The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 16, 1904, Page 2

.o RU THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1904. SSIA WILL TREAT AS SPI WRITERS USING WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY — FAMOUS PAINTER OF BATTLE SCENES WHO WAS LOST WITH THE RUSSIAN SHIP l'l{TR()PA\'L{)\'SK.L Fir st Press Report From Port Arthur of the Sinki — ng of the Battleship Petropavlovsk. echip midships and went into the inner har- bor, where she anchered The enemy's vessels, which were formed in two divisions, disappeared s blowing »ped deve vard night NEWS IS GIVE m.—The divisi day intc fight with the enemy unti] early Wed- nesday morning, when the cruiser Bay- ar red out to aid the torpedo-boat ADVERTISEMENTS. Get, the Spring Habit. Thousands are greatly benefited by it. It is the taking of Hood’s Sarsa parilla in the s 1g—the best medi cine for purifying the blood, clearing the complexion and building up the whole system Fifteen thousand testimonials re- eived in 1903! An average of fifty | never be known, and the disaster will cvery business day—one year's record, | unprecede: cine, and superabundant evidence of great and unequaled merit After-a cold winter a hot summer is predicted. Prepare for it by build- ing up the system now Get Hood's to-da where. d in the history of medi- | | face of the water and which may hava Sold every- | been fired during the torpedo-boat ; strac able tc The ut the Japa most which was crip- | ke off the Japan- Bayan drove the Bestrachni sank at torpedo-boats immediately six rships appeared on the ral Makaroff ordered the meet them and the but almost imme- reinforced until the isted of sixteen or seventeen The Russians put back to the d a battle line, 10 o'clock, with- at thy warning Petropaviovek blew and k. The Pcbieda receivéd a A ish tired to the in- ner harbor, where an examination i that her injuries were not very us. E es Grand Duke Cyril, Cap- Jakovleff and Lieutenant Vakc Midshipmen Sylitte Jenish and leff were rescued. Reports as to number of seamen saved are can- g, one placing the number at -two and another at fifty-one. were rescued by the torpedo gun- The cause of the de- Petropaviovsk has not certained amak he S VERSION. G, April 15.—Out of maze of conflicting reports regard- the sequence of events leading destruction of the Petropavlovsk, now established that Vice Ad- ral Makaroff early on Wednesday ning took out his uadron to en- guge a k division of six Japanese cruisers which appeared on the horizon after the Japanese torpedo-boats which the sank the Bestrachnl had been driven | off by the Bayan. Particulars of the | to do-boat fight are still lacking. | The Russian commander in chief pur- | sued the Japanese cruiser division nun- | til it was reinforced by eleven battle- | . when he retired into the outer | istead, where he was drawing up | r in line of battle when the disaster to | the Petropaviovsk occurred. The cir- | cumstances of the destruction of the| battleship are not known. It is cer-| tain, however, that both her boilers and | magazines exploded, but it is not ab- solutely sure that she touched a mine, although the weight of opinion at the Admiralty is that such was the case, | and that, if so, it was a Russian and not a Japanese mine. A high official of the Admiralty said: “It is evident the powder magazine | exploded, because a jet of flame went up with the steam from the bursting boflers. The magazine could not have exploded spontaneously. The tempera- ture of a magazine is too closely watched and the powder is stored so as to render an explosion scarcely pos- sible, Doubtiess a mine caused the detonation of the powder and torpedo magazines. Perhaps the truth will take a place with the countless other mysteries of the sea.” It is absolutely denied that Admiral Makaroff's ships participated in an en- gagement. The injuries to the Pobieda are de- clared to be slight. The explosicn which damaged her took place just at the water line. The opinion expressed af the Admiralty here Is that it was produced by a spent Whitehead tor- pedo, which was floating on the sur- i Gight. i of the - Foreign Office; A story is current that Admiral Makaroff's squadron was actually in the inner harbor when the flagship, in maneuvering, struck a mine attached to a cable chain strung across the en- tran but this is ridiculed. INTY-EIGHT OFFICERS LOST. officers were lost on ' tropaviovsk, including Captain Vasilief, belonging to ne ship Admiral Makaroff, fourteen members of staff, including Rear Admiral M , the chief of sta’f, and tienant von Kobe, the aid-de-camp Ciand Duke il The e of Captain Jakovleff, cornma of the Russian baitleshin k, has received a tele- gram from Rear Admiral Grigocovich, tae commandant at Port Arthu y- the inz that her husband is wounc in Lead and that several ribs are He was unconscious until yes- Lut is improving. Lienienant who is one of the offizers of father when the warship ]lu-\sal'k.x in the Baltic eleven years ago. s evening Prince Galitzin re- peated his urance that the Grand Duke Cyril was better and that he was with his brother, Boris, at the eadquarters at Linoyang. His fever has almost disappeared. NOTED PAINTER A VICTIM. The Admiralty has received official information that Vasili Vereshchagin, the celebrated painter of battle scenes, was among those lost by the sinking Petropaviovsk. The fate of Nicholas Kravtchenko, the well-known Russian literary man, whe was acting as correspondent of the Associated Press at Port Arthur, is still unknown. It is possible that he left Port Arthur prior to the dis- aster of Wednesday. PARIS, April 15.