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DEPRESSION IN RUSSIA.
Full Extent of Disaster to Port Ar
thur Fleet just Being Learned

Full Extent of Disaster to Port Ar
thur Fleet just Being Learned.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 14.-Not
since the beginning of the war between
Japan and Russia has anything so OBJ
viously affected Russian spirits as the
gradual revelation of the extent of the
Port Arthur squadrons reverse.
The efforts of the Russians to fight
their way through the Japanese prob
ably would have been successful had it
not been for the disaster to the battle
ship Cesarevitch, which compelled the
squadron to fight a second battle, end
ing in the dispersal of the Russian fleet
in darkness.
The awful mortality among the OFF,
GERS of the Cesarevitch, which was
merely stated in the official report, was
due to the fact that Admiral Withoeft
and most Of his officers were gathered
on the bridge during the action, in or
der to set an example to and encour-
age the men, instead of remaining In
comparative safety in the protection
of the coming tower.
A Japanese shell burst beneath the
bridge. wrecking that part Of the ship
and killing or wounding every officer
on duty thereabouts.
One of the most important features
of Captain Matousevitch's dispatch.
aside from its grimly brief account of
the battle, is the detailed statement of
the makeup of Rear Admiral Togo's s
fleet, which consisted Of six battleships,
eleven cruisers of various classes and
approximately thirty torpedo-boats.
According to this statement there
were in line of battle some ships pre-
viously reported destroyed. This gives
an indication of the japanese naval
strength. which Admiral Togo has hith-
ertO concealed
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Leaning Apainst George III.

The Declaration of independence is
most trenchant argument to show
that George III was a very poor kind
Of king and that the colonies could do
better by setting up for themselves. OF
course, the British Government did
not think that the colonies were yet
ready for self-government. No Gov
ernment ever does think this of its
colonies When Secretary Taft says
that independence for the islands lying
off in the Pacific must not be men
toned for years to come, he is simply
echoing the spirit of the past and of
all governments which get their grip
on a people without their consent. 1t
would have knocked American inde-
pendence higher than kite. But the
spirit of '76" was greater, mightier,
truer to human instinct and human
right. George III did not believe that
the American colonies were ready for
self-goVernment simply because he did
not want to believe it. The first ques-
ton to ask ourselves is whether we
want the Philippines to have inde-
pendence. If we do not, we will al
ways be able to find an argument to
run with our wishes.
Lincoln said that no man was good
enough to govern another without his
consent. But Lincoln was a rare kind
ot human. In these smart days there
are men who think themselves good
enough for anything. And as between
George III and Lincoln they lean UP
against the former.-Chicago Advance.
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Battleship Cesarevitch Irreparaby Damaged in Run
ming Fight, Will Be DiSmanted and Put Out of
Commission in the Harbor of TsingchOu

