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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-18
JAPS DENY DISASTER
AlexeieffS Report Of Foes Heavy
Loss Is DiScredited.
ST. PETERSBURG is HOPEFUL
Russians Hear From General stoessel
That the Recent Attacks on Port Ar
thur Have Been Repulsed = Tho
Losses Reported

tnur Rave Been Repulsed - no
Losses Reported.
St Petersburg, July Is Since the
receipt from Tokyo of an Official denial
Of the report Of a japanese repulse at
Port Arthur, with the loss Of about
10000 men, skepticism as to the
truth Of the report from Yicerog Alex
eieff's headquarters has pervaded an
circles, but the members of the general
STAFF decline to accept the denial un.
Ireservedly.
While not insisting on the accuracy
|of the figures, they claim there Is good
reason 10 believe that severe check
was inflicted on the japanese in front
OF Port Arthur
An official report just received from
General Stoessel, covering the events
.of July and s. strengthens this view.
Stoessel says the Japanese repeatedly
attacked the western defenses around
Lunsantan and everywhere were re-
pulsed
Alexieff Still Credited.
Although still IN ignorance as to what
the official statement meant BY from
Japanese sources the officials here
maintain that Alexeien must have had
good reason to send the report While
IL is conceivable that the japanese
themselves may have spread the report
or the purpose Of leading General Kuro-
patkin to believe that they win not
advance any farther in Manchuria, the
general staff is not disposed to regard
them as guilty OF such Machiayelism.
In the lighting July and July for
the possession Of the positions at Lun.
santan, outside Of Port Arthur, Vice
roy Alexeieff reports that the japanese
were repulsed with the aid Of the pro
tected cruiser Novik and a number Of
gunboats and torpedo bouts. The Rus
slams captured a number OF Japanese
Notifications. The losses of the rms
slams were 2 officers and IS men killed
and officers and 247 men wounded.
The Chinese estimate the japanese
losses at 1900.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-18
The Weather.

Fair; continued warm; fresh west
winds,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-18
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SENATOR A1rEBr J. BEvER1DGE OF INDIANA.

