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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-09-23, Page 6X MY! N EL A TUCE. �c. ��.0Y ay m eat ,Us e ng vas. An Attempt to Defeat the Japs it7 Detail—Story of the Last Fight— Summit of Hill Toro into Fragments by Shells —.•Kuroki's Men Had Neither Food Nor Water —Officers and Men Alike Had to Satisfy Their Hunger With Unboiled Rice. 9. London cable says: The rtlative positir of the armies in Manchuria • seem tSTie unaltered. No further fight- ing ik recorded by either side. Mud and exhaustierr are expected to enforce. a ' truce. The report from St. Petersburg that Gen. Kouropatkin has been greatly strengthened since the battle of Liao Yang is regarded as probable. It is sur- mised that it was the knowledge of the approach of the Russian reinforcements that determined the Japanese to at- tack the Liao Yang positions before their own arrangements were complete. The newspapers this morning are flooded with tardy accounts of the bat- tle, each running to some thousands of words. All relate incidents indicating that there was never a bloodier com- bat in the history of war, Gen. Kuroki's section of the field seems to have been the most hotly contested. The summit of Helyingtal Hill, which is a quarter of a mile long, was torn into fragments by shells. It is stated that it was impossible after the fight to take a step without treading on bullets. Bennett Burleigh, of the Telegraph, who recently left Manchuria, disgusted with the treatment accorded corre- • •spondents by the Japanese, is still at Tien Tsin. Ile says he has not perman- ently withdrawn from the scene of action. He says that Mr. Wallace, cor respondent of the San Francisco Bul- letin, who has been dangerously ill, is izn route for hone. Mr. Wallace justly complains of the gross neglect shown him by the Japanese army doctors, and ' declares that this neglect is part of a plan to get rid of foreigners. Mr. Bur- • leigh declares that the Japanese estim- - ate of 17,000 casualties is too modest. 'Judging from his own observation they were nearer 30,00&:• Xliere are no evi- dences that the Russians are using a single crura-ulim bullet. Many- then- r sands of Japanese 'horses are foundered and terribly galled. The Japanese are had Morse roasters. Reinforcements of elle 1", animal's and Munftftns are being e hastened northward byy• way of New Chwang and Dalny. The Japanese hold s, secretly, but strongly, all the districts to the north along the Liao River, as ;; far as Sirminting. The Chunchuses, or bandits, in large organized bodies, are mustering for important operations north of Mukden. They often frater- nize with the Chinese soldiers. The Yentai coal mines are now abandoned, The correspondent says he learns re- liably that they never produced more than 250 tons daily since February. He adds that Field Alarshal Oyama was overheard to say at Liao Yang that, stubborn as Gen. Kouropatkin is, he must now be in a desperate condition. s. He itust know that his game won't do. Whatever corps Russia may mobilize, 'apan can duplicate them with better troops and put them more quickly in the field. ' • Mr, Burleigh quotes refugees from Mukden as saying that there were t; 40,000 Russians there on Sept. 7. They bad their baggage packed and were ready to start for Harbin. The remain- der of the troops, with stores and munitions, were already gone. The Japanese, with their three linked armies, mean to advance upon the open plain towards Mukden, As circum- -stances forbid the risking of Gen. Kuroki's or Gen. Nodzu's armies as detached columns, they realize that it will be preferable to outflank or fight the Russians on the open plain. They do not fear the Russian cavalry. The Russian staff denies the use of dum-durn bullets, and retorts by re- calling the stories of the Japanese mutilating the dead at the battle of the Yalu. SITUATION AT PORT ARTHUR. The Japs Have 30,000 Coolies Building Trenches. Chefoo cable says: The latest informa tion from Port Arthur represents the Japanese as employing 30,000 Chinese coo- lies in trenching work. The arrival of reinforcements at Dalny continues. There is also a constant influx. of the wounded soldiers. The defenders of the fortress are having difficulty with their locally manufactured powder, which fails to car- ry the projectiles the proper distance. The Japanese are maintaining a strengthened blockade, which is now most difficult to elude. Nothing that is known indicates any improvements in .the prospects of the besiegers.. ANOTHER FIGHT PREDICTED. General Kouropatkin to Repeat Liae 'rang Tactics. St. Petersburg cable says: The Ozer will shortly go to Odessa to bid fare- well to the troops going to the Far East, His Majesty has received a long der patch from Kouropatkin, fully detailing e progress of the eanrpaign, the disco - 6:r 91,n .nI'M v._and. claseussui the c military and even the political situation. The despatch will not be published, but