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THE WAR.

VLADIVOSTOCK.

[By Angus HAMILTON.] The extraordinary dash which characterises the Japanese forces may, any day, threaten the safety of that wonderful fortress on the Pacific, Vladivostok. Russians have described Vladi. vosink as the key of the Pacific. I believe that a literal translation of the name gives the title Sovereign of the East to the place upon which the Russians have lavished millions and mit. lions of roubles. Vladivostock is pre-eminently a fortress. The interests of the Army and Navy centre there and around the fortunes of these two services the place has sprung up. It is also the chief town of East Siberia; in fact, it may be said to be the most important seat of Russian influence in the Far East. It is so much more formidable than Port Arthur, so much more magnificent than Dalny, so much larger than Khabarovsk, and it possesses such an admirable harbour, that it is not surprising that the Russians regard the town and its sur roundings as die hub of Greater Russia in the East.

The town is situated on the slopes of a high ridge forming a tapering peninsula which project into an irregular land-locked bay. "The entrance is commanded by Russia Island, where there is an important fort, and innumerable small islets, on which, ton, the general scheine of the fortifications is also carried out. Again, round the crests of the land-locked harbour, stretching for, miles to the eastward and known as the Golden Horn, there are other continuous chains of earthworks and defensive positions. The lofty hills on the north-west protect the port from the land side, and in the deep water of the Golden Hom, which is four miles long and half a mile in width, shipa ride safely at anchor, free from the inenace of attack and beyond the reach of the weather. The guns mounted on the hills are plainly visible from the water in a number of places, wh le, in curious contrast to the smiling muzzles of these pieces of artillery are the clusters of suburban residences which are scattered about the hillside, even descending in places to the

level of the water.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1904.

to take command under the administration of the Emperor,

| ART. 2.--I'rizes shall be sent to the Army Departinent by the Commander, except under special circumstances and instructions from headquarters, The Minister for the Army Department has the superintendence of all matters relating to the a 'justinent and general nimangements in connection with the prizes.

Art. 3-The Commi under, should necessity are, may deal arbitrarily with the prizes seized, may make of them, or destroy them without regard to wait. 2. In the event of an independent officer or others having no time communicate with the Commander in regard to prizes se zed by the men under him, such independent officers are empowered to act on their own responsibility.

Art. 4.--In the event of the capture of prizes by a martial force, proper means must be taken for the due protection of such prizes, and those in charged must wait for the commands of the chief officer. Such prizes may, however, be sent direct to higher officers according to the conditions under with the capture is made.

ART. 5.-When prizes are seized the inci dents relating to the seizure must be reported in rotation to the higher officers, who shall in

report to the Commander, upon whom dévolves the duty of reporting to headquarters. Should the prizes be turned to practical use, should they be destroyed, or should their whereabouts become unknown the facts must be sinularly reported.

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ART. On the receipt of reports at head. quarters, information shall be furnished to the Army Department.

ART 7-In the event of the Army Depart ment receiving prizes under the circumstances provided for in Art. 2, information to that effect shall be furnished to headquarters.

ART. &~In the event of the Imperial Head- quarters referred to in these articles not being established, the duties shall be undertaken by the Headquarters Staff,

THE TRANSPORT OF RUSSIAN TROOPS,

As the Russian Press has raised the question of providing warmer clothing for the soldiers that are being sent out on the long railway journey to the Far East, an article in the weli known military journal, the Ausski Invaliı, |

There are still a number of shops and res taurants open, and the proprietors are reaping a fortune. Whenever a bombardment takes place the inhabitants stay indoors. The houses that are exposed to fire are tenantless. Owing to the incessant Japanese attacks the place is In a state of torment. Fires are frequent. The splinters from shells are as common as stones in the streets.

are a disgrace to Russia and to your uniform; ! you make us weep with vexation,”

The Russian naval officers are not enjoying themselves at Port Arthur.—Straffs Times.

