Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-02-25
PORT ARTHUR CAN
STAND LONG SIEGE
PROVISIONS FOR TWO YEARS
STORED FOR EMERGENCY.
CHINA REFUSES GUARD AID

Tells Russian Government II Mus,
Bear Alone the Burden of Policing
Railroad In War as Well as In
Peace-lnaction of American Ship
Disliked.
THE DAYS WAR DISPATCHES.
kuropatkin made the cars chief OF
eastern land forces.
Adverse Russian Comment for Con
duct of United States Ship.
Jap fusitives report maltreatmeni
by Russians.
Newspaper correspondent reports
Port Arthur conditions.
Japanese fleet controls Gulf oil
Pechili.
Port of DaIny unsafe for years ow.
ing to stray floating mines.
Russian troops numbered only LIS
at outbreak of war.
Merchantmen warned to remain
south of Shanghai.
Denial of coun, cassini's recall.
5aIta Jews profess loyalty to car.
! Russians Reconnoiter Yalu river.
China refuses to do police duty for
Russia on railroad.
Car suffers agony of heart ove'
war burdens. .....i
cossacks in great numbers sen
from Caucasus.
| Takeshita denies that Jap cruise
and torpedo boat sank.
Russian official in Paris voices
views on consul question.
|
Yinkow. Feb. 22-By means o
permission obtained from Major Gen
eral Plug, Viceroy Alexieff's chief O
staff, newspaper correspondent, sue
ceeded in passing the lines under al
official escort and visited Port Arthur
which is closed to all civilians. This
correspondent says that the authorities
are providing for a siege by sending
wheat-milling machinery TO Por,
Arthur, and claim that there is suf
ficient food supply there for resistance
| of two years. The Japanese eet
which is sighted at intervals from
, Golden Hill, completely controls the
gulf and under the imperfect police
| system, all incomers are treated as
spies. Repairs to the Russian fleet
are proceeding. The cruiser Novik
has been locked but the condition OF
the battleships Czarvitch and Retvizan
remain unchanged. The engineers say
that the Retvisan will be floated in a
few days. Shippers are of the opinion
thai the harbor of Dalny will be unsafe
for Years to come on account of the
stray mines from the Yenesei which
was recently blown up by contact with
mine. Some of these mines are re-
ported by the last merchantmen arriv-
ing at Port Arthur as drifting in the
open sea. 1t is stated that as soon as
troops are gathered near Kinchow
Liauchang and Liayang a simultan,
eous march be commenced toward the
Yalu river. An enormous consignment
of artillery is reported on the route
from Russia and it is said without hest.
tation that there were not 1875 good
troops in Manchuria and at Vladiyos-
tok when the war began The admin
istration authorities of + ort Arthur as
sert that the Japanese have landed in
Corea only.
Gar Worries over War.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 22.--The car
according to those who have access
; to his presence, feels keenly the out.
break of hostilities, and much sorrow
at the burden which war entails. Since
the bombardment of Port Arthur, his
majesty has been much occupied with
conferences, and has only appeared in
public on one or two occasions, TO re.
view the departing troops or to show
himself at the window Of the winter
palace to acknowledge the patriotic