so far as it deals with the immediate future it is possible to guess its tenor from official- expressions of opinion that Gen. Kouropatkin siU not leave Mukden without fighting. He will try, it is said, to repeat his tactics at Liao -Yang, leav- ing 50,000 men to hold the enemy, while iris main army iettres to Tieing. , • Staff officials say 'that Gen. Kouropet- kin probably has been reinforced since leaving Liao -Yang by the equivalent of two corps. His force is believed to num- ber now more than 200,000 men, With 300 guns. THE KAISER AND RUSSIA. Relations Between the Two Countries Growing Closer. London cable: The Times prints au important article dealing wit., tine understanding reached by Russian and Germany concerning the far east. The relations on this subject, says the writer, have been rapidly growing closer and more intimate between St. Petersburg and Berlin than between St. Petersburg and Paris. The Kaiser is convinced that the interests of Germany in the far east run parallel with those of Russia. and that therfore Germany has everything to gain from the success of Rusisa in the war, and everything to fear from her defeat. This, it is pointed out, is not a new idea., but it was only when the war began that the moment came for which the Kaiser had been impatiently waiting: It was when Russia begin to realize that the struggle was of unex- pected magnitude .that the KaWer tools' the initiative, in proffering to the Czar explicit assurances of support, amount- ing practically to a guarantee of immun- ity from all danger of interference by Europe. This enabled Russia, not only to withdraw from her western provinces .some of her finest troops for the far east, but even to dismantle to some ex- tent the western fortresses in order to provide siege guns for Port Arthur, Tla- di.-hock, ,Liao -Yang and Harbin, The writer ins{ cite: a the facilities Germany has granted Russia in acquir- ing wear material at Essen and other workshops that are more or less under Government control, in the transfer of North German Lloyd and Hamburg - American steamers to the Russian flag, in contracting for coal for the Baltic fleet, and other warships, and even, it is stated, in allowing torpedo boats from Schichau to be transported in sec- tions over the frontier. The writer as- serts that arrangements were made be- forehand at Iciao-Chau to receive the Russian warships from Port Arthur, and to enable them to coal with the ut- most despatch, as was done in the case of the Novik, although the others which arrived were so far. in want of tempo- rary.help that the Germans had no option but to order that they be dismantled. It is believed that the next stop will be the floating of a large Russian war loan in Berlin. It ,may safely be asserted that the en- derstanding secures Russia Germany's support in the ultimate settlement of the terms of peace, end for Germany, so far as Russia is -concerned, a free hand in the future for carrying out her scheme of welt politik on the lines of least re- sistance in China, that is to say. where it will come in contact only with British interests. UNTIL RUSSIA IS BEATEN. 11 Attempts at Intervention Will Be Unsuccessful, A Tokio cable: The Novikrai, Ad- miral Alexieff's organ at. Port Arthur, reports that there has been no serious change in the conditions there sines the general assau„c by titre Japanese from Aug. 23 to Aug. 30. The paper de- clares .there is no truth in the repprt that the battleship Sevastopol was dam- aged by a shine. Reports from Chefoo state that ow- ing to the bombardment of the western port at Port Arthur the Russian war- ships have been reproved to the eastern port. A committee has been appointed to consider a revision of the laws effect- ing the intrbduetion of foreign capital into Japan.. The Nichi Nichi thinks that the pro- posed Chinese mission to Japan has an ulterior object. It says that if the object of the rnission is mediation China is too late. All attempts of third parties to intervene in the struggle will be unsuccessful until Russia is exhaust- ed. The paper adds, that China would better confine her attention to 'the pre- servation of her own neutrality, thus iiniiting the area of operations. Commenting on the report of the sailing of the Russian I3alti:e fleet for the fat en.st, the Jiji Shimpo urges baste in the reduction of Port Arthur, thug destroying Russia's principal naval base in the east. Ilhe Kokurnin'thinks that the silence of -Great Britain and the United States regarding the new Japanese-Corean agreement is a tacit recognition of. Ja- pan's -suzerainty in Corea and of ler eon- trot of 00r KM diplomacy preliminary to a similar control of her finances and mili- tary, 1{UROKPS REPORT. Was Cut Off From the Other Armies Twenty Hours, 'A :Tokio cable says: A despatch front Gen. E;uroki, covering his operations from Aug. 28 to Sept. 5, has been issued. It is a long, unimpassioned record of movements and combats, indirectly' tes- tifying