The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 5, 1905, Page 2

THE SAN: FRANCISCO ‘éALL -MONDAY, JUNE .5, 1905 RUSSIAN SHIPS PERMITTED TO REPAIR AT MANILA. SO SLAV VESSELS [NSEAWORTHY Every Courtesy Shown Ad- miral and Men by the American Naval Officials W | | | 1 MANILA, June 4—The boa tion appointed by Admiral on aceount of water line. -, accompanied e French | d upon Governor gh After the usual had becn exchanged, Gov- Consui General greetings ¥ ernor Wright asked | “Admiral Enquist, do you wish o | stay st Manila permanently?’ : Rear Admiral Enquist replied: “My ships are umseawor I have wt heard from my Government and I Jequest time to make repairs.” Governor Wright replied that, accord- Ing to construction of the neutrality ; laws, the Russian vessels could Yemflinl long enough to make necessary repairs, and, after these were finished, they | must leave within twenty-four hours or | dismantle and intern. Rear Admiral i r sted permission to bring hips beh the breakwater for re- This request was granted him e ships will be moved on Tuesday the Japanese Consul, led upon Governor Wright just pre- Goro, A s to Rear Admiral Bnquist and nquiry regarding the probable ion of the Russian warships. ng he met Rear Admiral En- the corridor of the Governor's e and tendered him a profound Enquist and staff then Major General Corbin, te Admiral Enquist expressed for the hospitality and afforded the Nussians and the with which General Corbin of- he use of the army hospitals with surgeons and food for the ed Russian sallors, General Corbin to- | ral many admirals were er of us” replied the The others are in better luck streaming down the ¢ as he said “this { d the Russian cruiser | a) rexploded torpedoes arged by the Japanese are & menace | the China Sea | d the Russian | killed up to | e additional | an navy the Russian sur- of caring for the tears were n officer’s f. flicer on b s that t then transferred and left the fight night. He claims that he did ow that the fight was continued on He declared that the Japanese dden and so feroclous | n was completely over- e ships of his section while Viadivostok were at reac time looking for a fight with the same the Japanese and when they encountered | their op s fought gallantly The » ships steamed into Ma- | nila ¢ fifteen knots. The Rus- | now taking on food supplies. s Lo o RUSSIANS EXPECTED VICTORY. Why Rejestvensky Risked His Fleet in the Straits of Korea. | 4—A telegram from hat a member of the Rus- | ren asked why the Rus- | hips took the risk of essaving the Channel, said were confident of victory. Reach- ing Vladivostok was not the ouly object of our fleet. Before leaving the Baltic the Czar had commanded us to fight and defeat the Japanese fleet. We. were anxious to obey this order and were confident and ready to fight from the start. Our mission is now ended.” Of the captured ships brought to Sasebo, the Nicplai is the most severe- 1y damaged. There are many holes on the port side more than three feet in diameter., The majority of the quick- firing guns on the port side were de- stroyed and the forward funnel is partly shot away. One hole along the water line measures ten feet. A Maidzura dispatch says the Asahl heavily engaged the Borodino in thé navel battie. After the Borodino was on fire and commenced sinking the Asahi suspended firing. The Borodino continued to fire until she went down, Practicelly her last shot struck- 'the Asghi astern on the starboard -side/ killing Lieutenant Morichita and seven~” others. Morichita's leg was shot off, but, using his sword as a crutch, be managed to reach the deck, where be died. The dying oficer asked for paper on which to write a farewell message to the Japanese navy. He wrote: “Banzai! 1 die a glorioys death.” ) . oy AUSTRIA APPLAUDS PRESIDENT. Move for Peace Favorably Received by Vienna Press. VIENNA, June 4.—President Roose- velt's peace utterances were read here with the keenest interest. They are the subject of much speculation in the newspapers and receive general com- mendation, but there is some doubt concerning a successful outcome in line with the President’s views. The Freie Presse says: “Very Important news comes from | Washington. Now for the first time one of the greatest states of the civi- lized world through its official head has made efforts to end the war. Those offers doubtiess will encounter the«! greatest difficulties in St. Petersburg, Lut three things work in their favor, President Roosevelt’s unentangled posi- | tion, the fact that the appeal was made in the name of humanity and be- | cause Japan was aware of President Roosevelt’s Initiative.” R4 TR CRUISER VARIAG REFLOATED. Former Russian Warship to Enter the Navy of the Mikado. LONDON, June 5.