The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1904, Page 21

VOLUME XCVI—NO. 68. FO RTY-EIGHT PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1904—PAGES 21 TO 34. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COMBINED JAPANESE ARMIES ARE READY TO BEGIN ATTACK UPON LIADYANG AND 3T PETERSBURG 15 AWAITING NEWS OF THE GREATEST BATTLE OF THE WAR ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 6.—General Kuropatkin’s report of small, ed by the authorities here. It is believed, however, that the lull in the fighting past few days is believed to have been long enough to epable the Japanese to assume their formati is hourly expected to occur. HECTOR FULLER, POWERELUL SIPS FOR | KINGS NATY Will Be the | Largest War Crait in the World. | —_— Forty Million Dollars to Be Expended in Their Construction. Guos Can Drive Eight-Hundred-and- und Shells Through Four Feet of Iron. ifty-Po New York Is given in week as e of the present Dattl two types four 12- nch; ton- our feet | represe capita! of ——— PRINCES OF MONACO LOSES MONEY AND JEWELS Her Apartments Are Entered While She Is Absent and Booty Worth $16,000 Taken. Call and New York 904, by the New York pany. [ Aug. 6.—Jewelry and bank | the value of $16,000 were PARIS, notes to stolen yesterday afternoon from the | ts of the Princess of Monaco The Princess | 5 o'clock for a drive er and her maids went | n servant had gone to very, when thieves en- out. Her m change his tered and forced open a leather hand- bag and dispatch box, which, after emptying, they concealed behind the bath. ———eeeee LIBERAL CANDIDATE WINS FIGHT AGAINST UNIONIST Seat in House of Commons Vacated by Palmer Will be Filled by Isaacs. LONDON, Aug. 6.—The bye-election held to-day for a successor to the seat in the House of Commons for Reading made vacant by the retirement of George William Palmer, Liberal, re- sulted in the choice of Rufus Isaacs, the Liberal candidate, who received 4770 votes, against 1540 cast for Charles N. Keyser, bhis Unionist op-l ponent. | of facts | Russian forces. | of Japan. { lessons well nobody can deny and the | | tary and naval men have been devot- Writer Who Risked Life| to Enter Port Ar. thur Is Here. “The Japanese possess great phys- ical bravery. They are morally| oblique, however, and ingratitude is their most pronounced characteristic. Thus are the little brown antagon- | ists of the Czar, criticized by Hector | Fu war correspondent of the In- dianapolis News and one of the fe newspaper men to win their way into| | he heart of the Far Eastern disturb- ce and {0 have seen something of actual conflict from both sides. Fuller's thrilling entry into Port Ar-| thur is part of the history of the war | and whatever his judgment is worth | e uld be in possession of plenty | upon which-to base an opin- | of record. | ed here yesterday on the | liner Do d will leave in a few days for Indianapolis home. He may resume his desk as dramatic and | literary editor of the paper which sent him to Japan or he may, if the cre- dentials can be obtained, spend the coming winter campaigning with the He wants no more n_ wort! Fuiler “When Japan began to open her| said Fuller, “the first thing she | was the nec ty for a sclentific | ledge of the art of war, The! ed nations of the world went to | aid. They weicomed Japan's ca- at their naval and military | ols and gave to the little brown | dents as much attention and care | hey devoted to the training of | r own officers. There are gradu- ates from American and European na- | val and military academies on every Japanese warship amd with each of her numerous regiments on land. ‘It | is the ideas planted by foreign instruc- | tors and nourished under Caucasian discipline that are now being turned to the temparary confusion of the hosts of the Czar. STILL SEERING KNOWLEDGE. } “That the Japanese learned thelrl fact that Japanp still believes she can | get something from foreign nations is | evidenced by the large numbers of Japanese ‘students’ to be found all| over the ‘world. This war is the first in which modern fighting machinery is the hands of both contestants. Hence to the military world every en- gagement is full of vital interest. The theories of the science to which mili- | ing their lives are being tried out as Wwould be possible in no other way and the opportunity to observe the opera- tions