Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-12
REPORT FROM ALEXIEFF.
Names Five Ships as Being Damaged
and Refers to Others.

dispatch from st. Petersburg dated,
February IL says:
The car today received telegram from
yiceroy Alexieff, describing the damage to
the Russian warships during the lombard
ment by the Japanese fleet at Port Az
thur. It saws: :,
.sThe Czarevitch and Pallada were
brought into the harbor Tuesday. The Ret
vizan Is making temporary repairs 20
hole Repairs to the battle ships are so
complicated that it is difficult to say when
the ships will be ready. The Pallada and
Novik will be locked in turn, and expect
them to be ready in a fortnight All the
other vessels injured in the fight are now
repairing and coaling in the harbor. l ex-
pect them to be ready in three days
1.-THE wounded officers, Lieut.. Col. Zaf-
ontchkovsky of the artillery corps, and
Lieut.. Petrol, are doing we'll Four of the
wounded have died. majority of the in
jured belonged 10 the cruiser Pallada, and
their injuries are due to gases from the ex-
plosion of a Melinite torpedo. A careful
search by cruisers and torpedo boats day
and night has not revealed the presence of
the enemy.
1t is officially announced that no news
has been received here of the fight at Che
mulpo, the landing of Japanese or the blow
ing up of a bridge on the Manchurian rail-
road.
Students In uniform and bareheaded this
afternoon paraded in front of the Kazan
Cathedral and went to the winter palace.
They were followed by several thousand
persons singing the national an them:
The assistant chief of police thanked the
students for their evidences of patriotism,
but he requested them to no longer disturb
the czar. The crowds then returned sing
ing to the cathedral
Serious disturbances are reported to have
broken out at Reval. the fortified seaport
on the Gulf of Finland. Four companies of
soldiers are said to have been dispatched
to suppress the rioting. The disturbances
are believed to be connected with labor
troubles.
There is a general movement among the
public to raise money for the purpose of
increasi sing the navy.
The Red Cross Society sent the steam
ship Mongolia, loaded with hospital stores,
to the far east on Sunday.
All manner of rumors are afioat. Accord
ing to one report here the Russian
mored cruiser Gromoboi recently sailed out
OF Vladfvostok. destroyed twenty Japanese
transports of southern Korea and was
herself sunk by Japanese cruisers. An
other story claimed that four of the Via
diyostok warships, under Admiral Stackel-
berg, mad sunk four Japanese transports.
Still another is to the effect that the re-
cent Japanese attack on Port Arthur was
feint TO protect the passage of transports
bound to Shen-Ha-K to land Japanese
troops there and effect junction with the
forces OF Yuan-Shi-Kai, the Chinese COM
mander-in-chfef, and attack the Russians
in the fas. e.
All the Russian navigation companies
having vessels in far eastern waters are
anxious about their .fate The volunteer
feet is particularly concerned regarding the
Ekaterinoslav. which left Vladivostok Feb
ruary 4, and the Voronei (which left Shang-
hal, tea laden, for Singapore, February /,
NO news or either vessel has reached here.