The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-16

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 Prince Louis Napoleon has gone to the Causcasus, accompanied by Prince
 Marat. Prince Louis Napoleon will re- linquish his command of the cavalry division of the Caucasus and then pro- ceed to the Far East, where he will take supreme command of the cavalry
 under General Kuropatkin.
 1 General Niedermuller has gone to the front to take charge of the military
 communications, and will be responsi-
 ble for the regular movement of mili tary trains.
 The dowager empress to-day inspect
 ed her own Red Cross.
 The statement by General Zilinski
 that. the Russians found poisoned
 swords left by the fleeting Japanese
 has .aroused much comment. Similar
 swords were used by the Chinese dur i ing the Boxer rebellion, especially in
 Manchuria, and the slightest wound inflicted by them prove fatal The use of such weapons is prohibited by
 the Geneva and Hague conventions Tolxio, Tuesday, March 15. It is strongly believed here that the Russian | fleet abandoned Port Arthur after the fourth attack was made upon it by the Japanese fleet and is endeavoring to
 reach vladivostok. Confirmation of this
 movement is not obtained from any re- liable source, but recent scouting in the
 vicinity of Port Arthur has failed to re-
 veal the presence of any Russian war ships
 It seems logical that the Russians
 should attempt a. dash for Vladivostok, where it is possible to dock larger ships. effect junction with their arr mored cruiser seuadron, and secure a base of operations which possesses ade- quate land defences. The hopelessness of continuing at Port Arthur is mani-
 fest. while a dash for vladivostok might succeed.
 Vice Admiral Togosis unwilling to run 1.-the risk Of dividing his battleship squadron. and continues to operate the six battleships together. If the Rus sians should make an attempt to reach
 Vladivostok. it is believed that they will try dash through the Corean straits, rather than enter the Japan sea through the Sugaru straits.
 The steamer bearing ten wounded and the bodies of nine of the seamen who were killed in the Port Arthur fight on the 10th inst. has reached Sase- bo The wounded and dead were chief ly participants in the battle between the Japanese and Russian torpedo
 boat destroyers. The survivors unite d., dae.,,<,.r, 11x, tack on the Russians, and tell a story
 Of personal encounter between Ja-
 panese sailor and the captain of the
 Russian destroyer Stereguschtchi When the Japanese closed on the Rus-
 sians the sailor sprang aboard the cab in. Sailor and captain sprang at each other, but the seaman was the quicker
 oe the two and felled the Russian of
 ficer by striking him on the head with
 cutlass- The Russian endeavored to rise, but the Japanese sailor kicked
 him overheard and he drowned. The Japanese say there were twenty two dead on the two Russian destroy
 CTS. The report of the death of En-
 gineer MinamisaWa was premature. He | is very low. The Japanese dead were
 landed at Sasebo and received with full military honors. They were borne on
 gun carriages to the naval brigade headquarters.
 Port Arthur, March 15.-All is quiet
 in the Port Arthur. district, and no
 news has been received here from the scene of the land operations, where the
 movements of the opposing forces are evidently confined to reconnaisances.