on land and sea would be of in- calulable benefit. Japan has the chance of her life to repay, in a meas- ure, past favors through which she is now zable to stand up against the bear. “And what is she doing? *‘She is treating the military attaches —men who have been sent to the Far East by their governments to observe modern h;vl.r m'lchx:nery in real service; men who are in honor pi ‘:b pledged to se- “Every terfuge the Oriental mind can conceive is being used to withhold this privilege without an actual refusal and where attaches have succeeded in reaching the front their treatment has been such that to stay and retain seif- respect was beyond a white man's -_— Continued on Page 22, Column 2. WAR CORRESPONDENT, ACCUSES JAPANESE OF INGRATITUDE TOWARD NATIONS THAT AIDED THEM has lasted about as lon WARS ISSUE 513 I} - THS FiGHT Opposing Forces Are - About Equally General Kuropatkin's Total . Strength Not Far From | 200,000 Men. fims Defeat Would [rreparably En- danger the Russian Position in Manchuria | Special Dispatch to The Call PARIS, Aug. 7.—The Matin’s cor- respondent at Newchwang says that | the French consular agent there was | arrested .on August 3 by the Japan- Y ]ese in consecuence “of his vlprou‘ | || | protest against the detention of two | | saflors who claimed Freng tion.”” 3 J 'the agent’s arrest to the Freach Con- sul at Tientsin. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 6.—It is | expected that within forty-eight hours the battle that will decide the fate of | the Russian arms dn Manchuria—at least for the present campalign—will | have been begun in the vicinity of Liaoyang, where General Kuropatkin now faces the combined armies of Kuroki, Oku and Nodzu. An issue of such importance mo- mentarily eclipses interest in the siege of Port Arthur. The fate of the | latter place is not likely to influence the immediate destinies of the cam- paign, but Liaoyang is closely tied up with the fortunes of the whole war. The loss of such 2 position, with its | accumulations of stores, would im- | | | mediately and perhaps irreparably en- danger the main Russian position in nchuria. The military authorities do not en- tertain the slightest doubt of General Kuropatkin’'s ability to repulse an at- | tempt to capture and cut off Liao- yang. The defense there has an im- | mediate advantage, operating within the small radius of twenty miles, thus enabling General Kuropatkin to re- inforce promptly any weak points. The army at his disposal is estimated | at 150 battalions, besides cavalry and artillery, altogether not far short of 200,000 men.. Only one-third of this force was engaged in the fighting of July 30 and 31 and August 1. The pick of Kuropatkin's troops, the newly arrived European regi- ments, are stationed at Anping and | PRESIDENT IMPERILED Anshanshan, where the hardest onset - is expected to be w . Some of these | regiments were raised 200 years ago and have great war records. Officers acquainted with the men declare that the dogged tenacity displayed at Yushu Pass and Nanga Pass has be- come only more flerce and unylelding under the reverses met by the troops. Experts at the War Office are dis- cussing the probable course of the im- pending operations. They say that the Japanese will try to capture either Anping or Anshanshan, whence they will be able to strike Liaoyang, and they think it more likely that Anshan- shan will be selected, because that | place is in the line of advance of Gen- erals Oku's and Noduz's armies and must be captured before an attempt is made to flank Liaoyang from the westward. The Russian position at Anshan- shan is as strong as that at Kinchou. It consists of a precipitous barrier fifteensmiles long, flanked on the east- ward by the river and a marsh and on the westward by a level plain and is impossible of approach by ipfantry by either side. The only weak spot is to the eastward, where the Japanese may mount heavy guns with a longer range than the Russien pieces and pour in a flanking fire. It is consid- ered more probable, however, that General Nodzu will try to cut in be- tween Anshanshan and Liandiansian and cut off the. former place from g | INDIANAPOLIS WAR CORRESPON- | DE! WHO ARRIVED HERB | YESTERDAY FROM ORIENT. - URUGUAY'S —_— Assassin Hurls a Bomb at Chief Executive, MONTEVIDEO, Aug. 6.