The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1905, Page 2

RUSSIA’S LAST STRONGHOLDRIDES FROM IS TAKEN BY OYAMA. Broken Army Will Continue Its Flight in the Direction of Siberia. I.oss of the Tie Pass Coal Mines Severe Blow 1:50 f Tie Pass sian army stronghold in huria and definitely district to the Japanese of 1905. At least. no General ander in scanty sup- res. the 1y and the nts which the most with- fan defeat at been heard of General Kawamura’ hese operations, a operating e Pass moree, nt to turn the ssible for sh army out of the fo had been prepared . ng held by the army have been withdrawn nese evidently are doing th to accomplish the en- v ment the Russians, which all suc den. but General e railway for a line be able to keep A constant suc- delaying rear-guard be expected. here have but where the next Apparently there ified positions in readi- rement probably will | y wil his pursuers. the r & Kirin or Kuan- on railw line, and if panese press the pursuit the ¥ £ may retire beyond and up the £ r there to await new s tion of which will be in Russia. The| e n involyes the | & he s in that vicinity. shun and Yentat N severe blow. The Pass and more fon has been de- upon, and preparatory orders | but the extent of the an article in the Govern- sclude peace, and strength to confess | conditions whe: 4. Better w than later ave e salvation of ¢ shipwreck h an influential Mestchersky | . FIGURES ON LATE BATTLE. Million Men Engaged and 150,000 Killed or Wounded. WITH THE JAPANESE ARMIES, ¥r ay, March 10.—Thé Japanese occu- Mukden completes the seri- General Kuropatkin's ar- vet impossible to say | tory is decisive enough | t but the general belief pre n these armies is that it | v the conclusion of peace. | »sees have been very t is believed here that h nearly 100,000, heavily, Russians. ese also lost perhaps as many as the the left tirely successful in every ance of ‘the thwest of the angle liroad and the Hun determined to the very last, f the Japanese attacks were ages were very lines of trenches while they used isands of dead were left ‘on the and this evening great fires are where the cre- ong-looked- ADVERTISEMENTS. @he Tyub Chas. Beilus & Ca Exctusi»e fiigh-Grade Clothiers No Branch Stores and No Agents. OUR STRONG SUIT IS| TO FIT YOU PROPERLY SMART CLOTHES THAT SINGLE YOU 0UT AS BEING DRESSED WELL. MATERIALS AND MODELS OF COURSE EXCLUSIVE. Originality stamps our eclothes this present Good €r ere have favored the eollecti 182 fiearny Street CThurlow Block n n |l en- | asters, etc., are eiready be- | fighting after t |oFFICTRS PETITION The | Russians | Russians having | 1 for occupation of Mukden philosophi- cally. They are, of course, delighted over the successful outcome of the ope- rations, but they have too much hard work ahead to give them time for cele- brations. | The Russians in all directions fought splendidly, making desperate stands and holding their positions until forced out by the flanking movement. The holding of the villages in the angle against General Oku's army was par- v valuable, as it allowed the ! ong the Shakhe River ire in good order. The destruction of the railroad bridge across the terfere greatly with the Japanese use of the railway to bring up supplies. i t time the Russians have ) destroy the railroad apanese captured enormous ies of supplies and ammunition ous places, and it is believed that the retreating Russians succeeded in carrying off only a small quantity. A conservative estimate places the actually engaged in the fighting 50,000 on each side and the total number of men on both sides at more than 1,000,000 EXR s TROOPS IN GOOD SPIRITS. Kuropatkin Reports His Men Still in Fighting Mood. ST. PETERSBURG, March 16.—The following dispatch has been received by Emperor Nicholas from General Kuropatkin, dated March 15: ‘The troops are traversing Tie Pass In good order. I have inspected the Fourteenth Division of Infantry. The men seemed in good spirits. fighting had not commenced. During my progress northward I saw many jircops and trains in good order. I 2iso inspected the regiments recently from Russia, which presented an ex- cellent appearanc | A telegram from 3 the commander in chief, dated March 14, says: “l received no furthef reports of he repulse of the Jap- anesc at the Fan River. “Individual soldiers and bodies of men separated from their units have been rejoining their ccmmands during tke previous two day vice is partly restored to order. The troops have been provisioned again and are ready for fighting.” The commander in chief conecluded s with saying he had not received exact réeperts of the number of killed, weunded and missing, or of the losses in artillery and trains. s EMPEROR. | Ask That He Refuse to Consider Pro- posals for Peace. BERLIN, March 16.