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lposal the instalments otherwise payable
this 'year. ' The expenses of the Dow-
ager Empress 50th . birthdayelebr a ()
tions are estimated to cost 28,
tae's (about $16,000,0(10), but it is pros
bably intended to devote the larger
ert
of the money to military preparations.
TiTFFTGULTX OF TRANSp�RT.
N
The Ruasiaxis Are Sufierillg Enozmaus
® Losses.
Tokio cable: Three spies in Man-
churia have sent important news to the
military authorities svhinhrs u that
ehe
Russians are meeting In many
ties in mobilizing their army,.s
places the Manchuria RailWay is blocked
by immense snow drifts. In other splac s
the rails have sunk. Besides,
bridges have collapsed, with blinding
The weather is Arceic,
snow storms• and fierce hurricanes.
In consequence of these obstacles, the
Russians have already suothe
becalmlosses in hien, chiefly
of warm clothing and the breakdowns in
{ Commissariat Department.
War Notes.
Japanese Have Crossed the
Tatung Pass.
Land Attack on Port Arthur
Reported.
London cable: A despatch to the
Chronicle from Shanghai says that a.
r ewv-Chwanng telcg •am says that the
Japanese have erased Tatung Pass, It
• is reported that fighting has occurred,
iresulting in clearing the way for the
f3apanese to advance on MMuo-Tien-
)Ting, which the I'.ussiaus hold. Several
;trainloads of Prussian wounded are
,reported to have passed Ta-Shi-Chiao, May. be Lively Skirmishes.
goring to Lao-Yaug.
A despatch to the Daily Telegraph St. Petersburg cable: General Zinn-
!fromski's otlicial confirmation of the reports
Tolcto says it tas is reported, occurred at
sharp encounter which the Russians l that L the
the app approach of the Japan -
THE CHINESE
LBOR QULSTION.
increased movement of the troops and
transparts on the road. between Ping -
Yang and Anju is, •noticeable.
"'Thirteen of the enemy's tbansports
recently unloaded at Ohinarpho.
"'According to reports, there have been
no preparations for landing on the coast
of Caoljao or opposite Iain -Chow.
"`All reports appearing in foreign
newspapers of the landing of .Tapaltese
troops at different points on the coast
are inventions.'"
i Chyongs-Yong, nn
lost 600 killed and wounded. No date ie
igien. There are several. places with
{ names in northern Corea yesen where
Chyongs-Tong, and the place
the fight is said to have occurred can-
slot be determined.
Land Attack on Port Arthur.
Tokio cable: A. newspaper prints,
a report that a Japanese division land -
i ed on the Liao -Tung Peninsula last Sat-
;urday and engaged the Russians in the
.rear of Port Arthur, while the Japan-
ese fleet, consisting of sixteen ships.
bombarded the town and harbor. The
rection is said to have commenced at 6
o'clock Saturday evening, and to have
lasted tuntil 10 o'clock Sunday morn -
ling. It resulted. according to the news-
;paper,
in the Japanese occupying Port
AThe story is not confirmed.
ere in force, causes no surprise here, as
such action is in perfect accord with the
Russian plan of campaign. The Russian
skirmishing and advanced posts were.
thrown forward solely for the purpose of
barrassing and worrying the Japanese
outposts, falinnr back as the main body
of the enemy moves forward until the
strong positaons at the Yalu River are
reached. The fifty miles of country be-
tween Anja and the Yalu arc very diffi-
cult for the movement of a large force.
There may be some lively skirmishing
as the Japanese progress, but the Russians
are resolved to avoid. a decisive engage-
ment until certain of victory.
Russia and, China.
Sharp Debate in British
House of Commons.
The Japanese have stopped Brig.-
Gen.
rig:Gen. 'Henry T. Allen, chief of the
Philippine constabulary, and United
States military observer the Rus-
sian army, at 1. ing $
g
hitt not to proceed nearer their out-
posts.
'Marquis Ito has been decorated twi1 h
the Order of the Plmu Blossom, y
given only to royalty.