to the desperate character of the struggle of his army in face of a resolute, unflinching enemy. , , He eon• firms the report that he was : cut , off from the other. Japanese armies for 20 hours on Sept. 2. The report says : ” Our difficulties reached the utmost. The officers and men were unable to get food or a drop of water. All had to satin#y their hunger with unboiled rice." This was during the combat around Heiyingtat, where the Russian resist- ance succeeded in covering the retreat. The topographical features afforded the Japanese artillery the most disadvan- tageous position, and communication was out on all sides by the enemy's shells. According to newspaper despatches from Pekin, the Chinese government is uneasy respecting the future of Man- churia. It is rumored that China in- tends to send \Vii Ting Fang, formerly Minister at Washington, to Europe and the United States on a special mission concerning Manchuria. 'The report can- not be confirmed, but it seems to cause some irritation here. The newspapers declare that such a mission is entirely unnecessary. 80UROPATKIN'S PLAN. He Expected to Defeat the Japanese in Detail. A London cable: A correspondent with Gen. ?•:nroki telegraphs, under date of Sept. 8, that the foreign mili- tary attaches are convinced that Gen. Kouropatkin had planned to defeat the Japanese in detail, and then send a powerful column to relieve Port Ar- thur. As he had 13 divisions at his dis- posal, Kouropatkin ought to have been able to do this had he had officers and men as good in quality as those of the Japanese. The correspondent describes the sack- ing of Liao Yang by. the Russians and Chinese, and by the Japanese later. THE CZAR IS ADAMANT. War Will Be Continued so Long as a Soldier Remains Standing. London cable: The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Express professes to have the highest authority for stating that the Russians will snub any foreign attempt at intervention. He says that when Prince Louis of Battenberg was representing Bing Edward at the chris- tening of t!ie Caryvitoll he mentioned, while cu,ivirKfug with the Czar, that it was possible that a peace unfavorable to Russia would be reached in the near fu- ture. His Majesty replied: "So long as a Russian soldier remains standing or a roubje is left in the treasury I shall con- tinue the... war against. the Japanese, who forced me to take up arms. No disasters in tte"field can move ire in this resolu- te, It is believed that the Czar's utterance was made deliberately, with the inten- tion of Inning it repeated in England for the, information of the world. TROOPS FROM CAUCASUS. Properal to Draft so,000 of Them for the Front. London cable: A despatch to the Daily t,iraplric from Sevastopol says that the battleship Kniaz Potemkin Tavrit- eiresky, which is being completed at Nico- laieff, and which was destined to be placed in commission neat month, has in- expleably suffered serious injuries to two of her boilers, one of which must be removed. Her eommitasioning has been deferred until the spring, She has al- ready been seven years building. The despatch adds that the Ministry of War has consulted with Gen. Prince Galitzin, Commander -in -Chief and Gov- ernor-General of the Caucasus, upon the possibility of drafting 30,000 troops from that Government to the front this month. Such a reduction in the Can- easian garrison. is regarded in Sevas- topol as risky, Liao Yang cable: The , Japanese are greatly disappointed at the failure of the plans to impose a final con- flict upon the Russians" at Liao Yang in the hope of breaking up the present Russian army in Manchuria. They are now .pushing reinforcements and sup- plies northward in every possible way, using boats on the Liao river and its tributaries, while all the native roads leaching into Liao Yang are filled with wheelbarrows and other conveyances, carrying grain and ammunition into the Chinese city, where, Field Marshal Marquis Oyama, the Japanese com- mander-in-chief, has established his headquarters. There is every indica- tion, therefore, that the Japanese in- tend to force, if possible, a decisive bat- tle with the Russians. The impression was held in Liao Yang that the Russians had destroyed the railroad between there • and Muk- den, but an examination. of the line as far north is possible 'showed it to be 'everywhere intact. This is taken to in- dicate that the. Russians propose to use the line again. They posted pro- clamations along the line warning the Chinese not to damage it under pain of future punishment. It is now reported on good authority that in some of the assaults made by the Japanese upon, the Russian trenches before Liao Yung on Sept. 1 and 2, the attackers at sortie plates lost iu killed er eavottncied 90 per cent, of the huntress engaged, . It is believed that the Russian forces will remain stationary at Liao Yang for one month to come.. Th ANTPASSP$ JE\VS 1NSS1 RTS Journal de Sts n'tr°et..ershwrq