—The | German iGO\'rrnmPnt has been informed that |the Russian Emperor has again put | aside all peace suggestions and is ‘un- shaken in his resolution. to e the war. All the higher officers of the Far continu Eastern army recently joined in a pe- | tition to Emperor Nicholas not to consider peace, asking that they be given other opportunities to show the quality of Russian valor and report- ing that, although they had retreated, | they and the army still had the will | to fight, Emperor Nicholas’ decision had al- | ready been taken and the army's ap- !pozl only added to his conviction that | Russia stil had resources of a char- |acter that would stand more beating | before surrender became necessary. gt LOAN NOT YET A FAILURE. | Russia May Meet the Terms Imposed by French Bankers. PARIS, March 16.—The postpone- ment of the proposed new | loan continues to occupy attention in | official and financial investment cir- |cles. The bankers take the view that the loan is not a failure and that an adjustment of the | still be reached. One of the bankers |who went to St. Petersburg relates that during a conversation with Witte | the latter remarkea: | “We can afford to suffer a defeat in | Manchuria, but not one in Paris.” | This is taken to indicate a strong | feeling in St. Petersburg for all pos- {sible concessions to- maintain Rus- | sia’s financial position in the French | market. 8 N B oy TRAFFIC IS RESUMED. Sinmintin Railrond Is Again Traps- porting Supplies. NEWCHWANG, March' 16.—The people of Newchwang are jubilant over the news of the capture of Tie Pass by the Japanese, as it will re- suit in the releasing ©of thousands of Junks which have long been' detained {on the upper Liao River, and in the | freeing of vast acvcumulations of beans and bean cake as soon as the | river opens. Traffic on the Yinkow-Koupangtse- | Sinmintin Railroad was resumed this morning. It 1& prébable that hereaf- | ter there will be |regarding the shipment of provisions, no matter for whom they are in- tended. 5 3 | e SAYS PEACE MUST COME. Kussian Official Declares Czar Can Send No More Troops. WARSAW, March 16.—Omne of the highest officials in Poland, in the course of a conversation to-day, said: “It is all very well to talk about | continuing the war, but with no lead- lers. no generals, no soldiers, no guns |ané the theater of war wo far away grickly, the war now appears to ,be ended. It is true we have soldiers in the empire, but it is impossible to |withdraw them from Central and Southern Russia to Manchuria while the disturbances continue. All is quiet iz Poland now, but let orders for mobilization be given and we will bave a revolution.” ————— No Regulars at State Camps. WASHINGTON, ' March 16,—The ‘War Department finds that it will be obliged to decline to send regular troope to the encampment of State militia organizations for the reason that funds for transportation are not avallable Hun River probably will in- | Up to the | time of my departure from Tie Pass | The train ser- | Russian | conditions may | no question raised ; that we are unable to transport troops | RUSSIANS SURE 0 BE ENTRAPPED Continued From Page 1, Column 1.: | kin’s successor. True, . he has some | thirty r forty miles of hilly{ country extending from Tie Pass to Fenghautsien, which might enable him to hold off the enemy for a time, { but once out of the hills he has before him nearly 300 miles of flat, open coun- try and innumerable rivers and streams to cross. This is what is termed the great valiey of the Sungari, | but is in fact an immense plain, bound- | ed on the east by high mountains and extending northward into. 8iberia and | westward into Mongolia. - Kirin, east \of the railway, and Harbin, the most northerly point on the railway, where it branches off to Viadivostok east- ward and to Siberia westward, are the centers of this wonderfully rich coun- | try, resembling In many respects the Northwest Territories of Canada. From Tie Pass the railway runs over hills known as “The Divide” to Kai- van, twenty miles; then, striking into a valley, on either side of which rise high hiils, it emerges into the plain just northeast of the important Chi- nese city of Fenghusien. From there to Harbin hardly a hill can be seen from the railway train, the line running al- most straight, except where an occa- sional curve is necessary to reach a city or favorable crossing of a river. Besides the railway there are splendid { wagon roads from Tie Pass to Kaiyuan, where it branches, one branch making a detour to the westward, skirting the mountains and running almost direet to Harbin. The other branch passes through the mountains to Kirin, from which center there are many' roads. The distance from Tie Pass to Har- bin ie very little less than 300 miles, and, except for the first few miles, every acre 1s under cultivation or sup- porting hundreds of cattle, sheep and horses. So far as the commissariat is concerned, the Russians need have no fear. Hardly a pound of last year's crop