Evening journal., 1904-03-02
TWENTY MEN WERE
FOUND SIGNAL
ING THE JAPAN
ESE FLEET, SAYS
REPORT
BELIEVED THAT AN
EFFORT WILL BE
MADE TO MEET
THE RUSSIANS IN
NORTH COREA

St. Petersburg, March 2.-According
to a special dispatch from Port Arthur,
twenty Chinese have been arrested
there for signaling to the Japanese
ships from the shore with flashlights
and lanterns. A warning has been is
sued that similar offenders will hereat-
ter be treated as spies and shot. This
dispatch was supposedly filed at Port
Arthur yesterday and somewhat re-
lieves anxiety here regarding the safety
of the stronghold, as no mention is
made of a Japanese attack.
Although it is denied that the pres
ent plans Of the admiralty contemplate
the dispatch of either the Black Sea or
Baltic fleets to the Far East, it is be-
yond question that both are being pre-
pared with the greatest haste to meet
any emergency that may arise. Cen
eral Atvater, the artillery specialist,
and Admiral VerkhoslSy have been in
specting the ships and crews of the
Black Sea fleet. Work on the warships
Is being pushed day and night.
The battleship Borodino, the battle
ship Orel, and the transport Kamtch-
atlxa are nearing complet' on at the
Admiralty dock yards here. In the
dead of night the ice-bound Neva is
s like an Arctic landscape, lighted for
( half a mile by the Dare Of blazing
s stacks the silence broken by the din Of
F drumming hammers.
The battleship Borodino must be
& taken to Cronstadt to receive her ar
. NOR, and it is reported that the ice
breaker Ermak will be brought from
4 Reval to cut a channel to the arsenal
there The battleship Alexander III,
at Cronstadt, is ready. and the Rus
sian fleet recently at Jibutil, French
Somaliland, is returning, so that when
the spring opens Russia viii have an
imposing naval array in the Baltic.
About 800 volunteer workmen have
left here to work at the dock yards of
Port Arthur and Vladivostock.
Japan and U. S. Agree on Open Door.
Chicago March 2.-Elki Hiolli, First
Secretary of the Japanese Legation at
Washington, and TOdaburo Kadoya, of
the Yokohama Specie Bank, have ar
rived at Chicago on the way from
Yokohama to Washington. ION many
points the Japanese government and
* the United States seem agreed" said
Mr.. HioSi. They are united on the
open-door policy and the integrity of
China. Japan and the United States
would suffer the most from the acqui-
sition of parts of China by Russia. The
Russian policy in Manchuria seems to
be to exclude all other nations"
lJaps Hurryine to Front.
London, March 2.-Japan is still enforc
ing the strictest censorship for the pur
pose Of screening the landing and con
oentration of her forces IN Korea, ant
there is not the least reason to suppos'
that the absence of news means that there
is none to be told. A telegram from on'
of the Daily Mails correspondents at Che
foo dated yesterday, discloses somethinl
of what is happening. 1t says:
'I have returned in a despatch boa
Ifrom Chemulpo, where there is a lull il
lJapanese activity. The same is the cas
& 1t Seoul. All the troops have left for thI
e front. Yesterday detachment of 1000 en-
rained at Chemulpo, leaving details II
protect the stores. Transports continue e
arrive at the rate of one a, day, will
troops and provisions on board. Thes
are now being landed near Hwangju, wher
large force of Japanese infantry is col
ected A serious defect has been discov
ered now the Japanese have landed, a
Is feared that most Of their horses wi
be unserviceable.
The Japanese squadron at Chemulp
S has been strengthened and a squadron o
welve battleships and cruisers has bee
stationed permanently in Prince Jerom
Gulf between the Chebido and Asan an
,horages.
Yesterday saw cruiser Of the Niitak
X ype beached at the entrance of Namyan
~ ,reek. 1 went near enough TO note tina
he was deserted except for Japanes
guard.
The Coreans are hostile 20 the jar
q. lnese, and are giving the Russians assist
lnce in North Corea."