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on the warships is being pushed night and
day. The battleship Borodino, the battle
ship Orel and the transport Kamtchatka
are nearing completion at the admiralty
dockyards here.
In tho dead Of the night the ice-bound
Neva is like an Arctic landscape. lighted
for mile by the flare OF blazing stacks,
the silence broken by the din Of drumming
hammers. The oatleship Borodino must be
taken to Kronstadt to receive her armor
Ermak will be brought from Reval to cut
a channel to the arsenal there.
IN READINESS.
The batleship Alexander Ill, at Kron-
stadt. is ready and the Russian fleet, re-
Gently at Jibutll. rench Somaliland. is
returning 50 that when the spring opens
Russia will have an imposing naval array
In the Baltic
About 500 volunteer workmen have left
to work at the dockyards Of Port Arthur
and vladivostok.
editorial on the Anglo-Saxo rejoicing IN
England and America. at the reports OF
japanese victory, IN which it says:
The whole world. with these exceptions,
realizes that the Russian occupation OF
Manchuria would benefit civilization.
TROOPS PROCEEDING.
Gen. SoulShotine, who is on his way 10
the Far East telegraphs TO War Mtn~
ister Sakharoff, from Temsk, Siberia, as
During my long journey ! saw several
Sf troops Their ergs wss
were provided With warm clothing. At
Cheliabinsk everything is under the c,>>S
control of the military chief of the dis<
trict who sees personally that the troops
are supplied with warm garments"
DEsTRoYERs RETURN.
Port Said. March 2-The Russian
cruiser Aurora. recently in the Red Sea.
left here today noon for Gambia, Island
of Crete.
One OF the FIVE Russian torpedo boat
destroyers which left here yesterday for
Algiers has returned.
TO MAKE REPAIRS.
Suez, March 2-The Russian armored
cruiser Dimitri Donskoi. which applied
for permission to remain here for repairs.
has been allowed FIVE days IN which TO
complete the necessary work.
FEAR AND PANIC.
London. March 2-Stories are told by
persons who fed from Port Arthur,
from which II appears that the first Jap
anese shots produced a panicky STAN
pede, the people abandoning their prop
erty and even their clothes. except what
they wore Trains and vehicles were
quickly filled 20 overflowing.
A woman demented by fear dropped her
killed. H nv ' = = w
The intense cold experienced by. the
refugees in crossing Siberia ria, en- route ,rte 20
Russian officials al Port Arthur and
Dalny appeared 10 have acted coony and
promptly In aiding the refugees TO depart.
nrTiuD0
tell remarkable stories OF the unpre-
paredness and lack of provisions at Port
tion OF the conditions az the latter place.
they say that a few wild der caught IN
the neighborhood week ago sold Tor 800
EMBARK FOR THE FRONT.
Kotpino. Russia. March 2-Two COM
panies OF Pontoon miners and sappers
were embarked here on trains today
bound for the front
CRUISER RETURNED.
1ibau. Russia. March 2-The cruiser
.Almaze presented - the Car 20 Viceroy
AIexiefr for use as a private yacht re-
turnsd here yesterday.
The Almaze was reported 20 have left
Brest, France. Jan. FOR the Far East.
WOUNDED JAPANESE.
HagasakI, March 2-The hospital ship
Iobe Maru has brougls to Sasebo seven
fy-one men who were wounded IN the
hghting at Port Arthur. They include six
engineers OF the warships Idzumo. Ka-
simi and Shikishima, all OF whom are se-
rfousiy wounded. Among the others are
come of the crews who manned the ships
sunk at Port Arthur.
The men say that i've Russian torpedo
boat destroyers have been sunk or dis
sbicd since Feb. 8, and that the Russians
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