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. IA, 3:40
a. m.-Rear Admiral Withoeft, who
was in command Of the Russian naval
forces at Port Arthur, was killed dur
ing the engagement Of Wednesday.
The Emperor has received a tele-
gram from Tsingchou, signed by Cap
tain Matouzvitch. the rear admirars
chief of staff, reporting that Withoeft
met his death aboard the flagship
Cesarevitch. Both his legs were blown
off.
Captain wamoff of the Cesarevitch,
Captain Samoff and several officers
were wounded.
Several officers besides the rear ad-
miral were killed. The battleship sus-
tanned severe damage. Her rudder
was broken beyond hope of repair.
Captain Matousevitch did not report
as to the whereabouts of the other
vessels. but the disatpch adds that the
protected cruiser Novik has left Using
chou.
The Admiralty entertains the hope
that some Of the battleships, after the
return to Port Arthur. managed to
elude Admiral Togo and join the
Vladivostok squadron. 1t is pointed
out that the Admiralty now explicitly
states that the Russian squadron ac-
tually went back to Port Arthur.
The Russian account Of the latest ma
val battle between the Japanese and
Russian fleets indicates that the Japa-
nese torpedo boats sustained their pre-
vious reputation for daring by making
daylight attack upon a squadron in
battle formation, and admits the effect
iveness Of these frail, daring craft,
which seriously impeded the move
ments Of the Russian fleet.
The wording Of the official report that
the battleship Cesarevitch turned" to
try to go in the direction of VIadivo-
stok arouses some comment here As
suming, as the report seems to indicate,
that the battle was off the Shantung
peninsula. the turning Of the Cesare-
witch to go toward vladivostok would
most probably indicate that the re-
mainder of the squadron was going
back in the direction Of Port Arthur.
At the same time the report that the
day after the battle four Russian bat
lACcA4AP5 nS1S SlBnlSQ OIL CnaQRnd1
makes it possible that the battle oc-
CURED farther south in the Yellow Sea
than the report of Captain Matouse-
witch indicates and that when the Ce-
sarevitch 'lost sight of the remainder
of the squadron" the Russian fleet was
actually proceeding southwark. This
opens an interesting question as to the
ultimate destination Of the remaining
Russian battleships.
The fact that the crushing nature of
the blow to the Russian fleet was
largely due to the feeling of comrade-
ship which prompted the squadron to
halt for the purpose Of protecting the
disabled Cesarevitch is viewed here
with grim satisfaction and regret IS
mingled with admiration for the
! brother officers who threw away their
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BERLIN. Aug. IA dispatch to the
Lokal Anzeiger from Toxic. timed 1890
p. m. to-day, says that heavy fighting
took place at Port Arthur day and
night on Tuesday and Wednesday and
that the Russian losses are reported to
be enormous.
CHEFU. Aug. 13.-Chlnese dockyard
laborers who left Port Arthur on the
night Of August 8. and who arrived
here to-day confirm the report OF heavy
f1ghting there. They state that the
japanese lines are gradually closing In
on the inner forts.
A shell which exploded In the general
hospital killed number Of patients.
TOXIC. Aug 1S.-Another sign that
a general assault on Port Arthur is i'm
minent, or already in progress, is found
in the fact that the Emperor Of Japan
has notified Field Marshal Yamagata,
chief of the general staff, of his desire
that non-c -combatants be allowed an op-
portunity to leave the fortress. The
chief of staff consequently instructed
the japanese commander at Port Dal-
ny to give the requisite instructions for
their removal
Further details of the naval engage
miral Togo's main attack was directed
against the Russian battleships and
that while this was going on the speed
Ter Russian cruisers succeeded in get
ting away.
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TOGO HURRIEs TO SHANGHAI.
Battleship Squadron Will Intercept
Russian Ships in That Vicinity.

RUSSIAN SmpS In That Vicinity.
CHEFU, Aug. 13.-According to
Chinese authority, the Russians had
six and the Japanese four warships at
the beginning of the fight off Shantung
Promontory. The Japanese, however,
soon were reinforced. but to what ex-
tent is not stated.
A private telegram received here to-
night says that the Russian battleship
Cesarevitch has moved farther into
Tsingchou harbor, following a demand
made by the Japanese that the Rus
slams come out and fight. 1t is sur
missed that the Cesarevitch will be dis
mantled.
The German cruiser Thetis left
TsingchOu hastily to-day. An Italian
warship also has left there. The desti-
nations of these vessels are not known.
Admiral Togo is said to be with the
main portion of the Japanese fleet
which has gone toward Shanghai. This
portion of the fleet includes all the
battleships.
The whereabouts of the Russian
cruisers Pallada and Novik are not
known here. 1t is believed that If
these vessels are still afloat they will
undoubtedly endeavor to connect with
the Vladivostok squadron.
A cipher telegram received here
from Osaka, Japan, confirms previous
reports that the japanese main squad
ron is bound for southern destina-
ton ION an active campaign"
Launches containing sixty Russian
sailors are said to have entered Wei
haiwei to-day. The sailors belong to
two torpedo-boat destroyers which are
reported to have gone ashore in the
vicinity Of Weihaiwei. These vessels
presumably are the same which were
reported yesterday to have been cap
| tured.
The steamship Dagmar. arriving to-
night from Tsingchou, had on board
the harbor pilot who steered the Rus
sian battleship Cesarevitch into that
| port. He confirms the press reports
regarding the damage to the Cesare-
witch and adds that her rudder shaft
was broken during the fight, but that
her engines were not badly injured.
He expresses the opinion that the
fighting days Of the Cesarevitch are
over and that she probably will be
! dismantled.
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DESTROYER BURNI BEACHED.
Survivors of the Russian Craft Walk
to the Port of Weihaiwei.

