Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-09-15

! to be imperative, has refused to order
the Lena from the harbor within sew
+, ehty-our hours without investigation.
1 The Lena is anchored about 500 yards
from the big guns of the battleship
1 Ohio, Which was accepted by the gov
eminent Saturday.
| Navigation Officer Specimen. who
| spoke excellent English, said:
Merely Troop Ship.
I'VE were sent TO Nla5ivostok 10
transfer the troops home when the war
should be over The Lena is not w;Ji'-
! ship. We cannot fight
Needing repairs, we We're first or
dered back To- the Baltic Afterwards
this order WAS changed, and we have
come here as the nearest port in which
| we could get new boilers.
1--WE expect orders from Our naval
representative at Washington who has
! just been advised of our arrival. IT is
| probable he will ask the American gov
crnment for permission To remove the
guns and allow the vessel to remain
here until the repairs can be finished.
| The Lena will probably remain here
lsunti! the war is over We expect the
officers and crew will he sent loine by
way of New Yoll:
On the deck We're between Two ana
three hundred sailors. Among them
was 4 priest of the Russian Crack
1 church With long hair and uncut beard.
wearing u soft felt hat and What looked
like IL gray k,0ona. Silently he stood
at the rail counting his beads and look
| ing ut he tall buildings of the strange
| city
| An inspection of tho aecls OF The con-
verified cruiser to which no objection
WAS made, revealed the fact that she
hal mounted Twenty-Five gums.
Speaking With another Of the officers
he ion, of l,a ir4at W of he
cilic mail steamers ana the matter of
contraband Was brought ulp.
All, that is q thing of the past. We
cannot fight" he said, as lie looked at
the gums of the Ohio. But. lie
added, IF the government will not let
us dismantle the ship we Will have 70
make hasty repairs and put to sea-
Japanese Are Suspicious.
Manager IL. A. llatnctt of the Jap.
alesc Steamship line who WAS prompt
| " warned of the arrival of 4 Russian
cruiser cablcd 10 his company in Yo-
lso'l;tma to hold the American Alaru
until the cruiser Hcrarts. The Am l.
| ca Marl is now Eetween Shanghai and
| Naeasali ON its way to this ei,y. liar
nott's theory is he Russian cruiser Was
sent out from NladiyoGtok on a rosns
commission to sec if it could capture
| amy Japanese vessels. He regards the
trouble With the boiler as a r,isc to per-
NIT the vessel To STAY here and dis
mantle. Then at a days notice it
would resume its guns and sail out
ready to hold up amy Japanese ship.
This theory is born ont by the fact
that il ordinarily makes nineteen knots
but at pinch can steam twentN-three
| knots, Which would allow ii To over
haul amy vessels of the Japanese line
as we'll as most % fthe Pacific mail and
occidental and oriental steamers. 1t is
OF 5000 tons and 4S0 feet long. OF it's
| twenty-four guns three are eieht inch,
twelve six inch. eight four inch. and
one three inch.
Those who boarded the Ship late yes
lerday afternoon say everything is in
4 good order and that the gums all looked
effective II was formelly in passenger
traffic between Odessa ami C'ronStadt
and six months ago was converted into
| n cruiser.