The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-08
RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE
NEWS BY DORIC'S MAIL
ASSOCIATED Press Mail Specially

ST PETERSBURG, June 1.-Adyices
received by mail from Tomsk, West
ern Siberia, report the arrival there
of a detachment of japanese prison
ers consisting of 26 officers and 1S0
men the majority of whom are sailors.
All were in good health. The officers
were sent to the Officers Club while
the men are quartered in a riding
school.
A food allowance has been granted
the officers of $25 TO $3.50 monthly
while the enlisted men receive eight
cents daily.
Workmen have reached lake Baikal
to construct wireless telegraph sta
lions for communication across that
body of water.
MONEY FOR THE MIKADO.
CHICAGO, June Ito Himatsu, a
Japanese merchant of New York has
arrived in Chicago with a common
split leather yalise containing $1,120,-
600 in United States money which he
will give TO the Mikado to help de-
feat Russia. The cash is all in United
States gold notes and bank bills.
The money was deposited here with
a trust company on the advice of the
! local Japanese Consul.
! Ito Himatsu expects to sail from
/ San Francisco on June 18th. He is
a recognized authority in America on
I japanese art and his discourses at
Chautauquan assemblies for the last
| five years have been the subject of
many written discussions on the in
/ fuence of japanese arts and Japanese
/ ideals upon modern aestheticism. Ito
/ Himatsu is know in New York as a
dealer in objects of japanese art.
MACHINE TO KILL COSSACKs.
VICTORIA, B. c., June IAN ex-
! Captain of Japanese artillery bound
for London. Eng, who arrived here on
| the Empress of Japan last night on
official business, said that Japanese
military chiefs had made preparations
some years ago for dealing with the
peculiar fighting tactics of the Cos
sacks. A special light machine gun,
invented by japanese engineer, is
carried on a pony accompanying each
detachment. It has a greater range
than the Nordenfeldt and can be oper-
ated by four men. 1t is with these
are wiping out the Cossack sotnias
wherever they meet them. He says
the Japanese artillery proficiency was
acquired in long secret practice with
the arisaka gun at all ranges and
regardless of cost before the war.
THE ATTACK ON LANDSORFF.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 1.-Reports
Minister of Foreign Affairs. which grew
last night into a rumor Cater denied)
of attempted assassina ton, have their
foundation, as nearly as can be ascer-
tanned in personal assault committed
Monday evening by Prince Dolgoruky,
O. disappointed office-seeker The Prince
is an opponent of Count Lamsdorffs
policy and is said to have become in
sane through brooding over his alleg-
ed grievances.
Dolgoruky formerly was an officer in
the Imperial Hussars, but is now on the
retired list. AT one time he was con-
nected with the Foreign Office as an
attache at Vienna. Since then he is
said to have been a constant applicant
for a position in the foreign service but
without success. He belongs to the
Slavophile party, strongly opposed To
the Pacific policy of the Minister Of
Foreign Affairs.
According to the story current in the
city the Prince met Count Lamsdorff
in the street Monday evening and with
out warning struck him on the head
with a walking stick. In so doing he is
said to have calmly announced that he
chastised the Foreign Minister in the
name of the whole Russian people.
Police agents rushed to the scene and
seized the Prince who Immediately
handed them a card. saying it was
private affair. Nevertheless he was
placed under arrest.
Count Lamsdorff called upon the En-
peror Tuesday, it having been his reg
ular day for an audience, and therefore
not necessarily connected with the as
sault. The Counts friends are deeply
incensed over the affair which is re-
garded, however, as the act of a mad
man.
RUSSIANS GLOOMY.
TIENTsIN. June 1. Morning.-A
courier who has arrived here from
Newchwang says:
while it is known that the Rus
slams received reports from Nukden
last night giving the losses sustain a
by them during the fighting at Kinchou
and Nanshan Hill and the conditions
prevailing, they will not talk on the
subject. The officers are desperately
gloomy. The press bulletin giving the
news of the fighting on the Kwan Tung
Peninsula with the European comments
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