The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRA NCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1904. CHURCHMEN JTURM BRINGa TEMPORARY LULL IN THE BATTLE RUSSIAN BATTALION ALMOST ANNIHILATED BY MACHINE GUNS LONDON, Oct. 20.—According to the Standard’s corre- spondent with General Kuroki, who telegraphs under date of October 18, a Russian battalion which crossed the Taitse River has been almost annihilated. While retiring over a pontoon | bridge, the correspondent says, the battalion was overtaken by || a regiment of Japanese cavalry, which got its machine guns into position and swept the bridge from end to end. War Chiefs Await | Change in the | Weather. Japs Are Reported | to Be Slowly | Retiring. | 15. — Yesterday | g was heard divisions. | | -~ Are Shifting = Their Armies . BALTIC FLEET TO DIVIDE. Some of the Warships Wil Go| Through the Suez Canal. will £ oute. The e I f an opportunity s with coal falls into Frepch firms have intrusted with coaling the Rt EBERG, De: remainder of the Baltic Russian roning for the north.‘ —_— TOKIO REPORTS DISCONNECTED. | | No Mention Made of the Loss of Lone | Tree HilL | LONDON, Oct. 15.—The newspapers are begt g to complain of the in-| accuract or rather the fincom- pleteness—of the Japanese reports fro the battlefield. Those portions | of the official advices that are given | to be so disconnected they convey very little Informa- Although the capture of Lone Hill by the Russians was one of | most important achievements of | t week, both on strategic grounds| and because of the enormous loss of life invelved, it has not been mentioned in the reports from Tokio. On the | contrary, General Oku, is represent- | ed as having repuised every assault ipon the Japanese left and continued advance to the north. No estimates of the Japanese losses | soap brings health _ and the color of health to many a _sallow skin: | m.—For the moment Batle Wil Repen With the Forces i Iy ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 20, heavy rains and roads have compelled a sus- of operations in Manchuria re was practically no fighting yes- day and none whatever last night. here is evidence of a new disposi- the forces on both sides. Gen- al Kuropatkin extending his right, whether with a view to a turning movement for the safety of Lone Tree the importance of which point is lized by the Japanese, who attempted to retake it in two or to meet and thwart west, has not yet developed. The Jap- anese also appear to be shifting weight the westward. ed hints continue to arrive that the Russians have recovered from the blow inflicted last week by Field Mar- shal Oyama and that General Ku- repatkin is preparing to renew the ggle as soon as the roads become ary Two dispatches from Mukden last ed reports that the Jap- alread the War O were , and e is no light upon the move- ments of the Japanese. There is, in- deed, an utter lack of late news 4 an enemy so resourceful y be preparing a surprise nstead of a retreat, reliev- ure on the front, ny itics here continue to believe General Kuropatkin nds to return to the line of the Hun River. ALEXIEFF. WILL NOT DOWN. The enforced cessation of operations by the bad weather, if the Japanese offensive [} both armies time to breathe and pull themseives together seem to insure as much benefit to one side as to the other, for practical pur- that i poses. When operations recommence they will assume an entirely new chi with new dispositions and ob- jectiVes. Practically, last week’'s bat- tle has ended, and it goes into history | When operations | as a Russian defeat. | are resumed a new battle will begin. The reappearance of Viceroy Alexieff at Mukden to-day for a conference is | not particularly reassuring, as such conferences in the past have not been fruitful of success. The movement of troops on the Rus- sian western frontier and the prepara- tions to further reduce garrisons in this region revive talk of a complete un- derstanding with Germany, which the frontier will ‘be protected so as to permit of the dispatch to Man- churia of troops statiomed in Poland. There are about 600,000 soldiers in Po- land, comprising some of the best troops in the empire. RUSSO-GERMAN ENTENTE. It is already known that practically sll of three corps in the Vilna Govern- | ment will be included in General Grip- | but as these troops | penberg’s army. are included in what is known as Rus- eia’s third line of defense, the fact has not attracted much attention. It now develops that the Rile Brigade at Plotsk, In the Government of Tschen- stoehova, directly on the frontier, is ‘moblizing. In the best-informed diplomatic cir- cles it is believed that nothing in the shape of a treaty between Russia and Germany has been commitiod to writ- ing, but that there is simply 2 mutual personal understanding between the two sovereigns covering this point, and, some believe, going much further. So far as