Show PORT CLOSED JAPANESE FOREIGN VESSELS ARE NOT AL LOWED AT PORT ARTHUR british vessel with hospital stores and surgeons is turned back as japanese expect to care for rus wounded themselves the british cruiser andromeda which sailed from Welha twel on wednesday for port arthur with hos pital stores and surgeons to assist the eick and wounded returned thursday not having been allowed to make a landing at port arthur the cruiser proceeded to a small bay ten 11 north of port arthur where she met with japanese the latter refused all assistance or stores of any kind and declined to allow the ship a officers to approach closer the reason given being the presence of mines A chefko dispatch says sympathy tor the sick and wounded russians at port arthur Is widespread but an idea to care tor them at chetko tie tsin shanghai wel and has led to an inquiry which developed the fact that the corn bained facilities of the places named are equal to harboring only a very small percentage of them some time age russian residents ot chetko collected a fund in anticipation of this emergency but at a meeting today ot the british and japanese con euls and the local health officer the tact was developed that the present conditions ol 01 chetko are equal to car ing for only sixty the conditions at shanghai and tien tsin are proper tlona tely inadequate the general opinion here Is that the great mass of the sick and wounded will be compelled to remain at port arthur until they are sufficiently con yale scent to return to russia the refusal ot the japanese to ac capt the aid tendered by the british cruiser andromeda was an error born ol 01 their desire to show to the world that japanese was tully equal to the occasion the statement in the censored dis patches from correspondents with general nogi s army that the japanese lost only 50 men in taking the tort ress is declared to be absurd by rus ilan naval officers here their lowest estimate they say Is based both on personal observation and on stories told by prisoners that the japanese lost |