The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1904, Page 21

FORTY-EIGHT PAGES—S PRICE FIVE CENTS. 'RUSSIA'S YALU ARMY ‘IS AGAIN IN FULL RETREAT: PORT ARTHUR GARRISON WILL DESPERATELY RESIST KILLS T F WIS RELATIVES Prominent Politician, of Texas Shoots | Cousins. | yls—[fie Outcome of| an 0ld and Bitter Family Feud. AL ST | Who Only Recently Re-| urned From Cuba, Surrenders Himself to the Police. | | My 1Tagt 3 U people were men were re- to dis- American ninent part hat he was insanity when ION AND TIGER ARE PARENTS OF TWO CUBS Bahy Museum Hybrids in a Paris Attract the Interest of Scientists. S0t nd New York Her- right. 1 b New York recent event in the first of its erned— as well ock’'s Hip- was the birth of proud father and the e she cub takes | s far as coloring is her little brother s K MOVE TS A TRAGEDY TEDITOR'S QUIC PRE Nevadan Attempts to Kill a Reno Newspaper Man, but Finds Him- self Outmatched. 7.—An attempt upon am McClure Gotwaldt, local paper, was made les Harding, who was Gotwaldt rding drew a revolver, could shoot Gotwaldt ered with a gun. The re- t Harding retreated. Now arrant is out to have him placed der bonds to keep the peace. —_———— ATTACK BY TIBETANS ENDS IN SLAUGHTER Two Hundred and Fifty Killed or | Wounded by Younghusband’s | British Column. LONDON, May 7.—An official re- | t says that the Tibetan attack at | svangtze on May § was repulsed after o hourg’ fighting. The Tibetans, who ‘were commanded by a Lassa eral, Jost 250 killed or wounded; «he British lost two wounded. it e i Heavy Snowfall in Colorado. LEADVILLE, Colo.,, May 7.—Severe srniowstorms have prevailed in this vi. - cinity for several days. There is about three feet of snow on the hills, but no éamage has resulted from the storm. It is gtill snowing to-night, 224 him cow: A |Entire |men on board Channel Blocked at an Awful | Sacrifice. { Crews of Four Vessels Perish. s ey TOKIO, 7—Vice Af@miral Togo's official recital of the latest en- | | g THE APMIRALTY 7H ST ZETERIDURG . | st | AL EXANIROVLICH i THE czARS (22474 - gagement off Port Arthur, which was received here to-day, shows that the Japanese have blocked the entrance to the harbor. On Tuesday morning, after the blocking flotilla had been scattered b: a gale and the commander of the flo- tilla had signaled in vain that the at- tempt be abandoned pending the moderation of the storm, the crews of | e separated ships, undaunted by the | storm which isolated them from their | companions, proceeded to the work on | their own desperate initiative. They | forced their way in the face of the| Russian fire, which was more deadly than ever before as a result of the im. proved Russian defenses, over t 1d of mines. Many of these ex-| ploded, yet five of the eight Japanese | blocking ships were jammed into the inner channel and now prevent egress the harbor to all craft excepr} all boats. attack exceeded all its predeces- n desperation, and the courage | yed by the volunteer crews was ual to that shown in any event in| war history of the world. | Although Vice Admiral Togo again | avoided damage to a single one of his | vessels, the attack proved to be ex- pensive in lives. The blocking flotilla consisted of | eight stone-laden merchantmen. They | were escorted by the gunboats Akagi, | Commander Fugimoto, and Choikal, | Commander Iwamura; the second tor- | pedo-boat destroyer fiotilla, under the | command of Commander Shida; the| third torpedo-boat destroyer flotilla, | Commander Tsuchiya; the fourth flo- | . Commander Nagai; the fifth fio- | tilla, Commander Mano; the ninth tor- pedo-bo: fiotilla, Commander Ya- | shima; the tenth torpedo-boat flotilla, | Commander Otaki, and the fourteenth | torpedo-boat flotilla, Commander Sa- kurai. FLEET ENCOUNTERS GALE. The blocking vessels and their es- | corts left the main squadron for Port | Arthur on Monday evening. They en- | countered a southeasterly gale and by | 11 o’clock at night the seas were| mountainous and it was found impos~ sible to keep the steamships together. | Commander Hayashi, who was in com- | mand of the expedition, observed the impossibility of keeping the fiotilla in- | tact and signaled it to abandon the at- | | tack. | These signals were repeated until 2 o'clock in the morning, but they fail- ed to reach the vessels of the expedi- tion, which were swept apart by the tempestuous seas and proceeded sep- | arately for the mcath of the harbor, | Upon arriving ihere the Mikawa | Maru, one of the merchantmen, saw | that the eneny was firing upon the fourteenth torpedo-boat flotilla. The | the Mikawa Maru thought the other steamers had reach- : ed the harbor’s mouth, and they steam- ed boldly