—Information re- ceived in Government quarters now establishes the fact that a naval bat- tle occurred between the Japanese fleet, consisting of fourteen warships, and the force under the late Vice Ad- miral Makaroff. From this the of- ficials strongly incline to the conclu- sion that the destruction of the Rus- sian ships and the loss of the admiral resulted from a naval engagement. However, the only definite official in- formation is that a battle occurred, and it is believed that the Japanese submarine boats took part in the en- gagement and caused the destruction of the Russian ships. (< Si i BY TORPEDOES. The Japanese legation says Rear Ad- miral Uriu's report shows that Japa- nese torpedoes sank the Petropavlovsk and damaged the Pobieda, and declares that the report that a submarine boat did the damage ig incorrect, as the Japanese fleet had ho submarine boats. The Japanese legation pays a high tri- bute to the late Vice Admiral Makaroff. An impressive funeral in memory of Vice Admiral Makaroff and the other: victims of the Petropaviovsk disaster was celebrated in the Russian church to-day. Russian Embassador Nelidoff and the entire staff of the embassy were present, as were officials of the Bompard, the French Embassador to Russia; representatives of the French army and navy and the Ministers of Servia and Bulgaria. KOBE, Japan, April 15.—It is assert- ed in naval circles here that the Japa- nese arranged to lay thirty mines at ES Alexieff Raises Unique War fssue. Neutral Nations - May Not Ac- quiesce. WASHINGTON, April 15.—The Rus- slan Government has given notice that newspaper correspondents using wire- less telegraph will be treated as spies |and shot. This notice was served upon the State Department by Count Cas- sini, the Russian Embassador, to-day, and it is understood that similar com- munications were made to all foreign offices. The text of the communica- tion is as follows: “I am charged by my Government, in order to avoid all possible misun- derstanding, to communicate to your Excellency that the lieutenant of his imperial Majesty in the Far East has Jjust made the following declaration: “‘In a cgge in which neutral steam- ers having on board . correspondents who might communicate war news to the enemy by means of perfected ap- paratlus not being yet foreseen by ex- isting conventions, would be arrested near the coast of Kuantong or in the | zone of operations of the Russian fleet, the correspondents will be looked upon as spies, and the steamers fur- nished with wireless telegraphy seized as prizes of war."” OPENS A NEW PROBLEM. The notice opens up an entirely new line of treatment of correspondents. The, reference to existing conventions is taken to express the belief of the tussian Government that if wireless telegraphy had been practiced prior to The Hague declaration concerning im- plements and practices of war it would surely have been prohibited, even in neutral hands. It happens that some of the leading British newspaper cor- respondents are making free use of the wireless telegraph in transmission of their war news, and it is possible that they will appeal to their Govern- ment to define their own status, and to secure an official determination of the question as to whether a neutral on his own ship outside the territorial waters of a belligerent power and with- out contraband of war aboard can be treated as a spy. Among the subjects considered to- day at the Cabinet meeting was the substance of the communication re- ceived from the Russian Embassador. In addition to this communication, the President called attention to the mes- sages he had received from resident Embassadcrs regarding the accident on the battleship Missouri. One of these was received last evening from Count Cassini. Incidentally it refers to che loss of the Russian battleship Petro- pavlovsk off Port Arthur. EXCHANGE OF CONDOLENCE Count Cassini’s note is as follows: “Mr. President—Having received the sad news of the loss of the battleship Petropaviovsk, which has cost so many lives to our brave navy, I simul- taneously am informed of the disaster which occurred on board your battle- ship, the Missouri, which took away so many lives of your gallant sailors. “Permit me to express to you, Mr. President, my deep sympathy, in the name of my Government and my own, on this sad occurrence, which has deep- ly moved us all at a time when with grief we are mourning our own loss. “Believe me, Mr. President, yours very truly. CASSINL" ®=To Count Cassini personally the re- gret of this Government has been ex- pressed at the death of Admiral Maka- roff and the officers and crew of the Petropavlovsk. As the loss of the ship and its crew was an accident of war the expression of this Government’s re- | gret was simply one of humanity, without, reference to the differences which are being fought out between Russia and Japan. NEW YORK, April 15.