—An attempt was made upon the life of President Battle y Ordonez to-day. While driv- ing with his family along one of the principal streets of the city a burning torpedo was exploded at the side of the carriage. The explosion tore up the pavement and the track of the railway running through the street, but so far as can be learned no one was injured. ————— LOSES HIS LIFE WHILE TRYING TO SAVE TRAIN Farmer Boy Is Crushed to Death by Engine He Attempted to Stov. CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—James Jensen, a farmer boy aged 18 years, was killed Liaoyang. Sl through his efforts to save a Chicago, x Milwaukee and St. Paul passenger BATTLE OF SIMOUCHENG. train from destruction near Corliss, | Fierce t the Evacuation by the Russians, SIMOUCHENG, Manchuria, Aug. 6. There was heavy fighting here for two days. The Japanese comrmenced the attack at dawn on July 30 with a long-range rifle fire on the Russian right. The Russians wasted no am- munition in replying to this fire and the Japanese brought a mountain bat- tery to their support. They then moved forward in order to secure a Continued on Page 22, Column 5. Ill. 'While the youth and his brother were crossing the track with a steam thrasher the machine became stalled. ‘When the Milwaukee-Chicago passen- ger train came on James ran up the track waving his straw hat and so de- termined was he that he stood on the track in the glare of the headlight un- til he was borne down by the locomo- tive and crushed to death. The en- gineer saw him' in time to slacken speed and though the locomotive crashed into the thrasher the train escaped a wreck. | been given the European squadron, but | shifting movements by the Japanese, with a single unimportant skirmish, bringing the military situation up to August 4, is just about what was expect- g as possible, arzd that the forces around Liaoyang are now on the eve of a desperate and decisive engagement. The pause of the on, bring up supplies and make ready for a grand assault upon the, powerful positions around Liaoyang, and the battle of the war SQUADRON OF AMERICAN WARSHIPS IS ORDERED TO TURKISH WATERS TO PUT CHECK UPON PORTE’S INSOLENCE Sultan Must Heed the Demands of Leishman. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Orders have been given the European squadron, now a Villafranche, to proceed without delay to Smyrna and back up the endeavor S ULTAN “OF “ZUCKEY . | il A7 | DIV O A 2T SIAE. | M | | + — | of Minister Leishman in behalf of American citizens in the Sultan's do-| maing., The squadron, which is com- manded by Rear Admiral C. T. Jewell, will start for the East on Sunday or| Monday and will await instructions at | Smyrna. The trip will take about three | days. Not only have these decisive orders | it is expected the battleship squadron, | which is due at Gibraltar by Monday, | will be detained in that vicinity. If necessary it will be sent to the Eastern | Mediterranean to reinforce the cruiser squadron. Secretary Hay suggested the advisa- bility of sending a squadron to Turkish | waters at the Cabinet meeting yester- | day. He had then just received word of the failure of Minister Leishman to receive satisfaction from the Sultan in answer to American demands. The Cabinet concluded the situation had reached a stage that called for a naval demonstration. President Roosevelt was fully in accord with the idea of sending a squadron to the Bast. It is| probable the battleship squadron would | have been sent had it not been at sea | and out of reach of the cable. Under the circumstances it was felt that no time was to be lost, and orders were, given the European squadron. The battleship squadron consists of the modern battleships Kearsarge, Ala- bama, Iowa, lllingis, Maine and Mis- sourl. It is commanded by Rear Ad- miral Barker and is the most powerful squadron of the navy. The European squadron consists of the protected cruisers Olympia, Baltimore | and Cleveland. The cruiser Des Moines, a sister ship to the Cleveland and a| new vessel, has been added to the Euro- | pean squadron and will start across the | Atlantic on August 20. The Olympia, which was Admiral Dewey’s flagship at Manila, is now the flagship of Rear Admiral Jewell. Should the two squadrons be com- bined it is evident that they would form a fortMidable force. It is obvious such a fleet would exert a powerful moral effect. » Just what course Rear Admiral