Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-06 | Page 2 | Civilians at Port Arthur Are Short of Food

CIVILIANS AT PORT ARTHUR ARE SHORT OF FOOD CHEFOO, May 5. A native Sikh of British India, who left Port Arthur a week ago, has arrived here. He says that in the Inner harbor at Port Arthur there are seven damaged Russian, warships, war-ships, Including the battleship Ret-vlzan. Ret-vlzan. Czarevitch and Poblc-da, and the cruisers Pallada and Bayan. The small dock at the Tigers Tall has been completed. com-pleted. Chilians at Port Arthur are now experiencing ex-periencing difficulty In obtaining food. A former officer of the Chinese army who has returned here from Manchuria Is authority for the statements that there are less than 75,000 Russian troops, including the garrison at Port Arthur and tfie men on the Yalu, south of Harbin, and that the Russians now occupy a strongly fortllled position between be-tween Ku Lien Cheng and Feng Wang Chcjig. Chinese junks which have arrived here report that a fleet of forty Japanese Japa-nese warships and transports was off Wei Hal Wei Tuesday, steaming northwest. north-west. .