to the Port of Weihaiwei.
LONDON, Aug. ia dispatch
from Weihaiwei says the Russian tor
pedo-boat destroyer Burni was beach
ed and blown up on August II on the
south of the Shantung Promontory.
Three of her officers and sixty men,
who walked from the scene Of the ac-
cident, have arrived at Weihaiwei.
According TO a news agencys dis
patch from Toxic, the Russian tor
pedo-boat destroyer Ryeshitelni, which
was captured by the Japanese at
Chefu, is being taken to a Chinese
port.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg to
news agency says the machinery Of
the Russian battleship Cesarevitch
was so damaged during the fight that
most Of IT is worthless. She lost 210
officers and men killed and sixty
wounded.
Rear Admiral Withoeft was on the
bridge of the Cesarevitch when a shell
exploded there, blowing him to pieces
A dispatch from Shanghai says the
reason given for the entrance OF the
LAuSSleH lOIpcuO-DOdl QCSbAOyCA u
zovoi into that port is that 1t is neces-
sary to repair her machinery. The
vessel, the dispatch adds, shows no
signs of recent fighting, except that
her forward rails are damaged. Her
hull. guns and torpedo tubes are un-
injured.
The officers of the Grozovoi report
that the Russian warships. after a Sc
we're engagement, forced their way
through the Japanese fleet and
escaped in several directions.
The correspondent of the Evening
News at Tsingchou cables that he
learned from an officer of the Rus
sian battleship Cesarevitch that the
Russian Port Arthur squadron met the
Japanese squadron twenty miles out
The flagship Cesarevitch was espe-
c!ally attacked and changed her
course for the Shantung Peninsula.
The Japanese followed and overhauled
her and the accompanying vessels Off
Shantung at 4:30 o'clock in the after
noon. A two hours battle followed.
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CEsAREvITCH OUT OF ACTION.
Battleship Probably Will Be Dis
mantIed in TsIngchou Harbor.

mantIed in TsIngchou Harbor.
TSINGCHOU, Aug. 13.-The Rus
sian battleship Cesarvitch received
terrible punishment in the fight off
Shantung Promontory on August 10.
The Cesarevitch bore the brunt of the
fighting until o'clock in the after
noon, when Admiral Withoeft was
hit by shell, which blew his body to
pieces, only one of his legs being
found after the explosion. Four Of
f1cers standing near him were killed.
Altogether the Cesarevitch lost fifteen
men killed and forty-five wounded.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of
August IL Russian torpedo-boat de-
stroyer, badly damaged, steamed slow
ly into Tsingchou and a half hour lat
er the protected cruiser Novik, slight
ly injured, entered port. No dead were
on board either vessel. They took coal
and departed at o'clock on the
morning of August IL.
The battleship Cesarevitch arrived
at Tsingchou on the night of August
IL, steaming at the rate of four knots
an hour and burning immense guam
titles of coal to make even that rate of
speed. Her rudder shaft was broken,
one gun was disabled, lifeboats had
been lost, her masts were badly bent,
her tunnels were riddled and her
bridge had been twisted out of posi-
ton. The projectile holes above the
water line were covered with make
shift shoppers of wood.
The same night, August II, the
cruiser Askold. with fifteen of her
crew dead and twelve wounded, and
one torpedo-boat destroyer attempted
to enter Tsingchou, but were kept out
by a Japanese cruiser, whereupon
they proceeded to Woosung.
The officers of the Cesarevitch are
Of the opinion that the Japanese ves-
sells undoubtedly suffered severely In
the fighting. as the pursuit Of the
Cesarevitch was maintained for a
short time only. The decks of the
Russian battleship were slippery with
blood and the men on board were al
most deaf as a result of the concus-
sions of firing.
Several Japanese cruisers are now
reported to be off Shantung Promon-
tory near the scene of the fighting
while destroyers on scouting duty are
watching the mouth of Tsingchou
harbor.
The German warships at Tsingchou
tonight are the cruisers Fuerst Bis
marck, Geier, Hansa and Hertha, the
gunboats Luchs and Tiger and two
torpedo-boat destroyers. They con-
troll the harbor exit absolutely.
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CONVENTION AT YREKA.
Mendocino County Names Delegates to
the State Convention.