—The Ameri- can De Forest Wireless Telegraph Com- pany has telegraphed to Secretary Hay at Washington a protest against the attitude of the Russian Government relative to the use of wireless telegra- phy by correspondents in the zone of war. The protestants say: “We claim the right under all inter- national laws to use the high seas for peaceful purposes, and demand for our operators, who are American citizens, and for our property the full protection of the United States Government.” SIS 76T MAY ENTER RUSSIAN LINES. War Correspondents in Manchuria ‘Will Go to the Front. NEWCHWANG, April 15.— The sinking of the Russian battleship Petropavlovsk, with the attendant great loss of life at Port Arthur, is regarded here as the most profound event of the present war. The news has apparently made a pronounced impression upon all foreigners in the war zone. The date of the catastro- phe and official information concern- ing it are not yet obtainable here and there is much speculation as to how it occurred. There are in circulation un- certain rumors of a Japanese attack on Port Arthur last Sunday, but the rumors are without confirmation and are denied by some of the Russian officials. Communication with Port Arthur, as well as other centers, is substanti- ally closed. About a score of press correspond- ents now in Newchwang were in- formed to-day of the willingness of Viceroy Alexieff to admit them to the Russian lines, under regulations which apparently will govern all branches of their conduct. —_— the entrance of Port Arthur and then entice the Russians out. The mines were placed in position and Port Ar- thur was bombarded on April 13. Sev- eral Russian shins besides the Petro- paviovsk were damaged. Our frame department is showing a Rouvet: _ Best veruss. © Sinborn, Vail s N est values. nborn, al Co.. 741 Market st. *» ’ | ory. but it is not impossible that O i MAIN FEATURES OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR NEWS. Admiral Togo bombarded Port Arthur yesterday morning, the firing continuing three hours. Chinese were killed in the town and five soldiers and three Chinese wounded. damage to the fortifications or the ships. surprise and drove the brown troops back to their ships. Russia objects to theé sending of press dispatches by wireless telegraphy from the war zone and | gives notice that correspondents captured with evidence of the use of that system will be visited with the treatment accorded spies. The question raised by this attitude may be warmly debated before the neutral Ppowers accept the Russian ruling. The palace of the Emperor of Korea in Seoul has been destroyed by fire, possibly of incendiary origin. Etiquette prevented the admission of a Japanese fire department to fight the flames, but French and British marines, scoffing at Korean eustom, forced their way.into the sacred precincts and prevented a spread of the flames to the foreign legations. Even in Russia the belief is becoming general ing operated secretly by the Tokio naval board. The identity of the Russian torpedo-boat destroyer sunk by the Japanese at Port Arthur on Wednes- day is in doubt. The Russian Government announces that it was the Strashni, while unofficial advices insist | that it was the Bestrachni, as at first reported. Ancient Tradition Is Observed in the Openi It is probable that Togo's operations are intended to cover a landing of troops near Newchwang, the belief in St. Petersburg being that the Japanese will strike without delay, now that the Port Arthur fleet is at the mercy of the doughty admiral. A dispatch from St. Petersburg to a London newspaper reports a rumor there that a Japanese army of 12,000 men, which landed west of the Yalu River, has been crushed by the Russians, who cffected a that the battleship Petropavlovsk was sunk and the Pobieda damaged, not by derelict Russian mines, but by Japanese torpedo-boats or mines placed by the Japanese at the entrance to the harbor beifore the Russians were lured out to offer battle. nies the possession of any submarine boats, but from several quarters it is asserted that such craft are be- —~p Seven The Russians report no Japan de- —_— ng of the Tokio Diet’s Special Session. Special Correspondence of The Call and the New York Herald. TOKIO, Japan, March 20.