Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-20
Today's Telegraphie News
WARS AND RUMoRs OF WAR.


nent government official at St. Peters
burg, stating that the most extraordinary
confusion exists in practically all the
Russian government departments, save,
perhaps, the admiralty, (which appears
to be stunned or dead from japanese
onslaughts, and the fact that ships de-
stroyed or damaged cannot be replaced. "
st. Petersburg, Feb 20.-The dis
patch printed in the Narodni Listy, OF
Prague, Bohemia, yesterday, to the Ell
feet that three Russian regiments were
drowned while crossing Lake Baikal, is
denied. 1t is announced that the
casualties we're one drowned and l9
injured.
Cheefoo, China, Feb. 20. Word
reached here today that the Russian
land forces are concentrating between
Mukden and New Chwang, Manchuria
Troops trains are arriving there with
considerable precision. The Russians
at Port Arthur are again in boastful
mood. They deny the reports of another
naval action, and further damage to
their cruisers.
Paris, Feb. 20.-A report on the bat
tie of ChemuIpO, Korea, in which the
Russian cruisers Variag and Korietz
were sunk, by japanese cruisers, By
Captain Nicol, of the French cruiser
Pascal, is published today. 1t was
aboard the Pascal that many OF the crew
of the cruisers sunk took refuge. The
captain says the foreign naval authorities
in the harbor twice protested against the
course of Admiral Uriu, the japanese
commander, claiming that his course was
violation Of Korea's neutrality. The
Russians, however, against the advice of
these officials twice went out to UNI
equal combat against six japanese
cruisers, and eight destroyers. Captain
Nicol continues: "The Russian sailors
went to their death like heroes"
Port Arthur, Feb. 20.-An engage
ment is reported in Korean territory be-
tween Cossack pickets and small de-
tachment OF japanese. The Cossacks
captured several of the japanese with
maps and papers.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 20.-An imperial
ukase has been issued inviting all politi-
cal suspects to enter the army as privates,
promising to relieve them of police su.
peryision in that case.
Paris, Feb. 20.-Mail advices received
from Pondicherry, French India, report
that the effervescence among the French
population there over the large supplies
of coal imported and stored as if for war
purposes, has strained the relations be-
tween the English and French residents.
This feeling has resulted in a street fight
in which two persons were killed and
four injured.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 20.-The Novoe
vremya today states hat the proposal Of
the United States looking to the mainten-
ance of Chinese neutrality in the far
East is favorable to Russian interests on
condition that Manchuria be excepted.
This, says the paper, is an absolutely
indispensable condition.
London, Feb. 20.-The Russian am
bassador to England, Count Bencken-
dorf, has hurriedly returned to St.
Petersburg He gave private business
as his excuse for leaving.
Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 2O.-The
kfngadhtilay ut g1a65d1u dlRlFapp8h3Ut tie
and other troops will be concentrated on
the northern frontier.
The Finnish revolutionary junta here
is extremely active.
Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 20.-The
Swedish gunboat Skagul has been sent
to Gotland, an island in the Baltic Sea,
and two iron clad cruisers and three tor
pedo boats have been ordered to be in
readiness to protect Sweden's neutral
attitude toward the belligerents in the
far East.
Paris, Feb. 20.-The newspaper Echo
de Paris today states that the Russian
squadron now at Jibutil on the Red Sea
will return to the Baltic Sea.
Rome, Feb. 20.-Roman Catholics in
China, Australia and New Zealand are
urging the Pope to support Russia, as
sorting that success for Japan would be
fatal to Catholicism and western civil
ization.
London, Feb. 20.-Careful inquiries
this afternoon appear to indicate that the
simultaneous departure of both the
French end Russian Ambassadors was
only a coincidence. NJ. Cambon often
goes to spend Sunday in Paris, hence
his departure has no significance.
The international situation is vaguely |
feverish, and this coincidence has caused !
some comment. Even high quarters are !
affected by the uneasy feeling, and it is
feared that Russia will be tempted to
hurl brand among the nations as a
way out OF her present acute position. AT
the same time the sober sense of the bulk
of the French population is relied upon
not TO permit France to be dragged into
war. The fact that one war is started
in the far East and that another is i'm
minent in the Balkans is probably the
real basis tor the present grave remors.
London, Feb. 20.-All European
markets are badly depressed today, and
there is a continuation of yesterday
slump, Consols closed at the lowest
point in thirty years. Russian, japanese,
Chinese and Turkish issues declined
point, while Spanish tours went off over
,wo points on reports that Spain intends
o mobilize its navy. Forced liquidation
vas noted everywhere.
Paris, Feb. 2O.-A fresh panic &C.
urred on the Bourse today, due to an
farming rumor reOardino international