'Marquis Ito, in andie c the withgrthel
Comae. Emperor,urged
}}adoption of C'oeean reform measures,
1 thus avoiding the eceausion dine to the
precipitate measures of 1895.
A train conyeyiuse,, the Eastern sou-
venirs prepared by the wife of the
Grand Duke Constantine for the Rus-
sian sailors left St. Petersburg for the
Far East at noon to -day. On board
was a special basket containing 13
eggs sent by the i+.inpress to Gen.
Stoessel for distribution he ortifica among
gns the
e
men defending
Port Arthur who have most distin-
guisbee. themselves.
A telegram has been received at St.
Petersburg from Medical Officer Trep-
ofi, at Chita, Eastern Siberia, saying:
"There are many eases fsic nntsis
Here" This news causes some,
ness, as reports from other places are
uniformly, to the effect that the bea}th
of the troops is good.
Eighteen trains, bearing goods of the
Red Cross Society, have been held up
at Irkutsk, Siberia, to allow military
trains to go through. It is estimated
that 4,000 men are reaching 'laechuria
daily.
Altogether about $2.750,000 has been
subscribed at Moscow for patriotic pur-
lioses.
St. Petersburg cable: In Got
ernment circles there exists a. strong
belief that the question as to whether
Chine ngs willoobserve
d largelylaon the
clertakings
result of the first heavy land. fighting.
NEITHER STORY CONFIRMED, is believedc,iy by the trill insure utthet army, it
quiescence
And Both Come From Doubtful of grave fears to Empire,
but gh t i Irriep are
Sources, in the event of a signal Japanese sue -
A London, cable says: It cannot 1 eels in the early stages of the land
+be said 'with any certainty that there operations,
!have been fresh active operations on ` For the time being the situation ap
for Ute reports of the # pears to be satisfactory. and it cer-
tainly is much better than it was three
weeks ago. 'The Pekin Government has
reiterated its pronessions regarding
eutrality to Paid Lesser, the Russian
Ow aver,velrelmi.ng opinlon of tire
P.1ra�nsva�al demanded .miners labor,
Be, agreed that the eoonomie po+e.
of tli:e T,raievaal was aerlous, but
', lee said t rest if healing forces were
Wages'
allowedto operate and hat
and good conditions were secured to
white and bla(ek laborers alike, the
serious features would be removed.
Sir Henry Camp!belkliannerman's•
motion wear then rejected, 20e to
24% t
Details of the Vote.
Urgent Whips of ail parties had;
secured a, big attendance, and many
Of the Irish members had hurrledi
i frim Dublin'.
1 Tn division thirteen Unionist Majority U 1 membtheers, including 'Winston Church-
. 1 bat ned Ensu voting. 5ii�
Greatly Reduced.
Major Sealy, a Government
Supporter, Resigns.
a , al against
Nationalist members voted
the Government, the Majority for
'Mitch was rather lamer than. iu
s me of the recent critical divisions,.
The vote was received with. cheers,
in the Rouse of Lords.
Chinese labor in the Transvaal was.
also debated during this
soon of the House of Lords this eveo-
leg on a. motion of Lord Coleridge
(Liberal) that "this Meuse disap-
proves of the importation of Chi-
nese laborers in the Transvaal an -
der the recent
country Me beenig rlentil that
full
representative Government."
Tie Bishop of Hereford (Jolhtu Per-
cival, D. D., Liberal) severely criti-
cized
riticized tfe South Airica,n' High Com-
missoneir, Lord Milner, who, lie said,
was utterly disqualified to hold a
high office on account of his tem-
per The mine ow :ere, the .131ishop
added, wanted the ordinance, but
the owners did not represent the peo-
ple, who were opposed to it.
Lord Goschen (Liberal -Unionist)
warmly defended Lord Milner. Lord
Coleridge's motion was rejected by
a vote of 07 to 25.
United states Wants Tnesn.
Washington, Marchadmhsehdn of
treaty regulating
Chinese latter into the United States
is in preparation. The existing treaty,
which was made by Secretary CTresti-
am and 1liinister Yu, in 1894,, sv1tl
ovlaire next December by limitation.
