The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 26, 1904, Page 5

e c/eVedIIVTDH | THE ' SAN FRANCISCO - CALL. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1904. THREE HUNDRED HEAVY SIEGE GUNS Garrison Continues to Re- pulse Each Attack by Infantry. Japanese Spies Are Disabling Land Mines in Way of Troops. —_— Special Cable to The Call and New York ier C ight. 1904, by the New York & Company. Aug. formation from 26.—According to in- trustworthy sources e present situation at Port Arthur is . as follows: Eastward from Takushan to the “Wolf Mountains the country is occu- pied by the Japanese, who have mount- ed 300 heavy guns, besides field artil- lery. The guns include ten six-inch quick firers, manned by a naval brigade, and also weapons brought from the ipal ports of defense in Japan. hey are able to shell the town. The Russians, besides heav guns, #ave constantly at work hundreds of light pieces and quick firers. To the westward of the Etzshan fort, which has been captured, a road leads ade ground, but the Japanese unable to advance on ac- he land mines. From the e Japanese are able to shell ward forts, which are thus caught between twp fires. The Pigeon Bay fort has been taken, bat the Liao- still in the hands of the the Péliencheng wanced guards times bevond the inner forts, but have north the Japanese are at Their infantry and ad- e pressed several ‘been repulsed There are Japanese spies in Port Ar- thur' engaged in cutting electric con nections to the land mines. The be- siegers cannot advance eastward un- til the forts are silenced. The capture of Etzshan is regarded as opening a successful way to the westward. The ettack is being pressed on all sides sim- taneously 1d the Russians are fight- re of Etzshan. The whole of the £t of the peninsula is now oc- ed by the Japanese, who examine &l junks leaving the harbor. They maintain a heavy shell fire, making nable fighting is continuous and gerents are unable to bury Hence the efluvia from of the ships in the harbor e the their the The wn unbearable. harbor is described as he splash of falling shells that 00 projectiles hurled in within three days. was there such a of en- hments and wire entanglements as - the town. The and are betting 1 t the place will Their agents are arranging ning of provisions through the blockade The Japanese Consul here states that the sing scenes are being enacted. it TY IN FLAMES. boiling It is estin have Never tren that ne PART OF Cr Fire Breaks Out in the European Sec- tion of Port Arthur. CHEFU. Aug ¢ p. m.—Golden Wh Marble Mountain and ti Mountain, according to Chinese dated the night of August 22, the only are now main forts secureiy held by the Russians at Port Archur. Others are occupied by them, but they . &re subjected to an artillery fire which renders their tenure uncertain. For: Ne ch has frequently been re- ported taken by the Japanese and re- aken by the Russians, is again de- clared to be in the hands of the Japan- ese A rumor having some features indi- ng thenticity says that the new P section of Port Arthur is in ames. Owing to the mud and brick construction of the buildings, howaver, it is probable that the fire is not gen- era A sailor reports that, when off Liaot! ory last evening, he heard two osions. One occurred at 6:20 k, the other five minutes later. WE'RE LEADERS IN OUR LINE! The best, most reliable and up- to-date installment tailoring house in Prices always reasonable. Paymeants $1.00 per week. A. B. Smith Co., 116 Ellis, above Powell, DDV VDRV DT D v DR. JORDAN'S caea USEUM OF ANATOMY v L DE._JORDAN & CO.. 105 Market St &, F. inch ese, whose junk left Port | eighteen hours ago, confirm the sition of bodies is making life | | | | ! August ARE SMASHING THE RUSSIAN FORTS ON PORT ARTHUR’S INNER DEFENSES WAR BULLETINS dispatch from Liaoyang under date of August 25 says the Japanese eastern forces began a forward movement August 24, eight companies going, on the main Liaoyang road, in the direc- tion of Liandiansian. The Russian outposts held their po- sition, the fight continuing yesterday. The result is not stated, but it is un- derstood the Second and Twelfth Jap- anese Guards divisions are participat- ing. LONDON, Aug. 26.—News has rcached England that the Russian auxiliary cruiser Ural stopped and ex- amined the British collier Pencalenick on August 12. The Pencalenick was bound from Cardiff for Malta with coal for the British navy. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25.—It is announced that the Baltic fleet, with ' the exception of the battleship Orel, left Kronstadt to-day on a ten days’ cruise, LONDON, Aug. 26.