thur for the term of twenty-five years and the right to extend her railroad through Manchuria to the Yellow sea. This was also granted and Japan saw the territory she had fought so hard for, and which she had been compelled to give up, handed over to the Russians, who had been the chief actors in the compulsion.
 The Japanese were angry and almost ready to fight them. but the Russians said they only wanted place for their railroad and they promised to evacuate Manchuria within a certain time.
 The Japanese assented to this and waited. The time came and went and the Russians remained. They gave ex- cuses for remaining, but they are there to-day.
 "They are not only there. but have been pushing their outposts farther and farther down toward Korea, and Japan is afraid that they will cross the Yalu and go down the Korean peninsula to the bottom. where their guns might be mounted within cannon shot of the Jap anese empire.
 The Russians and Korea. Korean"
 50 the Japanese think" replied sena- tor Beveridge. Korea is a wedge-split- ting Eastern Siberia from Southern Man churia. It has better harbors than Man churia, and If the Russians could extend their railroad into 1t their landing would be farther south. If they do not take 1t they fear the Japanese will and that the Japanese in Korea might be a menace to Russian progress toward the acquisition of the rest of Asia. which many of the Czar's people believe to be their destiny.
 Would the Japanese be satisfied if the Russians gave up Korea to them"
 "I think SOL replied Senator Beveridge. They would. for a time at least, although this struggle was bound to come sooner or later. Both nations need territory. and the Japanese especially so. Both nations hope to control the trade of Eastern Asia. and each is jealous and afraid of the oth- CT. If they could combine and become allies as to the future of China they might have peace. but that is not proba- ble."
 Manchuria and the Japanese.
 ''Tell me something about Manchuria, Senator. What would the Japanese have done with 1t had the triple alliance let them stay?'
 They would have made a second Japan north of the Yellow Sea-" replied Senator Beveridge. '"The whole country would have been speedily colonized by Japanese im- migrants and Japan would have probably made 1t basis for the acquisition of oth- CT parts of north China. Japan Is not a large country. Without Formosa 1t is not as big as California. Nevertheless, It has more than half as many people as the whole United States, and its population is rapidly increasing. Manchuria would have Insured the possession of Korea and would have been also a base for a closer alli- ance with China"
 But Is the country worth fighting about, Senator2'' l asKed.
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borer in the wilds of Indiana, saw the opportunity and seized 1t.
 We had just taken possession or the Philippines, and 1t was evident that they were the question of the future Henry Cabot Lodge sat down and studied Tn ternatfonal law on the subject; George Frisbie Hoar waddled over to the Con gressional Library and investigated the ethnology of the Malay races anu their ability for self-government; dear old Senator Allison kneeled down on the top rail of the fence and prayed the Lord to let him know how to jump, and John c. Spooner looked up constitutional argu- ments for his great speeches of the fu- ture.
 And what did Beveridge dor
 He alone of all the senators saw that the best way to handle a great problem is to first learn what the problem is He realized that knowledge is power. and took the first steamboat for Manila lie went out with our army and saw con- ditfons as they were. Then he crossed to China and learned something of that country, stopped a while in Japan ana came home better posted on eastern matters than almost any other pubic man in the United States.
 As he landed he was met by newspA- per reporters, and other reporters asked for his opinions in city after clty as no crossed the continent. He treated all noIitely. but. like Brer Rabbit, laid low and said nothing Then he came to Washington and, not needing the advice of the old fogies who counseied him as young senator to u.Ier no Woros Tn the chamber for the first two years, he arose. and his great speech on the Phil ippines went ringing around the coun- try.
 A National Character.
 That speech gave Beveridge national reputation and put him at the front as one of the leading thinkers on interna- tional policies. Since then no one has attempted to keep him quiet. He does not speak often, but when he opens his mouth the Senate and the nation prick up their ears.
 Senator Beveridge has not only gained the attention of the Senate, but also it's confidence. Unspoiled by hIs success, he went to work. and he has since put in more hours than most of the senators in studying the great matters which come before that body. He has gained the respect and friendship of the oIuer members, and Is to-day one of the few men who are doing things in our na- tional house of lords. He is becoming noted for his conservatism, and Is, am told, one of the most conservative coun- sellors of the strenuous young man in the White House.
 Japan and Russia.
 I say this by way of Introduction to an interview on the situation in the Far East which I have had with Senator Beveridge to-day. The senator has sup plemented his trip to the Philippines by others to China. Japan, Siberia and Russia He has met the leading states
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Japan and Russia.

I say this by way of Introduction to an interview on the situation in the Far East which have had with Senator Beveridge to-day. The senator has sup plemented his trip to the Philippines by others to China, Japan, Siberia and Russia He has met the leading states
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 The successful man of this new cen- tury is he who has not only the ability to do things; but the foresight to pre- pare for them; to know a great oppor- tunity and seize it. to fight his battles with his eyes to the front looking far into the future. That is the kind of a man Senator Beveridge of Indiana Is. Endowed with the genius of success he has acquired the capacity for hard work, and his tussle with fortune has made him conservative. At the same time he Is enthusiastic. His veins are full of young blood and he Is wide awake. How much awake you will see when Sou con- slider who he is and what he has done since 1899. 70
 The Making of 6 Statesman.
 Senator Beveridge was born on farm, and he had to hustle for his existence. At twelve he was blow boy, at four teen he worked on a railroad. at fifteen he was logger and teamster and at the same time he went to school. He managed somehow to get an education. diana, and then studied law under dear old Joe Macdonald, the famous Indiana United States senator anu politician. He had been admitted to the bar, and had made local reputation as a lawyer and orator at the age of thirty-six. when he was elected to the United States Sem ate. F t i'
 Beveriage's opAortunitS.
 All this was good, but not eXtraordi- nary. So far. many other poor boys had done as well. Beveridge's opportunity came at the time of his election. At that same time there were eighty-nine other men members of the United States Senate. Every one of them panted for national reputation more than the heart panteth after the. "~.er brooks; but only this baby senator, this farm boy railroad worker. logging camp la
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THE STRUGGLE
 FOR MANCHURIA
Senator Beveridse Talks of the Conflict Between Japan
 and Russia.