There is reason to believe that it
wall be more liberal in the treat-
ment of Chinese wishing to enter the
United States, when they are not
ti,etually of the coolie; class, than the
existing treaty. . A. provlsion may
be made to cover the entry of the
Chinese laborers into the Panama
canal strip. An attempt lms been
Ch nextensive
liof
ese labor in the Philippines,
-t tees
London cable Bays'; In the Gorse
or CommonsSir
afternoon
the Lib-
ell--Brib-
eral leader, weir Henry)
nermann, Moved lags vote of censure,
presented Itareb 16th, to the effect
that "this House disapproves the
conduct of I3iis Itt}ajeceey a Govern-
ment in advising the crown not to
disallow the ordinance for the in-
troduction of Chhnese labor into the
T,ranivaal."
The motion was defeated by? 209
to 242, a in, tjorit e of 843. The Gov -
Government's normal majority) is
108.
Sir Henry) Campbell-Btiannerman
said nothing the Government • had
done since the close of the South ief-
•z1can war had so sorelyi tried the
people of this oountry) as its sanc-
tion of the introduction of Chinese
Southlabor into Africa.
possible to conceivea greater de-
parture from the principles b'y'e which
Great Britain ltadd hitherto made her
way, in the world than the importa-
tion of aliens as the bondsmen of
mining speculators. , .
it is slavery.
The Liberal leader th,aught noth-
ing but averting a positive catas-
trophe could juretely: the Chinese lab-
or. ordinance. At the time of the war
the Government declared it was
waged
but the i3ritisew,,orl rests o
lab-
or, n was now
being snuffed out by the Chinaman.
It was /the bi.ggeet scheme for ht:tnan
dumping, eine° the "middle pas-
sage" was abeeished. Str .Henry puts
stress on the provision to the refect
tirat anvtone harboring a deserting
Chinaman would be treated as a re-
ceiver of stolen goods. If this. did
not conetitute
he
difference wmcs id stinthe
distinguishable. •
colon kat secretary Indign►ant.
;land or sea.
capture of Port Arthur and fighting in
:Southern Manchuria are not only not
confirmed officially, but they issue from
i 1 be --delle,.
dougtful sources.. It w 1 n elven bun far taat a rumor of the evacuation of ' \Minister, and line
as -
Port Arthur, which was cabled on March smance in answer to his representa-
14, proved ti •oundbess, and to -days tions regarding the number of Chinese
story appears based on imagination, troops north of the Creat Wall. The
strengthened by the clalir expectation netive- manifest a friendlier disposition
that another assault will be made on did.. n the be^nuvlt of Mlle
the Russian stronghold, Tatung Pass,
.which, according to the report, the :lap.
emcee have eroseed, it about 40 miles
from Hai -(.•Heng, in Southern Manchu-
' ria, and there is every reason to
doubt that there has been any fighting i Russians is their strong arae,
in that neighborhood. Russia's present plans are based on
4l despatch to the Times from Seoul 1 the appreciation of the supreme int-
o says that the latest news from the portanee of the first land battle, and
front precludes belief in the rumors no fighting on a large scale will take
that are circulating in regard to re- place, if it possibly eau be avoided,
newed fighting. It :smears certain that until the Russians feel morally certain
the only lighting that Inas taken place that they can deal the enemy a crush -
to date is that of which news was has blow.
telegraphed ten days ago, resulting in Firing Reard.
a single Japanese casualty. The Rus- A Tin -Now, f ew-C'ltwang, cable says:
sians are slowly retiring. Their total Firing was heard off the coast, ap-
. number cortin of the Yaiu River is be- Firing
about six utiles to the south-
lieved not to exceed 1,800. The mewl.,ward, this morning. There were four-
teen shots between 7 and 7.30. The
are advancing indicates that no serious morning was hoz}~, and it was impossi-
collision is likely in the immediate ble to distinguish objects at sea. A
future. credible report 1105 rrachcd here that
CZAR TO COMMAND FORCES. two cruisers and five gntboats Were
„r r;htchow tcrtdrday.Will Go to
Clear the Prison ley Decapitation.