—This morn- ing the Emperor formally opened the new Diet, the legislative body that is expected to dinances which have been issued be- cause of the war, and to provide the means for carrying on the struggle. It is a very different Diet from the contumelious body which celebrated its brief existence in the closing days of last vear by an extraordinary parlia- mentary trick which resulted in the al- most unanimous adoption of a vote of censure of the Government. But the circumstances under which it meets have also changed greatly, and the ob- Ject sought by the protest of its prede- cessor—war with Russia—has been at- tained. Now it only remains for the present assembly to support loyally the Government the other condemned, and the indications are that it will do so cheerfully. It has been borne in upon the members of the new body that its hearty co-operation with the Govern- ment is “the wish of the Emperor,” and in Japan, when it becomes known that any particular thing is really “the wish of the Emperor,” that settles it. SHARP PRACTICE IN THE DIET. The vote of censure passed by the last Diet was neatly obtained by sharp practice on the part of a decided minor- ity. Many of the men who voted for it did not know what they were support- ing until it was all over. There was a clique which had formed a clever plan to push through its scheme. A reply to the address from the throne had been carefully prepared, and.at the proper time one of the clique began to read it. Immediately the others com- menced applauding and shouting. They indorse the imperial or-4 BY OSCAR KING DAVIS. Copyrighted, i lishing Company. kept up such a turmoil that it was im- possible to hear a word of the reply. Most of the members who were not aware of the scheme took what was read but not heard to be the perfunc- tory reply, and when the time came to vote declared in its favor. But when the reply had been passed and printed and copies were distributed, they saw too late what they had done. The political ways of the Japanese seem to be no less deep than those of countries more experienced in consti- tutional government. It has been in- timated broadly since the dissolution of that Diet that the reply then adopted g0 sharply was in reality inspired by the Government, in order to enable it to get rid very promptly of a Parlia- ment which seemed only too likely to be troublesome in the then critical stage of the negotiations with Russia. IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. My ticket of admission to the House of Lords for this morning’s ceremony notified me to appear at 10 o’clock, in full evening dress, specifying a white tie as necessary. Consequently at 10 o’clock I was there, arrayed as if for a ball. Lords is a big dingy room, lighted from above through many great squares of ground glags. All the chairs and desks had been removed from the hall in or- der to make room for the members of both houses. Around the east, south and west sides of the room runs a high gallery, in which were the places reserved for dis- tinguished visitors. Across the north side there is a platform some six feet above the lowest level of the wall In the center, at the north, in a recess, stood the throne. The seats in the = 4 EAVAL GUNS HAIL PROJECTILES e L Continued From Page 1, Column 5. coincidence that the Petropavlovsk and the Pobieda were struck simultaneous- ly seems to confirm the submarine the- the mines laid down by the Russians, or by the Japanese during their last at- tack, drifted to the entrance of the port, owing to the strong currents.” The Novosti has received a telegram from Mrs. Vereshchagin, wife of the painter, in Moscow, stating that her husband is in Manchuria with the staff of the commander in chief, but the pa- per, in printing the telegram, adds: “Unfortunately this cannot be con- firmed.” Information received from the No- vosti's correspondent and the official dispatches establishes the fact that the painter was aboard the Petropavlovsk and went down with the ship. The Novosti's Liaoyang correspond- ent speaks of the excellent material in the volunteer troops which have ar- rived there. Every class of society, the correspondent adds, is represented in these troops. The correspondent adds that General Linevitch has issued an order commending the Cossacks of the Transbaikal region, who reconnoi- tered at Pingyang in the face of the enemy’s fire a month ago and who re- tired without loss. e it OFFICERED BY JAPANESE. China’s Northern Army Said to Num- ber 100,000 Soldiers. PARIS, April 16.—The Journal publishes the following, received from its St. Petersburg correspondent, un- der yesterday's date: “A Chinese officer who arrived here says that the Chinese northern army consists of 100,000 men, perfectly equipped and commanded by numer- ous officers, among whom are 130 dis- guised Japanese. Half of the troops are along the Manchrian frontier and the other half in the province of Pe- chili.” prid o R e CZAR MENACED AT HOME. Unrest of Russian Populace Increases With Each Defeat. ODESSA, April 15.