The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-07
SCENES MyL ADlHoSTOX
Former Resident Tells Of Terror
When War Broke Out.
CoRpERs N WHEAT AND OIL.

Cars Army-submarine Boats I'm
Route over the continent-Dissatis-
faction OF Russians over the War.
These are but early days in the his
tory Of the great racial struggle now
being waged for supremacy in the ori-
ent Hitherto the story has been main
" told through the medium Of the sub
marine cables says a writer in the
London News, but the other day | had
the privilege Of an interview with an
EngIishman who has spent several
months within the troubled area and |
from which he recently returned.
He was III vladiyostok before the out |
break Of hostiIitles and has told me Of
the serenity which possessed men when
war was deemed impossible, Of the con
sternation when it appeared imminent
ana Of the absolute terror when It !
actually broke out Not the least inter
esting part Of his story was that which
shows how the love of money tran
sends even that Of human life, how
corners we've made in wheat and
kerosene ana famine stared the people
ia the face. This latter commodity was
bought up In large quantities BY the
Chinese traders and retailed IN eight
gallon cases at 8 rubles each, q little
more than $3.50. The commandant OF
file yladiyostok forces. however, spoil
I'D this little article Of fixing the price
a. neat. wheat. kerosene and various
other necessaries of life, a standard
| from which no deviation was allowed.
.asw did the populace receive the
proc! nation Of war;" asked.
/ Well. at first the people were terror
stricken. They fed in all directions
from tile coast. Some went 10 Har-
barcYsk. others TO Blagovestchensk,
4 and not few TO Nikolskussuriski, but
| The haraships were many, and most Of
them soon returned. The chief diff
dculty was with regard to food. AT
| first all was right. Then the government
took all the meat, save a small quantity
Of pork, for the troops. and we had to
live on almost vegetarian diet Sheep
viii not live ia yladivostok It is
strange. but quite true. You may i'm.
agine how short we were running when
/ say that the Dalni-Vostok. one OF the
two yladiyostok papers, came oui
printed on brown paper, all the whitt
paper being used up.
Il shall never forget the lombard
ment. which commenced on March .
about . o'clock in the day japanese
Z shells came raining into the town
: Many Of them went high and struel
r the hills at the back of the town. Other
1 fell in the streets, but failed to explode
. one did strike a house 200 yards iron
!. where lived: this killed an old womal
who lay i'll III bed The town wa
saved. / think, By high sighting on th
part of the Japanese gunners ana :
the bad ammunition, During the BON
bardment number of ladies ran abou
. tile streets weeping and wrlnging thei
hands. but the real damage done wa
: very slight.
And how ran public opinion at thi
I period9"
'The people pinned their faith TO tn
Russian army Never once do r.
member their accepting a report Of
Russian defeat, official or otherwise
Kuropatkin was d hero. be was exceed
! ingly popular, Alexeief they woui
not have at all. Poor Makaroff; 2
was d man after their own heart.
y shall never forget the real grief whic
& was exhibited when the news Of b
/ death arrived. Russian officials wei
& very busy just about that time to-
Z I was In a restaurant on more than OF
: occasion when Russian officer bad
!. us stop conversing in English. Coz
Il versing in public had to be IN the Ru
sian language or not at all. one que
thing / ought to mention was that Y
Chinese coolies resident in the tow
were refused railway tickets. AS z
only other way out was to walk mai
III thousands of miles in an inhospitab
re country It was capital scheme +
keeping them In the place The Du
= OF the manual labor III yladivostok
IN carried on by the Chinese"
Ne HAD you any difficulty IN gettil
sw away
None, except that they would n
a.. book me through TO Moscow Ny I'll
"a ticket took me to Pogranichni; fro
IA there | renewed to Hardin, thence
,ka Manchuria station, where ! finally 6
d through ticket to Moscow.
!. * left yladivostok at SID a, NJ
May is. and we went slow TO fruits
1,s, from there, however. the express trai
ats are again running to Moscow.
rived at Irkutsk at about p. m.
May q. When about days journ
os from Tanhoi, the station at which p
9, sengers disembark in order 70 cr'
w. ~ Lake Balkal, we stopped at stat'
III ~ the name Of which | forget. standi
- in it was a train consisting Of
wagons. upon which were being g
- veyed Eve boats, which We're, as
R. as / could see Russian submarin
~ Each boat was loaded upon two true
ER and was, l think, about sixty feet 10
kiss Amidships was a manhole, just as
mish see in British submarine, with
n aq Il hand rail- around it;forward was h'
n tes 4 with an appliance which might p
: We been a periscope.
nsde. "All the boats are exactly alike, NJ
mar with one torpedo tube only lin the be