—The Tokio corre- spondent of the Times says five Russian naval officers captured or rescued after the battle of the Sea of Japan prefer to remain in Japan as prisoners. The correspondent says that the! cruiser Variag, sunk by the Japanese off Chemulpo at the beginning of the war, has been refloated. & we Nebegatoft May Tarry in Japan. TOKIO, June 4.—It {5 deemed unlike- 1y that Admiral Nebogatoff will sign a Barole. i sistant Minister of the Interic | other steps necessary to preserve order, | | continue and that the question of peace | will | the_effect of the summoning of a popu- | 1ar aj | whether on | bly. | thirty, came to Siashabotzu, nine mites | .- CZAR STRIKES AT ACTTATORS Showers Honors Upon the | Hated Governor iGeneral of Russia’s Capital City i £ l BURG, June 5,’2:10 a. m. | Government nhas shown | as not weakencd in this Instead of yielding stormy nds whicn the would ' Bm- y coffer- on Gov- | him As- in place | i8 hoped tvensky's defeat sed _power report, makin, ernor tic T of Major General Rydzefsky, wuo i a Senator, also chief of the De-|{ t of Police and commander of | vs of the gendarmeric. Gen Trepoft is given the right by the ul to clese ali assemblies. and congresses, to & nd indefinitely ‘all societies, | {leagues and other bodles manifesting and to take all pernicious a it S0 as to preveni interference with tu established regithe and 1o suppress the - revolutionary propaggnda } This ukase, which intrysts almost aictatoriul powers to the hcad-of the| imperial pelice fo control the agirators now almost peremptorily demanding a| constitution, representative g0, rent | and the surrender of the vital princi- ples of the autocracy, and to pul down the disorders with which the 'revolu-| tionists are thfeatening the country,; makes him responsible to the Emperor. COURSE UNSWERVING. | nt is of the deepest im- | he present state of Russia that the Governmnent, CTAR’S The docu portance in and indicates while steadily proceeding in its plans | £ or the fulfiliment of the imperial prom- | es contained In the rescript of March | 5, 1s determined not to be swerved from | ifs purpose by the pressure of military | and naval disasters, but, in its own time and as speedily as possible, to give | the nation the legislative body on 'which | the Bouligan _commission has been working. In it may, perhaps, also be | taken as an intimation that the war will | not be submitted to a Zemsky Sobor. { According to the Russ, the result of labors of the Bouligan commission, ch has now been printed and sub- mitted to the commissioners, does not embody a definite plan for the organiza- tion and functions of a new govern- but rather a collection and | fication of the necessary data for | the formation of an assembly, giving alternative views of the various points in dispute and leaving the final decision in the hands of the Ministers. th GROUPING OF THE DATA. The material ~athered by the com- mission has been grouped under six heads: First, a historical survey of the forms assumed by popular’ representa- tion in Russia from the fifth to-' the sixth century; second, consideration of embly on the country under present circumstances; third, the extent to which suffrage shall be granted, general, educational or property qualifications, and whether classes and occupations should be rep- resented; fourth, the extent of 'the as- sembly’s right to interpellate Ministers; fifth, the extent of the assembly’s rights over the budget; and, lastly, what pro- vinces of government should be re- moved to the competency of the assemi« Thus, nothing regarding the “impe- rial douma” has been predetermined, Minister Bouligan reserving the right to give his opinion to his co-Ministers. e TOGO VISITS HIS LATE FOE. Personally Expresses His Sympathy for the Wounded Russlan Admiral. TOKIO, June 4.