Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-05
.VLADV0ST0K is
GREAT DEPOT Of
RUSSIAN ARMY
Train Loaded With War Sup
plies Leaves for Front Every
Three Hours Slide in Pan
ANA Canal Is Embarrassing

Associated Press Correspondence
vIadiyostok, oct. 10-With its
.barves piled high with all sorts of
.r supplies and its railway facih-
sss wholly inadequate to meet the in
sis,ept demands of the Russian army,
vadivostok is looking anXiously to-
.,r5 the Panama canal and hoping
or report chat the slides have been
mastered and viii permit the passage
of ships carrying the rails, locomo-
lives and ears SO necessary to speed
nm transportation along the six thous-
and miles of railway which separate
M Russian battle lines from Rus
sas greatest gateway for supplies
Block at Panama Fatal.
so far. not a single ship from New
York has arrived bearing locomotives
ar railway cars -Four hundred and
afy American locomotives and TWEEN
~ thousand american freight cars
have been purchased Because Of
be block tn the Panama route sup
nIy ships from New York have been
ordered to Vladivostok by the Suez
route
Last winter two ice breakers kept
yladftostoli open throughout the en-
fire cold season without any trouble
This year. third ice breaker has
been purchased.
vladivostok had been an exporting
and not an importing center until the
war threw an the Russian ports out
of communication except Archangel
and YladNostok, the two gateways
through which Russia can now draw
her arms and ammunition from out
side countries.
Train Load Every Three Hours.
Virtually every available foot of
ground along the water front is at
present stacked high with war sup
plies covered with canvas. II is es-
tmated that a train load Of war
supplies starts westward every three
hours but the great warehouses and |
piers are constantly filled again from
the ships always at anchor waiting /
for chance to dock.
Automobiles from Detroit, steel /
rails from an Illinois company, army /
wagons from several American man I
aiacturers, American timed milk and /.
meat and many other products Of the
United States lie waiting for car
space. American cotton may be.
een in many of the warehouses.
Trains departing for Russia carry |
a strange assortment of freight. Gun
carriages, rails structural steel for
bridges, lumber, piling and coal was +
seen on the open cars.
AZ Amur on the west side Of the /
Vadiyostok peninsula, extensive inn
HWements have been made. It is
there that the American locomotives
and cars will probably be unloaded
The New York steamship line
which has the contract for delivering
lne new American rolling stock to
VadYostok will probably require
about sixty ships for locomotives and
ears
Japan Is supplying Russia with
great quantities of lead and copper
which are delivered at Vladivostok.
NneIs' rifles and big guns, some as
aTge as twelve-nches. are also being
provided by the Japanese. The lead
W. hotels are crowded with repre-
@Osatlves of japanese and American
concerns Interested in the contracts
w war materials to be shipped
through the Nladvostok gateway and
"aners operating between Japanese
'as' coast ports and Vladivostok are
ARRIVING heavy loads Of war supplies
from Japan