in. She was followed closely | by another of the merchantmen, be- lieved to have been the Sakura Maru. The Pussians had fires burning at the mouth of the harbor, and they used also many powerful searchlights on the invading Japanese vessels. They , poured an incessant fire into the chan- nel. Lieutenant Sosa, who was in com- mand of the Mikawa Maru, unhesitat- ingly forced his ship into the chanmel, rammed his way through the bombs and reached the center of the inner entrance. Here he anchored his ves- sel and then blew her up. She sank. Another steamship, supposed to be; the Sakura Maru, then came to anchor ' near a projecting rock at the numl?h'l of the harbor and sank. Following the Sakura Maru came the Tomi Maru, the Yedo Maru, the Otru Maru. the Sagami Maru, the Afkoku Maru and the Asagawo Maru. These | succeeded to Japanese Attack During Furious * Storm. - — effective, while a number of sunken mines which were struck by the steam- ships be, to explode. These explo- sions caused heav asualties among the Japanese on board the blocking vessels . The Tomi collided with a bomb. This turned her stem to the eastward, and he ‘sank ‘athwart the passage, block- ing nearly half of the entrance to the harbor. When the Yedo Maru reached the mouth of the passage and was lowering her anchor her captain, Commander Takayangi, w ot through the stom- ach and killed. Sub-lieutenant Nagata the command. He an- chored the Yedo Maru and sank her. Two other- stc laden eamships, believed to be the Otaru Maru and the Sagami Maru, then e d the mouth of the harbor and sa: The Aikoku Maru struck a mine five cable-lengths from passage, which exploded and caused her to sink. - Lieutenant Uchida, com- mander#of. this ve: Aokl and eight men are missing. A steamship thought to be Asagawo Maru, which appeared to have had her rudder broken, blew her- self up at the foct of Golden Hill and sank there. FOUR ENTIRE CREWS PERISH. Vice Admiral Togo, in his report, says: “This undertaking, when compared to the last two, resulted in great casual- ties to our side. Owing to the inclem- ency of the weather and the increased preparations for defense completed by the enemy we could save none of the officers or the crews of the Otaru Maru, the Sagami Maru, the Sakura Maru or the™sagawo Maru. It is to be regret- | ted that nothing particular could be learned concerning the. brave . dis- charge of their duties, but the memory of their exemplary conduct will remain long in the imperial navy. “The destroyer and the torpedo-boat | flotillas besides resisting the enemy bravely fought against wind and waves. The torpedo-boat flotilla ap- proached close to the mouth of the har- bor and rescued more. than half_the men. Torpedo-boat No. 67 had a steam pipe broken by a shell and was dis- abled, but a consort, torpedo-boat No. 70, went to her assistance and towed | her away. Three of the crew of No. 67 were wounded. ““The destroyer Actaka had her lar- board engine damaged by a shell and one sallor on board of her was killed. One sailor on board the Hayabusa was killed by a shell. “The third detachment, Rear Ad- miral Dewa commanding, reached Port Arthur at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning. The first detachment, under Vice Ad- miral Togo, and Rear Admiral Nashiha second In command, arrived off Port Arthur at 9 o'clock in the morning for the purpose of protecting the destroyer and torpedo-boat flotillas and to search for the crews of the sunken merchant- men. The vessels of these detachments remained until 4 o’clock on Tuesday lalternoon. but their search was fruit- ess. impossible to observe the condition of the enemy. “The detachments then returned to their base, and since the morning of May 4 they have been engaged in other operations.” e g R Japanese Quickly Mount Guns. SHANHAIKWAN, China, May 7.— An officer of a torpedo-boat, who ar- rived here from Yinkow to-day, after confirming the announcement of the landing of Japanese troops on the TR THEIS FAMOUES BULLLING, APTOINIVG THE CZAE'S LY TER FRLACE the mouth of the | 1, Chief. Engineer | the | The day was foggy and it was | SCENE IN RUSSIA; NAVAL HER WHO FIGURE IN T CAPITAL; DEAD D TWO NOTABLES HE WAR NEWS. Call’s War_ Writer ‘ Is Now With ' Kuroki. BY OSCAR KING DAVIS. Special Cable to The Call and New York Her a Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. SHOKODO, May 1 (via Seoul, May 7). — Gemeral Kuroki completed the crossing of the: Yalu to-day e abold frontal attack, his artillery su- perbly supporting him. {and retreated northward. forts to reinforce their frustrated.. The Japanese pursued the cnemy vigorously and captured twenty-eight guns and many