kes naunt Primers. have the right to stop refugee Russian Israelites, who might go to the United States and simply exchange passports, to swarm back' afterwards, sweep away the territorial dykes, and upon the slightest provocation appeal to the ever vigilant protection of the Consulates of the land with winch, es a matter of fact, they have no tie. Under artificial .protection they would thus create a sore body poli- tic. Once more, we refuse to believe that President Roosevelt, wlio has given so many evidences of political tact, has entrusted the American Ambassador at St. Petersburg with such a mission." Further answer has not been given to Mr. McCormick in the matter, but all hope that Russia will even undertake to entertain the American proposals is practically abandoned. The Panama Canal. New York, Sept. 19.—Rear' Admiral 'Walker, the tread of the Panama Canal Commission, declared to -day on his ar- rival from Colon on the Panama steam- ship Finance that the United States Gov- ernment intended to keep the two open ports in the canal zone in spite of any protests which might be made by the Panama Government. He added that he did not anticipate any trouble over the making of Ancon, on the Panama side of the isthmus, and Cristobal, near Colon, free ports of entry. "The unfortunate part of the affair," he said, 'is that it has got into local politics." St. Petersburg, Setp. 19, 12.35 p.m.— The fact that the Government of the United Stetes, through Ambassador Mc- Cormick, has opened negotiations with Chet Russian Government with the object of obtaining recognition of Jewish pass- ports in Russia, is not generally known here. Even the Journal de St. Peters- burg, the semi-official organ of the For •eign Office, receives the report with in- credulity. The Journal refers editorially to what- it hatit calls a "stultifying article" in the Paris Siecle on that subject, and says:. "Have those who have written or inspir- ed -the article weighed .the temerity of the chimera, a realization of which would be an insult to Russia?" Washington says: "Your restrictive laws are barbarous. We condemn ,them. We will breach them." Washington claims that Russian Jews naturalized in the United States are entitled to escape the laws of the empire, or the dignity of the United States would be surrendered. No, a thousand times no. The prestige the e United States will not suffer. We deny, and always will deny, that a for- eign country has the right to make over- tures for the classification of our popu- lation under the fiction of rights acquir- ed by naturalization in America. We BLONDES DISAPPEARING. Anthropologist Believes This Type Will Vanish From the Earth. Washington, D. C., Sept, 19.—Otis T. Mason, anthropologist at the Smithson- ian Institution, states that "the blondes are a disappearing human type." lie says "Blond women are becoming scarcer every year, and to -day there are not nearly so many fair haired and blue eyed beauties as there were fifty years ago. In each successive generation there are fewer of thein than in the last . Al- ready such a thing as a real blone, purely such, is so rarely seen in this country as to excite remark, and golden tresses are so infrequent that real ones are usually suspected to be dyed. In short, it has become evident that before long this type of feminine loveliness will East- practically vanished from the earth. "3'eil may judge how rapidly the blondes are going when you consider the fact that wherever a dark man marries o blond woman, or lige versa, sixty-six per cent. of the children born have dark hair and eyes. At that rate not many centuries will be required to wipe out the ftiir type altogether. If you ask how this matter has been determined witn such accuracy I will reply that it has been by including statisticalobser- vations on the point rn the censuses of nations." The filet that most persons have fair hair in early youth would seen to indi- cate that the American's ancestors were a. fair -belted. race. This is borne out by history, through the .Anglo-Saxons are sprung from such a mixture of racial stocks that it is not easy to assign to them a definite origin. C. P. R. TRAIN ROBBERY. Reward Offered far the Thieves—One Arrest Has Been Made. Montreal, Sept. 70 --The C. P. R. has offered a rewaed of $1,000 for the appre- hension of the train robbers who held up the transcontinental express in the Rockies on Saturday night. A large force of special detectives were immedi- ately sent to the scene, and the country is being thoroughly searched. As the scene of the robbery is only ten miles from the United States border, it is be- lieved they have crossed the line. The registered letters were valued at sever- al thousand dolalrs, so that the three robbers secured about $10,000. One arrest has been made. The name of the prisoner has not been divulged, but he is a resident of New Westminster, Junction, and is believed to have crim- inal knowledge of, if