men oY all these. countries, and has act uaIly studied the Manchurian question on the ground. The interview took place in the senator's apartments in the Port land flats. on Thomas circle. My first question was:
 What are the Russians and Japanese squabbling about
 ''They are not squabbling." replied Sem ator Beveridge. '"The matter Is serious one to both parties. and, might say, of almost national life or death to one of them. We can hardly appreciate what this struggle means to the Japanese. They regard 1t as the salvation or ruin of their country. The Russians look upon it as the keystone of their future. They regard Manchuria as the door to their vast possessions in Siberia and to their prospectively greater ones in China as we'll"
 Give me in a nutshell the story of the trouble, senator?" said I.
 Tt is a matter of history" was the re- ply. Japan fought it's war with China. It licked China, and as one of the terms of peace 1t was grantee Port Arthur, Ta- lienwan bay and a large strip of Man. churia. The ink was hardly dry upon that cession before the triple alliance of France, Germany and Russia sent word to the mikado that it would be stand ing menace to the peace of the world for Japan to occupy that territory, and they asked him to give Manchuria back to China. The request was made in polite language, but there were armies behind 1t. and the mikado dared not refuse. He gave it back, although the Japanese peo- pie stormed. denouncing Russia as the cause of the trouble"
 How Russia Took ,Manchuria.
 Well, a few months after that the Germans demanded of China the cession of Kiachow bay and a railroad and other rights in the province of Shantung. Their request was granted and Russia there upon demanded the cession of Port Ar
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
Personal Mention.

Mr.. Hugh F. Taggart, who has been as
sisting in the prosecution of cases in the
United States branch of the Police Court
left today for Atlantic City. He expects to
spend several weeks at the seashore.
Mr. John Milton Gitterman of this city
will sail for Europe aboard the steamship
F'riesland tomorrow. He will examine into
certain economic conditions on European
railroads, visiting England, Holland, Ger
many, Switzerland and Italy for that pur-
pose, and his report will be published upon
his return by the interstate commerce COM
mission.
Mr.. w. A. German of 124 B street north
est, who has been spending the last ten
days at Newport r. l., will return home
tomorrow.
Rev. E. Lawrence Hunt Of the Washing
ton Heights Presbyterian Church is visit
ing al the beautiful home of Mr.. E. c. Bene-
dict Indian Harbor, Greenwich Conn., To-
morrow he will deliver the morning sermon
at the Greenwich Presbyterian Church
Lieutenant General Chaffee, chief of staff,
expected to return to Washington on Tues
day, having made an inspection of army
posts all the way to the Pacific coast
Surgeon General of the Army Robert NJ
O'Reilly sailed from New York today on the
Finland for England.
DIR. George N. French, disbursing clerk
of the Library of Congress, sailed this
morning from New York on the Etruria, of
the Cunard line, for England and Scotland
His visit will include coaching trip
through Scotland. ''''-'-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
REDUCTION IN UNIFORMS.
General Staff Of the Army Has Plan
Under Consideration

The general staff of the army now has
under consideration reduction in the num-
Der of uniforms for army officers.
For some time there has been consider
able complaint regarding the apparel OF
army officers as being altogether too ex-
pensive. 1t constitutes a veritable tax on
the individuals, many of whom, especially
those of the junior grade, find 1t hardship
to provide the variety of dress which Is
exacted by the regulations. An army Of
fieer must, for instance, have four pairs
of shoes and six or seven different uniforms
for various occasions. 1t is proposd to cut
down the uniforms to two, one for service
in the field and the other for dress oc-
casions. This would do away, for one
thing, with the full dress coat, a heavy
and costly garment. In its place it is pro-
posed to a composite blouse, to which
would be attached shoulder straps or
shoulder knots, the occasion required.
The army officer finds his uniform a burden
in transportation and a great responsibility
in care. Any plan to reduce the number
of uniforms will be received with approval.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
THE PRESIDENT DEPARTS.
he is Expected to Arrive at Oyster
Bay at $50 P. M.