—According to | the correspondent of the Chronicle | with General Kuroki's army, the Jap- anese are not likely to re into win- ter quariers. Rather than to thus give the Russians a breathing speil they will prosecute a vigorous winter cam- paign. CHEFU. Aug. 26.—Heavy firing at Port Arthur was heard here night. 0 . Novik's Commander Gives Details of Cruiser’s Last Fight. -— ST. PETERSBURG, Emperor has received from Viceroy Alexieff the following refest of the commander of the cruiser Novik, which was sunk at Korsakovsk, island of Saghalien, after a fight with the Jap- anese protected cruisers Chitose and Tsushima: At the end of the fight of August 10, in which the Novik sustained three holes below the water line, she passed through the enemy’s ships with the cruiser Askold. I lost sight of the lat- 2 Aug. —The ter, owing to the fog and to the delay | caused by repairing the engines. “On August 11 I entered Kiaochou to coal and left there on August 12, round- ing Japan for Vliadivostok. “On August 20 the Novik reached Korsakovsk. At 4 o'clock on the same day 1 sighted an enemy’s cruiser and put to sea and engaged hner. After forty-five minutes’ fighting the Novik had three holes below her water line and two above, and the steering gear was damaged. The Japanese cruiser ceased fighting and began telegraph- ing. ‘By the end of the engagement only six of our boilers were in good order, and this fact, added to the damage to our steering gear, compelled me to re- turn to Korsakovsk to examine our condition. “In doing this I intended to put to sea again at night, but, finding it impossi- ble to repair the rudder and in view of the approach of several of the enemy’s vessels, I decided to sink the cruiser in shallow water. The and stores were conveyed on shore. ‘On August 21 a crujser of the Suma type bombarded that part of the cruiger showing above the water. ‘My casualties on the 10th were two sailors killed and a doctor wounded and on the 20th two sailors killed and fif- teen slightly wounded.” The Emperor has received from Rear Admiral Prince Outomsky a telegram bearing a Port Arthur date, in \\fim‘h, after briefly describing the sortie of the Port Arthur squadron on August 10 and its engagement with Vice Admiral Togo's ships, the Admiral says: “At 7:30 o'clock, when the Cesare- vitch left the line with damaged steer- ing gear and signaling ‘Admiral trans- fers command,” as 1 had two masts broken and all means of signaling b day or night damaged on the Peres- viet, I displayed the signal ‘Follow me, but 1 imagine that all the ships were not able to distinguish it. As my ves- =el lost manv killed and wounded and as the armament, hull and electric ap- paratus were seriously damaged, I de- crew cided to return to Port Arthur, The ironclads Retvizan, Pobieda, Poltava, Sevastopol and Cesarevitch accom- panied me, the Cesarevitch being the last in ling. “We went at-an average speed, but owing to the darkness and to repeated torpedo attacks, which obliged us from time to time to change our course, our vessels dispersed and at dawn the Ret- vizan, Sevastopol, Peresviet, Pobleda, Poltava and Pallada, with three tor- pedo boats, were at Port Arthur. “Our casualties were two officers and thirty-eight men killed and twen- ty-one officers and 286 men wounded, fifty of them severely. “Captain Boyeman, despite severe wounds, remained for twenty hours on the bridge until the battleship entered port. Our vessels are being repaired by their own and the dock yard ap- pliances. In the absence of Rear Ad- miral Withoeft 1 have assumed cém- mand of the Port Arthur squadron.” This may be a confirmation of the re- port from Tokio that two Russlan de- stroyers had struck mines, as the re- port agrees with the one from Tokio in respect to time. A junk which left Port Arthur on 22 reports that the Russian wounded at that date numbered 5000 and that the Japanese occupied the heights near Chaochanko. It is further reported that boys are now fighting in the Russian ranks. Major L. L. Seaman, U. S. A., went from here yesterday to the summit of a mountain on one of the Miaotao Is- lands, twenty miles from Golden Hill, near Port Arthur. With a powerful telescope Major Seaman could see a great deal of the coast of the Liaotung Peninsula. He heard six heavy shots and much small artillery firing, indi- cating that flghtlng had subsided to a certain degree, all last | | British Cruisers Searching for the Russian Ship Smolensk. Carry the Czar’s Orders That Seizures of Shipping Shall Cease. e i LONDON, Aug. 25.