Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12

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Russian Ships Reported Damaged.
Toxic, Oct 8. 49, 1t is reported here
that the fire of the Japanese land batter
les severely damaged four Russian war;
ships in the harbor Of Port Arthur 1t
is stated that one of the vessels was COM
pletely wrecked. The name of none of
the ships was given.
No News of Sea Fight
St. Petersburg, Oct. 8.-The only ref
erence to the reported sea fight Off Port
Arthur is contained in delayed spe-
cial dispatch from Chefoo, which says
that on the night of October 5 the sound
of firing was heard in the direction Of
Port Arthur and that searchlights were
seen to be working in that vicinity. 1t
os thought there may have been battle.
but no confirmation of the report of one
has been received.
The dispatch further states that, in
spite of the tightening of the Japan
csc blockade, junks are still arriving
from the fortress bearing refugees who
say that all the attacks of the Japanese
have been repulsed and that it will be
necessary to institute long siege and
complete blockade in order to reduce
the fortress. The blockade, according to
the refugees. is not completely effect
i've, junks continually arriving with
food supplies and munitions for the gar
rison. The Japanese have instituted a
close patrol over the entire Yellow sea,
stopping every vessel sighted
The captain of the British steamer
Chenan, which was stopped by Jap
anese cruiser, while on her way to Che
foo from Taku, but was allowed to pro-
coed after her cargo had been exam
ined, has made protest against the way
he was boarded and searched on the
high seas
No fresh advices from the front have
| been received
Horror of Liaoyang Battle.
Mail letters describing incidents at
the battle of Liaoyang are beginning TO
reach the newspapers here. An eye wit
ness, who was present in the town dur
ing the fearful commandment of August
80 and August 81, compares the scene to
| seething caldron, veterans of the Turk
ish war declaring that nothing ap-
preaching the intensity of the shell fire
| had been experienced at Plevna. The
hollow in which Iiaoyang is situated is
| described as being an awful mass of
death and destruction. Some of the JAP
anese guns, posted in the Chinese corn,
| f0
captive balloon, firing shrapnel in the
hope of puncturing it. The soldiers at
tached to the rope of the balloon were
compelled several times to hurriedly
drag it away, but the balloon was never
even touched. MAJ Gen. Kashtalinsky
who was on high hill near Sitchun, told
a correspondent that the Japanese gun
ners tried vainly for whole day to To-
cate Russian battery posted in the corn
near the hill.
Cost of the War.
Toxic, Oct. Sin addressing the
members of the united clearing house:
of Toxic, Count Okuma, the leader OF
the progressive party, warned the peo-
pie to prepare for a long war, the date
of the termination of which it was
now impossible to foretell. He pre-
dicted that the cost to Japan for a
two years war, including the loans
which had been already placed and the
expenses consequent upon the war at
its termination, would total $1,000
900, which would make the per
capita share amount to $780,
Despite her weaknesses, Count Oku-
ma said, Russia possessed immense re-
sources and had tremendous advan-
tages in the size of her population and
the greatness of her wealth, and it
would be necessary for the japanese
to make heavy sacrifices in order to
attain success He predicted that the
war would cost Russia from $780,
100000 to S2,Q00,000,000, and said it
would be impossible to raise loans or
to increase the taxes in Russia, be-
cause the limit had been reached The
count predicted that it would be nee
essary for the Japanese government to
borrow $250,O00000 next year, and
added that if $75,000,O0O were secured
abroad the country must face a depre-
citation in the value of it's securities
Count Okuma urged the nation tc
carefully husband it's strength and re.
sources and expressed the fullest con.
fidence in the ultimate victory Of
Japanese arms.