Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-09
ALL THE RUSSIANS AROUSED.
Gar Accepts the MikadO's Gage and is
Prepared to Go to
War.
Ne WILL DECLARE STATE OE WAR
Al Hone Of a Peaccablc Arrangement
Of Differences Has Now Been
Abandoned.


,ounccmeat Of the sinking OF IL Jap
c,c.e ships and that Port Arthur was
{, ear,es was given out In st, Peters
hnrg at 2:gO o'clock this afternoon az
oNclal but investigation showed the
,c,or, TO be untrue. The only con-
err,ed official communication is that
from Admiral Aledeft, issued earlier,
,,rouncing thet Japanese torpedo
boats had made a sudden attack on the
lussan squadron on the outer roads
N tho fortress OF Port Arthur, in which
IN, battleehIps Re;yizan and CzarocIich
md The cruiser Pallada had been dam
eyed.
The Russian battlesaip Retyizan was
iult BIZ the Cramps at Philadelphia.
she ia Of 1900 tons displacement. has
lsOOO Indicated horse power, and had
speed OF Is knots per hour. Her armor
Is o. Krupp steel. from to 10 inches
Ia thickness, and her armament con-
ATS Of four Pinch guns. 10 slx-inch
runs, 20 three-nch guns and Is smaller
,apid fire guns.
The CzarovItch is a pattleship OF 49,
no tons, built in France. In arrnor,
armament and speed she about equals
We kelViSah' eoo 49,.
She was built In einiany and COM
pleted in 1902, Her armament consist
ed OF SIX sN.lhch guns ~ ,hlee'ion
guns ana eight i,i-lncn suns i''
speed is estimated AZ " hlo's'
THE pAILADA SUNK.
Paris, Feb. 0, 4:ib p, m.-lt was an
nounced at the French foreign ONCE
this afternoon that the Russian cruiser
Pallada was sunk IN the torpedo az
tack made by the Japanese on the
Russian feet OF Port hrtnur. The IN,
lurles sustained py the NetVlzah anu
Clarovitch are not known
II was reported on the same autnori-
" that the cable from VladlVostocK
had been cut,
o,,n,s earn
CHAh ACOErls "AoE'
ST. Petersburg. Feb 0 q d. MI. The
news that Japan had duplicated her
tactics NJ the openinr of the China
,lananese war by n torpedo attack on
Inc Russian shlps of Port Arthur, ere
fted intense excitement Details OF the
attack are anxiously awaited. Extra
editions OF The morning PAPERS printed
carly In the forenoon, after the appear.
oncs ~ tho oac,oI Nessanger con.
yeyed the intelligence 10 the popnla-
lion NJ The can,tal and dIspelled any
lingering homes that war could be
Ayerted Tho czar and his ministers,
who mad heen Informed Immediately OF
,he receint Of VIceroy Alexleff's tele-
Yram oocented tho enae and prepared
10 face the reality of war. The cars
manifesto declaring n state of war 10
exist IL expected TO he issued tomorrow
AT the latest,
F Wy 'Ist .t,.,,,, .olonoa an oil tho
minlsterles and war preparations were
pushed in All direotiona
The Russian Rad cross society al
ready Mas sent 900 beds 10 the far east
and Sisters OF Mercy are leaving.
The temper OF tho people which was
Indicated in the grant nersonal dennon-
ttratlon accorded 40 tbalr maiestles Al
me lulerial opera house Yesterday. the
audience risine and singing "God save
the Car and Give Him Victory" was
further manifested this mornInq after
the arrival Of the news from Port Ar.
thur in the crowds OF volunteers who
besleged the general staff offices,
Tho naval Teservas Nave neon oallea
out;
Ink the Russian fleet without a deolar.
alton Of war is denounced as an out
iage BY the Russians generallv ana The
result instead of dlsomraelne them.
seems TO have been 10 furnish the sparh
necessary 10 fire Russian netriotlsm' /
From the large centers throughout En-
ropean Russia comes information that
me country IL already aroused by Inc
japanese action in breakIne M ne ne.
EQUATIONS.
from the provincial council Of the GOV.
eminent OF Yarostoy The Novoe Vrem.
"a saws n indieates he continents ~
the whole Russian neonle adding
Woe betlde Japan