The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 11, 1904, Page 1

ONE CENT Tonight and Saturday, Partly Cloudy, Showers; Light Frost Tonight Light NIGHT EDITION THE STAR'S NEXT GREAT The Russian Destroyers and Torpedo Boats At- tacked Japanese Fleet. Each Side Suffered Losses of One Boat With All on Board. LONDON, March I1.--A dis- RIA es he Star Is Only One SEATTLE, “WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, FICTION OFFERING, 1904 and It is believed that the F sult himself, All evidence so transported to the far deen huddled into box to eat, and that ir hearte but dar RUSSIANS WILL LEAVE THE YALU at arrived asian censor far at hand ts t have suffered tnte nd have had but the of being in good spirits show tt wrote the dispatch to t the soldiers #0 far have © troops are dis- here from that 15,000 te ¢ mouth of t event of the Japan patch from Cheefoo reports that another big naval battle is in progress in the harbor of Port Arthur today. states that several Russian tor- pedo boats and destroyers made a sortie from the harbor and at- tacked the Japanese fleet. A terrific encounter followed in which it is reported that one Russian destroyer and one Japa- with all on board. RUSSIANS RETREAT CHINESE REFUGEES STATE THAT CZAR’S FORCES ARE FLEE- ING AND BURNING THE VILLAGES AS THEY GO LONDON, March ll.--A Tien- sin dispatch says that Chinese refugees have arrived there and report that the Russian army is retreating and burning all the villages as they go. They re- ported that a large Japanese army was rapidly advancing in- to the territory abandoned by the fleeing Russians. The Cent ral 8 Agency's pondent, , telegra ph n Ve Siberia: but vast # of I « hurrying idiers x and are upplied wit isions. Granc adimn! rovitch and Councillo: andr aky hief delegat Cross Society, with twe achments of tl unitary corps, cromed Lake Baikal by trai terday fi This dispatch re rier ent reports of the @ondition of the troops Russ been hurrying to the front, The dispatch nese torpedo boat were sunk) RUSSIANS TO THE FRONT = the Russians have made every prepara at the Yalu. 200,000 TROOPS HAVE ACTUALLY LEFT JAPAN LONDON BELIEVES THAT DECISIVE LAND ENGAGEMENTS WILL BOON BE FOUGHT IN KOREA (By Beripps Nows Aas'n) } The Russians are now moving LONDON, March 11.—The Naga-| northward in Korea, thie correspend ent continues, with the intention of | making Wiju their defensive base. The spirit of the Russian troopa, who are largely recruite, ton aki of & mornin paper asserts that 200,000 troops have been shipped from Japan, and that a portion of the Second army corpe is | new on its way to Korea. The paper at Tokio ca\ portation to north: divisions of Jap been completed, and that these mer are beginning to advance, while 10 divisions of the Second army corps! y been mobilized. nghal cor dent of the elegraph says that the Jap correspondent corre: ach a total of 2,000 | men. The Standard this morning pub- lishes an in which the writer points out the defenseless condition of the Amur fiver, Russia never profited from the experiences of Boxer outbreak, he says, and # article Teapon, ar rf Port Arthur is reduced,| ne or gunboats on the r probs will move two armies t It is probable when the the north simultaneously from] disappears the J ose will sen the southern part of the ng| fleet of gu the river and the} make then | tire length. ee felt along ite en- peninsula and the other fr Yalu river AT KIOHINEE MEN AND WOMEN WERE CRUELLY BEATEN AND SOME OF THEM KILLED, SAYS A LONDON PA- PER (By Scripps News Ass'n.) in doors and sacked the stores and the rioters. The drove away the hints at worse d | taken place there. A mob paraded the riot- la |atreets and drove the Dive Is Favored \ ith Gist erty Fire Marshal Kellogg yesterday re - : order closing the Pe: WALLA nding the making of Lonia Tracy, under the ter will be to run whil made. SAME OLD RIOTS PRAGUE, March 11.—The pro- Russian ifestations worked up by Czeoh leaders last night culmi nated in @ big anti-German rict. A MORE AITO LONDON, March 11.—The Jewish Morning We res the news from men and women were beaten | « Kishineff, via B ina showed that | cruellyand several of them fatally hurt fresh outrages against the Jews had) It ts 4 some were killed “THE SORCERESS OF THE STRAND,’ ANOTHER TERRIFIC NAVAL BATTLE PT. ARTHUR PAPER DESCRIBES NAVAL BATTLE OF FEB. 9 Poured a Rain of Shot Fleet. ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 11.—THE NOVOKRAI (PORT AR- THUR NEWSPAPER), COPIES OF WHICH HAVE JUST AR- RIVED, DESCRIBES THE NAVAL BATTLE ON THE MORNING OF FEBRUARY 9 FROM THE RUSSIAN STANDPOINT. IT SAYS: “FOUR BATTLESHIPS, FIVE CRUISERS AND ONE TRANS- PORT COMPOSED THE RUSSIAN FLEET. THE BATTLESHIPS RETZIVAN, AND CZAREVITCH WERE TOO BADLY INJURED FROM THE TORPEDOES DURING THE ATTACK OF THE NIGHT PREVIOUS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FIGHT. aT eé O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING FOUR JAPANESE CRUISERS ROUNDED THE LIAE-TSHIN PROMONTORY. THE FIRST- CLASS CRUISER BOYARIN WAS SENT TO RECONNOITER AND REPORTED A LARGE JAPANESE FLEET, WHICH IT | SIX BATTLESHIPS AND 8IX CRUISERS. | “THE JAPS OPENED FIRE AT A RANGE OF FOUR MILES AND THE RUSSIANS REPLIED. THE LAND BATTERIES FOL- LOWED THE FLEET INTO ACTION, VICEROY ALEXIEFF AND ‘RUSSIAN RUSSIAN HE TRIED TO. WAS SLOW yICTO: p re Amon, VICTORIA, B. ¢ March 11.—An « CHARGE—WOMEN WERE the Passengers who arrived from Yo- | kohama on the Northern Pacifi liner Olympia _yeat ain Wint,}| PARIS, March 11.—A non-com- who took th ner Nia- | shin frém Ge ma, wi missioned officer named Martin, jan cruiser | chase in the Red} who was enmpi a, which gave »yed In the ministry Captain Mill gives « thrillt j count of this race, In which the pur-|of marine, has been arrested for euing eruiser, one of the fastest of }the Rumslan boats, was aval secrets ompelied to] trying to sell Fr nese cruiser ye watch the Ja; eastiy trom to @ naval attache at the Japanese conversation wi me _as the result wae gunk raised by the Japanese that w tx fathoms ¢ within a be flited | Japancne nervice fleet of which she They figur jthem with Port Arthur @ firnt destroyed by the Russians Phefewilt then repair them and press them into the Japa naval strength. Captain Hi # that no white men are employed on the Japanese war- nd that the guns | SIGHTED AT 11 O'CLOCK, COMPOSED oF TWELVE VESSELS, | SECRETS 10 JAPAN HIS ACCOMPLICES Cent ~verywhere he Seattle star | Ma | PAPER 1 ae WS i OL. 6. NO, 17. A Detailed Account of How the Japanese Squadron Dashed up Under the Batteries of Golden Hill and and Shell into the Russian HIS STAFF OBSERVED THE ACTION FROM THE TOP OF GOLDEN HILL. “THE ENEMY STEAMED IN ABOUT 1,000 YARDS, THEN HEADED TO THE SOUTH AND DISAPPEARED IN THE MIST. THEIR FIRE WAS DIRECTED CHIEFLY AGAINST THE | GOLDEN HILL SATTERIES, A PERFECT RAIN OF SHELLS FALLING. “ONLY THE NOVIK, ASKOLD AND DIANA SUSTAINED SERIOUS INJURIES, “TOWARD THE END OF THE ENGAGEMENT A COLUMN OF STEAM AND SMOKE POURED FROM ONE OF THE JAPAN- ESE VESSELS AND IT IS BELIEVED SHE SANK. IT WAS LEARNED LATER THAT SiX OF THE ENEMY’S SHIPS WERE DAMAGED AND 100 MEN KILLED AND WOUNDED.” THE ACCOUNT SAYS THAT THE SPEED OF THE RUSSIAN CRUISERS PREVENTED THE JAPANESE FROM GETTING THE ACCURATE RANGE. THE CRUISER NOVIK DISTINGUISHED HERSELF BY ATTACKING THE BATTLESHIP MISAKA. | ministry of marine, but it is possibie |that Martin has photographed an@ FLL jreplaced others, It fs alleged that |b information alleged to have beer | stolen got beyond the intermediary and {t is said-that the Japanese, naval attache who is supposed ta [tion been in indirect communieae! with Martin sailed for home. rd one of the cruisers whickie purchased from Argentine: Itchijo, who succeeded the, RESTED IN PARIS ON A SERIOUS | Jan: a naval attache who ed home, has informed the 1 that Martin wrote him four s after his arrival in Paris, pro« “s & meeting to communicate rtant business, ‘The prince wag sed, and in reply wrote an@ Martin to state the nature of of the accidental openi ter addressed to | sioned officer by a J of the same name ointment the prince kept, but Mare from an Intermediary, but it inat- | 5 Mar. tin by that time had be and t arreste® erefore did not appear als of the jis Detiah wads It is stated that the documents | implicated and that one of them has | ® te to Martin related to the s padusaad. Ok tamenite wave tame nts y of joint naval action om one document is missing from the! t of France and Russia. iS == AN IMPORTAN IMPERIAL D¢ 25 CENTS PER MONTH WILL BEGIN MONDAY seal i i lat sic bit Si j