prison- ers, including twenty officers. The casualties were several hundred. { The Russian strength was estimated at 10,000, Their ef- troops were | . The foregoing dispatch, the first to be recefved from a special newspaper correspondent direct from the seat of war on the Yalu, came via Seoul, to which it was sent by a runmer from the Yalu, after the battle. The Japanese control all telegraph wires in Korea and newspaper dis- patches are refused, hence the neces- sity for forwarding a dispatch 225 miles to the Korean capital. Seoul the dispatch reached The Call over the cables of the Commercial Pa- cific Company, having been sent first | over the Korean land lines to Fusan and thence by cable to Nagasaki, Woosung, Fuchow, Hongkong, Manila, Guam, Honolulu and San Francisco. L D CAPTURE OF RUSSIAN CANNON. Details of Rear Guard Attack Fol- lowing Battle of Kuliencheng. ANTUNG, May 2, via Seoul, May | 7—A large number of Russians sur- rendered to-day to the Japanese, who also captured some Russian artillery. | The Japanese were chasing a detach- | ment of the Russian rear guard, about 1000 strong, consisting of a battalion of infantrv and two batteries of artil- | lery, when the éenemy made a stand at | Hamatan, west of Kuliencheng. The | Japanese charged the Russians. a stubborn resistance and heavy loss on both sides, the Russians destroyed | the closing apparatus of their guns | and surrendered them. The prisoners ::aozen by the Japanese number about | 400. , The engagement referred to by the | correspondent in the foregoing dis- | patch was reported officially by Gen- | | eral Kuroki on May 3. The corre- ! spondent evidently-had to send his | message overland from Antung to be | filed at Seoul, hence the delay in hls | story. Al P BOMB IN CZAR’'S ROOM. Report That Infernal Machine Was Found - in Winter Palace. VIENNA, May f7.—Alarming ru- mors regarding the internal condition of Russia are current here. A con- | spiracy is said to have been discov- | ered in Russian Poland with the re- | sult that eighteen of the ring leaders were shot. A\ Sanguinary collisions between the people and police have taken place in Finland and an infernal machine is said to have been found in the Win- ter Palace in one of the Czar's living- | rooms. SRR SR A LANDING AT TAKUSHAN. Japanese Disembark Forty Miles West of the Yalu's Mouth. | SEOUL, Korea, May 7.—Telegrams received here from Antung declare that the Second Japanese Army Corps, besides having disembarked on the Liaotung Peninsula, has effected a landing at Takushan, on the Manchur- ian coast, about forty miles west of the mouth of the Yalu. S Prince Adelbert, third son of ‘the [Germnn Emperor, has arrived at Chemulpo incognito on the cruiser advanced to the mouth of | Liaotung Peninsula, says the Japanese | Bertha. He will be the guest here of steamships the harbor. i The Russian fire now became highly rapidly entrenched themselves and mounted rapid-fire guns. the German dern, s von Sal- The Russians were terribly pounded | From | oicials, who usually mask all emotion | After | 'Brown Army Has Seized Port of Dalny. Special Dispatch to The Call. | that the Japanese captured.Talienwan yesterday. Talienwan, which the Rus- sians call Dalny, is on the eastern above Port Arthur. | been to make it a great commercial center. To that end they spent more than $20,000,000 in building docks apd warehouses the: well protected frbm storms. TOKIO, May 7.—Heartfelt joy is written on the faces of the Japanese behind an affable smile, because at last the Mikado's flag is flying and the | Mikado's troops are massing on Rus- | sian_soil. When General Kuroki crossed the Yalu and planted his colors on Chi- nese territory and when the marines | of Admiral Hosoya's squadron hoisted | their banner on the heights of Pitzewo, they signalized the occupation by the Japanese of Russia’s concession | Liaotung Peninsula. The Japanese strategy in connection | with Port Arthur, which is now iso- | lated, is problematical. The most | prominent officials here are dumb on this point, and it is doubtful if at this moment it has been decided. It | doubtedly was the original purpose of the leaders to invest the fortress and | await developments so far as it was eoncerned; but this plan was the re- rsult of conditions' that may change. The occupation of Dalny. and Talienwan Bay - is expected shortly. Fitzewo offers almost no harbor ad- vantages, whereas Talienwan Bay will | admit whatever heavy guns and stores the troops of the second army may de- sire to land. The security of the Japanese position on the neck of the peninsula is beyond reasonable doubt. It is not thought that | Port Arthur can spare a force to at- | tack the.invaders, nor that Kuropatkin will venfure to march down the pen- insula from Liaoyang to Newchwang. Such a movement on the part of the Russian commander in chief would ex- | pose his flank and rear to attack by the numerous Japanese divisions now | on the sea, to say nothing of the dan- | gers that threaten him from Kuroki's advancing columns on the southeast. No course is considered open to the Russians except to retire gradually until the campaign can be conducted beyond the menace that constantly hovers over Kuropatkin’s troops fromi { the sea. | ——ra JAPANESE FIRE UPON TRAIN. Last Trip From Port Arthur Over the Manchurian Railroad. PARIS, May 8.