—Admiral Togo visited Rojestvensky in the navy hospital at Sasebo yesterday. Togo expressed sym- pathy for the wounded Russian admiral, and préised the desperately courageous fight put up by the Russians. He ex- pressed the hope that Rojestvensky would soon be able to return to Russia. Rojestvensky was deeply moved. Ile thanked Togo and conmgratulated Japan on the courage and patriotism of its sails ors. He sald it lessened the regret and sorrow of defeat to know the high cher- acter of the victors. Admiral Yamamoto, Minister' of the Navy, has dispatched flowers for the room of Rear Admiral Rojestvensky. Ac- companying the flowers was a, letter to the wounded Russian officer, saying: “l beg to express my respect for you in discharging your duty like a soldier in fighting desperately for the sake of your fatherland. I cannot refrain from evmpathizing with you in your wounded condition, and hope the accommodations. of our hespital and the ability of our naval surgeons will ease your suffering and speedily restore your health.” Admiral Yamamoto also sent a general letter to the wounded Russian officers and men, expressing the ‘hope that their suf- fering would soon be ended and that they would speedily recover. it n ol UNIMPORTANT SCRIMMAGES. Small Bodies of Russian Cavalry Re- pulsed by Japanese. TOKIO, June 4.—General Linevitch is believed to be at Kunchulin with his| main force, his advance guard occupy- ing the Fengeswa-Itsungchu line. It was announced at imperial head- quarters that the following has been re- ceived from the headquarters of the Manchurian armies: “At 7 o’'clock on the morning.of June 2 the enemy’s cavalry, numbering about east of Changtu. On the same day a troop of cavalry of a like number ap- peared at Nanchengtzu, six miles north- east of Whyuanpaomen, and was re- pulsed. On the same day also our scouts attacked the enemy’s cavalry five miles north of Changtu rajlway station, kii- ing one man and two horses and cap- tyring one saddle horse.” e TN DRIFTS ABOUT FOR SIX DAYS. Russian Destroyer’s Supplies Exhausted When Assistance Comes. SHANGHAL June 4.—The Russian torpedo-boat destroyer towed into port to-day reports that she drifted about for six days. There were 180 men on board and there was very little food for them. Only one day’'s supply of water was left. The destroyer is dam- aged forward and her crew has already been transferred to the Russian trans- ports at Wusung. The Russian transports at Wusung have submitted to internment and their crews have been paroled. AR L6 Crar at Memorial Setvice. ST. PETERSBURG, June 4.—The Em- peror and the Empress and members of the royal family attended a memorial service at Tsarskoe-Selo to-day for thosé who have fallen in the naval bat- tie of the sea of Janan. ——— You cannot nourish a beast in the heart and have beauty in the face. | sian fleet. was discovered by the Japanese | i cruiser Idzumo, which blundered upon it | !in the fog and narrowly escaped capture. JUNKS. ASSIST TOCO'S FLEET Scatter Mines in Fromnt of Russian Warships Dur- ing Battle in: the Straits VLADIVOSTOK, June 4.—From the ac- counts of participants in the battle of the of Japan as given here can be con- tructed a picture of the first day of the On the morning of May 27, when ian fleet found itseif 120 miles elith of Tsu Island, it was headed for the stiaits in three columns, the battle- | ships and five cruisers on the left, the | light cruisers on the right and the trans- | ports and terpedo-boats between. The | weather was foggy and thé view there- fore difficult. At £:30 o'clock in-the morning the Rus- | 3 i At 10:30 o'cloek four Japgnese crulm-rs—“ the Chitoze, Kasuga, Sushima and:Niit- | aka—were discovered to the mortheast of he fleet and were fired on by the battle- | ips. The Japanese cruisers disappeared | and the Russian fieet proceeded through | the straits. Suddenly. at 1:20 o'clock in the after- noon, a gaunt silholiette of Japanese ves- | sels, their greenish-blue paint making them scarcely visible in the fog, loomed up to the westward of the Russian ves- | seis. These Japanese consisted of four | battleships and the armored cruiers To- | kiwa, Nisshin, Kaesuga, Iwate and Idzu. mo. They immediately opened a ‘heavy | fire, which was especially directed against | the flagships of the various squadrons of | ‘ the Russian fleet. | Admiral Rojestvensky signaled to the transports. to place themselves on the right of the squadron of light cruisers, so as to increase their distance from the fighting portion of the fleet, which was | now hotly engaged and -suffering upder | the well-aimed fire of the Japanese. BROWN GUNNERS SHOOT STRAIGHT Owing to the precision.of. the Japanese | s and jthe' concentration of their fire on the fidgship within an hour and a half the Kniaz Souvaroff and the Os- labya were reduced to wrecks and soon sark. . Almost at the same time as the opening | of the engagement between the battle- | ship divisions g column of light Japanese | cruisers appeared from the eastward and | fell upon the retiring Russian transports | and the light crulsers. The cruisers | Viadimir Monomach and Dimitri Donskoi were detached from the left column and sent to their aid. They were repuised by | the Japanese cruisers, but