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Show i " ' -rij i" E- -' - .. : . .,-' , p ' .'-H rr r.i u - ; . - I , , - DALNY, WHICH IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY JAPANESE PORT ARTHUR HAS NOT FALLEN, BUT RUSSIANS ADMIT THAT FORCES THERE MAY WITHDRAW; MAKAROFFS PLANS I FANTASTIC FUNERAL OF KOREA'S QUEEN. S : .EEO UI.;1 Zlzr: V.llATH'-ftmerTr t...... La-w'-tji," who" died In" January, was held here today. It waa a. weird scene.. Thousands of laV te.rn-bearers, soldiery and the populace in white dresses gathered around a bonfire until daybreak. The Emperor, attired straw-colored robes and head dress, arrived at 6 o'clock and performed his devotions over the body, within a canvas pavilion. The procession then started to the tomb, eight miles outside the city, the bands playing funeral dirges. The procession was a couple of miles long and full of Oriental color. It was beaded by. native police,, followed by lantern-bearers and spearmen la fantastic attire, carrying banners and huge paper horses. Then came two biers, gorgeously colored and surmounted by dragons' heads. They . were borne on the shoulders of a hundred men, there being 200 pall- bearers. The biers were surrounded by eunuchs and court functionaries. The first bier was empty, being intended to cheat the devil. BULLETIN. i - T0KI0, March 14. Viceroy Alex-iefTs Alex-iefTs report stating that a Japanese torpedo boat-destroyer, was sunk and the "cruiserTaJLasagw ," heavily aam-aged aam-aged by the shell firs of the Russians during the fourth attack on Fort Arthur, Ar-thur, is officially pronounced untrue. The damaged Japanese torpedo-boat destroyers can be repaired In one week, and it will not be necessary to dock them. ' BULLETIN. TIEN TSIN, March 14. Upon inquiry in-quiry the riot at Shansi turns out to have been unimportant. ' ' The reported occupation of Fort Arthur Ar-thur by the Japanese is untrue, according ac-cording to a telegram received here at 11 o'clock, which left Fort Arthur at 7 o'clock on Sunday evening. bulletin: . ST. PETERSBURG, ' March 14 (noon). There is no truth in the rumors ru-mors that the Russians-have abandoned aban-doned Fort Arthur. . Admiral Abaza,' secretary of the commission on 'Far Eastern Affairs, authorizes the Associated Asso-ciated Press to deny the story. . He says the situation at Fort Arthur is unchanged, and that nothing of importance im-portance has occurred there in the past twenty-four hours. nese, which later event is regarded as a foregone conclusion. The' highest Russian opinion obtain able at Port Arthur and Newchwang admits the Government's Intention to fall back indefinitely, until the mobilization mobili-zation of 300,000 troops for the purpose of assaulting and opposing the Japanese, Japa-nese, and probably 200,000 more to oppose op-pose the Chinese. The same opinion asserts that Vice-Admiral Vice-Admiral Makaroff will fight hard. He j Is determined to weaken the enemy at any cost, and make the operation of the Baltic sea fleet In the Far East feasible, feasi-ble, though it may be necessary to fight without the.Pallada, Czarevitch and Retvlzan, which, it Is admitted, cannot can-not be fully repaired wltbln six months. On account of the uncertainty of the success of the scheme of constructing a mud dock in -which to repair the Ciarevlteh and Retvlzan, naval experts allow a year for the work. and spirit of the proclamation in the highest term. The Ofnclal Gazette accepts It unreservedly unre-servedly as a complete answer to the charges that the American Government Is hostile to Russia and declares that hereafter, despite any seemingly untoward unto-ward Incident which may arine. It will be considered settled once and for all "that the American Government has taken a friendly attitude toward -our alms and policies in the Far East." adding: "This undoubtedly marks a change in American sentiment, the people there realizing the danger of supporting Japan." UNTOLD. HARDSHIPS OF FUGITIVES FROM WAR IN FAR EAST ST. PETERSBURG. March 14. (3:45 p. m.) A Russian correspondent proceeding pro-ceeding to the front, writes to the SL' Petersburg Telegraph bureau from RUSSIA MOLLIFIED TOWARD UNCLE SAM BY RECENT EVENTS ST. PETERSBURG, March ll.-Presl-6nt Roosevelt's recent proclamation regarding re-garding the -observance of neutrality by ull officials and the abstinence from either eith-er 'action or speech which might cause Irritation Ir-ritation to cither J.ipan or Russia hits produced a great impression here. The newspapers this morning print prominently promi-nently articles commending tho subManre BULLETIN. . WEI-HAI-WEI, March 14. The Japanese here report that Port Arthur has been captured. TIN -KOW, March 14. The local Russian authorities are apparently incensed in-censed and manifestly much, ' annoyed at the Eolicltious inquiries of the commanders com-manders of foreign gunboats regarding regard-ing the projected blocking of the Llao river before the arrival of the Ja pa- Irkutsk, Siberia, as follows: "Our express train travels slower than the slowest train in European Rus- sla. The seat of war is still remote, but Its pretence Is felt. The long rows of cars filled-with soldiers, the caravans and the primitive nleighs, drawn by Hhaggy horses, which we pass along the way at the crowded stations, break the monotony of the fiiou bound wastes and endless) forests, and the stillness Is" broken bro-ken by the pongs' of the Jolly reservists and the bells of the village churches sounding clear through the frosty air. This bustle and activity amidst the Siberian Si-berian desolation strikingly Illustrates the Russian giant stretching his limbs preparatory to punishing the foe. "Gen. Rennenkampf, who 19 to lead the Cossack division, is traveling on the same train. He tells me that all these reservists will become splendid hardened soldiers a fortnight after reaching the front. "At Irkutsk we met the victims of the war children and women trying to get back to European Russia. On our entrance en-trance into the semi-darkness of the station we were greeted by the walling of children Issuing from the dirt heaps and baggage encumbering the floor. Their waxen faces and bloodshot, sleepless sleep-less eyes would melt a heart of stone. The wild, panic-stricken flight of their mothers from Manchuria after the startling outbreak of the war led to great suffering. They reached this place after untold) hardships, only to find that they will have to wait weeks more until there Is sufficient train accommodation ac-commodation to enable them to proceed further. "So the children have been pining, sleepless and motionless, in this fetid atmosphere at-mosphere because outside reigns deathly frosl." (Additional War News on Page 1) |