| Show o W f t WILL 1 THE T f fT 4 NEXT T BL BLOW W f FALL LL Uncertain Japanese Viii Will Strike First or Russians Take Talc The Initiative I SILENCE REIGNS IN FAR EAST I Ilio No lio News from Any II ny Source Japs Will Use a New ami aul alII Powerful Explosive l London Fob Feb F b and where w wro ro rowill will sIlI Japan strike next JI or will the Hus flus SIan Binns take the th Initiative This Thill Is the question Qu being d In naval clr dr considerable mys my mystery les I s here hore There Is tory tery too In connection with the tho where whereabouts oC of the tho Japanese Jal anese Meet fleet which at nt attacked tacked at Port Arthur Arlhur Tuesday When last lait reported the ships hIp were heading acrO s the Straits of ot Korea Ono One the theory theory theor ory or of at experts trained In the art ort of ot sea Mea fighting Is 10 that some oine of ot the have been beon sent north with a view eW of oC en ell engaging engine the czars car fleet Il et at nt Vladivostok which Is I the tho most Important base baso flue Bus Husela ala ela la has hns In Siberia It If It IB Is argued the Japanese e can en entice tice the to 10 the Ilic th outer harbor and engage them they will have hae an au op of ot securing curing n a 1 greater victory t than that at nt Port Arthur Another theory theor Is II that thai the Iho mikado s M strategists have withdrawn tho the fleet while mapping out a I new nW campaign against Port Arthur Those officials who sho are cog cognizant cognizant of ot the tho extraordinary thorough nes with which Japan prepared for tor the th war are Inclined to 10 share the Japanese Ke view regarding the duration of ot tho the struggle Baron tho the Japanese minister here hore has ha received a n dispatch from Tokio announcing that on Feb 11 two Japanese merchant steamers the Nak ok anoura Maru and Kensho Zensho Marti Maru while on In their way wn from to Otaru on the Island Ilam of ot were lere sur surrounded ur rounded and shelled by b four tour warships presumably the tho t i squadron off ort the coast COUlt of ot hl NO 00 NT London Feb I eb 13 Complete silence has hall fallen over tile the far east Not ol a it word worl of ot news Is 18 II t to be IC hall hail hero except the report given out at tho thu legation le of the thc shelling of ot two Jap Japanese anese merchant ceiB by hy four tour HUB Hus Mian warships unit and the report from Viceroy of the blowing up of the torpedo transport Yen YenI I This ThIM long Ion I has hils given rise to the belief hollet that Important events are nrc transpiring A dispatch III tn to the Dully Daily Mirror from says that the Japanese e have blown up Ul a n portion of ot the lie Siberian rail railroad railroad road hut but this thiN Is IR probably only ani a n repetition tion of or previous lr similar reports The Tho Dally Dall Mall learns that the Jap Japanese anese will bring Inlo him USA tine u it now p hc which Is I alleged tn to tr be he more mort nor power powerful fiji ful than ony nn hitherto discovered It Is III l that the Imperial Hank J ank of ot Hussla lIu Aln nt lit HI St Petersburg has lies C raised the rato of discount 1 Iller per cent The fhe government has hin asked I permission II to tn dock a II disabled torpedo boat honl Oitt destroyed dt at nt Suez Huez but this Ie re was refused refined ed as nf the thc th authorities nt ot Port lort Hald had surveyed the tho destroy destroyer d er cr and all declared her tier lit fit 1 to proceed Tho sultan received the Russian am nm to 10 Turkey In private audience yesterday The correspondent of ot the Thorn at nt In III a 1 t dispatch 11 I II dated Fob 1011 11 says the thit steamer Fusing I which Is itt taking Chinese refugees to Shang Shanghai hal hai unit linn brought the following account of oC tho tim Port Arthur engagement Tho The garrisons garrison of oC the Port Pori Arthur Arlhur ArthurI I forts were absent from their theil stations so lit retaliation was Impossible Day I light lI ht showed two Iwo battleships and one cruiser apparently total wrecks The Tim attack was re cc reo mimed In the tho morning when another battleship bat t lesh iii vas as disabled d isa bled and a tul beached Tho Tim lire fire from rein the forts fortH compelled the Ito Japanese to retire lIn Tho rh IIII fleet neet I appeared to bo be completely demoralized find their torpedoes were vcra useless against n tho the Japanese I The rhe fh Fusing l which was flying the tho I British lint Ihl moved out tiit UH LIN she Rhe he held hehl a it 1 itt t Hussion permit erini to 10 go 10 The ulie I fired three shells at III her which resulted In tile the wounding of live five fivel l of her hel Chinese crew apt Gray GrIL corn com tho Iho Fusing then lien boarded the Ip anti ami obtained ohio I nod to 10 proceed after he ho had sinned n a 1 promise prom Iso not to 10 I C Ii gt what V t had hitti occurred end The Tho lIu wild they the wore wom very er sorry liarI they hind had tired on ott Ills his ship Vita The Associated A Press lr understands that the Japanese troops are 1110 advancing rapidly toward the tl Taut Yulu river liver There It Is expected they th y will meet Inert en engage engage gage tho the HusMan forces Correll rite Tho Japan Japanese ese cite declare that tho tue number of ot Russian troops are am greatly exaggerated The plan llan of the tho appears to tobo tobe tobo bo be to 10 tithe take tho the tooth rood ro ul lends almost I to lo Mukden They The profess to 10 have no doubt that lint they tily will bo hn nub able S to drive hack back the forces to 10 toward ward Harbin |
