Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-25
THE GAR IS IMMOvADLE.
tie Will Not Only Reject All Propos.
ais but Will Prosecute the
War Relentlessly.
UNTIL VICTORY CROWNS HIS ARMS
All Weak Points at Port Arthur
Strengthened on Land and Sea
Place Is Now lmpregnabls.

ST. Petersburg, April 25.--C7:3O p. M
The Associated Press is enabled TO
announce authorItatiyely that the talk
or mediation IN the Russo Japanese
war was founded upon the personal de-
sires Of King Edward and King Chris
tian or Denmark to avoid further blood.
shed and end the conflict, but that the
steps Initiated have utterly failed The
emperor, with the full concurrence of
the imperial family and his advisers.
has firmly decided not only TO reject
all proposals looking to Intervention
but to prosecute the war with all the
resources Of the empire until victory
crowns the Russian arms.
PORT ARTHUR STRENGTHENED.
Port Arthur April 2i--Delayed IN
transmission)-All the weak points on
both the land and sea sides here have
been so strengthened in the last two
months that the impregnabllty Of Port
arthur is now regarded AS absolutely
assured. The garrison has been con.
siderably strengthened and the forts
are provided with all the necessaries for
more than year Complete confidence
prevails with the troops, sailors and IN.
habitants In the ability Of the Russians
to defeat any Japanese tack
remarkable Indifference to the posi-.
Dility Of attack is shown by the people
In iacl, by day there Is little to adj.
cate that the town IL i'm a staten of
selge. The band plays ON the boule.
| ward, on which parades are held. finely
dressed people stroll about and groups
OF children play. Restaurants and shops
are well patronized by customers ali
day long. AZ night, however the city
Is III profound darkness, which is EN-
phasized by the searchlghts flashing
across the roadstead The entrance OF
The harbor, although studded with nine
Japanese wrecks, remains perfectly
free.
The laundering of the Petropavlovsk
Is regarded as tragic mlschance, with
out Influence on the course of the cam.
paign or preventing the Russian fleet
from still achieving brilliant results.
Al each successive Commandments
which experience shows reoccurs ap-
ploXimately tortnighty. the Japanese
IRE becomes less vigorous Their ships
remain Out Of range OF the batteries
and evidently they do not intend to be
drawn into "A battle,
AFRAID OF FLOATING MINES.
Toxic, April %, D. m.-Japanese
companies which operate steamers 10
the yellow sea and the gulf OF Pechl III
are cancclling their engagements to call
at points beyond Chemulpo. Korea. be-
cause OF the mechanical contact mines
which are known to be adrift on the
high seas, These mines driftcd away
from Port Arthur ana Port Dalny, and
constitute "a serious menace 10 nayiga-
ton. The japanese cruiser Adsuma
discovered one such floating mine 40
miles from the Shan Tung prOmontory
and exploded II with a shot. II II known
that many mines have been detached
from their moorlngs by storms and cur
rents, and several have been discovered
and destroyed, but Il is feared that
many are still ilootlng ABOUT at sea, and
the currents are carrying them 90 the
southwark. Even navigation during
daylight is dangerous, because some OF
these mines float slightly below the
surface Of the water
Various expedicnts, most OF which are
impractcable have been suggested for
freeing the sea Of these menaces; they
include, among other things, a proposal
that neutral warships search for these
mines outside the zone OF operations
and destroy them,
DISPATCH BOAT LIBERATED.
Port Arthur April 2i-(Delayed IN
transmlssl0nJ-- Tho Chicago Daily
News dispatch boat Tying the British
flag. which was boarded and detained
by RUSSIAN officers of Port Arthur on
Friday last, has been liberated on the
condition that she win not again ap.
prOICh these coasts.