The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02

on the warships is being pushed night
and day. The battleships Borodino and
Orel and the transport Kamtchatka are
nearing completion at the admiralty
dock yards here. In the dead of night
the ice bound Neva is like an Arctic
landscape lighted for hAf a mile by
the flare of blazing stacks, the silence
broken by the din or drumming ham
mers.
The battleship Borodino must be ta-
ken to Kronstadt to receive her arnor
and it is reported that the ice breaker
Ermak will be brought from Reval to
cut a channel to the arsenal there. The
battleShip Alexander III, at Kronstadt,
is ready and the Russian fleet, recent
ly at Jibutil, French Somaliland, is
returning so that when the spring op-
ems Russia will have an imposing ma
val array in the Baltic.
About 800 volunteer workmen have
left here to work at the dock yards
at Port Arthur and Vladivostock.
CAN STAY FIVE DAYS.
Suez, March 2--The Russian armored
for permission to remain here for re-
pairs. has been allowed five days in
which to complete the necessary work.
BOUND FOR THE FRONT.
Kolpino, Russia, March 2.-The COM
panies of pontoon miners and sappers
were embarked here on trains today
bound for the front
CHINA ORDERS GUNS.
st. Petersburg, March "A Russian
correspondent Of the Associated Press
at Shanghai telegrapl1s that it is re-
ported at Tien Tsin that 1000 additional
Chinese soldiers have been posted in
northern China, and that the Chinese
government has recently placed large
orders for guns and ammunition.
FLEET SEEN AT VLADIVOSTOCK.
Paris, March 2.-The Matin this morn
ing publishes a dispatch from its Har-
bin correspondent which says:
A private letter received here from
Vladivostock asserts on February 25
nine Japanese warships appeared off the
roadstead there and remained the great
er part of the day. They finally depart
ed without firing
The native governor of the province
Russophile. The native governor of
Mukden is less of a Russophile than
the man who has just died
For purposes of personal defense the
authorities of Port Arthur are supply
ing the civilians there with rifles.
SPIES ARE THICK
New York, March MANY alleged
spies have been identified and irnprison-
ed in the Japanese geaports during the
past three weeks, according to World
as coolie was found on board the
transport Gambu Maru as she was leav-
ing port filled with soldiers.
Before he could be taken prisoner he
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was swimming the ship guard shot him
| to death.
A MILITARY CITY.
Yinkow March 2.-Liao Yang. Man
! churia, is now essentially a military
city. Anf area comprising three and a
third square miles adjoining the rail-
road has been enclosed for a military
camp and magazine purposes. There is
also a military camp at Haicheng
Manchuria. GO miles from Newchwang)
which with defense covers 1000 acres
TO WATCHTHE MEDITERRANEAN N
Port Said. Egypt, March 2.-The five
Russian torpedo boat destroyers whicr
arrived here have already left in the
direction of Algiers. 1t it rumored thai
they intend to search for vessels bear
ing contraband of war in the .Mediter-
ranean.
The Russian cruiser Aurora will fol-
low them.
MASSING AT PING YANG.
| Paris, March 2.-Information reach
ing here from official sources shows the
Japanese concentration of troops is go
ing on extensively in the neighborhood
of Ping Yang, Korea Large forces are
debarking from transports at nearby
ports, from which it is assumed thai
an extensive land cement is i'm
minent in northern Korea.