| Show P PORT T O DALNY L HAS S DST r Russians Themselves Blew up tip Jocks Docks Piers and anil Every Everything Everything thing Else TO 10 SAVE THEM FROM THE JAPS 1 r The Place Was Intended to be lie th tim t Chief Commercial Emporium I In the East INVESTMENT OF PORT ARTHUR I It Is Proceeding Very Vcr cry Cautiously In Invaders Slowly to Kin Chow Water Supply May I be Cut St Petersburg May Ma 1 a It 12 1 p m ma malAter lAter telegrams received Indicate that tho tIme whole of ot Port Dalny hRS has been dea Iles troyed by b tile thin Russians l St Petersburg May Iny 12 4 t IG p 1 m in Viceroy AI hUll imas telegraphed to tha time czar announcing that the imai I blown up the time docks d and piera Illera itt nt Port 1 Dalny Lian rung Tung peninsula presumably ably to render more a n Japanese landing at It that point Port Dalny Dahl on fallen Wan amm bay on the tine oust Ollit count coast of time the he Ilao rung ruing waH Intended hy Russia Hussla to be Le thu tho t chief commercial emporium ot of 18 Us east last eastern ern era dominion An All edict providing for tor Jt Issued HUH construction was as by the thu 1 July 30 O 1899 and Port Pori Dalny 1 fully equipped with nil model n ii lOik warehoused and in railroad facilities was opened to tu com coon In December Decem her 1901 Tallon an U is one OIl ot 01 the deep deepwater ater water t on the thu Pacific It H Is In trOt tree from ice In white time thins and ships draw drawing m w ing lug 39 31 f feet et t of ot water cull cun enter itt III low tide lido without arid without the I lUll emit of or 0 Pilots tan ran salt noil or alongside the Ihl immense docks d mind piers whore where their dingoes t nn eu be loaded Into railroad curs cars amid run direct for tor miles millS Into I the city of ot St t Five Io hinge I hind had been beon IJ II constructed euch sup supplied supPlied I plied with tracks P and Immense and aud elevators I Kim gus electric and water n it 1 large breakwater waa 11 being construct constructed I ed ro o that could lie 10 at lit the and amid load loam unit mid unload r of or weather Docks for Cor foreign vessels lu 1 situ Mill extended between tIme the fl piers Inhere the tine shorn shore for tor tWO mile Thoro were ware two to class dry docks ont one for ordinary ocean steam era ens er and the tho other oIlier designated Ile to module to tho the largest vessels of ot war or I commerce Over hall had been hRon expended on the harbor thin the end of or JH HOZ 1102 2 and It wan 1 estimated that the cost K of completing time tho works would be he near nearly Iy ly hut but this doen doea not mint In iii any anyway way 1 ey ml nt the total cost of ot tho thu of or thU J great greut commercial port S which with Port Vort Arthur Arlhur distant i 20 o mile was leased by lIy tile the Chinese I government to II In 1699 S Nearly men linen were wre employed dally daily 1811 on time tha work of or time tho port nail and town TIn The total population Imd been beam estimated nt at about I mostly Japanese and I OV OF OI POUT PORT St May II 12 From the time of or t fi tat lal received here hor It Is II evi f dent that thAI the tine J are aw proceeding r very vary en cautiously toward the Investment of Port lont Arthur While an In Interruption of ot the telegraph h and anti railroad may again lIln occur at any time tinie communication I tion with the fortress was waa still open opell last lall night 11 received by b this the general start show that thin the Invaders Invader who landed at nt are rue marching slowly on Kin In which Is an ad position defending th this Gibraltar detaching only a small force torca torcato to out cut the this line lime at lit Polan 11 Ie thus gly ing ilig rise to the tho that thai they th tim had effected a n landing at al Port Mania Adams Thin Tho Russians have occupied ll bay on the east tide klo of ot tIne he Lino Liac Tung TUIl en hi milt nuit opposite Kin In showing that they have no Intention of or withdrawing further south On the th contrary mill Indi Indications rations point to stubborn resistance The line presence nce nt at Arthur Arlhur of oC len Gen revealed In III tile tho dispatches may signify that thin the garrison of ot thin the fortress III IH much flinch stronger than the tho desired the time enemy to Pock Fork J ock commanded the Fourth of ot riflemen If It the whole di dl division divisIon vision Jelon Is III on tho tIme Tun rung peninsula flea don has at least men nt at his disposal which would render r tine the Investment of or Port Arthur extreme ly Iy I unless the time Japanese bring up threE throe times that number of ot troops troop There ii is talk of ot Japanese emitting off oft II tho tim water supply of ot Port Arthur but this U is declared to be Impossible ni as I sea water III Is the th chief source of ot tho the supply the wells only being used uld by 1 the Chinese CZAR TO IUD HID LL Ht lit Mit May Ia 12 p m iii Emperor l Nicholas la is arranging ln to tn go o to it May Iny 23 to bill bid farewell to tho Tenth army corps can upon Us Its 11 de tie r for tor the time far east this The Associated Press learns h train from the highest source that thin the emperor In tin I exceedingly exel anxious to to 10 o to the front To hla his Intimate recently he hall lias en much on the till subject hut but he that conditions of ot state demand hiM at home Nevertheless It H III now no not considered impossible that ho hI 1 will follow thin tho example of ot nM all a time the j dynasty during thU this lust last 1 I I century And 1111 undergo his hla baptism of ot J lire hire To might light with the army arms arm In iii II one of or the thic th traditions of oC Ida hla Alexander t tI I Paris with time the allied utter after the time battle of ot Waterloo Nicholas N I died In a common soldiers hovel In the Crimea and amid Alexander II I with the heir apparent w n ra at al the this front during the Turkish war Perhaps an nn additional reason why I Nicholas desires t to 10 me meet inset t thus the enemy I Is that he hI carries carrl s nn on hla hi body hoo tho thi th mark murk of ot n fI wound indicted hy ii h a Japanese M policeman poll II ohen he ww vas 1 In n a theater nt at I during his hl vl visit lt to Japan In 1399 1593 11 |