of beans, millet or wheat left the reountry, the Russians buying it all {and storing it In stations along the railway, immense shelters being erect- ed for its reception. They also pur- chased all the cattle and horses, and had Cossacks herding them. The weather on the plain “is very much colder than in the Mukden sec- ! tion of Manchuria, the thermometers |in the train dropping several degrees | as the divide is crossed and continuing | to 20 down until Lake Baikal is reach- |ed. . As a rule the ground does not com- | mence to thaw until April, except a | very little on the surface in the middle of the day, the sun being strong even in winter. The most important Russian town between Tie Pass and Harbin, with | the exception of Kirin, which is not {on the railway, is Kwansuling, also spelled Kungchuling. This town is a little more than 100 miles north of Tie Pass. Here were gatherell great stores of provisions, alongside of which were | erected Red Cross hospitals, the best | by far that the Russiang had south | of Harbin. At all the other stations | there were also hospital accommoda- tions. so that if Linevitch eéscape from Oyama at Tie Pass, he has a good | chance to cross at the most favorable season of the year. Another few weeks | and the roads will be impassable. But | if he i¢ hard pressed there isnota de- | fensible position, unless he abandon the railway and seek safety in the east- | ern hil Later in the year, of course, | the rivers would afford some protec- | tion; but in winter, being frozen, they | are as easy to cross as is the country. —_— | CAPTURE OF SINGKING. | Russians Lose Their Positions to the . East .of Mukden. TOKIO, March 16.-~The Japanese occupied Singking on March 13. | | | Singking is situated about eighty | miles almost due east of Mukden. A report recefved in Tokio, March 14, from the Japanese headquarters in the field said: “In the direction of Singking our | forces have been dislodging the enemy from Yingpan, eighteen miles east of Fushun, and on March 11 occupied that place.” by BAILROAD WILL BE ATTACKED. large Numbers of Chinese Bandits to the West of Harbin, HARBIN, March 16.—Large num- | killed by Chin=se at Mukden after the MUKDEN ON HORSEBACK After Kuropatkin’s Depart- ure Drunken Cossacks Loot, the City. Russian Left Army, Cut Off by Japanese, Succeeds . 3 . in Escaping. Sk i LONDON, March 17.—From a dis- patch to the Daily Telegraph from Sinmintin, descriptive of the fighting around and the fall of Mukden, it ap- pears that General Kuropatkin left for Tie Pass on horseback on March 8, his | staff following by train the next day. On_March 10 Cossacks began looting ! in Mukden and, maddened with drink, committed the wildest excesses and: robberies and killed numerous civil- ians. The Russians’ retreat from Mukden station was well executed until it was discovered that .the cordon of the Jap- anese in the rtar, two and - a half miles from town, was nearly com-| plete, when the retirement became a flight. The Russian left army, com- prising some 15),000 men, acccrding to the same dispa‘ch, was cut oif by the Japanese, but ig said to have, by forced marches, splendidly executed a junc- tion with the inain body at {Tie Pass in three days. The correspondent in Tokio of the; Daily Telegraph learns that the Jap- | anese left army advanced toward Muk- den at flying speed and in the last four days covered vrespectively thirty, thirty-five, twenty and fifteen miles. One force was sent especially to search for (ieneral Kuropatkin and his staff, but they had already gone. o B BATTLE'’S COST TO OKU. Second Japanese Army Loses 18,000 to 20,000 Men. GENERAL OKU'S HEADQUAR- TERS, Monday, March 13,—In the re- cent fighting around Mukden General Oku's army lost between 18,000 and 20,000 men and it is estimated that it hias inflicted on the Russian forces a loss, including prisoners, of 50,000, Geéneral Oku's zrmy suffered the heav- iest of the Japanese armies, for the reason that it was forced to meet the entire Russian force sent to protect (hg retirement of General Kuropatkin's army. —— NOT MURDERED IN MUKDEN. French War Correspondent Nadeau a | Japanese Prisoner. PARIS, March 16.—Ludovic Na- ceau, the French newspaper corre- | spondent, who was represented from Santopou yesterday to have been Russian retreat, at the same time that Little, the correspondent of the Chi- rago Daily News, was erroneously as- serted to have lost Wi life, has cabled to his paper, the Journal, that he was made a prisoner at Mukden by the Japanese and that he will be sent to Japan, where he hopes to regain his liberty. SIS L T DEATH HOVERS NEAR RETIRED ARMY OFFICER General Hawley, Who Served Twenty- Four Years in Senate, Is Seri- ously Tl WASHINGTON, March 16.