Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-03-10
THE JAPANEsE.RussIAN WAR.

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ST. PETERSBURG. March THE
czar has received from Viceroy Alex.
Jeff dispatch under yesterdays date
saying;
Il most humidity inform your ma
iesty that the commandant at the fort.
ross of Vladivostok reports that this
morning seven warships were sighted
of Askoid island; they were Japanese.
At ] o'clock the enemy opened fire
Two vessels were first class cruisers;
the names of the others were un.
known"
This is all there Is to the report.
An unofficial statement says:
The Japanese squadron entered the
harbor and battered the forts for an
hour, killing Ave persons by the ex.
plosion OF shells"
The Russians, however. say no dam.
age was done.
LONDON. March IA cable today
reporting the bombardment OF Vladl.
vostok yesterday. says that the Japa.
nese for a full hour hammered the
fortress and did great deal OF dam
age. The people of Vladivostok are
greatly excited and the port is as ef
fectually blocked now as Is Port Ar.
thur
ST. PETERSBURG. March 7.-At q
special meeting of ministers which
convened in the Winter palace last
news was received of the lombard
menL OF Vladivostok by the Japanese
aeet. The ministers do not anuci
will tell of the cannonading being az
| harmless the the first attempt made
| by the Japanese.
! A report Is also current here that
he bombardment covered the landing
Of Japanese troops on Askold island
and the neighboring little isles south
| cast and opposiate the town of Vladi
vostok
| LONDON. March THE naval
| demonstration OF Vladivostok is as
| cribed here to the fact that severa
vessels of the japanese Port Arthur
fleet could participate, their places In
the Yellow Sea being taken by the
new Japanese cruisers Nisshin and
I Kassaga.
PORT ARTHUR, March IA Vlad
iyos ok dispatch says one woman was
allied and few men wounded in yes
-erday's bombardment. One shel
struck the home of a Russian colone
md set It on fire The coIonels wife
vas inside but was rescued along viii
he Russian regimental flag.
| TOXIC. March lit Is learned her,
from reliable sources that the fortifca
tions OF Port Arthur have been fear
fully damaged by the japanese shells
and IT has been found impossible to re
pair the breaks. The Russians hav,
also abandoned their attempt TO rails,
the battleshlp Retylzan at Port Arthur
that the Japs sunk last month.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 7.-Th,
Noyoe VreJma. newspaper. toda,
sincerely rejoices in the fact that th'
aau-Russian feeling in America hal
moderated
NEW YORK, March THE Heral,
has received a cable from its Tler
Fsin correspondent dated this morn
ing to the effect that the Russian
have begun to evacuate New Chwang
The Herald also has cable sayin,
that 1900 Russians have been sent t,
intercept three Japanese regiment
now marching towards Hun Chu. Man
churla.
SEOUL. March Russian soldier
operating in the vicinity OF Anju ar
committing all manner OF excesses
malireating the native women an
perpetrating many robberies. On
body of invaders were attacked b.
Korean soldiers and thirty killed.
As the result OF collision betwee
Russian and Korean soldiers at Kan
&c the Russians are now said TO hay
been driven beyond the Lalu.
LONDON. March s.--The action G
the Japanese fleet in lettering Just ou
side the harbor OF Vladivostok CON
pletely bottles up the Russian sQuat