not before the | TUral had been brought to a sinking con- dition. Theq hattle continued until .5 o'clock without any further noticeable change in the situation. Soon thereafter the battle- ship Alexander III began to list Badly and dropped out of the line, but was quickly repaired, resuming her place and reopening fire. The battleship Borodino was then heading the line. The Japanese, noticing the' condition of the Alexander IIT, ‘concentrated their firg upon her and she again' dropped‘out of the line, this time finally, and disappeared. Such a heavy fire from the Japanese 12-inch guné was' then directed = against the Boroding that she was disabled amt sank. This was at 7:30 o'clock in the evening. The battleship Sissoi Veliky was now ablaze, but was firing every avail- able gun. At this hour the onslaught of torpedo-boats ffom the coast of Japan and the closing in of the battleships from the left broke up the Russian fleet, all of which, except four battleships and the converted cruiser Ural, had been holding together. During the night the Japanese torpedo attacks. continued, the result of ~which was not known here until the report of the commander of the cruiser Izumrud was received from Vladimir Bay. JUNKS SCATTER MINES. During the battle a.great fleet of Jap- anese jupks is said to have obstructed the movements of the Russian fleet. The Russian officers assert that these junks scattered mines in the paths of their ves- sels. The bodies of Lieutenant Machlis of the cruiser Almas and of other officers and sailors brought here by the Almaz and the torpedo-boat destroyers were duried to-day. Captain Reiff of the de- stroyer Grozny, describing the capture of Admiral Rojestvensky, said that his ves- sel, in company with the destroyer Bedovi, on which Admiral Rojestvensky escaped, was steaming northward when it .encountered two Japanese »deltxog‘:a. The. Bedov} signaled the. Grozny, “Hew many Knots' can you make?’ and om re- ceiving the reply, ‘‘Twenty-three,” or- dered full speed for Vladivostok. - The GrogZny, instead of %H‘ls ‘signal, engaged one of the Jaj de- stroyers, but the Bedovi xu'ed the white flag and the Red Cross flag.” While doing battle with her opponent the Grozny was unable to go to the ald of her consort, which was taken in tow by the other Japanese destroyer. The Grozny succeed- ed in ghaking off her opponent and later encountered another Japanese destroyer, which she sank in a running fight. e GRATEFUL TO PRESIDENT. Russians Appreciate His Proffer of i Friendly Services. ST. PETERSBURG, June 5, 2:10 2. m.— President Roosevelt's tender of his good offices to. bring abott .peace is recefved with general favor in the press and by the public and a desire that some steps should be taken toward securing an hon- orable peace is increasingly manifest. The Russ declares that the President’s offer should be commended as an act of friendship tending to bring out Japan's terms of peace and Russia’s acceptance of the offer would not mean surrender on humlliating terms. The paper maintains, at the e time, that the negotiations, if begun, must be direct and that there must be. no intervention by other powers. The Bourse Gazette says that Russia must make the best possible use of the friendly offices of the United States and Great Britain. This paper, as well as the Synolschesva and the Nashazhin and others, advances the .idea that Japan will be disposed to grant better terms to the Russian people than to the bu- reaucrats who began the war, These papers reiterate the demand for a Zem- sky Sobor to settle the question. Even the Grashdanin declares peremptorily for peace, the Novoe Vremya alone dissent- ing to the general chorus by saying that peace ig not so essential as foreign and internal enemies 1 e, and picturing Great Britain, the United States and the Continental powers as beginning to trem- ble in face of the *yellow danger.” Members of the diplomatic corps ex- press their pleasure that Mr. Roosevelt has taken tne lead in urging Russia to glve up the prosecution of the war, but they said they were apprehensive that the President’s effort would be fruitless. Baron Rosen, the new > to ‘Washington, does not seem to be accel-’ erating his dmnm on account ‘of de- velopments in the United States. He will sallion June 27, 3 You cannot preveat the pisces fiving by M-:vo“vc' mm‘bfihr. i : - | | | | reinforced to the number of two or three hundred, again invaded ‘the hall and {rushed "on the audlence with drawn swords, The' people defended themselves FETE ENDS ~INARIOT IN-RUSSIA el People in Gardens Call for Funeral March in Memory