—Gener- al Joseph R. Hawley, who retired from the Senate on March 3. last, af- ter a service of twenty-four years, and who was made brigadier general on the retired list of the United States army by Congress in recognition of his valiant services during the Civil War, | is lying at his residence in this city | seriously ill. His condition is said to be critical. i bodies show many. wounds, indicating BATTLEFIELD IS CARPETED WITH BODIES Grim Evidence of the Ter- rific Fightig on Front of Oku's Line. Wounded Men Cremated in Village Fired by Burst- . ing Shells. GENERAL -OKU'S ° HEADQUAR- TERS, Saturday, March 11.—The work of clearing ‘the second army’s battle- fleld west of the railway was begun in earnest to-day. The bodies of the Rus- sians are being buried and those of the Japanese are being cremated. The “battlefield, especially in the vi- cinity of Likampu, filve miles west of the railway, presents a terrible sight. Fully 2000 bodies are still lying on the field. This locality was the scene of the flercest fight of the left armies. A division of Japanese attacked Lik- ampu and a small village to the south and drove the Russians out, inflicting much loss. The Russians, cn being re- inforced counter-attacked, driving out the Japanese and inflicting enormous losses. The Thirty-third Regiment, south of the village, was. practically annihilated, receiving in frort and on the flank an artilleyy fire before the in- fantry attack. The Japanese were greatly outnum- bered when the attack began, and their | dead were piled in heaps behind the low mud walls of the village. The Russian dead were scattered over the field, almost carpeting it. There are evidences of desperate hand-to-hand fighting near the vil- lage. The bodies of Japanese and Rus- slans are piled together in scores. The that the men were fighting to the last, though wounded. Likampu was the scene of a fierce street and house to house ° struggle. Every street, lane and compound wall shows its heap of dead. Many build- ings ‘' were burned, ecremating the wounded who crawled into them for shelter. To seek cover for the ad- vancing troops was impossible on ac- | count of the frozen ground, and both the Japanese and Russian charges were made across the open flelds. The fight- | ing at this point was probably the | mosi deadly and desperate of the en- tire war thus far. | The Chinese were not allowed on the field, because it was feared that they would rob the dead. e SR KAZIBEE TO COMMAND. General Named to Direct the Defense | of Viadivostok. ST. PETERSBURG, March 16.— General Kazibee has been appointed | ccmmander in chief of the forces at! Viadivostok. Bobrinski succeeds Count Vorontsoff-Dashkoff as president of | the organizing committee of the Red | Crogs Soclety. i ——— PRESIDENT TO ATTEND WEDDING OF HIS NIECE Executive and His Wife Will Witness Marriage of Miss Eleanor Roose- ° velt in New York. WASHINGTON, March 16.—Presi- dent and Mrs. Roosevelt will leave early to-morrow morning for New York, where to-morrow afternoon the President and Mrs. Roosevelt will be the guests of honor at the wedding of the President’s niéce, Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt. President Roosevelt will attend a banquet given at Delmonico’s in his honor by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. About 10 o'clock he will go to the Hotel Astor to attend a banquet given by the Sons of the American Revolution. The President will de- liver addresses at both banquets. ‘TWO ARMIES RACE TOWARD THE SUNGARI | dred feet from the bottom. With the | Great Railroad Bridge the Goal for Which Each Is Striving. Rumor That Russians Will Make Vladivostok Their Base. it LONDON, March 17.—An uncon- firmed -report from St. Petersburg states that General Kuropatkin will re- | treat not to Harbin, but to Kirin and Vladivostok. This, however, is regard-; ed here as quite improbable, and the | ensuing fortnight is expected to wit- | ness a keen race between the Russians and Japanese for the- great rallway bridge over the Sungari River, as it is believed that after Tie Pass there is no fortified place of sufficient strength at which to make a stand until the Russians reach Harbin. If Kuropatkin should he able to make a successful retirement thither it is likely -that he would be able to add some 50,000 fresh troops to his exhausted army. A question discussed here is the pos- sibility of Rusela evacuating Viadivos- tok and concentrating its garrison at rbin. H’:’nrlous reports giving the alleged terms on whieh Russia has obtained a loan through the French syndicate are current here and on the continent. These reports are conflicting in detalls, but agree that the loan is for a shfrt term; that the amount is about $125.- 000,000 and the rate about $0. KILAUEA STILL SPITTING FIRE Epecial Dispatch to The Call. HONOLULU, March 16.