Show RUSS A CAN NOW DEfY TIE WORlD The Czar Seizes the Walled City of Kin Chow and Sends More Warships 1 i itwo ii 7 ¼ w < = 1V f 1 ti4 p 0 C 1ne ii I TO5 i i Ce < 1 > 1 I i s t ii e ai0 c 2 lt C l t f < > f s 4 f c e 11 l ru + i i tyf C c J i < < 1J r o I 141 A l i j f < e I t ji i I f df i 17 tK I d f > 15 KIA6 CEAIY BAY i I jf Y I I SIAO CHOU BAY AND THE SU SROUNDING CHINESE COAST St Petersburg Dec 27The Russians Rus-sians have occupied Kin Chou north of Pert Arthur I San Francisco Dec 27Eli T Sheppard Shep-pard who has recently returned from China where he Jjad an official posh I ten commenting upon the reported occupation oc-cupation of Kin Chou by Russia said todar todaRue Chou is an important walled I city not an open port at the head of the gulf of Lau Tung ami it commands com-mands the mouth of the river Yaloo where tha battle between the Japanese and Chinese was Bought and the other important rivers whch flaw into the I gulf It is about eQuidistant between the mouth of the Yaloo river and the i terminus of the great wall of China I It commands the railway system recently re-cently constructed from TienTsin to the capital of Manchuria and is of preeminent importance as a strategic position The seizure of the point shows that Russia has practically taken possession of Corea Manchuria and the gulf of Lau Tung and possesses a significance which will cause consternation among the diplomats in the old world Its situation sit-uation is such that is possession practically prac-tically nlacos Russia in a position to defy the world London Dec 27The Daily Chronicle Chron-icle asserts that the negotiations with Germany on behalf of the Chinese government gov-ernment are no longer being conducted by Li Hung Chang but by Chang Yin Iiuan who represented the Cheese emperor em-peror at the diamond Jinese Odessa Dec 27It is reported that two flrstclasT cruiser with a large number of extra marines have been I ordered to join the Russian SQuadron in Chinese waters I |