of Sailors and a Battle With the Police Follows 'EAKERS DEMAND END OF THE WAR| Crowd Driven Before Drawn Swords With the Resuit That Several Are Badly Injured in Disturbance S HESE ST. PETERSBURG, June 4—At a great | demonstration this evening in the Pav- !O\sk gardens, near Tsarskoe-Selo, the 0 persons present clamored for a | funcral march in memory of the Russian sallors who lost their lives'in the naval disaster in the Sea of Japan. The mem- | bers of the orchestra became alarmed | and ficd from the platform. M. Novikoff, former Mayor of Baku, arose and sald: | “Let us all by rising show respect for | the victims. Down with the war. We have had enough blood.” | Some eighty policemen entered the far- | ther end of the hall and elbowed their way through the crowd toward M. Novi- koff, whereupon cries were raised of “Let us attack the police.” Chairs were seized and hurled at the police, the crowd being led by a colonel with a drawn sword. The policemen fled precipitately. When order was restored a number of speeches were delivered on the national crisis. Suddenly the police, with chairs and sticks, but after a battle lasting ten minutes were driven from the hali into the garden, where there was a battalion of Tirailleurs. The soldiers raised their rifles to their shoulders pre- liminary to the order to fire, causing a panic. The people fled toward the exits, and finding them closed smashed the doors and windows of the hall and so gained the street. Many persons were injured, some so seriously that they had to be taken to a hospital. M. Novikoff was arrested and the gar- dens were occupied by police and Cos- sacks. A strong military force was placed on the road leading from Pavlovsk to Tsarskoé-Selo and to St. Petersburg and at the railway stations. People return- ing to St. Petersburg from the gardens spread accounts of the affair, which soon became a general topic. Pavlovsk is nineteen miles from St. Petersburg and is a summer resort for in- habitants of the capital. Concerts are given in the gardens there daily and are frequented by fashionable audiences, largely comppsed of people from St. Pe- tersburg. 5 - BRINE BLINDS THE GUNNERS, . Men Fall *Uncouscious From BExbaus- tion During Combat. LONDON, June 5.—The ‘following are extracts from dispatches to the Daily Telegraph sent from varfous points “in Japan relating ‘to the maval battle: £ *The commander of a Japdnese torpedo- boat says that heavy ‘seas dashed brine into the eyes of his crew, almost blinding them. This continued for twelve hours and the skin peeled from the faces of many of his men. Some were brine- soaked, while others were bespattered with the warm blood of their ~wounded comrades. It s said that on the Russian ships men fell, not on account of their wounds, but because of unconscibusness due to exhaustion.” 5 An engineer officer 6f the Russian de- stroyer Gromski, describing the fight, say: “A Whitehead torpedo struck us right astern. Twenty-one officers and men, in- cluding our captain, were killed instantly. Twenty-three others.were shot overboard.’ The remaining twenty-five exploded a charge in the destroyer and sank her, Then we plunged into the sea, expectifigy to be finished by the Japanese quick-firing guns, but to our amazement we were res- cued by the Japanese.” The captain of the Russlan cruiser Ad- miral Nakimoff, describing the: opera- tions preceding the battie, says: ‘ “On entering the strajts-Admiral Ro- Jestvensky hoisted his of battle, | which read: ‘We must Have not only a triumphant entry .into Vladivostok, but ust sink part of the Japanese fleet on the way."” The captain ascribes the defeat to Ro- jestvensky's- indecision and to the utter lack of communication between the ships. The Nagasaki correspondent of the, Daily Telegraph says that all along the coasts of Tsu and Iki islands the bodles of Russians are washing ashore every minute and they are being reverently in- terred by the islanders. e BIG STRIKE MENACES RUSSIA. Reported That Industrial Upheaval Is Near at Hand. LONDON, June 4.—A telegram from St. Petersburg to' Reuter's Telegram Company ‘says there are ominous re- ports of the imminence of a general strike and that the Cossacl dispersed 400 workmen at Staraya Direvenia, a suburb, and arrested forty persons, including several well-dressed w?m«n. * 5 —_— Naval Prisoners Will Be Freed. 'NAGASAKIJ, June 4.—It is stated here on good authority that all naval prison- | ers, surrendered or otherwise, will be sent home. 4 —e Bombs Found Near Palace. BAKU, June 4—Bombs have been found in the house of an Armenian ad- Joining: the palace of the Governor General. [ R Pensions for Assassin’s Relatives. ST. PETERSBURG, June 4.