The Irish standard., 1904-03-05


there, the three Japanese detschments,
of 800 men each, recently landed at
Chung Chan, Korea, about 100 miles
north of Won-San, with the supposed
object Of reaching the valley of the Tu-
men river, and threatening Hun-Chun,
Manehuria, nine miles north Of the Ko-
rean boundary and about eight miles
west of Vladivostok.
A fleet of Japanese warships was re-
Gently sighted on the horizon, off Vladi-
vostok. They were believed to be re-
serve vessels, not powerful enough to
blockade Vladivostok or endanger the
Russian first-class cruisers whose base
is that port.
Twenty Chinese Arrested.
st. Petersburg, March 3.-Accordipg
to special dispatch from Port Arthur,
20 Chinese have been arrested there
for signaling to japanese ships from
the shore with flashlights and lanterns.
A warning has been issued that similar
offenders will hereafter be treated as
spies and shot.
Preparing for Emergencies.
Although it is denied that the pres
ent plans of the admiralty contemplate
the dispatch of either the Black Sea or
Baltic fleets to the far east, it is beyond
question that both are being prepared
with the greatest haste to meet any
emergency that may arise. Gen.. Alt
water, the artillery specialist, and Ad-
miral Verkhosky have been inspecting
the ships and crews of the Black Sea
feet. Work on the warship is being
pushed night and day. The battleship
Borodino, the battleship Orel and the
transport Kamtchatka are nearing COM
pletion at the admiralty dock yards here.
In the dead of night Nevai is
like an arctic landscape lighted for half
mile by the flare of blazing stacks, the
silence broken by the din of drumming
hammers.
The battleship Borodino must be
taken to Cronstadt to receive her ar
NOR, and it is reported that the ice
breaker Ermak will be brought from
Reval to cut channel to the arsenal
there. The battleship Alexander Ill, at
Cronstadt, is ready and the Russian fleet,
recently at Jibutil, French Somaliland,
is returning, so that when the spring
opens Russia will have an imposing
naval array in the Baltic.
About 800 volunteer workmen have
left here to work at the dock yards of
Port Arthur and Vladivostok.
The Novoe Vremya prints an editorial
on the "Anglo-saxon rejoicing in Eng
land and America at the reports of the
Japanese Victories" in which it says
"the whole world with those exceptions
realizes that the Russian occupation of
Manchuria would benefit civilization. !"
Investment Delayed.
Washington, March 3.-The landing
in force of the Japanese on the Liao-Tung
peninsula and the beginning of the
land investment of Port Arthur will not
begin for fortnight, according to adj
vices received here from what are be-
lieved to be reliable sources. 1t was ex-
pected that the attack upon the fortress
would take place Tuesday or Wednesday,
but these later advices, without ex-
planning the reason for the delay, show
that there has been change in the
original plans. Army officers here think
that the Japanese have decided that with
the railroad connecting Port Arthur
with the outside world cut, thus pre-
venting supplies from reaching the
place, two weeks, privation will render
the final assault easier. Moreover, as
Port Arthur can be safely left as it is
for the time being, the Japanese troops
may be employed instead in northern
Korea and near the Yalu river, where
they are now most needed.
Deplores Attacks Of Press.
Washington, March 3-An important
, conference lasting more than an hour
occurred Tuesday between Secretary
Hay and Count Casini, the Russian am
bassador. The growing i'll feeling in
Russia against Americans and the con-
tinued attacks of certain parts of the
American press against Russia was the
main subject discussed.
To a correspondent Count Cassini
said that the Russian people long since
had learned to regard the people of this
country as their fast friends. and that
1t had been bitter disappointment to
them to find American newspapers at
lacking the Russian government, the
Russian people and Russian policies.
He said the first feeling of his people
had been one of painful surprise, but
that this is now crystallizing into de-
plorable feeling of unfriend]iness.
"The tone of Russian newspapers,
said the ambassador. "a consequence of
the tone of many American newspapers,
is beginning to take very painful d.
rection in their references to the Unit
ed States, and in my opinion it is in the
interests of both countries that some
measures shall be taken to check this
before it is too late.
Fortunately, the relations of the two
governments continue, as always, abso-
lutely friendly, and for this reason
am hopeful that the present unfriendli-
ness on the part of the press Of the two
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