The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-14
SHOW NO SIGNS
OF WEAKENING
Defenders of Port Arthur Care
Nothing For a Siege.
ENERGY OF THE COMMANDERS
CONFECTIONERY GETS OUT OF
BELEAGUERED CITY.


Lao Yang. May 13-Nemirovich
DaneheRko. popularity. known as the
RUSSIAN Archibald Forbes. who is now
~ the service Of the Associated Press,
mas Just arrived here from Port Arthuz
ana furnishes the following chronicle
oi events OF Che first week OF the in
Nestment Of that fortress DancheukC
the last trash.
FROM Thursday, zIay s. the power
Ldl Meet Of the enemy's cruisers, the
-Ad41hsa, Asama, Iusumo,F Jwate and
i'tit-ts tne name OF which - uuS
hho"h, together with the flagship MI
aaaa ana the battleships Shikishima.
1fatsueZ- AsahL Easniua and the Full
renamed constantly iu sight at Port
4ft4Hr departing every night and re-
turning at daylight. The Japanese
totpeo4 boats occasionally swept our
coast vita searchHghts at night while
tnelf oarges lay iu waiting OF Pigeon
Day beyond our vision ou the western
h9rlIon and beneath the lofty hills that
skirt the Lao Tung gulf Appar-
emmy The Japanese were watching 20
zee Fl we intended to interfere with
their landing farther north
Port Arthur Cut OF.
fAl LtlulltdLftIS NtLU the UNLLI
were brokea on Thursday ana the fol-
lowing day the telegraph office liz Port
arthur refused TO accept our mes
sases
japanese cavalry reConuOiteTed the
peninsula from the north 10 ascertain
whether we were safely imprisoned.
Eut thiS did not cause any particular
depression I'm Port Arthur The wea-
Their was beautiful, a band was play
ing ON the boulevard, and there were
lnaEJ people uncoUceTnedIy prOmenad-
ing the streets We heard that the
Japanese had fired upon the last out
SONS tfa1n carrying the Russian sick
and wounded, and had succeeded in
Nounding Two of thc passengers, Ru-
4AoTs also Heated lu announcing the
destruction OF the railroad and blow
ms up Of some of the bridges, bat our
spirits remained 'slngularly Undepres-
Fa4- The military officers and men
talked Of nothing except "a second
siege of Sebsstop0i, although as
matter of fact SebastUp0l haG never
been cut off from its communicat zion
on the land side. we can die like
our f0refathcTs, was the universal
sentiment expressed. The Chinese
continued working as usual for the
most part very few of them attempt
ing TO escape.
Vigorous Defender.
Russian stronghold is General KUudra-
tenko. He knows no rest, and is cease
Jess DO his activity. The uJnGst Vigi-
lance prevails throughout the f0rtid-
cations and the energy displayed by
every one from highest 10 lowest is
marFelou7, No one IS now admitted 20
Port Arthur.
THE women from Dalny. which was
doomed 10 destruction, sought shelter
mere out were not allowed to remain
any later than Friday of last week
Tine number of Chinese seeking
work on the torUincat tons and as ser
wants IS more numerous than ever
As long as there = rice there viii be
Cinnamon. The attitude of the Chi
ucse authorities is changing and De
coming Threatening. The natives are
clearly our friends aad the authorities
clearly gOnistic. For instance, the
governor Of the province of Flu CHOW,
northwest Of west on the Lao Tung
peninsula, has announced that he viii
behead all the natives i'm our service
very soon and that he viii burn Wan
audian. one of the ueigHbOring towns
which has shown itself friendly TO the
Russians, After the skirmish at Wan
andian between the Japanese advance
and the Russian guard, the governor
executed the Interpreter and the SER
want OF Lieutenant HeIImer. the Rus
sian military chief iu charge of that
section of the railroad.
japanese Landing.
Beyond cape Terminal the Japan
eEs are landing immense stores Of rice
and siege guns The surrounding
heights are occupied by their scouts.
The japanese struck the railroad first
between san Shilipuu and POlandien,
about fifty miles from here. and blew
mp section OF the bridge with meiiu-
STE. They fired ON our sentrjes and
later finding one of them killed. a
japanese took on his ruuiC, rolled i'll
up and placed 10 under his head as "a
pillow and then reVEUeutly crossed the
dead mans arms over mis- breast.
ION Saturday, May O. / decided. by
hook or crook, 40 join the Mauchurian
army an Lao Vans, g. being plainly
impossible % write or telegraph from
Port Arthur, 8 paid a farewell visit
% the batteries and inspected their
positions.
-The sky was of am intense blue.
showing mp the black masses of cape
stone and the frovul1g dragon hills
behind Si8l Ping Tao, whore il was
FafI the eneuF- scouts were lurking
Westward cleaned The Mao Tao is
lands and nearer the Tigers Tail ANA
Lilac Tie shan while behind far far
away, toward The Eagles Nest. whence
g. view is 1btainabie or the whole OF
the Regents sword peuinsaia. out
upon the Emitless ocean twelve tiny
spots indicated the Japanese Warships
and smaller dots the cuemys swift
moving torpedo boats watching the
coast to prevent any of our craft slip
ping through 90 ChefUJ or New
GHuauE.
Through the Lines.
OF decided to steal through during
the night, across the stretch Of rail-
road. Communication was interrupted
and General StJasseI proposed that I
should accompany Captain OdintzoH,
hD had been empowered On enter into
communication with the enemy. We
left Port Arthur at O'Clock I'm the
morning and two hours later reached
the position commanded by the ener-