes as the United States