The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-02
Atlantic. Steamships Report
ed. to Have Been Sold TO
z: r: Cars Government.
.Yliceroy Alexieff and Ad-
3. nliraI Makarof Visit Port
Arthur Squadron.
Representatives of American
: Army and Naval Services
=. s Start for Mukden.
/. Special Dispatch to The Call

ST PETERSBURG. April lin ma
val. circles; ii rs asserted that seven
ships have. been. purchased from Ger
many, including three war ships. 1t
is believed TO be true that the Fuerst
BISMARCK Deutschland and Columbia
been: sold. TO Russia A dispatch from
Hamburg says the Fuerst Bismarck
:. was sold for ssoO'eeO.
NIceroy Alexieff is at Port Arthur
3. on a. tour OF. inspection. He arrived
there yesterday and his stay viii be
brief, returning immediately TO head
3 CHARTERS. with Admiral Makaroff and
:. General StosseL respective commanders
.c.f the Russian naval and military
forces. at Port Arthur, and General
.SBXrnoff. he visited the battleships
. Petropolavsk. Retyizan and Cesare-
witch. the protected cruiser Pallada and
..tltEer ships in the harbOr, and later
conferred gold swords Of honor. with
st. Georges ribbons inscribed for gal
,:lantry upon the captains of the cruis-
;ers BaXans- Novik and Askold.
. .:.:-.. NEW. ATTACK: EXPECTED.
Q. According to information received
here 1t. is believed the japanese are
.::ireparing 10 repeat their attack on
sI9,6ft Arthur.
lieutenant Newton McCully, as
: signed al United States naval attache
:Mjfh the Russian navy at Port AR
thur. and Captain William V. Judson
.of# the United States Engineer Corps,
Auho is attached TO General Kuropat-
.kins headquarters. left here this even
: ing accompanied by Colonel Papdaroff,
-rbe Bulgarian military attache. and
two Swiss attaches. They viii go di-
rect 10 Vice Admiral Alexieff's head
Z quarters at Mukden, where their fu-
!. ture. movements Will be determined.
both the American officers speak in
the highest praise OF the treatment &C
corded them here.
!. r. Baron. de Rosen. the former. Minister
=: TO Japan. arrived here to-day.
:: There is a. growing: conviction in
navy and military circles that Vice
Admiral Togo's desperate endeayors TO
bottle 10 or cripple the Port Arthur
squadron are for the purpose of def
: lt5te9y 1mmobilizing it while the Japan
+.ess effect landing at Newchwang- OF
some other point. -
VIGILANCE OF NIAKARoFF.
Nice Admiral Makaroff's capture .oi
2 q: japanese steamer near an island be-
tween the extremity of the Liaotung
3 Peninsula and the Shentuhg Peninsula
:: proves that he. is watching the entrance
.6{ the Gulf of Pechili It. is not be
l0Ned the Japanese viii attempt to
:. aebark on the shores of the Liaotune
stsllf while Makaroff,s feet is uncrip.
!. ped
The NoyilSrai of Port Arthur, dated
March s., has just arrived here. II
contains telegram from Captain
..-3leitzenstein. commanding the Russian
5sQaadren al NladiMostok, referring Il
:. tbs Japanese. attack on Vladivostok
from. Whicll-it appears that his squad
2 rdii. nas. not. .oilly: in port when tn,
, efienay was sighted. but that it got uI
steam. went out and. engaged the Jap
spese. who turned; tail. Captain Reitz
.ensteln,. according to his telegram Il
the commander in chief, pursuing tht
Japanese until 3 D.: m; when he re
= tisined TO Nladivostok, He: gives tn.
olrnnositipn OF. the. Japanese squadron
as follows: 80. -. ~
z. --.,,,he. lbstt1eship Full. the arinorec
cruisers Idzume.: Yakumo and Iwat,
;sl!d the Teogaino. =: =. -: