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Show ": . : I ': : J I : : 'ij' v7- jj ) ,T 1 1 ' i j : -j i - j k ' 1 '.j! ;i BBHBBJBBBSSJBSSBBBBBBBSMBBBBBBBBBBaMBBSBM Driticli Residents Alarmed; Ask for Warships; Amer: ican Minister Proposes Protection for Foreigners; BULLETIN'. . HL'ZClLVr&BQ, MARCH 22. TEvE FIRING 7TT'.ATt.T THIS IIORN- rrro tta? been cfficially exflalned a? practice by the rCRTS. TITS ASSOCIATED PREC3 correspondent learns that THE RUSCIAITS NOTIFIED THE CHINESE LATE YESTERDAYEVXN-ING YESTERDAYEVXN-ING THAT THE PRACTICE FIRING "WOULD OCCUR, BUT NOT EN TIIIE FOR THE INFORMATION TO BDC02XE GENERALLY KNOWN, AND CONSEQUENTLY, THERE WAS CONSIDERABLE ALAR3L ' - A ; BULLETIN. j - NE WCHWANGf, MARCH 22. THE BRITISH RESIDENTS HERE HAVE SENT A PETITION TO SIR ERNEST SATOW, , THE BRITISH 1HNISTER AT FEXING, ASKING THAT A WARSHIP BE ALLOWED TO REHATN AT NEWCHWANO. UNITED STATES CONSUL HELLER PROPOSES THE ORGANIZATION O T ALL FOREIGNERS IN" NEWCHWANO NEW-CHWANO SO AS TO INSURE THEIR " INTELLIGENCE REGARDING WAR MOVEMENTS IN THIS VICINITY, AND ALSO FOR THEIR MUTUAL MU-TUAL PROTECTION. ' . , . ' BULLETIN. ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 22, 4:22 P. JL THE AUTHORITIES HERE ARE SKEPTICAL IN REGARD TO THE REPORT THAT THE JAPANESE SQUADRON HAS BEEN SIGHTED OFT THE PORT OF NEWCHWANG. THERE IS NO CONFIRMATION HERE OF THE REPORT, RE-PORT, PURPORTING TO COME FROM LONDON, THAT THE VLADIVOSTOK VLADIVO-STOK SQUADRON HAS REACHED PORT ARTHUR. . Increase secured. It was originally pre- ! posed to pay the manufacturers a sum qua! to three years' Income front their business. . i It is said that the" illicit -project was to secure the equivalent of four years' income: in-come: . The police are - lnveatigatlnir the matter, and possibly It may be ventilated on the floor of the house.- - ' The Incident is likely to have the effect of leaving the three years provision un changed. ' , " Prisoners Are Released, ' 1 N WW CHANG, March 31 Two Japanese merchants, named Kautalaml and Ma-kaya, Ma-kaya, and also Ave women refugees, who had been imprisoned from February -TLh to March 2uth at Port Arthur left today, en route to Tien Tain, thus satisfying the American official inquiry and negotiations covering several weeks. . . F0HTY THOUSAND : MPS ALLCCtD TO EE- ' ' STILL IN SIBERIA . . . . i ST. PETERSBURG,' March 22, 2:60 p rn. United States Embassador McCor-fniok McCor-fniok has not been Instructed by the State department, at the request of M. Takahlra, the Japanese Minister at Washington, to ask the Russian Government Gov-ernment what facilities will be afforded to the forty thousand Japanese in Siberia Si-beria to return to Japan. According to fhformatlon received here comparatively few Japanese are now in Siberia. Most of them left there Just prior to or after the breaking out of the war. The United States embassy, which is charged with safeguarding Japanese interests, in-terests, has thus far only responded to the appeals of a score of Japanese coming com-ing from Siberia through European Russia. The last batch of twelve, from Irkutsk, was sent to Berlin Saturday. Not one of them has been molested, but. it is considered safer that the Japanese be placed beyond the region of possible danger. No appeals have been received from the few Japanese residing in St. Petersburg end other cities of European Russia. DENIAL FROM JAPAN JOF ALLEGED PROTEST V OF BOMBARDMENT 1 1 TOKIO. March 22. The . Japanese Government denies the report from Paris that France, acting on behalf of Russia, has protested to the Japanese Government on account of the bombardment bom-bardment of the quarantine station at San Shan Tao on the 10th inet. No protest of the kind has so far reached the Imperial Government . at Tokio. AMERICAN CAPTAIN . COMMANDS RUSSIAN GUNBOAT MANDJUR SAN FRANCISCO," March 22.-Offlcers of the Steamer Coptic Just arrived, saw the Russian gunboat Mandjur lying In the river at Shanghai, and report that her commander is a Capt. Carter, born in the United States, but a Russian by naturalization. natu-ralization. When ordered to leave Chinese waters Capt. Carter emphatically refused and invited in-vited somebody to make him move. At last accounts he was still at Shanghai with his gunboat. A Japanese battleship ' and a cruiser flying the same flag passed out of the river while the Coptic was at Shanghai. SCANDAL ALLEGED. IN 1PAN OVER TOBACCO MONOPOLY lOKIO, March 22. A legislative scandal !s threatening in' connection with the pro-iosal pro-iosal of the Government to create a to- 'naeco monopoly. ' ' . it is tt.ieired that certain members of the L:ft agreed to support a movement to i- rrease the compensation to be paid to t- laaAUIactuxera for a share of the , i - |