The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-02-19
RUSSIA US LID
And the War Spirit Runs High All
Over the Country.
THE JAPs MUST BE Persisted.

shouts for Success Of fsussian arms
dipgle With Curses Hurled
Mt tho Japs for Their
Ire achery..' ;3si
A dispatch from st. Pete .sburR.
says the whole city anxiously waited
Tuesday night for official news. Ex-
traordinary scenes were witnessed IN
and around the newspaper Offices and
crowd OF people literally beseiged
the ministry of the interior, where
the Official Messenger is published,
smart carriages driving up in quick
succession and the highest and lowest
of the Inhabitants waiting in the ante
room or camping In snow covered
streets waiting patiently far into the
morning for the numbers containing
the official bulletins. ss
The text Of these communications
had leaked out among the newspaper
men, but as the law forblds the pub.
llcation OF such documents until they
have appeared in the Official, Messen-
ger, the editors had to wait until the
government organ printed the news
before starting their own presses.
THE NEWS EAGERLY SOUGHT.
The Associated Press representa-.
tive, calling on n well known editor.
found him surrounded by a thropg Of
Officers and prominent citizens implor-
Ing him to read to them the telegrarns
he had just received.
The editor, pale with emotion, re-
cited the narrative OF the lombard.
ment of Port Arthur. More people
kept Cunning in anu the editor was
compelled to read 1t over and over
again. The crowds expressed furious
'impatience at the fact that nothing
was said about injuries inflicted upon
Japanese warships. -
The intense indignation with which
the news Of 1.-The stab In the hack In
iiicted by Japan" was received here
seems to be general throughout the
Russias. The whole empire Is fred
by the war fever
The state Of feeling here was Illus
trated at the theatres last night.
when people demanded the national
anthem. *.
More remarkable was the refusal of
the drosky. drivers yesterday to accept
money from officers when they drove
to the palace. ~ y s. -
JAPs BRANDED TRAITORS.
The newspapers in general de-
nounce the action of Japan as treach-
cry, declaring that it is truly ASH
atic," but insisting that the Issue OF
the conflict viii not be decided By the
naval Arrangements, as the Japanese
Will have to meet Russia On land s.
when the score will l!he wiped out. The
J ,Nioyoe NO VremYe saysit us quite possible
that tine whole Of Korea has heen
oyer-run by Japanese soldiers III us
guise and that Russia may first baye
TO assume the defensive, but when her
forces in Southern Manchuria and
Korea are increased, the Japanese
Will realize what they have to meet.
GOD on RUssIA's SIDE. .,
God, right and international law
are on our side,'' the Russ says, and
continues: = 49,.
"One hundred and thirty million
Russian hearts are beating with the; de-
sire to expunge the traitorous slight
on Russian honor. Enough OF deiene
siye tactics! Let us drive out the
foel"
The Bourse Gazette Says Eyes
terday ne longed FOR peace. Now We
think only of war. The world soon
will be startled by Russia's heroic
work. Japan has placed herself be-
yond the pale of civilization. The
upsJ;.rS, p..Smy Japan, would not have
dared to attack the giant Russia
without the encouragement OF Eng
land and America -
DID BRITISH SAVE JAPs?
The Russians claim to have author
ity for saying that the new Japanese
war ships tthe Nisshin and Kasuga),
were saved from certain capture by
the Russian squadron bound for the
far east under Admiral Wirenius by
the action OF the commander OF q
British battleship in placing his yes
sells across the Suez canal and hoisting
a signal of distress, thus delaying the
Russians two days.
The anti-British feeling here Is
bitter, it being asserted that the jap
anese attack on Port Arthur was
launched from Wei Hai-Wei.
Ambassador Mccormick is busy
talking over the affairs Of the Japan
ese legation.
KUR1No GUARDED BY POLICE.
In spite of the state OF public feel
ing, there has been no attempt to mo-
lest M. Kurino, the retiring Japanese
minister, or his staff. The authori-
ties are according M. Kurino special
police protection. He has had no
communication with the foreign Office
since the delivery OF the last Japanese
note and has made his farewell calls.
He left st. Petersburg quietly Tues
day night.
General Dragomiroy arrived In ST..
Petersburg today. He Is one OF Rus
sia's greatest fighters and may be app
poiIted commander In chief, as Gem
eral Kuripatkin, the war mipister,
probably cannot be spared. u
Shot Fifteen Miles.
A dispatch from Hampton Roads
says the battleship Missouri, on her
trial trip Thursday of the Virginia
CaDeS. lost two t0rnednac md n civ innt