YREKA, Aug. 13.-The Republican
County Convention convened here to-
day, with fifty-four delegates present
from various portions Of the county.
The platform, among other things,
warmly commends Roosevelt for his
action in the Panama matter.
The following representatives were
chosen delegates to the State conven-
tion and also to the Congressional and
Assembly district conventions, which
meet at Santa Cruz: r. S. Taylor, L.
NJ. Foulke. Judge ]. S. Beard, Albert
Lindley. Clifford Coggins, DR.. G.. W.
Dwinnell, ]. L. Coyle and r. ]. Will
lard
Supervisor Abner Weed was renom-
mated in District No. without opposi-
ton. Samuel Gardner beat his op-
ponent for denomination by a close vote
in District No. 4. A. D. Terwilliger, a
business man of Montague, beat John
Cooley. farmer, by one vote for the
nomination in District No. l. TerwilIi-
gers prospective opponent is Ed O'Con-
nor, brother-in-law.
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CIVIL WAR VETERANS
TO BANQUET IN LONDON
Permanent Organization Will Be Made
and Annual Reunion Pro-
Vided For.


The London Morning Post of June 29
said: "On the initiative of Colonel G..
Gouraud it is proposed to hold for the
first time out of America a meeting, to
be followed by a banquet, of the mill
tary order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States. The membership of the
organization is limited to military and
naval officers of the Civil War Of 1861-5,
who still number nearly ten thousand.
Many of them are resident in Great
Britain and on the Continent of Eu-
rope, and at recent conference it was
decided to hold a meeting and banquet
in England annually hereafter. United
with the members of the order will be
officers of the Confederate forces, mem
bers of the Society of Cincinnatus, the
Spanish American War Veterans, the
Roosevelt Rough Riders, the Sons of
Veterans Of the Union and Confederate
armies, the Sons Of the American Rev.
olution and the descendants of British
naval and military officers who served
in the war of the American Revolution.
The guests on the occasion, 1t is hoped,
will include several distinguished Off
GERS Of his Majesty's navy and army
The Lord Mayor of London has given
his cooperation. Those wishing to Join
in the reunion are invited to communi-
cate with Colonel Gouraud at the Savoy
Hotel, or at Edison House, Marine Pa
rade, Brighton
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Somewhere In the world life Is at
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at our own doors, perhaps, Is going on a
struggle as grim and fierce as any fight
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Address DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
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RUSSIANS LOYAL TO THE FLAGSHIP
Continued From Page Fl, Column 4.

Shantung Peninsula, where she ar
rived on Thursday night, within the
twenty-four-hour limit, according to
an official dispatch to the Navy De-
partment from the Governor Of Kiao-
chou. Several other Russian vessels
are still in the harbor in disabled
condition.
The German Government IS not
willing that the names of these ships
and the details of the damages should
be published on official authority, be-
cause such intelligence might be con-
sidered inconsistent with neutrality
and as affOrding Japan information
The instructions sent to the authori-
ties at Tsingchou permit the Russian
vessels to repair sufficiently to go to
another port, but the repairs must be
strictly limited to making them sea-
worthy and not to increasing their
fighting capacity.
Admiral Won Prittwitz, the COM
mander of the German naval forces in
Far Eastern waters, is assembling his
ships at Kiaochou to enforce Ger
many's neutrality against either bel
Egerent.
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RockefelIer,s Picture.