—The Journal's Muk- den correspondent says the last train from Port Arthur to reach that place arrived at 2 o'clock Saturday. Pas. sengers state that at a point twenty- five miles|from Pitzewo they saw a number of Russians retreating. A Cossack officer ordered the engineer to reverse his engine, but Colonel Our- aroff commanded the driver to go at full speed. The Japanese in pursuit of the Russians fired several volleys and a number of bullets struck the car- riages. Three of the passengers were wounded. el Prigands Attack Wounded Russians. ST. PETERSBURG, May 7.—A dis patch has been received by the Red Cross Society here stating that Chi- nese brigands have attacked and mal- treated Russians who were wounded in the fight at Kuliencheng. Kuropatkin Falls Back Toward Liaoyang. Japanese Control | All Southern Manchuria. TOKIO, May 8 (12 m.).—The Japan- ese captured Fengwangcheng day be- SHANGHAIL May 7.—It is reported | The ambition of the Russians has | . The bay is deep and | in | un- | et GENERAL " A TIATER - o5 | l s = i | fore yesterday (Friday). It was the second of the Rupsian defense, and a stiff fight was expected. General Kuroki pressed forward and | attacked before the Russians had re- covered from the demoralization and confusion into which they had been shore of the Liaotung Peninsula, just | thrown by their previous defeat on the Yalu River. ST. PETERSBURG, May 8 (2:18 a.-m.).—When the War Commission adjourned this morning it failed to give out any official dispatches regarding the situation on the Liaotung Penin- sula or at Fengwangcheng. Neverthe- less there is no doubt that the Jap- anese troops are in touch with the Rus- sian forces ‘at Fengwangcheng, and the report that the latter had evacu- ated that place is generally credited. Surprise is caused by the withdrawal | of General Kuropatkin toward his base 'at Liaoyang, as it was said that im- | mediately after he learned of General Zassulitch’s losses he had sent re- inforcements to him. to enable him to retain his position. KUROPATKIN IS SUPREME. The officials here however, that they are not fully formed of Kuropatkin's plan. He is in sole charge of the operations in Manchuria. The Emperor decided when Geperal Kuropatkin started cut that” he should have complete_ inde- pendence, so that there could be ne | grounds for complaint that he was hampered by instructions or advice from officers in St. Petersburg, who | could not possibly know all the condi- tions which the troops in would meets. Kuropatkin, therefore, has made his own dispositions and formulated his own plan. What little is known here shows that he intends to observe the same caution that has distinguished the operations of the Japanese. Finding that he could not offer battle at Fengwangcheng with an even chance of success, he has decided to fall back, it is belleved, to the Mao- tin Pass. Back of this pass there another pass, near which is a tem- porary rallway connection with Liao- yang. NO CHANGE IN TACTICS. | The Japanese have followed up to| now practically in_all respects their | plans in the Chino-Japanese war. They | have erossed the Yalu at the same place | and landed upon the Liaotung Penin- | sula at the same points, and It is be- ilieved they will continue their tactics, as their dispositions foreshadow the | movements made in_1594. ! It is not at all unlikely that another . Japanese army will be landed upon the | peninsula, which will move northward along the railway line. During the | Chino-Japanese war the Japanese cap- { tured Port Arthur two weeks after | their disembarkation upon the penin- ! sula. The Russlans say that the Japa- ! nese will not find it so easy a task to reduce Port Arthur as they did before. The Japanese army marching north- | ward along the railroad once past Kai- ! ping can compel the Russians to evacg- I ot Newchwang or cise. undetno & ok | te or a state of siege. If the march is prosecuted as far as Haicheng where the Japanese defeated the Chinese army, G {@eral Kuropatkin will have to abandon ™ Maotien Pass as a conse- quence of the strategic weakness of the on. The possession of Fengwang- cheng is of the highest importance, as it places under the control of the Japa- amese a large strip of Manchurian terri- frankly confess, | in- | the field | is | SCHOONERS SIVK WITH THE CREWS Forty White Men and Thirty Indians Perish, PR S Terrible Disaster to Seal- ers Off the North- western Coast. | —_— | Wreckage of Two Vessels Is Found | at Sea and Victoria Mourns for , Victims of the Storm. | | Special Dispatch to The Call. ’ VICTORIA, B. C., May T.