—The En- gineers’ Association has voted pensions to the’wife and mother of Ivan Kaleieff, the assassin of Grand Duke Sergius. HONORS FOR CALIF s % AT BOSTON ART SCHOOL E. N. Bird of Sau Franclseo Awarded Prize in Life Drawing and Portraiture. BOSTON, 'June 4—~The winners of prizes and scholarships at the Eric Pape School of Art irclude E. N. Bird of San Francisco, Cal., r a prize in life drawing ‘and po: The exhibition of -the this year contains an wun; number of works of real mer Eric Pape, the founder a: of the school, comes from San cisco, and is widely known in T vl o Fran the art | to his Majesty at the Palace d'Orsay. to-night| KING. ALFONSD LEAES PARS Completes Busy limgramme and/Then Departs on His Train to Go to London LEAVES' COIN FOR POOR Gives Five Thousand Dollars to Be Distributed Among the Destitute -of. the City PARIS, June 4—The'last day of King Altonso’s sojourn in Paris was taken up with an extensive ‘programme, including a service at the Spanish -church, a visit to the museum at the Louvre and the witnessing of a grand steéplechase where 52,000 persons were presel The visit o! the King and President Loubet at- tracted a brilliant complement of society leaders and most of the Ministers of the diplomatic corps to the steeplechase, in- cluding iimbassador and Mrs. McCormick. The race proved an easy victory for M. Ruddeck’s Canard, with Jockey Woodland up. Seven.of the thirtecen starters fell. The day’s ceremonies concluded with a dinner given by Foreign Minister Delcasse M. Loubet, the members of the Cabinet and the diplomatic corps, tne president of the | Chamber of Deputies and the president of the Senate were present. The King left at midnight from the Invalides station on his journey to London. Enormous crowds were at the station and cleered the King and the President during tne leavetaking. When the train | containing the King left for Cherbourg the track was guarded.from end to end by armed troops. King Alfonso left $5000 for the poor of Pdris. NICHOLS TELLS STRANGE STORY Contjnued from Page 1, Col. 1. pany, Clark Wise & Co., and the Molise- Klinkner Company. The last of the many places where Chief Prophet Bernard lived in this city is 320 Taylor street, a rooming house. He occupied apartments there with Jones and Nichols, and jt was there the two last named were taken into custody. Bernard left there about a week ago and established himself in Ogkland as a teacher of hypnotism. In the latter eity he has seattered abroad his circulars, containing a cut depicting him in a hyp- notic trance with thirty-two physicians surrounding him. While Bernard and his disciples lived in an upper flat at 1411A Golden Gate ave- nue, where the neighbors heard strange noises at late hours of the night, Petter- son one day received a cabalistic letter written in cipher and bearing upon it the representation’ of a black hand. , That | night after translating it, he blackened his face, donned-a sweater in lley of his coat and went forth as a negro for two hours. What this meant those Whp were cognizant of it neyver had explaineg to them. A turbaned Syrian frequently made his appearance at the Golden Gate avenue flat. Just how many young people Bernard is now: teaching the mysterious cult of which he professes to be a master is not known. Mt is alleged, though, that he has fourteen’ pupils. y Nichols has a good old mother at 879 Eddy street, who-says that she knows her: boy has been led into evil through occult influence. His father says that he has been under a hypnotic spell ever since he got in with Bernard. Since that time the boy has not lived at home. His parents say he was a model youth until he came ursder Bernard's influence. Young Nichols is very anxious that the hypnotic theory should prevail. He says he is a student of the occuilt and psychol- ogy in general. He is accrgdited with g:'" to hypnotize any portion of his dy so that needles may be thrust into the flesh without pain. = The arrested youth has not yet been formally charged with any offense. A charge will probably be filed against him to-day. ———————— . PREPARING FOR THE SIEGE. All Non-Combatants Are Ordered to Leave Viadivostok. ST. PETERSBURG,. June 4.—A dis- patch received here says that all non- combatants have been ordered to leave ‘Vladivostok. poioe VLADIVOSTOK, June 5.—It is ex- pected here that a Japanese attack on the fortress will not bé long delayed. There is, however, a calm and deter- mined spirit manifested by the popula- tion in. the face of the forthcoming crigis.. The defenses of Vladivostok, on which steady work has beeniin progress since the beginning of the war, are now considered as having been completed. TACOMA, June 4.