Seoul gable: The Supreme Court
acre is clearing the local prison by whole-
sale executions nightly. In three nights
sil prisoners have been decapitated and
8 ban; eel. Many of these victims have
been in fail for years without trial. Now
they have been hurriedly tried and con-
demned to executieli.
Some were former students in Japers,
and others were thieves. highwaymen,
embezzlers of public funds, political of-
fenders and traitors. „ell suffer the same
penalty, death, and as the bodies are
varied out, strings of ten or twenty con-
demned sten, bowl together, refill the
than theyi ,�- a
war, but the Russ ines- 'mew the i cells just vacated.
Oriental character ni no other Euro- It is probable
t er iinvestigate,s.e -ani
peans do. They taulerstand how deep- the foreign pprison id
seated. is the Hatred of foreigners in if justified,i take action., and is The
pr so the
China. anal the only prestige of the heavinly Peddlers' Guild., which is principally com-
posed of the city's rougher glenate the )Iut
force an entrance and
pri-
0022026.
Manchuria dna 1.eaa his -----
Troops. OFFICIALS ALLTHIEVES,
St. Peter,bmg cable: It is again At Every Opportunity Pocket the War
declared that it is the intention orthe lends.
Czar to go 10 Manchuria and personally
Peters -
assume command of the forces. It is ex London cable: ale St„ Peters-
pdThe that he wile start in Eastern. burg correspondent of the Express mails
toThe Czarina is sending an Easterngift a long story of official corruption in
The every has plat soldier in Manchuria. Russia, which scenes from his account,
Czar placed disposal
sal amount to be equal to that of China. IMe in -
of money e fdThespl for s pure stances acts of corruption at the
;personal
of and gifts.sThe presents pro d. dockyard's. and says that stoney allotted
personal and funds
o er which those Czid- for military and n02111 stores has been
ed by other Engels hoer will the Czar• rocketed. The officials all round nes-
parcel
isl of dainties,
They tconsist of a Pocketed -
appropriate part of the funds passing
Marcel of danties, cigarettes anal hoose• truh their hands. The correspondent
ones• declare- that correptiolh has been
V}atiivostock gleet, the cncces�lon of defeats
Captain of the Mandjur.
San 1'rnucicco despatch; Officers of
the steamer .;optic, just arrived, saw i;h e
he
Russian gunboat Mandjur, lying
river at Shanghai, and report that her
commander ie •a, C'apt'ain Carter, born in
the United. Stateshh, but a Russian by
naturalization. When ordered to leave
Chinese -waters, Captain. Carter emphati-
cally refused, and invited somebody to
makeleint move. Atlast accounts he was
still at Shanghai with his gunboat. A Jap-
anese battleslhipand taoc uisCrr yin thee
same flag p. • s r ,
nestle was at Shanghai.
thel p
;Colonial Secretary Lytellton, in
reray, Indignantly repelled the al-
legation that the Government was
favoring slavery. The Government,
lthe
over' •i el niinglac'sentinentdein d by the
Tranevaa.l. in favor of Chinese labor,
and the &: anom sc necessity there-
for. The Miniietry had adopted the
only ,alternative, to bridge the
transition period until the black
labor had itneereased sufficiently to
fill the demand for unskilled labor.
The Government wee well aware
that the lol`.tey would be unpopu-
lar. ; .
Chinamen are 'Not Immoral.
Defend'ung Chinamen against the
charge of immorality, Mr. Lyttel-
ton• read a Metter from the Beginp• i
of Britihile Columbia, saying that the
Ch nlim'en were in no way a ele-
bau•nl..ed com•mnnuty, but lived quiet-
ly and ;sdt3erly. There w ..ahs po
evidence that they imported new or
feeepeeairle vices. The prosperity of
B,ritlslh Columbia and California, sir.
Lyttelton asserted, was based on
gold in8nse•s won by Asiatic labor.
A. Government supporter Resigns.
Cronstadt cable: The "l'estnit, the
leading service organ here, surmises that
• the Russian Z-ladirostoek squadron has
;one to attack Merman (in Volcano Bay)
and Otarunai (in Jshikari Bay), both on
• the Japanese Island of Yesso, where en
e..cellcnt quality of coal is supplied to
the Japanese warship:.