—Victoria is in mourning over the worst shipping | disaster in its & }er ander collided with an iceberg at | Douglas Island, aska, and sank. The | sealing schooners Triumph and Um- | brina, the largest of the fleet, are giv- len up as lost with all hands'in the hurricanes that sunk the Scotch ship ‘Larnorna. Captain Haan of the sealing schoon- er Jessie, just arrived from his sealing cruise along the coast from California to Alaska, reports baving found a lt- | tle south of the Columbia River float- ing wreckage, comsisting of broken sealing boats and cances, oars, spars, rails and davits, which he ascertained | belonged to the schooner Umbrina, Cap- | tain Blackstadt, with which he had sailed in company for several days | early in March. The Umbrina was then bound for ayoquot, t coast Vancouver Isl- , to land her mate, Wio was very . Since then she has never been e and Captain Haan says she is ssuredly gone with all hands, as she must have encountered the awful gales of March 17. The Umbrina carried a half white and | half Indian crew. She was owned by Captain Peppitt, now in Nova Secoti and was one of the largest boats of the fleet, built in Nova Scotia, in Queen Charlotte Sound. Captain Haan found a schooner’s boom with sails attached and other wreckhige, which he says belonged to the schooner Triumph. These, with the finding of the Triumph’'s name board - onsidered to seal the oldest of carried a white of nineteen men, a Chinese cook and one or two Indian hunters. She was thi ars old and was not con- sidered by water front men here as stanch as she might be owing to her age and hard life. The Triumph was owned by the Vie- toria Sealing Company, who have no longer much hope that they will see the vessel again. It is reckoned that | upward of forty white men and thirty Indians have with the two | schooners. r coasting seal- ing schooners have reported on the west coast or come home. —_———— PREFERENCE TO BE SHOWN | TO THE MARRIED CLERKS | Public Notice to That Effect Is | Posted in the Postoffice at Des Moines, Iowa. DES MOINES, lowa, May 7.—"“Here- after preference will be shown clerks who are married, especially those with large families.” The above notice was posted in the Des Moines postoffice to-day. Post- master McKay stated the order came tfrom the Postoffice Department at ‘Washington and is in line with a sug- gestion from President Roosevelt and his large families idea. | — | tory bordering on the bay of Korea and the road connecting Liaoyang, Hai- cheng, Newchwang and Pitzewo. The command of the road to Pitzewo will enable this army to communicate with | the Japanese army to open operations | in the Liaotung Peninsula. GRIEF OF THE EMPEROR. The Emperor is deeply pained over | the Russian losses on the Yalu, and re- | grets that the investment of Port Ar- | thur could not have been prevented. He } will, however, acquiesce without ques- tion in the plan of General Kuropatkin, even should that plan contemplate the withdrawal of the Russian army far- ther into the interior. Those close to | his Majesty state that he is more than ever determined that Russian prestige shall be vindicated in the Far East, a necessity not only to Russia, but to the | whole white race, as an answer to the Japanese blows. Further reinforcements have been dispatched to Manchuria, and the Em- | peror has reiterated his declaration that General Kuropatkin shall have as many men as are needed to insure vie- | tery to the Russian arms. | " The Russian Admiraity expects to be able to continue communication with | Port Arthur in spite of the cutting of | the telegraph line. Masts for use in | wireless telegraphy have been erected lat the fortress to communicate with | stations at the north end of the penin- | sula. Trained carrie~ pigeons also were sent to Port Arthur some time ago, | and through one means or another the | Russian authorities hope to retain com- unication. m’rhe Admiralty is in possession of spe- effic information to the effect that the harbor of Port Arthur is open. prrahs - 2 A War News Continued on Page 3%