—Purser P. C. Mar- rington of the steamship Lyra, just ar- rived here, says that while at Moji on May 10 eighteen tramsports carrying sol- diers were seen sailing for Korea. It was understood that the men were to march | overland and join the Japanese in North- ern Manchuria. The current rumor, which was well authenticated, was that the Japanese, would soon begin a forward movement, having in contemplation the capture of Vladivostok. While at Yokohama and other Japanese perts officers of the Lyra witnessed other operations of a warlike nature which con- vinced them that Vladivostok is the goal ‘| toward which the armies of Oyama are marching. Every transport, and there were many of them, was heavily laden w('t,h soldiers going to join their com- rades. MANY INJURED IN BIG CRUSH | Five Hfindred Persons Hurt! } in'Berlin During the Gala { Pagean_t_ for Royal IpverSz 5 E)lPEROk ENTERTAINS Host to Large Assemblage, of Guests Who Have Made Trip te Attend - Wedding BERLIN, " Juné £—Fivé hundred per- sons were either cvercome by the heat on Saturday er-injured-in the crowds | which came to view the entrance of the Duchess Cecelia into Berlin. Thirty-six of them are in a seripus condition. | Al the visiting Princes and Princesses | | dined with kKmperor Willlam and Em- | | press Augusta Victoria to-night in honor | of Duchess Cecelia and Crown Prince | | Frederick William, who are to be mar- | | | | ried next Tuesday. Altogether 240 per- | sons. were present at the dinner and in- | cluded among the guests were Cabinet | | Ministers, generals and admirals. 1 | Duchess Cecelia made a remarkable per- | sonal impression on the guests. She was | animated, cordial and unaffected. Em- | | peror William. took Grand Duchess Anas- | tasia, the mother of the prospective bride, to table and by his attention to her quite disproved the stories of discord between them. At the coneiusion of the dinner Duch- ess Cecelia called for two glasses of champagne and handed them to the two pages who bere her train. There were no toasts. The dinner ended as a torch- light procession of students with flags and music came down Unter den Linden. The royal party went out on a balcony, where the Duchess and Crown Prince stood in a brilliant light so that the marchers could see them. ——— PROGRESS TOWARD PEACE. German Embassador and the President in Conference. WASHINGTON, June 4—Baron Speck von Sternberg, the German Embassador, spent two hours in conference with Pres- ident Roosevelt at the White House to- night. As he left the White House at 11 o’clock the Embassador said he could not discuss the subject of his talk with the President as it related to matters of an entirely confidential character. There is every reason to believe, however, that much of the time was occupied with a discussion of the general question of war between Russia and Japan and the possi- bility of peace. The Embassador, in re- sponse to & direct question regarding the prospect of peace, sald that, so far as he knew, there had been no progress in that direction in the past twenty-four hours. No officlal word has reached Washing- ton segarding the probable attitude of the Czar toward the ending of the war. Mean- time, exchanges are in progress between ‘Washington, Berlin, London, Rome and Paris regarding the whole situation and an entirely informal discussion is taking place as to what wouild be the best meas- ures to adopt when Russia has the op- portunity fully to realize her situation. The .British Charge d'Affatres was at the White House to-day - and - discuss the question with the President. * = ~ * ° It Is fully expected here that weeks will elapse before Russia decides. wpen her course. Until Count Cassini has had some reply to his cablegram to his Govern- merit and is in a positien to speak au- thoritatively and officlally on the subject of peace, it is improbable that he will have another conference with the Prest- dent. ——e————— TWO CHICAGO CHURCHES DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING Fierce Storm Causts Damage to the Extent of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars. : CHICAGO, June 4.