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Show War Notes. ST. PETERSBURG, April 16. In view of thp demands made by the war qii the financial resources of the State, the Emperor Em-peror has directed that the operations of tho nobles and peasants banks which make loans to the nobility and peasantry peasant-ry respectively, shall bo restricted for tho prosent. . ST. PETERSBURG, April 16. A report re-port has gained wide currency here that the battleship Svastopol at Port Arthur has been lost, but the Government has received no advices Intimating that such a disaster has occurred. The latest account ac-count received here was to the effect that tho Svastopol was unharmed. ST. PETERSBURG" April lC.-Tho story ot tho sinking of the battleship Sevastopol and. another vessel at Port Arthur, which was In circulation hero today, is officially denied. ST. PETERSBURG. April 16.-Vico-Ad-mlral Doubasoff has been appointed commander com-mander of tho fleet at Russian porta on tho Black Soa, to succeed Admiral Shryd-lofr Shryd-lofr who succeeds tho lato Vlce-Admlral Makaron at Port Arthur. PARIS, April 17. According to a dispatch dis-patch from tho St. Petersburg correspondent correspond-ent of tho Potlt Parlslen, and Amorlcan engineer is on his way to Poft Arthur to direct tho reconstruction of tho three submarine sub-marine boats which were forwarded to Port Arthur In section last March. PORT A.RTIIU R, Frl d ay, April 15.-ylceroy 15.-ylceroy Alexieff was accompanied hero bv &0 men intended to assist in tho defenso of this pjaco. Jim. PETERSBURG. April 16.-Baron Schilling, tho torpedo expert, has gone to Vladivostok to take chargo of the two submarine, sub-marine, boats there. Othor submarines arc going out in sections. The Admiralty admits ad-mits buy ng four largo German steamships, steam-ships, which will bo converted Into cruisers. cruis-ers. It Is believed also that tho Admiralty Is negotiating for tho purchase of four similar vessels from tho United States. ST. PETERSBURG, April lG.-Four hundred and fifty members of tho naval reserve, whose terms expired In lm left this evening for Fort Arthur to replace the men lost by tho explosion on tho flagship! and another detachment will leave tomor- nnwnW0' "pril ".-Chinese report re-port that tho Japanese are occupying Wl-tU-' Tho Pontoon -bridge at Antung has been withdrawn and communication with cloflcd'.0rean 3 lh Yalu 1,33 bcn PARIS, April 17.-U Is reported that a formal order has been forwarded to Vlcc-JXEt Vlcc-JXEt Alcx' not to permit tho Russian Ae,,ot.to, leave Port Arthur beforo VIco-Admlrol VIco-Admlrol Skrydloff arrives. LONDON, April 16. Whllo It la nmiinri tatlvcly staled that the Japaneae have no submarlno navy at tho present tlmo and therefore It la Imposslb o that the Russian Rus-sian battleship Petropavlovsk couia havo been sunk by a boat of this class in, understood t'flat tho Japanese riena s and navy yards are working overtime on two or more submarine boats, wh c h w m be ready beforo the Russian Baltic sauad. ron reaches tho far EastT The Japaneao Government approached a firm of sub! marlne-bont builder about the tlmo th TinLfiUbma,r,nc yro adopted by tho madothfn?1 bUt n "hases 1 wro |