the present war is concerned, ; there is no evidence that the supposed agreement covers active aid, as such an agreement would render operative the Anglo-Japanese alliance. It is thought, however, in diplomatic quar- ters, that there is something in the na- ture of a pledge cn the part of the Em- peror of Germany to protect Russia’s western frontier. It is now recalled, as significant of the deep personal friendship of the two Emperors, that when Emperor William was about to undergo an operation last year, he commended his eldest son to the hands of Emperor Nicholas. This fact was mentioned at the time in the Official Messenger, but did not attract as much attention as it is now receiving. Positions 2:25 a. with a | accomplishing something-on | had really exhausted Itself, | and would | under | LONDON, Oct. 20.—Special dispatches from St. Peters- burg make mention of a crushing defeat of two Japanese There is no confirmation, however, in any reliable quarier of such a report. “Two Leaders Tokio Looks - for Retreat of Russians Expects Kuropatkin o Fall Back Upon Banks. 0f the Hun TOKIO, Oct. 19.—The Russian con- centration In front of the armies of Generals Oku and Nodzu (the left and center respectively) on Monday, re- ported by Fleld Marshal Oyama, cre- ated the impression here that the Rus- sians were planning to assume the ag- | gressive and that another great bat- tle was imminent, but it is now be- d that General Kuropatkin is mere! rear, in order to gain time to with- draw his army across the Hun River, because it is believed that it will be impossible for him either to move ag- gressively against the Japanese or to hold his position on the Shakhe River. Manchurian headquarters, telegraph- ing yesterday afternoon, says: “The conditions in front of the main strength of the right army show no considerable change. The forces of the enemy which have been driven from Bensihu mainly retreated toward Kao- tal Pass. The enemy’s force in front of the right army appears-to be dimin- ishing, but the activity of his small forces continues. “There has been no considerable change in front of the center army. The enemy tried several attacks on the night of October 17, but was repulsed every time. To-day an artillery duel n progress. “The enemy in front of the left army is occasionally, but indirectly, shelling ons. The enemy stopped im- in front of our positions at g 5 8 ) B & g & g 2 3 i ortifying his pesitions. enemy that cpposed the left detach- ment of our left army has halted at a line embracing Mengtapao, San- chiatzu and Hangchiatai, and is forti- fying his positions. TR N TOKIO TO FILE A PROTEST. | Claims Russian Soldlers Are Disguls- ing Themseclves as Chinese. TOKIO, Oct. 19.—The Japanese Gov- ernment to-day decided to draw the attention of the Russian Government to the unlawful action of Russian troops in usuing Chinese costumes. The notice will be served through the American State Department, which will transmit it through the American | embassy at St. Petersburg. A memorandum issued by the For- eign Office says that on October 4 a body of infantry belonging to the Rus- sian Third Regiment of Sharpshooters, wearing Chinese costumes, attacked the Japanese forces on the Mukden road, and that Russians similarly clad approached the Japanaese lines and attempted surprises. Different reports received, it is charged, indicate that | the Russians are purchasing enormous quantities of Chinese costumes. The memorandum points out that combatants not properly uniformed are liable to punishment as offenders | against the laws of war and that par- ticipation in fighting without uniforms is a violation of International usage, | an unlawful act and contrary to the meaning of article 23 of the supple- mentary rules of the convention gov- erning the laws and customs of war | on land. It is pointed out, further, that this | action of the Russian troops will prove | a source of great calamity to innoeent Chinese, who will thereby be exposed to danger, owing to their inability from distances to distinguish the Russian soldiers from real Chinese. —_— » German Red Cross Work. BERLIN, Oct. 19.—As a result of the visit here of a delegate of th Russian Red Cross central commit- tee the German Red Cross Society has decided to send further assistance to the seat of war and will erect a Ger- man hespital at Irkutsk, Siberia, and provide it with another military am- bulance train. Negotiations are in progress regarding a similar offer to Japan. —— ‘'Will Become Russian Cruisers. WARNEMUNDE, Macklenburg- Schwerin, Oct. 19.—The mail steam- REPORT 0 LABOR WAR i Declare That Causes' of Re—E cent Violence Are More | Moral Than Economical and Founded on Distrust | BOTH SIDES MUST | SHARE THE BLAME . | Employment of Children in | Mills and Factories Is Con- | demned in Criticism Which | i | | Is Indorsed by Convention | 1 of Reserves of divorced persons, while the depu-| ] | ties had declined to accept so rigid | provision, notwithstanding the fact| Avallable | & majority of them took 2 stand sim-| | flar to that of the House of Bishops. | The committee on canons offered a res- | olution compelling divorced persons ! | seeking remarriage to wait ome year| | after the decree of the court for the BOSTON, Oct. 19.