Jewell ABDUL HAMID, THE OTTOMAN 3 RULER IN THE. ORDERING OF AN AME AM CAR BURNY 5D T0TS | ARE HURT Fitty Children Have Narrow Escape in Gotham. The C: ! atch to NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—Carrying ffty children picked up in the tenement dis- | tricts of Manhattan and twenty women who had them in charge, a special trol- ley car of the Thirty-ninth street ferry | line caught fire at Coney Island to-day. A 3-year-old child was severely burned, and in the panic that ensued several were injured. The car was on its way to the Seaside Home, at Surf avenue and Twenty- seventh street, where the children were to have a day's outing. It was at Sur? avenue and Tenth street when there was a loud explosion, followed by sev- eral blinding flashes. Then flames rose from the sides and the front of the car. The shrieks of the children could be heard for blocks away, and a big crowd sathered. The car slowed down, but it had not ecome to a full stop when from both sides the children began jumping to the street, falling on the cobble- stones and injuring themselves. The twenty women were calling out to their | charges to remain in their seats, while | many of the crowd were crying to them to jump. The advice from the crowd was heeded by more than half the chil- | dren. A cry went up that a girl in the front | seat was burning, and many rushed in that direction. Roundsman Grifin of the Coney Island station, was_ the first| to reach the front of the car. Flames | were enveloping the sides and front and | streaming from the motor box itself about the floor. Calling to the con- | ductor to pull the trolley pole off, the | roundsman jumped on the car three or four seats back from the front and climbing over reached the girl and pulled her away from the flames. Her light dress was afire, and before the roundsman could beat out the flames it ‘was almost entirely burned off her. 1s expected to follow is not disclosed. It is known everything will be done to avoid complications with other Euro- countries. While it is not expected that it will be necessary for the Euro- pean squadron to commit any hostile act, it is nevertheless admitted at the State Department that the situation is a delicate and trying one. pshmen 2. ©y - o el Vest Is Near Death. A SWEET SPRINGS, Mo., Aug. 6.— Former Senator Vest is gradually sinking. He was almost unconscious at 9 o'clock to-night. The belief pre- vails that he will not survive more than a few hours., ‘WHOSE ERICAN AND THE WASHINGTON REPRESE NTATIV I ADRC AT « RESULTED | WATERS, MUST STAY SINGLE OR LOSE HOUSE Will of Mrs. Crocker Conditions Her Call NEW YORK, Aug. 6—By the will of Mrs. E pa H. Crocker, which was filed to-dav in the office of the Surro- gate, her husba George Crocker, her son Alexander utherford, and her daughter, Alice H. Rutherford of Ram- seys, N. J., are appointed executors. The petition for probate states the value of her real estate in this State to be $450,000 and that of her personal She died property not less than $10,000. in Newport on July 26 last. She gives to her husband, George Crocker, a!l the jewelry that once be- longed to his mother, Mary A. Crocker, apd also her own ruby ring, and as long as he lives or until he remarries e to have the house at No. 1 East Sixty-fourth street, and its contents. On his death or remarriage this prop= erty together with its contents is to be divided equally among her three children, Alexander H. Rutherford, Alice H. Rutherford and Emma Ruth- erford. Mrs. Crocker directs that her father, L. H. Hanchett, and her mother, Mar- garet Hanchett, be paid $100 a menth for life out of ner estate and bequeaths to her sister, Virginia H. Carroll, and her brother, Lewis E. Hanchett, $10,000 each. —————— GEORGIAN IS ARRESTED FOR REVIVING SLAVERY Wealthy Planter Accused of Hold- ing Negroes in Bondage on His Farms. SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 6.—Siate Senator Foye of Egypt, Ga., has been brought here under arrest by Federal officers on a charge of holding negroes in bondage. Foye is one of the weaithiest men in Southern Geargia and is a Demo- cratic leader. He conducts large tur- pentine farms near Egypt and ' the Federal officers assert that he.is hold- ing many negroes as slaves. The ne- groes, it is said, are confined it night in stockades and are worked in chains during the day.