—The whole’ floor of the crater of Kilauea is covered | with lava which is in constant action. The pit is fAlling up rapidly. When the | outbreak first occurred there was a sudden roar and a stream of fire burst out of the side of the pit about six hun- dred feet from the top and one hun- emission of lava came terrific ex- plosions which sent boulders weigh- ing many tons high in the air. These would fall back on the side of the pit and then go rumbling down to the bot- | tom like fireballs, many times enlarged, from a Roman candle. Unlike the outbreak a few years ago, when visitors had sometimes to wait | hours for a display of the pyrotechnics, the explosions at this time are almost continuous. And it was due to this fact as much as anything that the fire apparently ceased a few nights later. the force, of the outburst causing the i side of the'pit.for several hundred feet !to fall in and bank the fire. As the gas accumulated this mass of earth and rock was forced aside and the outbreak increased in ferocity and is increasing hourly. | What was seen of the volcano in ten minutes is thus described by Dr. Ar-l cher Irwin, a visitor to Hawali: “I arrived at the Volcano House at|and broke her leg. Mrs. Richard: 5 a. m. I left the house at 5:30 a. m..| arriving at the edge of the hot pot!the Volcano House, made as comfortable as possible. There about 5:50. Suddenly the whole bot- tom of the crater became one living mass of molten lava. From the mid- | dle a stream of liquid fire poured and | Ballou, wife of one of Honolulu attorneys, died suddenlv on the mor: daughter of Louisville, Ky., and a niece of Senator Morgan, CZAR CALLS OUT TROOPS IN POLAND Mobilization of Reserves in the Warsaw Distriet Is Ordered. Fresh Army of Three Hun- dred Thousand Men to Be Raised. Special Cable to The Call and New York Her. ald. _Copyright, 1905 by the New York Her- ald Publishing Company. BERLIN, March 16.—That the war party is still in the ascendant in Rus- sia is seen from the fact that orders have been given for the mobilization of the troops in Warsaw military dis- triet. There has been no mobilization Warsaw since the beginning of war, as the authorities have been afraid of serious trouble. That they have row decided to risk this shows in the | that their reason for carrying on the war is very strong. Warsaw will supply about 40,000 re- servists. Great disorders are expected to attend the mobilization. The Czar is preparing to sénd a fresh army of 300,00 men to Manchuria. GEN. BENSON DIES SUDDENLY IN NEW MEXICO SANTA FE, N. M., March 16.— General R. S. Benson, one of the best known cattlemen of the South- west, and who held important posi- tions in Iowa before coming to New Mexico, dropped dead to-day while sitting on a porch at his ranch house seventeen miles south of Carlsbad. Fn et DEATH OF CATHOLIC PRIEST. SAN JOSE, March 16.—Father M. Marron, who had been fn a local san- itarium for four years suffering from paralysis, died this morning. He was pastor of the Catholic church at Wat- sonville from 1879 to 1899, when he was compelled to resign bocause of illness. S iy Redding Loses an Old Resident. REDDING, March 16.—G. F. Schro- ter died Wednesday afterneom at the home of his daughter, Mrs. G. C. Strode, in this city. Schrotsr was 75 years of age and had lived in Shasta siuce 1855. He served as a gublic offi- cer several terms and never failed in re-election when he sought it. A e Passes Away in Honolulu. HONOLULU, March 16.—Mrs. 8. M. the leading of March 7. General Basil She was a Duke of -— the islands, fell with her horse while coming from the crater with the rest of the party about 8 o'clock at night in great pain, was conveyed on a litter to where she was being no surgical assistance nearer than Hilo, doctors of that ecity were communicated with by telephone. They before my awe-stricken gaze there was ' reached the hotel at 4 o'clock In the formed a lake about one acre in area|morning and Mrs. Richards’ | limb was set. of bubbling, spouting fire. “The remarkable feature of it all was the rapid manner in which the red mass blackened.” Mrs. D. W. Richards of Nevada. who. with her husband and L. L. Richards and wife and G. R. Richards is touring ' infured e GREENVILLE, Miss., March 16.—Officers who went from hers this morning to arrest the negroes who shot Deputies Duke and Leonard at Dudley last night returned to-night with two dead negroes. The megroes had upon the officers, who reslied bers of Chincse bandits and Chinese troops are reported to be west of Tsit- sihar and an attack on the raflroad is ¢xpected. . % peb I In spite of the heavy withdrawals of ccnvalscents and those who have been sent westward, this city is being filled to overflowing:with wounded sol- diers from Mukden. A number of Chinese suspects have | been arrested here. Al il JAPAN IN NEED OF FUNDS. | Sounding German Financiers With | ... Reference to a Loan. BERLIN, March 17.—The Lokal Anzeiger says Japan'is sounding Ger- man financiers with reference to the placing of a Japanese loan on the German market. 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