—An attempt Was | made to-day by the committee on| canons of the Episcopal House of Dep- | uties to arrange a compromise be- | tween that body and the House of | Bishops. The Bishops had adopted an | amendment forbidding the remarriage | “AS ANY COLD MAY LEAD TO CATARRH—PERUNA SHOULD BE KEPT IN EVERY HOME"—Dr. S- B. Hartman. MANY people persist in riding on;tom. Peruna should be taken aceording the street cars, Insufficiently pro- | to directions on the bottle, and continued tected by clothing. until every symptom disappears. They start out perhaps in the heat of Do not put it off. Do not waste time the day and do not feel the need of | by taking other remedies. Begin at once wraps. to take Peruna and continue taking it | until you are posttive body unduly. When | that the cold has en- TAKE they board the ecar| tirely disappeared. perhaps they are, This may save you a slightly perspiring. | long and perhaps The rapid movicg of the car cools the | PRECAUTION PE-RU-NA IN TIME. When the body is in | fatal illness later on In the season. BETTER THAN MEDICINE. this condition it is easily chilled. This| Mr. George Livingston. a prominent is especially true when a person is sit- | architect and bullder of Los Angeles, ting. Cal. writes from the Census Office Beginning a strest car ride in the mid- | BUling. Washington. D. C. as follows: dle of the day and ending it in the even- | *“/do nof hesitate, when | see a friend ing almost invariably requires extra | or acquaintance sufferng from a cold that wraps, but people do not observe mn-;,-, stubborn and threatening fo become przcs]:fionl. l;ence :hsyvcatchtcold. 2 chronic, fo recommend Peruna. olds are becoming very frequent in “It relleved me from s long snd dis- the summer on this|, ,yng catarrtal trouble and brought account. and as the | paci the strength the disease had taken NIP COLDS seeking to protect his right and | The | Russian Goneral Presh Troops 10 [ | ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. . 19.—The | Emperor has received from General Kuropatkin, under date of October 18, the following dispatch: “During the night the Japanese at-| tacked our advanced positions at Lone | Tree Hill, but they were repulsed. No reports have been received of any other engagements. Everything was quiet at all our positions up to 10 o'clock this morning. Rain fell all night and the roads have been greatly | damaged.” | General Sakhdroff telegraphed at midday to-day that the Japanese were | concentrating at Linshinpu, west of | the railroad. A detachment of Russian cavalry re-| -connoitering last night in the vicinity of Shakhe captured two Japanese guns | with no loss to itself. ! The general advises that last night| passed quletly, with the exception of | the exploits of the Russian cavalry, | and says the Russian left flank has ad- | vanced slightly. ! The military critics are not yet satis- | fied that Oyama is ready to relinquish the offensive, expressing the opinion that he may still try to break through the Russian center in order to compel | | Kuropatkin to retire to the line of the Hun River, unless he has become con- | vinced that the superiority of the Rus- sian numbers and reserves makes his withdrawal to the line of the Taitse | { River advisable. General Geisman as- serts positively that up to yesterday Kuropatkin had not brought anything | like all the regiments of his reserves into action and the number of fresh units behind which his battered troops | could re-form accounts tor Kuropat- | kin’s ability to resume the offensive. One correspondent says it is persist- ently reported that three Japanese | battalions are surrounded on a hill by i General Rennenkampff and that they | are momentarily expected to surren- | Another correspondent reports that | during the advance of the left early | last week forty Japanese with five of- ficers were surrounded in a Chinese | | village, but only five of them surren- d;dmd' the remainder committed sui- cide. —_—— PLOTTERS ACTIVE IN RUSSIA. Revolutionary Propaganda Extended | in Every Direction. | VIENNA, Oct. 19.