The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-22
DRT ARTHUR SEEMS
 EFFECTUALLY BLOCKADED
VENTS CULMINATING AROUND
 THE DOOMED FORTRESS.

Sneral Kuropatlfn Reports All Quiet Along the yaIu-VesseIs Sounding for Landing-Japancse Officers Shot as Spies = vIadivostok Is Said to be Stricken by Famine.
 London, April 22.-The Tokio cores kndent of the Daily Telegraph says |ht Port Arthur undoubtedly is effect lily blocked and that events are cul- mating around the doomed fortress. t. Petersburg, April 21.-The emperor received the following telegram Bm General Kuropatkin under to- y's date:
 All was quiet on the Yalu on the Aeteenth and twentieth, and there has en no change.
 On the night of the nineteenth. op- Bite Cape Tower Hill. west of Kai 4ju, a steamer was observed sending boats. evidently for the purpose of king soundings. The boats soon re- 'Tned.''
 &'he following telegram has been re- ived by the emperor from General < bropatkin:
 II respectfully report to your majesty 1t two Japanese officers, named kevo Yukoka and Giska Oki, were ar Sted near the station of Tur Chi Kha. their possession were found three $es of Bickford fuse, French ench. tools for railroad wrecking, hamite cartridges, cylinders contain one and a half pounds pyroxlin. 1 bd maps of Mongolia, Manchuria and Ethsrn Corea and number of notes. TAI court-martial held at Harbin April Hound them guilty, while belonging the Japanese army operating against ssia and in order to gain success for Air army, of..destroying or damaging hgranh and railway communications means of pyroxylin and other ac- sories provided for that purpose, and making their way secretly into Man hria. where they were arrested by ssian patrolh thirty versts south st of the station of Tur Chi Kha, the eastern Chinese railway. The of Frs wore Mongolian dress to disguise ir nationality.
 FThe officers were condemned to be briyed of their civil rights and to be cuted by hanging.
 confirmed the sentence, but, in Nv of the officers rank. consented they be shot instead of hanged, h the same loss of civil rights.
 refused their prayer to spare their Is and they were executed at ock on the evening of April 21." erlin, April 21.-The newspaper Die et reports that the Rssian garrison the population of Vladivostok, Si- la, are threatened with a famine. aris, April 22.-The Echo de Paris
 morning publishes the following patch from it's St. Petersburg core ndent:
 Vice Admiral Skyrdloff will not Ve for the Far East before Wednes- next but will remain here to assist council of admirals summoned by \ yh Admiral Grand Duke Alexis, Hch will be under the presidency of M emperor.
 NJ am informed by an admiral that Ne-Admiral Chouknin will probably appoiited to the command of the \ltic fleet, and that Vice-Admiral kebrazoff will go to Port Arthur, z ere he will assume a command un- Vice. Admiral Skyrdloff.
 ew Chwang, April 21-An order is- d by the Russian military author through the commissioner of GUS bs here, notifying. the pilots of New wang that any pilot who gave as- ance to any Japanese ship in the ers leading to New Chwang would held responsible to the full extent martial law, has been made a sub
 of inquiry by the authorities of ee of the foreign consuls here with
 
 hrd to the exact meaning of the Ids, ITO the full extent of martial :"
 iceroy Alexieff has issued an inn tant order declaring the "Yinkow" road station and the native village oining it to be within the region un- martial law. The order also estab- es a censorship over all telegrams. will go into effect tomorrow.
 okio, Aprol 21.-The war office is ded with thousands of applications m men of every age and every condi- of life for permission to go to the nt Many of the applicants follow the Sumauri cistom, sign their ap- htions with their own blood.
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