Show RU SI U T CHINAS GOOD bOO f FAITH ITH Her Private Information is Not Reassuring as Regards Re ards lat Neutrality MAY SUPPLY TOCO 1000 WITH COAL I I Some Seine Evidence Pointing That Tb t Way ay Fewer Fener l Battleships Appear off oIl Port Fort Arthur St Petersburg March p m ni niThe The Tho governments Information Is la lanot not reassuring us ns regards Chinas slit sin sincerity In observing a n neutrality atti attitude tude Secret advices Indicate that nt at least l allt a II powerful party In the Chinese government Is abetting the Japanese Although at first reluctant to credit It the tho RussIan authorities continue co to receive evidence that tho the Japanese contemplate landing lan on Chinese neutral territory west welt of ot tho the Lion 1101 ilver liver and un 1000 men are aro being Ing held heM especially I to await developments In that direction Moreover the tho emperors naval experts who havo been studying carefully tho the puzzle ns as to wh re Vice Admiral fleet Is la coalIng cORlIn anti provisioning be bo between between tween Its appearances oft off Port rort Arthur Arlhur are becoming more and moro mono convinced that It Is using us 1111 n it base baso some quiet allot on the tho Chinese coast const After each euch disappearance not a word Is heard of or the tho Heels fleets whereabouts until It Il re reappears 1 reappears appears A calculation of at time and thIs dis distance tance shows It Is quite Impossible for tor forthe forthe the fleet to steam to Nagasaki or Hiro Hiroshima shima take toko on ott board coal and ammunition tion come corno back baek It Il Is also certain tho the Japanese warships could not take on coal much less lesl heavy Mn projectiles at It sea Ilea In the tho taco faco of oC the tho prevailing rough weather The Tho Idea Iden that they tiler sire ro using Fusan t usan or some OnH other place on the Korean const coast for this purpose h la rejected ns as It Ills Is believed that If Ie such were the tho case the numerous secret cor correspondents correspondents I respondents resl and secret agents of the tho 1 Russians In Korea n would certainly have havo hn U reported tho fact So by b process of ot elimination the tho Russians seem com coin compelled polled to arrive at nt tho the conclusion that the tho vessels of the tho Japanese fleet must bo ho refilling their thel bunkers winkers In somo sonic In Inlet Inlet Inlet let on the ChIneo coaSt either cither on the tho Gulf Gult of Lla Ia Tun Tung or the thu Shan Tung peninsular so 80 fur far from ports anti ami in inhabited inhabited habited centers that tho the correspondents are aro unable to get wind of It U UTho Tho Tim dwindling number of Japanese o battleshIpS battleship appearIng aP off oft Port Arthur Is III Increasing the tho conviction that many of them thel have havo had to put back to Japan for forn fora n a thorough refitting A high naval said Ve We probably ably shall ahIl never hover know how many of their ships were crippled or sunk nt at least untIl the war Is s over JAPS NOT HUSHING ThINGS Tho The failure of the Japanese to rush ru h their operations evokes agreeable dis Ills disappointment appointment nt l mt here hero as M n It gives the HUH nUH the tile time necessary to complete completo their preparation A Japanese an ae land landing landIng ing on the tho Lino lIao Tung peninsula lIon Jal to be besiege besiege siege Port lort Arthur would rather bo be wel welcomed welcomed coined now OH as It would not be bo a large Jorgo force yet would 1 weaken the frontal at attack attack tack from Korea It n was reported soon after tho the Japa Japanese nese began their operations Port Arthur that they had ono one of tho the Elliott Islands situated In the tho Kor Iol can gulf less than miles cast by bynorth bynorth north of ot lort Port Arthur for use usa as ns a 11 base buso and the tho Tokio correspondent of tho the london Times March 7 cabled that n a Japanese squadron took possession of Hal Yang Tao Iao ore ono of or tho the Elliott t grOup Up UpI Fob Feb I ob 29 2 The correspondent added that IhM the tho Japanese found there thure only stores store of or coal naSH Hags the Russians having evacuated Iho the Island leland Feb 23 2 ron FOR Ll A special log his beon ordered by b tho the emperor for tor Viceroy with n II blue Muo St at Andrews cross III In tho the center a 11 blACk double Russian eagle engle It Il will be saluted I by 19 W guns BUM The Tho daughter of Admiral who commanded tho the wooden pro lire of ot Iho lite ho present battleship has haR written to tc Admiral that nearly f ro rio 0 years urs ngo Jo while tho old ohl wan ns moored In the Nova Nen her father noticed nn an object floating lion tin toward to arll html him und Mid found It to be bo an Imago image of 0 tho the which had hall remained In the tho th family since linca the Iho dismantling of ot tho old 01 ship The Tha daughter r of or Admiral Taulo now nouv sends the tho linage laKe to Admiral Makaroff convinced that U a l will keep keCI the battleship from rota the tho future futuro |