—It appears from | reliable reports that the Czar's sub- | ject nationalities are extending their | revolutionary activities in many direc- tions. The Poles no longer prosecute | | @ national policy, but are aiding in the | general liberal movement of Europe.f They have established periodicals and | journals in the interests of this phase | of their scheme. They are circulating | millions of pamphlets of similar char- acter. Polish Separatists abound in Russia and In every other Eurone.nl i‘country. They have powerful organi- zations in England and the United | States. The national headquarters m' at Rapperswyl, Switzerland. Secret. socleties and revolutionary | newspapers are being founded by the Finns for the enlightenment of their | own people and the world at large. Russian Jews evidently are dl.scud-l ing passive resistance and systematice | ally, if secretly, organizing oppesition to the common oppression, of which | they are the most miserable vietims. Tt is believed in high quarters here that | Prince Sviatopolk-Mirski, the new Russian Minister of the Interior, wiil {be a fortunate official and personally confer a great boen on Russia should solemnization of | the law to preserve the liberty of every citi- | he finally succeed in uniting these bel- | the ceremony. By | this resolution, which referred to the | fnnocent person in a divorce for infl-| delity only, it was hoped to secure at| least a temporary agreement between | the two forc: After some. debate order for to-morrow. The deputies devoted a large part of | the day to the consideration of peti-| tions from several dioceses to use the revised version of the Bible In; churches. When the house was divided | the request was refused by a majority | of both clerical and lay deleates in the House of Deputies. I COMMITTEE'S REPORT. l‘ Bishop Potter, chairman of the; standing committee on the relations of{ capital and labor, presented a lengthy | report which touched upon certain evils the committee found and dis- cussed the industrial situation at great length. The committee was appointed by | the general convention of 1901 to study | Hflml_’HE LIIIBS‘ e e the purposes of labor organizations, to | by the Christian Church Convention |in a dispatch investigate the causes of industrial dis- | turbances and to hold themselves in readiness to act as arbitrators should their services be desired. The report says that no request for action as ar-| bitrators has been received, and that the committee has not, as yet, suc- ceeded in studying in common the oec- casions of current disturbances. The| report says: We are agreed. however, In the conviction that the causes of the violence of the last | three years in Pennsylvania, in Colorado and fn Ilinols are not so much economical as l. The strikes commonly begin in dis- | of it is that in the good in the good rust and an- | founded there is nothing | he church s concerned, ex- | cept ome versi | We perceive among our clergy and laity altke much ignorance (frankly confessed and | deplored) as to the prh les which are In. volved in the conflicts o L Every industrial dispute inv: ties—the employer. the oy public—and the public eventually casts the deciding vote, Thus a serious social responsi- bility rests upon every Christian citizen, and more especially upon the Christian minister. We call attention to the analogy between certain offenses of the union and Itke offenses, past or present, of both the capitalist and the churchman. Thus the employers’ blacklist cor- responds to the unions’ boycott. The Iock;;l N and the strike are of the same nature. | question of the closeq shop is like the ques- tion of the closed State. Men whose Puritan ancestors strove to maintain a State whose privileges should belong only to members of the church ought to be able to understand the | struggle of their brethren and to maintain a shop In which no man shall serve except a member of the union. THE LABORER'S TEACHERS. | They may not agree with thess brethrem, but they ought to appreciate their self-sacri- fice. The laborer has learmed from the cap- italist to despise order and break law. He has learned from the churchman to pursue the re- | dissenter with menace and violence. The cent tragedies In Colorado do mot follow a far distance the massacres which in sixteenth century ensued upon t] of Holland from the ecclesiastical union. While, then, we deem the tyranny and ! turbulence of the labor.union and | zen to employ whom be will and to work | for whom he will. we deprecats the hasty tem- per which, In condemning the errors of ths | unions, condemns at the same time the whole | mévement with which they are connected. The | offenses of the union are as distinct from the cause for which the organization of labor stands as the Inquisition is distinct from the 1. In the face of a prejudice and @ hos- tility for which there are eerious reasons. we are convinced that the orgamization of labor is essential to the well-being of the working | people. Its purpose s to maintain such a standard of wages, hours and conditions as shall afford every man an opportunity to grow in mind and in heart. Without organization the standard cannot e maintained in the midst of our present commereial conditions. ‘This report, in conclusion, condemns the employment of children in fac- tories and mills. The report is signed by Henry C. Potter, Willlam Lawrence, Charles