not directly im- plicated in, the hold-up. Canadian Attache Home. Victoria, B. C., report says: Captain Ryan, of the Canadian permanent forces, arrived from Japan to -day by the SS: Mechaon, on his way home to Ottawa, after spending some months at Tokio, as the representative of the Canadian mili- tia. I3e was despatched to Japan at the outbreak of the war, with instructions to make professional observations of the military movements of the Japanese army. In common with all the other military attaches from foreign nations, and the war correspondents, Capt. Ryan was detained in Tokio under repeated promises that he should•be soon sent tp view operations. He saysthat the Ja- panese fleet has suffered severely in the encounters with the Russian vessels of war, and that all the dry docks and re- pairing harbors in Japan are full of Ja- panese war vessels in various stages of repair. One big cruiser whichwas in the great naval battle off Port Arthur had all her funnels shot away, and twenty-five shot holes in her hull.. Had the water been rough on her voynne from Port Arthur to Japan . she must have gone to the bottom, Captain. Ryan refiprts that the Japanese themselves admitted. gross bluuderi loaded transports to leave Japan for Corea and other points without proper escort, and that the raids on the Via- divostock fleet filled all Japan with in- tense alarm. The report circulated by the Japanese war office that the rea- son for the unexpected stubbornness of the Russians in the recent fighting is the improvement in rifle shooting and steadiness in the troops is false as the Japanese are well aware of the fact that they are now confronted with regirnents straight from Europe, and not undis- ciplined rate levies of Siberian peasants, hastily battalioned and hurried to the seat of war. Captain Ryan speaks bit- terly of the treatment accorded the at- taches and correspondents. FORTUNE TELLERS' VICTIMS. Forecasters in Old London Charged With Practising Witchcraft. London, Sept. 10.—Soole5,i women have been greatly interested in the hearing of the charges against the heads of two west -end fortune-telling establishments, whose dupes they have been. The hearing has been con- cluded, and showed that the fortune tellers have been doing a thriving business. The /natter was brought to the notice of the po- lice, who arrested several "seers" and charg- ed them with witchcraft and obtaining money under false pretences, for which offences they no wstand committed for trial. A great deal of the evidence given agatnat the prisoners at the Police Court was of an amusing character, Mrs. Betts, a young de- tective, described her visits to two of the establishments. She was told she would live to 65, and another gave her 10 years longer, but then she had paid the latter a higher fee. She also learned that her husband was to make a lot of money on the Stock Ex- change, and was fond of their child when he said or did anything clever. The witness explained to the court that she had no child. Her father was described 'as being a man with side whiskers, who was active and clever, but who would not live many moreyears. 'Witness' father already had been dead five years when she was told of this, Miss Dorothy Tempest, another detective. told the court that one had given her until 75 to live, as against another 60. She also stated that an additional fifteen years had been allotted for a higher fee. A Mr. Richards was told upon the occasion of his visit that if not already married he would get married and have two children. Among the documents discovered at the pri- soners' room, said Chief Inspector Drew, were postcards containing terms for palmis- try horoscopes, clairvoyance crystals, etc. Numerous letters from women were also dis- covered, asking questions about the ttiture. Prom invoices found it appeare& that glass balls were purchased by the prisoners at a shilling each and sold for as much as two guineas. MAY COST THREE LIVES, Fall of an Old Balcony at Montreal Yesterday. Montreal, Sept. 19.—A serious acci- dent occurred to -day which resulted in the death of Mrs. James Powers, and fatal injuries to her son, James Powers, and Mrs. Jules Deslauriers. The acci- dent occurred at the Powers dwelling at the corner of Williaiii and Prince streets. The three were sitting on an old gallery, watching the rain and chat- ting, when suddenly a 'crash was heard, and before they had time. to run inside, the gallery fell to the ground, a distance of three storeys, burying the unfortunate trio under the heavy beams. When some of the debris under which • they Were' buried had been removed Mrs. Powers was found terribly crushed and unconscious,• blood was gushing from her mouth and ears. She died in the ambulance. Tho other two' were found close together. Their spinal col - noir weredislocated', producing partial paralysis, so that they were unable to shove their lower limbs, and they were 7rQ' in allowing d1;Y.ern ba.shocl.. in:.