—Premier Balfour announced this evening that the Brit- ish Government had ordered two cruis- :exs from the squadron at the Cape of | Good Hope to locate the Russian vol- unteer fleet steamships Smolensk and | St. Petersburg and convey to them the orders of the Russian Government that they must not further Interfere with neutral shipping. The Premier said | | that this action was taken at the re- | quest of the Russian Government. This extracrdinary statement was { | made when the Premler, by appoint- ment, received a deputation of the | London Chamber of Commerce. The | deputation was appointed at a meeting held earlier in the day by the China and East India sectien of the chamber, which was attended by representative ship owners in trade in the Far East, and at which the following resolution was passed: The meeting of the members of the Londen Chamber of Commerce con- cerned in trade with the Far East views with grave apprehension the continued uncertainty of the position of British trade and shipping with regard to what constitutes contraband of war, as in- terpreted by the Russian Government. The meeting trusts that his Majesty’s Government will take such immediate steps as will afford all reasonable pro- | tection to British shipping and to in-‘ sure tc it the same degree of immunity from vexatious stoppages and exam- | inations as is apparently enjoyed by | | shipping of other nationalities.” | DISASTROUS TO SHIPPING. At the same time the meeting pre- | pared a letter addressed to Lord Lans- downe, the Foreign Minister, in which it was stated that the continuance of the present situation was having a dis- astrous effect on shipping and was | causing irreparable damage to the | | whole ccurse of trade with Japan and | the Par East. The letter further said | that the commercial community would | | welcome any measure, however strin- gent, that might be necessary to place | British commerce on the same footing with that of other non-belligerent coun- | tries in the treatment of so-called con- traband of war. Pricr to receiving the delegation, Balfour, during the day, had been bus- [ily engaged in connection with the | question which had been raised in re- | 2ard to Russian treatment of British | shipping. After giving a number of private interviews the Premier held an | important meeting at the Foreign Of- | fice to which representatives of the | intelligence department of the War Of- fice, the Admiralty, the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade were sum- moned. ‘ Balfour said that before making a | definite statement he desired (o hear | evidence tending to show preferential llxflaln\exll by Russia, which was a | most important phase of the situation |and concerning which the Government | had no conclusive information, and to }rr‘arn of any concrete examples of dif- | ferential treatment by Russian officers nd Russian prize courts, which, he said, would be carefully considered. [ NUMEROUS CASES CITED., | Members of the Chamber of Com- merce deputation quoted the cases of | the Portland and Asiatic line steam- ship Arabia and the British steamship | Calchas. The former was allowed to | proceed, while the latter was still at | Viadivostok, and the members pointed out that both.cases were equal so far as the nature of the cargoes was con- cerned. The cases of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s steamship Malacca and the Hamburg-American line steamship Scandia also were quoted. KEach of these vessels had | ammunition on board, but the Scandia was allowed to proceed. $ The deputation next referred to the | | sinking of the British steamship | Knight Commander and the German steamship Thea by the Viadivostok squadron and pointed out that com- | | Pensation had been paid in the case of the Thea, while it had not even been promised in that of the Knight Com-! mander. i Members of the deputation also stated that it was notorious that ship- ments of contraband of war had been | made from Antwerp and Hamburg, | while insurance rates from those and from French ports were much lower than from English ports in the ratio of five shillings to twenty shillings, | In his reply Balfour said that Em- bassador Benckendorft has advised | the Foreign Office here that the | cruiser that overhauled the Brit- ish steamer Comedian off the ! southeast coast of Cape Colony | | on August 21 probably was the Smo- lensk, in which case her action could ! be explained only on the supposition that the orders telegraphed to her by the Russian Admiralty, after the Ma- |lacca affair, failed to reach her com- | mander. The Russian Government, | therefore, proposes to take renewed measures to see that the Smolensk re- ceives orders to cease the examination of neutral shipping. It was