Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-07

oessors In desperation ana the courage
displayed By the volunteer crews Is
equal TO that shown in any event I'm the
war history Of the world Although
Vice Admiral Togo again avoided dam.
age to a single one VI his vessels the
attack proved to be expensive In lives
Blockadng hotilla consisted Of eight
stone laden merchantmen. They were
escorted by the gunboats Akagi, COM
mander FugmOto and Choikal COM
mander lWamura, lne second torpedo
boat destroyer fotilla, under the COM
mand OF Commander Chida; the Third
torpedo boat destroyer flotilla, Com
Tsucha; the fourth notllla,
Commander Nagai; the Fifth hotilla,
Commander Mano, the Ninth torpedo
boat fiotilla, Commander Yashima;
the Tenth torpedo boat tiOtllla, Com
mander Otaki, and the Fourteenth tor
pedo boat notilla Commander Sakurai.
The blockading vessels and their es-
cort left the main squadron for Port
Arthur on Monday evening They en-
countered a southeasterly gale and by
II o'clock at night the seas were
mountainous and ii was found impos-
sible TO keep the steamers together.
Commander Hayashl, who was In COM
mand OF the expedition, observed the
lmpossbility OF keeping the hotilla in
tact and slgnaled 1t TO abandon the at
tack.
JAPANESE VERY CONFIDENT.
London, May 7.--Qulet confidence con.
tinues to prevail here that the Japanese
In their own good time will carry out
all their carefully arranged plans OF
campaign on the Lao Tung peninsula,
which Is now generally regarded as be-
ing practically In Japanese hands
In diplomatic quarters no events are
expected, either In the shape OF a Chin
csc breach of neutrality or of the medi-
tation OF some power which would IN
terfere with the normal course OF the
war. Foreign Secy. Lansdowne has
received explicit information which
leads him to the belief that there IL no
danger OF the Chinese failing to main
tain strict neutrality. The Chinese
minister called at the foreign office here
this week and so assured Lord I.ans-
downe An attempt at mediation, ac-
cording to the general opinion I'm Off
Cal and diplomatic circles, must for
the present at any rate be postponed
At the Japanese legation IL Is thought
thar Russia does not intend TO make n
yer determined resistance at Port Ar
thur. In supper; Of this idea, Il u
pointed out that Russia already has
largely depleted her garrison at Port
Arthur and that Viceroy Alexioff's de-
parture from there hardly seems step
that would be adopted by q commander
who desired TO risk everything 10 keep
up the morale OF his troops and enable
them 20 Withstand prolonged siege.
The japanese officials here do not count
30 much on the Japanese commander
succeed In starving out Port Arthur
as on t.e Inevitable decentralization
which they believe win spread among
the already rather dlsheartened sailors
and soldiers at Port Arthur, and which
must necessarily be heightened by n
constant sea bombardmentau menaced
by the land forces and complete isoa-
ton. As regards the land fighting in
Manchuria and the disposition OF the
other mysterious japanese armies Bar
on Hayashi said today:
you may be pretty sure that u 2
japanese will not undertake any en-
gagement I'm the near future unless our
forces outnumber those available by the
Russian commander, and think you
will find the superiority Of numbers
Will generally, for the present AZ any
rate, be on our side"