P. Anderson, R. H. McKim, Hodges, C. 3 Mather and Jacob Riis. The report was accepted and a reso- lution that the commission be contin- ued was adopted by the House of Bishops. COURTS OF REVIEW. The House of Deputies adopted the proposed canon establishing courts of | review. Under it dioceses are grouped in seven districts except to have a court of seven persoms appointed by the general convention. to consider the question of instituting During the month of October no one| should think of riding on the car with- out extra wraps. A cold caught in October is liable to last the whole winter. Great caution should be observed during the month of October against exposure to cold. until to the lowered temperature, when the Hability to colds de- creases. But, during the first onset of cool nights, the liability of catch- PE-RU-NA PREVENTS COLDS. ing cold is great. No wonder so many people acquire muscular rheumatism and kidney dis- eases during this month. However, in spite of the greatest pre- cautions, colds will be caught. At the appearance of the first symp- WOULD END THE CARNAGE. Christian Church Convention Belleves It Is Time to Interfere. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 19.—The following resolution was unanimously adopted to-day: In view of the awful struggle which has in progress, during the sitting of this congress, between the Russians and the Japa- nese, it is the sense of this convention that the m= has come when the Christians, at least. ald speak on the subject of war with a loud The carnage of the recent batties has teen appalling, and this seems to be a propi- tious time for this great convention to exert ita influence sgainst the continuance of this out- Tagp upon. the ehristianity of Christ: therefore, ¥ t Resolved, First that we recommend to our Government the great importance of taking such steps as will bring about peaceful arbi- tration by which all national differences may be ssttled without resort to arms. Second, That this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States and signed by the president and secretary of this convention. . ——e———————— TO BE SEVEN PROVINCES. California, Western States and Islands Form One. BOSTON, Oect. 19.—A commission, appointed for the purpose, reported to the Episcopal convention to-day the de- talls of the plans for the creation of seven provinces of archdioceses out of groups of States. Province No. 7 will include Oregon, California, Washing- ton, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, Hawail and the Philippines. Each province will have a convention body or synod to legislate in provincial matters, the synod consisting of a house of Bishops and a house of deputies, with a primate elected by the house of Bishops for a term of years for the gen- | eral purposes of the provinces. IN THE weather becomes|away. I recommend it as a cure and & BEGINNING. cooler, it happens | tonic that cannot be surp —George Livingston. e | :(.-f Schober, 321 10th St., Portland, | Ore.. writes: “I am pieased to testify fo the wonderful curative va‘ue of Peruna in cases of colds \ and a rundown condrtion of the system. [ took it for @ cold which | could aot get rid of, and in less than a month it had cured me. | feel like a different person. s take it when I am run dows -n: 1h meed of a tonie, and I find it _ex- cellent in restoring lost strength. You certainly deserve success.”—B. Schober. We have in our flles thousands of let- ters from grateful people who have been cured by Peruna. 1f you do not derive prompt and satis- .hctory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. S. B. Hartman. Pres- tdent of The Hartmar Sanitarium. Co- Jumbus, Ohio, and he wiil give you the benefit of his valuable advice gratis. All correspondence held strictly confl- dential KUROPATKIN CRITICIZED. | A | French Correspondent Clalms to Quote High Russian Official. PARIS, Oct. 19.—The Temps to-day gives prominence to statements made from St. Petersburg which, it says, comes from a highly au- 'thonuuve source severely criticizing | the Russian generalship in the latest battle. A detailed explanation is given of the various reverses and the writer adds: “At not a point were available Rus- sian forces concentrated for an ef- fective offensive. Large numbers of men and cannon remained unutilized. Or- ders were changed suddenly In contra- diction and confusing each other, testl. | tying to general incoherence. General | Stakelberg’s army, made up of the best | ighting material, was so detached from the main body that the important turning movement confided to it was | foredoomed to failure.” The dispatch adds that the informa- tion at Mukden indicates an early evacuation of that town. g s g o T N Barry Hillard a Sulcide. SPOKANE, Wash.,, Oct. 19—Barry Hillard committed suicide at Lake- | view, Idaho, to-day. Hillard was 43 years old. 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