—From an ex- perienced observer of Russian life the following extract of a letter has been received: “During the past three weeks I have traveled through the principal centers of the country, including St. Peters- burg, Warsaw, Kiev and Moscow. I found unrest and grumbling every- where—plenty of love for Russia, but practically none for the Government. The impression is general that the Far Eastern story up to date is one of un- relieved shame for Russians. The peo- ple feel that their rulers are corrupt and incompetent, as well as lawless and brutal. On every hand I heard the opinion that war might have been avoided. “Commerce is suffering enormously; credit is decreasing and the industrial crisis is becoming steadily more acute. The steel and iron industries are para- lyzed. Thousands of workers are idle, especially in Poland. There is much distress among the cotton manufac- tories of Lodz the coal mines of Donetz and the mines of the Ural dis- tricts. Those workers are going to starve sooner or later, unless some- thing heroic or unexpected be done. “This situation delights the ad- vanced reformers and it is difficult to see how it can fail to produce a fresh crop of anarchists and nihilists. The | storm, though black enough, may blow | over; but the authorities could not well be confronted with a more menacing outlook.” ————— The new Observatory is at Fulton and Stanyan, entrance to Park. Take McAllis- ter-st. cars, get off at Stanyan, and see the Panorama. . —_——————— Court Holds Him for Forgery. SACRAMENTO, April 15.—A. H. Perkins was held to answer to the Superior Court to-day on a charge of forgery in having forged a note on a local bank, to which he secured the signature of Dr. O C. Cartwright. RTINS S SRR SAN DIEGO, April 15.—Jesus Savola, a Mexican laborer, was crushed between (wo rocks while at work at the Sweetwater quarry to-day. He was brought to this city and died. | He was recently from Los Angeles. The chamber of the House of | | | again made a deep obeisance. 1904, by the New York Herald Pub- gallery were of plain wood, except that in the sections reserved for the diplo- matic corps and in the royal box thers were upholstered chairs. The room had been finished in white that had turned gray with age. The decorations were gold and erimson. The Imperial party did not leave the palace until 10:30 o'clock. The Crown Prince and other Princes preceded the Emperor and awaited him at the House of Lords. The Emperor rode in a gorgeous car- riage, brilliant with red and gold, drawn by the best pair of horses in Japan. He had a very small guard of lancers, mounted on the absurd little Japanese ponies, which apparently no amount of training will subject to the discipline necessary for good cavalry horses. The consequence was that most of the time there was very little of what could be called formation among the lancers. The Emperor was accompa- nied in his carriage by his chamber- lain, Prince Iwakura. Several other court dignitaries preceded and followed him in other carriages. Crowds lined the streets through which the proces- sion passed. THE EMPEROR ARRIVES. It was 11 o’'clock before the members of the House of Lords and the Com- mons began to file into the chamber. Already the members of the diplomatic corps had taken their places, and a number of Japanese officers of high rank, gorgeous in gold braid and many decorations, had found places in the gallery. The peers were for the most part in_uniform splendid with gold braid. The members of the Commons were in clawhammer coats and white ties. When all were in place the Cab- inet filed in and stood in the great bow at the left and in front of the throne. A few minutes later the door at the opposite end of the platform opened and the Emperor appeared. Instantly every Japanese in the room made a deep obeisance. The Emperor walked quickly forward and ascended the steps to the thronme. From the gallery he seemed a large man for a Japanese, tall and rather well made, but the brilliant uniform he wore hung loosely upon him, and no doubt has the effect of making. him appear a bigger man phy- sically that he is. He did not sit down, but remained standing, facing the mem- bers of Parliament, who stood with heads bowed slightly forward. The court party followed the Emperor and stood on the platform at his right. Count Katsura, the Prime Minister, now stepped forward from the group of Cabinet officers bearing in his hands a large scroll, which he offered to the Emperor. The Emperc took it and, opening it, read, In the peculiar nasal sing-song of the old Japanese style of declamation, his address formally open- ing the session. During the five min- utes or so tkat it requir:d every one in the room stood with head bowed. At the close of the reading thc Japanese Then Prince Tokungana, the last of the Sho- guns, stepped forward from his place in the well and received the address from his Majesty. The Emperor de- scended from the throne, bowed slight- 1y to his subjects, and walked out. The ceremony Wwas OVer. “They make me feel so good.” ANNUAL SALE EGreatest in the World ADVERTISEMENTS. A Million American Beauties keep their blood pure, their com- plexion soft and elear, their breath sweet and their whole bodies active and healthy with CASCARETS Candy Cathartic. 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