Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-03-01
Mont Combatants Must Leave Strd-
teqetiC POints---AnOther Futile At
tack Upon Port Arthur by the
Japanese---Chinese Brigands Make
Raid Into ManChurid.

Japanese general of the staff left ia
pan today for Chemulpo, Corea This
shows that all the troops necessary for
a Tor ward movement have been landed
in Corea and it is expected that for
waro movement will be begun the last
of this week
Russian Abandonment of South Man.
churia Favored.
st. Petersburg, March IA copy of
the Dalny Vistok which has just ar
rived here, contains a significant ar
gunient in favor of Russia abandoning
the south of Manchuria and retaining
the northern portion of the province
which the paper contends, naturally
belongs to the Amur region.
/ Another Bombardment Reported.
| St. Petersburg, March 1-At 1920 \,
M, the Czar received telegram frc
Viceroy Alexieff which it is saia
be given out tonight. The genera ii
the staff says that no confirmation has
been received of the announcement
made by the London Daily Telegraph
today in dispatch from Yinkow that
Port Arthur was again bombarded by
the ia. ,hnese fleet.
VIII Not Surrender Port Arthur.
St. Petersburg, March 1.-The Novoe
Vremya today publishes a remarkable
editorial on the parallel between Port
Arthur and Sebastapool, pointing out
| tina the ports are identically situated,
| Col en- Hill corresponding to Malakoff,
| Dal + 10 Eupatoria, and Admiral Alex
1T ~ .ss.ysAlsra' Nachimoff and Retzi-
van to Tria Sviatntelia. The editor
| ial, however, warns the Russians to
abjure fatalistic beliefs. Although
written without the knowledge of Gen
eral Stossels equally remarkable mil
itary order, issued at Port Arthur yes
terday, Novoe Vremyas editorial
comes as a strong reinforcement to it's
purport, that Port Arthur must in no
case be surrendered. Both seem to
foreshadow a siege of Port Arthur and
bombardment, which dispatch from
Liza Yang says it is rumored at New
Chwang will occur tomorrow. Official
opinion continues to be that the Jap
anese will make no attempt to invest
Port Arthur Immediately, although it
is added they have evidently deter
mined to force matters as rapidly as
possible. In 1894 they landed on the
northern part of the peninsula and the
Chinese made no resistance, still it
took % days before Port Arthur was
really invested. The object of the
Japanese now may be to avoid this
preliminary delay by disembarking
their troops at Pigeon Bay.
'If they do,'' said naval expert,
"they will meet with opposition which
will render their plan impractible."
Another Attack on Port Arthur.
London, March IA dispatch to the
Daily Telegraph from Yin Kow dated
February 29 says:
Fifteen Japanese warships furiously
bombarded Port Arthur from 10 until
12 o'clock this morning. The Russian
cruisers Novik, Askold and Bayan, ac-
companied by four torpedo boats,
steamed out to meet the attack, they
were, however, forced to retire. The
Askold was in a sinking condition. The
Novik was badly damaged, and a tor
pedo boat sunk The Russian battle
ship Retzivan was again damaged
The Japanese withdrew in good order
The pause in the war operations in
the far East has been broken by the
Japanese attack on Port Arthur, OF
which only the foregoing brief account
lis yet to hand.
The report, however, shows repe-
tition of the now familiar tactics of
the Japanese and it is presumed this
attack was made in bad weather, pre-
vious telegraphic advices, having re-
ported a severe gale raging at Port
Arthur AS usual, the Japanese did
not remain long enough of the har-
Dor to enable the gunners at the fort
to get the range. Again, one at
time, three cruisers, the Bayan, Ask
|old and Novik came out to meet the
ATTACK and this suggests either that
they were. the only effective ships
there or that the larger battleshfps
were unable to get out
Fortifying Victoria.
Seattle, Washington, March ENG
land is hurrying supplies, guns and
ships to Victoria and plans to make
the capital of British Columbia
western Gibraltar These preparations
for defense have been long in progress
but only since war in the Orient be-
gan, with possibility that England
may become involved. has the work
been rushed with energy.