explained that before leaving for the south the Sevastopol and Smolensk took on board a large supply of coal, thus enabling them to keep at sea without visiting a port where orders could be delivered. | Russia had asked for the co-operation of Great Britain in getting orders to the Smolensk. This was gladly agreed to and the British Government ordered two cruisers to attempt to deliver the instructions from Cape Colony. Russia was seeking to carry out her agreement in good faith and no complications were expected. FURTHER SEIZURES UNLIKELY. “Most assuredly,” said the Premler, “should the volunteer fleet steamships attempt further captures, which I do not think they will, no such captures will be recognized by us or by the Rus- sian Government."” Balfour carefully reviewed the cases of alleged differential treatment. He saild there was no evidence as yet that fair treatment would not be ) army and all departmehts of state ex- | against British shipping. AGAIN IN FAVOR WITH THE (4R Is in the Ascendant: in the Russian C(apital { WAR PARTY LOSES CASTE Nicholas IT Once More Turns to Conservative Counselors | When Requiring Advice | ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25.—The list of christening honors is very large, containing plentiful recognition of the cept the navy, where the honors are practically limited to the appointment of Admiral Jessen and Captain Sabich as imperial aides-de-camp. The conferring of the high order of St. Alexander Nevsky on Foreign Min- | ister Lamsdorff and the Order of the ‘White Eagle on Witte, president of the Council of Ministers, is regarded as significant and as indicating the com- plete return to favor of the Emperor's conservative counselors. The Novoe Vremya says that th peasants are remitted arrearages of taxes to exceed $68,000,000, adding: “Nobody is forgotten. Provision is made for soldiers and sailors’ orphans, the legalizing of unauthorized mar- riages and for amnesty, even for the Finns, who are relieved of a quarter of their arrearages of taxation. The man- ifesto rewards the brave soldiers and sailors by abolishing corporal punish- ment in the servicé, and rewards the engineer officers .of the navy by giving them substantive rank.” % € meted out to all, and that in his opin- ion the cases cited hardly bore out the serious contention of discrimination The delega- * tion must remember that the belliger- ents had rights as well as neutrals, and the Premier added: “We ourselves may have to appeal to the law of nations to protect our rights as belligerents, and in the inter- ests of our own self-preservation we may be obliged to ignore the interests of neutral shippers engaged in the risky though legitimate operation ot carrying contraband of war.” The Premier appealed to the depu- tation in the interest of themselves and of the world at large to view both sides of the question and to approach it in a spirit of moderation. T RUSSIAN HOPE REVIVES, RRRRRER BRI RRRRERE RERY RRERRRREZEEREE RRARERY RRRY Slav Nation Reassured by the Reports From Port Arthur. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 26.—The latest information from the front is summed up in vesterday's dispatch from Chefu, owing that the Japa- nese, in the assaults on Port Arthur on August 21 and 22, were again re- pulsed with heavy losses. ‘Despite the assertion made in Tokio that all the attacks so far on the fortress have been merely preliminary to a grand infantry assault, the feeling grows here that the ferocity of the repeated attacks and the defeats must be gradually dis- sipating the energy of the besiegers, and that the Japanese may find after all that “they have broken their teeth on the stones of Port Arthur.” othing can be ascertained here re- garding the reports from Tokio of the sinking of two Russian torpedo-boat destroyers at Port Arthur. The fact that the Port Arthur squad- ron is already so crippled and scat- tered has greal reduced its impor tance as a tactical factor in the eyes of the authorities here. Accounts of the misfortune to the battleship Se- vastopol and of the sinking of the cruiser Novik are allowed to be ex- tensively printed, and it appears that the balance of sea power in the East is thoroughly upset, pending the ar- rival of the Baltic squadron in Oriental waters. ¥ ] i i EVADING THE JAPAN ISSUE. Thus Declares a Russian Offcial Anent the Ryeshitelni Affair. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25.—The Russian authorities decline to for- mally reply to the statement present- ing the Japanese side of the Ryeshi- teini affair given to the press on August 21. Nevertheless, the Rus- sian view of the Japanese statement as reflected by an official of the For- eign Office. 