• Baisstans Have Vacated Anju.
St Petcrsbnrg cable: The fol-
lowing despatch from Mukden,March '20,
was' recereceived,to-day :
"Gen. Zilinsi i reports as follows:
"'The troops are in good spirits, and
there is 310 sickness.
"'According to reports received from
• -the frontier guards on the eatern Chin-
ese L',ailway, evexythins' is in order
there.
At Udyini Station, Capt. 'Maarten, with
7'0 cavalrymen) .has driven off a band of
• 1101) Cheinchuses (Chinese band
"eThe occupation of the towns of An -
end
On end Ping -Yang by the enemy's in-
fantry • end artillery is confirmed. An
responisi•bl efor
that Russia has suffered. Ire asserts ' oe age, N. a meavi0 u lie' 1?-- served
that the official assurances that there at 55 ap.er rt been apponnt-
were coal and provisions enough at a:1O5y'ecrn71iavin Ike has served
Port Arthur to enable that place to ed on
withstand a two years' siege were un- at nearly all the diffeis rent
stations,
00,
e
true. 'When 10,000 tons of y were and at 5,000 john streetdstation. I3!is experience
c the
ordered to Toth Arthur only
wound reaeh the place, the officials fighting firers
land las fitted
him
smconsider
diver e the cost of t1ie, remainder. P fireman.Pre
Mui a liken
There are thousands of woks at Port Bp�iw,ti fs�roleduls'ato v ptt Ho will likely!
Arthur, supposed to contain sugar, but ltime. Io July!, 7.902, he was appointed
which in reality are filled with chipped ttm'o I n. , rat will probably:
brick. The correspondent adds that the , Tile appointment Czar has taken a firm stand, and bas i make sante ntment to the .deal bly
de -
determined to stop theem corruption. i Itartment. Some one will be pro -
London
l meted to'ihe formianship, and anoth-
London cable: The Tien -'.'sin or man, one of the substitutes,, tak-
r
correspondent of Him Standard says en on.
•
that the Chinese Board of Foreign Amy . What reasoli, like the car°fill ant,
fairs is appealing to the foreign. gotogether, 21e it a of
t,
ernhneuts for a year s extension of the draws ant ty arc dentbaometii les collects in a me-
so that China may have at her des- menta -Schiller,
Skeptical About Squadron.
FOR BREACH OF PROMISE.
Man of 83 Sued by a 19 -year-old
GUI for $.''i,000 Damages.
Utir a, March 28.—'Liss Charlotte
Armstrong, of this city, 19 years
old, filed a stilt In. the Supreme
Court to -day agaiast John 1i. Thurs-
ton, 83 years old, also of this city,
..1L-, ing brea,On o promise of mar -
St. Petersburg cable: The author-
ities here are sceptical in regard to the
report that a Japanese squadron bas been
sighted off the .port of New Chwang.
'There is no confirmation here of the
report. purporting to come from London,
that t11e, Vlade ostod:l.: squadron had
reached Port Arthur.
Ne Protest Made.
rings. pas/lieges to the amount of
$5,000 are claimed.
The papers in the action set forth
that on '.larch 5 of this year. Mr.
Thurston asked Miss tiranstrOng'e
hand in marriage. She consented,
and is now, and ever since that day
jiar been, willing to have the cere-
mony perforated. Tho time for the
wedding }aa assorts ffor ixed
Me.rch Thur'the
affiston
refused to marry her, and lie has
over since refused to iteep the ogre-
•
Nugent.
