| Show I PORT D DALNY L H HAS S I Bt fO I V Russians Themselves Blew up II 1 Docks Piers and livery Every Everything I thing tiling Else 1 TO SAVE THEM FROM THE JAPS IThe Ii I i I II The Place Was Vas Intended to be th tit Chief Commercial Emporium In tie the lie Hast East i INVESTMENT OF PORT ARTHUR I It Is Proceeding Very cry Cautiously In Invaders Marching Slowly to lUll Kin Chow Supply Stipp I May be Cut Cui i I I St Petersburg May 1 12 p II m mr i Later Laler telegrams ms received Indicate that ithe I tho the whole of ot Port Dalny has hils boon bean des destroyed troyed troed by b tho the Russians I FROM 1 St Petersburg May 12 p JI m l Viceroy Alexieff has hall telegraphed to the tho czar announcing that the tho haVu I blown up tho the docks and piers plern at Pin t Lino Uno lung Tung peninsula presumably ably to render re more a Japanese I landing nt that point I Port on Tallen Wan Nan an bay on tho thu cast coast of oC the tho Llao Tune Tung penin peninsula sula was intended by Russia to bu ho Ie tho the chief commercial emporium em of Its UH east eastern eastern ern dominions An All edict providing for far fOllis Its lis construction was waa Issued IH by tho the Kua HUS elan emperor July 30 1899 and nn Port Dalny fully rully equipped with nil all modes modem Improvements docks warehouses und aril railroad facilities was opened to com Nm In December 1001 1901 r fallen Wan un Is U ono of ot the tho finest deep lIC 11 harbors on 01 the It Is free from ice in tn winter time and ships draw drawIng hug Ing 30 39 feet of ot water ciao can enter at It low tide without and without the tho aid ald of ot pilots can sat sail or steam at un alongside 1 llo the O docks and plans piers where their cargoes tan can bu bo loaded Into railroad cars aim I and run for miles ranee Into the tho city of St Petersburg Five largo large piers hind lud boon been constructed each ench sup BUP supplied plied piled with numerous railroad tracks thud ami Immense houses hou t and elevators RUB gas electric ol lights and water and a n large breakwater woe was being construct in pd Id PO su that Hint ships shills could llo Ile at the piers and lou load and unload regardless of oC I weather we ther Docks Docte Doc for foreign vessels I mild sail extended between tho the piers liters and the shore for tor two miles mlle Thoro were wre two to class dry docks I ono ona Intended for fOl ordinary ll steam steamers ers era und anti the other to 10 accent 1 tho the largest vessels of war or commerce I Over load hul h lt been boon expended on the harbor arbor before the tho end of or I 1102 2 and It was estimated that tho the cost of ot completing the tho works would be bo neill ly 11 I but thin does dOCK not In fn any anyway I i I way wa 1 e a the tho total cost cos t of or tho tin of at hU hue great ireat commercial port which with willm Port lort Arthur distant about eo 0 miles won WIlU leaned loosed by Chinese r f I government to tu Russia In 1898 I Nearly men were employed I dally on en the tho work of constructing tho thu I port hart and town Tho rho total population lind hind been boen estimated at III about I mostly Chinese Japanese Koreans and i I INVESTMENT OF Oo POUT AnTl R St Petersburg hur May 12 Prom the tho of oC official t tidal advices received home It Is III evi evl evident I I dent dont that tho the Japanese are aro proceeding I Very ery cautiously toward tho the Investment of Port Arthur While an nn Interruption of ot tho the telegraph h und and railroad may again occur at nt any time communication tion with thin tho fortress was still open I last night Advices received by tho time general staff show slow that tho the l who landed nt at wo are aro marching slowly on Kin Chou which Is nn an ad nil advanced position defending tho time Russian Gibraltar detaching only n small force torce to cut the tho line lino at nt thus IV Inc In rise to time the reports hat they thoy hind had tJ a n at nt Port Adams Tho Time lave bay on the tho east cast side fildo of ot time the Ilao Llio Tung suit opposite Kin Chou showing that they have no intention of withdrawing further south On the tho contrary Indi Indications I point to stubborn resistance Tho The presence nt al Port Arthur of Gen Fock revealed In tho time official dispatches may signify that tho the garrison of or tho time fortress Is much stronger than thun tho the desired the enemy to believe bellev Fork Fock J ock commanded time tho Fourth division of ot Siberian If It the tho whole dt dl Is la on the Linn Lino rung Tung peninsula Gen has hili at al least men menat menat at lit his ids disposal which would render the Investment of ot Port Arthur extreme ly difficult the Japanese bring brine up times that number of or troops Them Thera Is talk of ot Japanese outline oft off tho the water supply of Port Arthur but this li Is declared to be he Impossible an IR condensed sea lien water Is If time thc chief chloe source of ot tho time supply tho the wells only being B used by b the Chinese TO T 0 HID DID TROOPS FAREWELL HI fil Petersburg May 12 1 28 p m Emperor Nicholas Is arranging to go 0 to May 23 to bid farewell to tho the Tenth army corps upon Its de Ilc departure pa J turo for tor the far tar east aust Tho rho Associated Press Iress learns from tho the highest source that tho the emperor la Is anxious to no Ira to the front treat To his Intimates recently ho has line spoken k kIll en Ill much on an the tho subject but hut he ho realizes realize 11 that lint conditions of oC state his hili presence at home Bonne ho III 1 Nevertheless It Is Isnow Isnow Isnow now not considered Impossible that ho he will follow tallow the example of at all time the dynasty during this I century and hla his of he lire To Tn tight with the tha mummy army IH is ono one of the th of his hi house houi mouse Alexander I I 1 entered Parle with the th allied powers after the battle of at Waterloo Nicholas I died d In III n II common soldiers ls hovelin In the and ami Alexander II 11 with tho rho Apparent were wert at nt time the th front frunt during the war an additional reason why wh Nicholas desires to melt meet the enemy In Is that ho Ito carries on Oil his hotly h the tho mark of n a wound ly l I n a al o policeman when he n 11 i in a u theater at nt during hl hla visit to Japan In Jn 1898 1899 i 1 laa |
