Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-02
MAIN FLEET WAS NOT ENGAGED
Ships Sunk in Attempt to Block th
Channel May Yet BE-
Raised.
RUSSIAN VIEW OF TIBET INCIDENT
81. Petersburg Bourse Gazette Says
Purpose is to Take Country and
Run Railroad Through Chino.

Toxic, April 2 Is p m).--The navy
department has no information con-
corning the reported japanese attack
on Port Arthur March 30-3l, and tho
officials doubt that a general attack &C.
cured II was added that Il was pos
sible that few Japanese cruisers are
In the vicinity Of Port Arthur, and that
there may been an exchange OF shots
with the Russians, but It Ia certain that
the main Japanese fleet was not en-
gagged at the time referred to-
ALL QUIET AT PORT ARTHUR.
Port Arthur, April 2-All is quiet here
and there IL no change In the situation.
The weather is warmer and the sick
and wounded are making good progress
toward recovery, The japanese who
were killed in the last attack on this
place were buried today In the Chinese
cemetery outside the town with mill
tary honoss,
II is hoped 1t will be possible to raise
the Japanese ships which were sunken
during the attempt to block the harbor.
THE TIBET INCIDENT.
St. Petersburg, April 2, (25O p. ND
A Toxic dispatch received here report
ing the members OF the United States
legation there as making enthusiastic
speeches on the occasion OF the Perry
banquet given at Toxic March 81,
arouses much comment here IN view OF
President Roosevelt's proclamation en-
Joining the strictest neutrality OF word
and speech on the part OF all govern
ment officials.
The speech OF the Nceroy OF Izdla,
Lord Curson Of Kedleston, March 80, at
Calcutta, when he reviewed the last five
years Of Indian administration and re-
ferred to the governments watchful
policy, attracts more attention than
Col MacDonald's victory In Tibet. 1t
was considered to have been especially
inopportune Just at a time when Eng
fish batting In Russia Is decreasing, as
II tends TO revive animoslties, but COM
ing from Lord Curzon, the words carry
less weight, perhaps, than they would
from other quarters, as he Is looked up
ms ndNlllk MS oNH NptNldl IOHCy lOr
India as Cecil Rhodes had for southern
Africa.
The Bourse Gazette, i'm an editorial
entitled "A Voice from India says:
"All OF lord Curzons speeches have
the fundamental idea of the shadow ot
Russia on the Indian frontier, Lord
Curzon says: We do not want Tibet,
but no other country shall have It,
Lord Duffern says the same thing
about Nepau, Burmah and Kashmid.
British arms have already carried death
into Tibet. which Is part of the Chinese
empire, The purpose Is to take Tibet
and run a railroad through China, In
order to better place troops there quick
ly We wonder how France In view OF
the projected Anglo-French entente will
regard Lord Curzon's avowals OF the
designs cherished ON southern Persia
and Slam"
The editorial concludes:
"The powers having interests In China
will do well TO mediate upon these
things"
The Svet. while acquitting Great Britt
ain OF responsibility and declaring that
the British government Is correctly OBJ
serving neutrality, expresses astonlsh-
ment at the speech OF Lord Curson,
whose words ring like a challenge"