Tito aged defendant has admired
alis Armsi ro •tg since she was a babe,
and often expressed the wish 10 1101
mother that the girl become ltt
wvife. T112 mother was willing, alt'
frankly admits that she has dour all
in her power do bring about the
match. Thurstoc:, who Is i.ndepen•
dontly wealthy, has already had
two wives. He is surprisingly :tcttvs
for one or his ,years, and insists that
'Liss Armstrong. is wrong in alleging
that he has been trifling with her
t he
affections.
fftthe .yoetg maintains
swithlall his
heart, and wou6ll quickly make hes
.Miss bride were he sure that his per-
sonality and not his money prompt-
ed her to accept him. In discussing.
the case this afternoon Mr. Thurs.
ton said- •
"I love this young lady andseeslue
amis to ready andto an of 5 tolike amarryeDer,
arse will marry her ,at any time they
will give me a chance. T have neer
that;I wd ould to dU willing to ay die sae-
that;
to
marry. A made who would refuse to
marry this young lady ought to bey
shot. Ii T gert.ma,rried I would made
ry 'only a young person, • I do not
want an old woinan, and I am not
gai.ng to marry n, widow."
'Mr. Thurston says he will defend
the action and. conduct his own
case in court.
Japanese in Siberia.
A St. Petersburg cable says: United
States Ambassador McCormick has not
been instructed by the State Depart-
ment, at the request of M. Takahirit,.
the Japanese Minister at Washington,
to ask the Russian Government what
facilities will be afforded to the 40,000-
jaan.
panese in
Siberia, informationtin to received
ed
'here comparatively few Japanese are..
note in Siberia. Most of them left there
just prior to or after the breaking out
of the war., The United States ern
bassy, which is charged with safe-
guarding Japanese interests, elas thee.
f a score -
of
far only responded to app
of Japanese coming from Siberia through
European Russia. The last bateh of
twelve, from Irkutsk, was sent to Ber-
lin on Saturday. Not one of them has
been molested, but it is considered that
the Japanese be placed beyond the
re-
gion of possible danger. No appeals.
have been received from the few Jap-
idin in St. Petersburg, ar to
Major Jahn Edward Seeley, mem-
'ber for the Isle of Wight, `Who thinly
erto had been a consistent sup-
porter of the Government, said he
ese
lab yrewould d the importation.
Tran.spaal
itn�possibi•e as a white man's coun-
try; He announced, therefore,. he
Md to -clay tendered his resigna-
tvon,be:0anse he did not think it fair
that he 'should vote against the
Government •r$thout giving his con-
etitu�ents an opportunity of turning
hied out if they did not approve
of },n en non
A Great 'Uproar.
ee0i conclusion lostn~tm:cl a tremendous
outbh• was
outburst of disapproval from flim
Ministerial side.
Premier 1.',altU0ttr, ''th'o followed
Tznj.,r Seeley, wags unable f the Irish
.time to secure a hearing,
members protesting against the
treatment of the Major.
Premier maters Liberals.
Iwfr. 'Wm. Redmond said that Mr.
Balfour anould have Insisted upon a
respectful Bearing for Major Seeley,
and 'esteen •the Premier said he had
appealed for such a hearing Mr.
(Rech :hncl with lresv hie opposition.
1111•. Dal our, in 011130. lug alts r:solu-
,ti::rn, th�aid it was a question whether
the Transvaal should be aliowed to
go through a grave connner L'il crisis
rather than ncianit Chinese labor. lib-
eral Cxovar;innents, be said, had in the
past legalized the importation of
su(Ck• iaibpr ,for British colonies, and
the •Oppaei,tion wore now reaping the
benefits of the evil:; w,ihi0h their own
party had prochuood.
Mr. Balfour said. that if the leader
Of the Opposition came into power
he would do exactly as the Govern-
ment was doing, and would not In-
dulge in vague, ina•pprol?riate speech-
cls about slavery. Sir Henry Camp-
etejfl-Batnnernian's motion was of It
esteem retard the prosperity of of theor to �fTrans-
initely
vaai. •
m . Asquith's Opinion. g
to denied that airy clear of s o£ European7iussha.
•
leg the Gleba,
Tokio cable: The Japanese Gave
etlunent denies the Paris report that
Trance, acting set behalf of Russia, has
protested to ibo Japanese Government
on aceoti11t of the bombardment of the
quarantine station, on the San Chan
.Lao Islands (oppositePort ott Dalethe reject
Marcie l 0. i� o protest
has reached the Tokio t;overlt d tlhves
the Bander in
ear. Iier�lert I1, Asquith, ill sloe- 1 anbee itis