Show JAPAN GETS FIRST BLOOD little brown men start wa by put it ng rig some of the czar s most power ful F ng rig mach nes out of bus ness the long looked for war between japan and russia now seems to be an assured fact the japanese having t begun actual hostilities As it Is gen orally cone conceded eder that only waiting tor for some overt act upon the part of the little brown men and that the followers of the czar are more favorable toward war than the p pice ace movement there seems but little doubt that the struggle has begun in earnest the following official bulletin has been issued in st petersburg in the form of a telegram from N V viceroy ale alex leff s chief of staff dated february 9 by order ot of the viceroy I 1 beg to report that this daiy diy at about 11 clock in the morning a jap japanese anece squadron cadron con inting of about fifteen battleships and cruisers approached port arthur and opened fire the en emy was received with a cannonade from the shore batteries and the gi 91 ns of 0 ir dron which also martiel in the vie eng at midday tle japanese squadron C spiced qed its fire and left proceed ng south our losea loses los ea es in the fleet anre two officers wounded nine men killed aid and fortia one men wounded the battle chip hip and the cru er each had a hole I 1 nod ed in their sides below apter use ling the forts were el 01 abt y damaged signed MAJOR ai FLUG PLUG the teamer columbia colu bla has arrived at chee foo from port arthur w th adi ad I 1 lional news of the 9 attal by the japanese flet apon th tha russian fleet in the roads outside of the harbor of port arthur the col imbia was in ini I the roads at th time and fe t the first hock check of a explosion at 11 0 doc c on mond monday ay iy the attick continua conti nud all night and at di light the next day two russian b rs ps and slid one firt clams russian cr or iser were een to have hive been dig dis abbed and beached t the entrance of the harbor iha cruder was badly listed to one ide tudy ihorn n ng the rusian rus ian forts opened fre on tl ti e jl vireece flet which was about three distant the e ve e sels returned the fire h eting oral of the russin ab hi if it doing btttle Idar nage tha russian arii criers ers than ahn went out and tl e jabine e vessels disappeared they were re fen ren n later going in the dt ill of dalny dainy apparently aged although the officers of the colum b a sa tant there were seventeen ships in the astaci attacking atta cling ing party 1 only sixteen nere een ceen lter in the day by the acte telmer imer foo chow the russians left one cruiser out side to watch for the japanese ships this cruiser was birol upon by the Ja japanese and the other russian ves sels took up their anchors and eroded about the road the japanese flit fl it came up w th n three miles and a battle commenced the japanese fred on the ships and forts which re plied two russian ships were by she Is but were only sl ghaly dim dam aged the ru clan fire fell short the attempt of russian russia carh ps bopre e p vent land ng of japanese at che culpo in battle in wh which ih ic two sh ps are destroyed ak W 11 it is reported in boklo that the japanese fleet engaged and defeated two russian warships whose names have not yet been learned at chamul po bay it Is said the engagement began at 11 a in and continued until 9 0 p in the smaller russian vessel Is reported to have been sunk and the larger one was vas fired and hopeless ly destroyed A part of the crews are reported to have escaped to the chore bore and to have been captured the russian vessels were the bus rus sian stan cruisers korzetz and the barlag columbia steamed away while the bat tie tle was in progress but later saw the japanese fleet leave one japanese cruiser with torpedo boats Is 1 reported north of chefko rus ans accept the gage of battle the news that japan had duplicated her tactics at the opening of the china japanese war by a torpedo attack on the russian ships off port arthur created intense excitement in st Pe petersburg details of the attack are anxiously awaited extra editions of 0 the morning papers printed early in the forenoon after the appearance of the official Mes cenger nger conveyed the intelligence to the population of the capital and dispelled any lingering lopes that war could be averted the zar and his ministers who had been unformed immediately of the rece pt f viceroy Alexi effs telegram accept d the gage and prepa prepared to face the bality of war the naval reserves have been called out and the russian led cross coo oc ety already has sent 9 beds to the tar far east and sisters t f mercy are leaving the action of tl e japanese in at tacking the russian fleet without a on of war la Is denounced as an outrage by the Ruc russians Ru general and the result instead of discouraging them beems to hae been to furni h the park necessary to fire russian pa triot ariot sm from prom the large centers E russia coines comes information that the country Is al I 1 ready aro are red iced by the japanese e action in breaking off the negotiations looking after ch na secretary hay ilay has addressed an identical note to a number of E eiro iro pein powers rowers to if thy are willing to join in a notice to russia and japan that during and thereafter the neutrality and integrity of china must be details of the note rote are not obtain obtainable ible in ad vance of the receipt of PS it la is known that etching have taken 1 which 1 the tate department in expecting favorable responses spon es to its note france W II 11 rema n neutral at a conference of mInIc minters held in paris foreign minister dellisse Del cisse corn com n td th tb q of the fart japan ese attack with torpedo boats on the R fleet off port arthur and an no meed that the french minister mi rister at toko tok bid hid ben instructed to insure the protection nf of luscian Ru objects prid nd their inhere t in japin the atti attl t dp do 0 of the fr arnch gov govrin current ont in I 1 iese to of the war is now definitely de t on frane vill maintain neutral ty under all circum circumstances |