The San Francisco call., 1904-02-12
DAMAGE TO THE RUSSIAN FLEET
AT PORT ARTHUR Is NOT GREAT
AIexief Reports That the CeSareVitch and PaIlada
Can Be Repaired in Fortnight and
the Others in Three Days.

ct PETERSBURG, Feb. 1.-THE
Car to-day received a telegram from
Viceroy AIexieff. describing the dam
age done to the Russian warships dur
ing the bombardment by the japanese
feet at Port Arthur. 1t says;
The Cesarewitch and Pallada were
brought into the harbOr on Tuesday.
The Retvizan is making temporary re-
pairs to a hole. Repairs TO the battle
ships are so complicated that 1t Is diff
hcuIt to say when the ships Will be
ready. The PaIlada and NOvik will
be docked in turn and 1 expect them
to be ready in a fortnight. All the
other vessels injured in the fight are
now repairing and cOaling in the har-
Dor. 1 expect them to be ready IN
three days.
The wounded officers are doing
we'll. Four OF the wounded have died.
A majority of the wounded belonged
to the cruiser Pallada and their IN
juries are due to gases from the eN-
pIosion of a uelinite torpedo A care
full search by cruisers and torpedo
boats day and night has not revealeu
the presence of the enemy
II is officially announced that no
news has been received here OF the
fight at Chemulpo. the landing Of Jap
anese or the blowing up OF bridge
on the Manchurian Railroad
The admiralty has issued speclnc
orders that no kilograms from the Far
East, whether for private persons.
newspapers or news agencies, will be
transmitted The admiralty will give
out official reports
Admiral Strydloff. commander OF
the Russian Black Sea fleet, has quiet
" left for the Far East 70 take COM
mand of the Russian fleet there. All
the unattached naval officials In ST
Petersburg and KrOnstadt have been
ordered to go East promptly, without
making farewell calls.
Students i'm uniform and bareheaded
this afternoon paraded in front or the
Kazan Cathedral and went to the Win
/ ter Palace They were followed by
several thousand persons singing the
national anthem.
The Assistant Chief OF Police
/ thanked the students for their evi-
dences of patriotism, but he requested
them to no longer disturb the Gar
/ The crowds then returned, singing
Serious disturbances are reported TO
/ have broken out at Reval, the fortified
/ seaport on the Gulf of Finland. Four
/ companies of soldiers are said 10 have
| been dispatched to suppress the riot
| lnE- Inc disturbances are DeleNeO 10
/ be connected with labor troubles
/ There is a general movement among
/ the public TO raise money for the pur-
/ pose of increasing the navy.
! The Red Cross Society sent the
steamship Mongolia. laden with hos
/ pitaI stores. TO the Far East on sun
/ day.
The question of abandoning Russian
/ participation in the st. Louis ExpOsi-
ton is under consideration. The mer-
chants of Moscow to-day notified Com
missioner General AlexandrOvislCy that
/ they would devote the money intended
| for the exposition to the Red Cross So
city and to assisting the war orphans
and widows. They intend to con-
tribute 100000.
If it is decided to abandon the Rus
sian exhibit the Government will fol-
! low the example of the Moscow mer-
chants and appropriate the St. Louis
fund and the remainder of previous
exposition funds. amounting to about
S225.OOO. 10 the Red Cross Society.