—During a thun- derstorm here to-day, three churches were struck by lightning and two of them completely destroyed. The storm was the worst of the season. Besides the churches several other buildings were struck and damaged. The total loss occasioned by the lightning is estimated at $200,000. The two churches destroyed were the Unity Church in Oak Park and the Sacramento-avenue Methodist Episco- pal Church at Sacramento avenue and Adams street. North Englewood Con- gregational Church, Fifty-ninth and La Salle streets, was also struck, but the damage was slight. At "the time the storm passed over the city, the churches were empty and no loss of life occurred. —_—— Movye for Burcau of Agriculture. ROME, June 4.—The commission of the agricultural conference has agreed to propose financial participation among the powers in an international institute of agriculture. 2 OUR the cases only.are i Vsliglftly—u_ d that SALE OF PIANOS Is drawing to 2 close.” Will last only a few days more. " Lots of fine pianos only ‘slightly damaged being sold at half price or less. Bear in mind that inside of every one to be as good as ever. These will be 'sold during the next few days. Store open evenings. THE WILEY B. ALLEN CO. DRIV 007 AMERICANS FROM CHINA ———— Yellow Nation About to Break Its Contraet With Railroad Syndicate Headed by J. Pierpont Morgan FIRST MOVE TOWARD THE “CLOSED DOOR” Peking Government - Em- barks Upen a Poliey Hav- ing for Its Object the Ex- pulsion of Foreign Capital Spectal Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. CopyTight, 1905, by the New York Hes~ ald Pubushing Company. BERLIN, June 4.—I hear through one who cah speak with the highest author- ity that at the present moment intrigues which promise a successful issue age being actively worked by powerful Chi- nese officials, the object of which is to withdraw, forcibly or otherwise, the concession to the American-Chfva De- vélopment Company, in which J. Pler< pont Morgan is said to hold-a contpoll- ing interest, for the building of an- im- portant raiiroad between Hankow and Canton. Such a railread, runnipg in connection with a ling of steamsShips from the United States, would, of ecourse, be of inestimable value. It Is needless to point out that the question iuvolves the whole future of the white race in China. The Chinese, taking advantage of the recemt course of events ¥o taverable to the Jupamese, have decided to have no more concession Is intended to be really the trons white race out of the country and clos- ing the “open deor.” The Chinese put the matter in this way: The American-China Develop~ ment Company must choose beétween two things, either to accept a substans tial money indemnity or otherwise have the contract broken at all events. Fail- ing the acceptance of the indémnity, such oppusition will be organized as (o render the American efforts -to carry out the building of the reads impossible. It is. of course, quite illegal to try to forge the/ American company to accept an ijmmediate indemnity in lieu of. fu- ture profit, the amount of which would be predigious. - The-Chinese-are begin- ning by dispensing with the servites:of American engineers and replacing them with indolent Chinese officials, which would mean that the -road probabiy would never-be built at all. It is asked with much interest what J. Pferpont Morgan proposes ta do .in these circumstances and how the Wash- ington Government will act if- the finan- cier should refuse the Chinese proffer of money, made solely wilh the _idea of driving out white ‘men and .closing. China to commer —— e INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ASKED BY MOROCCAN SULTAN He World Make All ¢ Powers Piirties to the Reforms Planned for His Country: TANGIER, June d4-—Mohammed E} Torres, the Foreign Minister, on behalf of the Sultan, has invited the repre- sentatives of the powers to ask for an international conference at Tangier fow, the purpose of discussing reforms in Morocco. The members of the diple- matic corps have communicated with their respective Goveruments request- ing instructions. PARIS, June 4—The Temps, usually governmental, publishes a leading article declaring that the policy of pacific pene- tration in Morocco Is discredited only because it has been badly conducted “by weak, vacillating management,” adding: " “We have reached a blind alley and find ourselves between two walls, con- structed one by Morocco and the other by Germany. It is necessary to tear down these walls to see what is behind them. This is the sole means of repairing the errors which time will bring to an ead.” e Fireman Is Drowned. MARSHFIELD, June 4—Joseph Pa- teno, a fireman on the & Breakwater of the Spreckels line, was. dvowned while swimming about mid- night last night. The body hds not been recovered. > —_————— A deed will feed the ofphan quicker than a creed. FIRE . njured—some. very we guarantee the