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TOKIO, Aug. —Five steamships and three torpedo-boat destroyvers emerged from Port Arthur yesterday merning . and began the work of clearing away floating min twenty minutes past 6 o'clock ir evening a two-funneled destroyer struck a mine two miles off Liaoti Promontory and sank immedi ately. Five minutes later ; destroyer, with four funnels, ran against another floating mine, which the exploded. This second vesel was at once surrounded by other R n ships and towed into Port Arthur, the entire flotilla accompanying her, These occurrences were seen from various Japanese watch towers. The Japanese criser Hashidate also wit- nessed the explosions. The action of the Russians in at- tempting to clear the channel of mines | indicates the intention of the fleet again to sally from Port Arthur. s (‘()MBIN ED ARMIE Kuropatkin's Posiiion Menaced by a Quarter of a Million Men. LIAOYANG, Aug. 25.—At the Russian torpedo-boat | We are ready to sup- ply you with your fall and winter Millinery. 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Ruruzaromn, D. P. A., 623 Market Street, sian protest, namely, that Japan had peagquarters here General Kuroki's| San Francisco. directly Vidlated: the neutrality sof army is estimated at 100,000 men, Gen-‘ — - China by entering the harbor of Godzu's force at 70,000 and General | 5 . Chefu, and, in contempt of every 8‘:‘:‘;\:( 40,000. This Is exclusive of two | Miles east of Cape St Vincent, condition and that %hnre are mag- principle of international law, com- giiions or about 30,000 men, moving Fortugal = nificent crops of maize, millet, beans mitting a hostile act against a Rus- sian vessel which had been disarmed by the power exercising the sov- ereignty there and the protection of whose sovereignty she was enjoying. That, in a nutshell, the officfal de- clared, was the issue, upon which | Japan could not escape by unsup- ported countercharges that Russia was first responsible for the violation of Chinese neutrality. S H JAPANESE LOSSES ENORMOUS. i Russians Assert 13,000 Fell in the . Two Days’ Attack. | CHEFU, Aug. 25.—Russian advices received here say that the Japanese assaults on Port Arthur on August 21 and August 22 were repulsed with tre- | mendous losses. It is added that the attempt of the Japanese to capture fort No. 1 cost them 10,000 men, and . that their attack on Fort Etzshan re- ' sulted in their losing 3000 men killed ° or wounded. Port Dalny is said to be . filled with wounded men. The Japanese are hiring laborers here for service on the Liaotung Pen- insula. It Is reported that the Jap- anese are obtaining provisions through ! the British port of Weihaiwei. —_———— WORD FROM STOESSEL Port Arthur Commander Reports the Attack of August 19. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25.—The Emperor has received a dispatch from Viceroy Alexieff, wated August 24,/ saying that Ge. ral Stoessel reported from Port Arthur on August 19 that at Ural.” The search took place sixty The Bradfield Repulater Co., Atianta, Ga. upon the right bank of the Liao River. According to the Chinese the Jap_u-‘ nese have converted the branch rail-| road from Newchwang to Tatchekiao | thither twenty siege guns. be with the besiegers of Port Arthur. It continues to be believed here that tinuous #ids, en the Japanese armies in Manchuria are correspon . : r nwnm:g the result of the storming|traversed by the army is in splendid of Port Arthur before renewing their movements against the forces of Gen- eral Kuropatkin. e i SHANGHAI INCIDENT CLOSED. Russian Cruiser Askold Will See No More War Service. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25.—Cap- tain Reitzenstein of the cruiser Ask- old officially reported the hauling down of the Russian flag last night. Captain Reitzenstein asked the Ad- miralty to be allowed to take out his ship, even in the face of the superior Japanese force, but when the Admir- alty ascertained the condition of the ‘Askold and the time required for re- pairs her disarmament was ordered and the incident is considered closed. R Searched by the Cruiser Ural. LONDON, Aug. 25.—The Anchor line stéeamship Asia, which sailed on August 11 from Liverpool for Cal- cutta, has arrived at Port Said and ent of the Daily Mail with the head- into a narrow gauge and are conveying | quarters of the second Japanese army i lin | date of August 22 Field Marshal Oyama, the Japanese | : t ep ! commander in chief, is understood to army was eleven days’ march from ! 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