President Roosevelt left Washington to-
Presidents party was carried on a special
train of two cars. run as the second Sec
ton Of the regular 10 o'clock train on the
Pennsylvania railway.
The special is due in Jersey City at 3:15
p m. The President will be met there by
Police Commissioner McAdoo and boat of
the 23d street ferry will be taken for New
York. The party will be driven across the
city in carriages to the East 34th street
ferry for the Long Island City station Here
special train will leave at 4:30 for Oys-
ter Bay, which will be reached an hour
later.
President Roosevelt returned to Washing
ton from his summer home July IS. Since
that time he has been busly engaged in
the transaction of departmental business.
This he has completed to date. During his
stay in Washington the President has had
few political conferences of Importance.
He expects to remain at Sycamore Hill
for one month, and this time is to be made
resting period as much possible. No
speeches are to be made and but few call
crs will be received During the month
Mr.. Roosevelt intends to make no journeys
nor participate in public functions or politi-
cal gatherings.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her children are all
Presidents secretary, will shortly go there
from Albany, where she has been on a visit
to her home. Assistant Secretary Barnes,
who has been spending a month in the
Maine woods will return to Oyster Bay
at once.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
HEAVY STORM IN NEW YORK.
Rainfall Of Nearly Ten Hours Deluges
Cellars-Much Damage.

NEW YORK, August 20-The heavy rain
fall which began late last night and con-
tinued nearly ten hours without cessa-
tion caused thousands of dollars OF dam
age and Inconvenience hundreds Of thou
sands of persons in this city. Cellars were
flooded streets became miniature rivers,
water and gas mains were washed out and
broken and scores of excavations where
building operations are in progress were
filled with water, which the overloaded
sewers could not carry away.
The flood caused the greatest damage at
William and Frankfort streets. At this
point an excavation which had been made
for new building became a lake. Shor-
ing timbers were washed out, the sides
crumbled away and the earth under the
water gas and sewer pipes was torn down.
AS a result the pipes broke, necessita ting
the shutting off of gas and water sup
ply for large district. For distance Of
about $50 feet and half the width of the
street the pavement was washed away.
The big excavation from 44th street to
49th street on Lexington avenue, where
the Improvement work 5on the New York
Central railroad terminal Is being done
was SO badly flooded fhat work was sus-
pended for the day.
In the suburban districts the conditions
were even worse than in the city proper
Streets, sidewalks, street car and railway
tracks In many places were submerged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
THE BALTIC SQUADRON READY.
Difference Of Opinion Regarding the
Advisability Of Sailing.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 2O-Vice
Admiral Rojestvensky's Baltic squadron
including the new battle ship Orel, is
standing off CrOnstadt with steam up 1t
is popularity expected that the squadron
will sail at any hour, and it is quite true
that it is ready for almost immediate de-
parture, but regarding the question of SAIL
ing there is difference of opinion among
the naval authorities. 1t is held, on the
one hand, that the immediate sailing Of
the squadron would be the best policy, on
the theory that should 1t arrive within two
months it would find Vice Admiral Togo's
fleet in an infinitely worse condition than
If the japanese were allowed the whole
winter to repair and refit the ships.
The advocates of an immediate sailing
hold that the port of Vladivostok is capa-
BILE of receiving the squadron, even should
entrance to Port Arthur prove to be i'm
practicable, and they wish to treat the
Port Arthur squadron for the present as a
negligible quantity, letting the Baltic sea
vessels meet the japanese in their present
weakened condition without relying for
any certain assistance on either Vice Ad-
miral Ouktomsky or Vice Admiral Skryd-
lon.
Other officials hold that it would be un-
wise to risk sending the Baltic squadron
to the far east until the situation at Port
Arthur has been cleared up, and until 1t is
known what conditions the squadron would
be likely to find on its arrival.