John D. Rockefeller has a little
grandson something over a half dozen
years OF age of whom he is very fond.
One day recently this youngster, while
visiting at the Rockefeller country
home, at Pocantico Hills. New York.
mounted his grandparents knee and
said:
Grandpa. here's a picture OF you
that l drawed."
"Ah, yes." replied Mr.. Rockefeller, as
he examined it. Very interesting.
What am 1 doing?"
Coming home from the village
store"
Yes, yes; I see. But what's that !
have in my hand?"
That's a gallon oil can. You've just
got 1T filled with kerosene and are
fetching it home for the lamps. OF
course" the artist continued in patron
izing explanatory tones, Its mag
mary picture. 'Tain't drawed from see
Ing you do it, you know. 1 fought it all
UP in my own head."-New York Times.
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ASKOLD PUTS INTO SHANGHAI.
Badly Damaged Russian Cruiser Takes
Refuge in the Harbor

Refuge in the Harbor.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 13.-The Russian
protected cruiser Askold. flying an ad-
mirals flag, with her two stacks de-
stroyed, large hole In her hull near
the water line and one below the water
line, her upper works much battered
and her after barbette destroyed, ar
rived at Shanghai at o'clock this aft
ernoon and commenced to make repairs
in the drydock. Fifteen of her crew
were killed and fifty wounded during
the battle off Port Arthur on August 10.
The torpedo-boat destroyer Grozovoi
also is at Shanghai. The Taotai has
notified both vessels that they must
leave port at the expiration Of the
twenty-four hour limit. The command
er of the Askold claims that his vessel
is unseaworthy, and it is said to be his
intention to remain in port until the
repairs are completed.
Local shipping is demoralized, under
writers refusing to take any further
risks. There is a feeling here that Rus
sia is infringing upon Chinese neutral
ity by using Shanghai as a port Of
refuge.
Great excitement was caused here to-
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Scouting With TeIephone.

Scouting with the aid OF the
telephone has become one OF the
features of modern warfare, and
Is now being made use OF by
the japanese" says the Western
Electrician. Two scouts proceed
from the lines toward the enemy; one,
the observer, is a skilled army officer,
who makes the observations, which are
transmitted back to headquarters
through q telephone line paid out from
a reel carried by an electrician of the
signal corps. A ground return is used
the ground being made by thrusting a
bayonet or hatchet into the earth and
attaching one end Of the line to IL. The
electrician carries a battery on his
back He also makes the connections
and does the talking. A special con-
ductor is used, which viii stand rough
usage. In this manner a scout may be
able TO stay out a long time and give
valuable information without being
obliged to make a number Of hazardous
trips TO the front"
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DOUBTS JAPAN's VERSION.
Great Britain Much Disturbed by the
Chefu Incident

LONDON. Aug. 13-The cutting out
of the Russian torpedo-boat destroyer
Ryeshitelni by the Japanese torpedo
boat destroyers at Chefu has eclipsed
for the moment in the public mind the
Knight Commander incident. The Jap
anese legation claims that the Japanese
torpedo-boat destrOyers entered Chefu
for the purpose of ascertaining if the
Ryeshitelni was really dismantled, and
that the Japanese boats crew was at
tackled by the Russians.
This version does not agree with the
reports received by the British Foreign
Office. in which the Japanese appear to
have been the aggressors. Consequent
ly the British Government has evil
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only chance Of escape rather than de-
sert the crippled flagship.
The distress caused by the squad
ron's failure to get away has height
ened, If possible, the bitter resentment
felt over the conduct of the Japanese
in the Ryeshitelni affair and the Mi
kado's orders to allow non-combatants
to leave Port Arthur merely deepens
the painful impression, indicating as it
does the belief of the highest japanese
authorities in the imminence of the fall
Of Port Arthur.