THE YONGAMPO FIRE. It will be seen on reference to our telegram column that the Russian Timber Company's buildings, at Yongampo have been destroyed by fire. From recent correspondence we learn

It is reported that the Empress Dowagered that the Foreign Timber Company, a little has personally instructed the officers of three corps of the Imperial bodyguard to send their men to the Military Academy for instruction in modern military tactics and warfare, so as to enable them to qualify for commissions in the army. The Empress Dowager further ex. pressed the hope that no return could be made

to the antiquated methods of stone hoisting and shooting with bows and arrows.

warehouse for the various effects of the com-

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whatever amongst the passengers, and many vessels were sighted, but the Captain of the

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mail ste mer did not think it necessary to ask for assistance. He, however, look advantage of the opportunity to have the, breakdown of shaft to replace the cracked joint was on the Norddeutscher LLOYD, BREMEN, reported to his Agents at Aden, and the section Hongkong, 10th May, 1904.

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the way to Aden from Bremen before the Oldmburg arrived there. At Aden everything was done that was possible for the convenience of the passengers, and they were transferred to the P. and O. Mormera connecting with the THE Steamship Chusan at Colombo. Before leaving the vessel, however, the passengers presented Captain Troitzsch with a letter eulogising his services, and a similar letter was also forwarded to the head ffice of the company at Bremen.

From the S. F. Press of 4'h inst:-- The German mail steamer Oldenburg, which' was considerably delayed at Aden owing to an accident to her shaft, arrived here this morning, The accident occurred 300 miles from Aden and the shaft did not snap through, but was so badly cracked at the steamer had to go dead slow, and thus took four days to make the 300 which conceals the identity of the Russo-Chi-old miles to Aden. There was no excitement nese Banking Corporation, had bunded the banks of the Yalu for some twelve hundred yards. At one end of the bund there were two imposing-looking buildings, the one used as a

needs of the community. Near at hand is the pany, the other being devoted to the general

Russian post-office, the mails from which were A few days ago Mr. Shosuke Kodama, ment- carried every second day by steam launch to ber of the Japanese House of Peers, presented | Ta-tung-kau, at which point they were trans- Mr. Shimase, the inventor of the Shimoseferred to one of the steamers running between the Yalu and Chefoo. The main street of the powder," with two valuable works of an, in' appreciation of the efficiency of his invention, settlement which runs parallel with the bank, of which more than ample proof had beer boasts the possessions of several nearly-com- given in the recent naval engagements.

pleted brick houses, while behind, just a little in the rear, there is the native baraar, where the Korean and Chinese employees of the Timber Company can satisfy their Irugal needs. At present the port wears an unfinished ap- pearance, but the rough exterior of a few months ago is quickly being finished off Wooden houses are replacing the canvas tenis, the better-class Europeans residing for the nonce in detached dwelling until their brick bungalows are ready for occupation. For the rest, a street of huts, closely placed and un- comfortable, offers the only accommodation. The stream at the point is nearly one mile in breadth, an expanse of mud-flats composing the foreshore, where at all times rafts and loose timber find a temporary anchorage. No wood comes from the immediate vicinity, the logs being felled hundreds of miles up country. The concession at Yongampo is simply the depot for the timber from the inland forests. Saw inills and workshops were erected and the

PORT ARTHUR REFUGEE. ENGLISHMAN ESCAPES TO SINGAPORE.

Since the war began there has been no lark of information regarding the social conditions prevailing in Japan. The war correspondents have been strictly forbidden, it is true, to ex- patiate on military matters, with the result that to earn their salt they have overloaded us with descriptions of Yokohama and Tukyo, the peo ple, customs and manners of japanad infinitum. But how do matters stand in Port Arthur? The silence of the grave hangs over the inner affairs of that citadel. Occasionally a glimpse bas been afforded in a stray tel-gram of the prevail- ing conditions there, but it has not been at all satisfactory.

On Saturday, an English man, speaking with a strong American accent, and bearing the evidences of hardship and privation, arrived at Singapore from Port Arthur. He was con nected with an Anglo-Russian firm whose head quarters are, or at any rate were, in Port Arthur and as he may return some fine day to that

salubrious spot "when the Japs cease from

place presents a busy appearance.

A wire to the Cableness of 6th inst, says:

The main street runs east and west through describes the arrangements which are being troubling and the Russians are at rest he protection of the fleet near Port Arthur with-

the business quarters and across the railway track to Amur Bay, and east past the Govern- ment buildings. The main streel, Svetland- skaya, named after the frigate upon which the Grand Duke Alex's visited the port in 1873, follows the curve of the Golden Horn. Lying between the street and the shore on rising

ground, are the residences of the Command int

made by the authorities to ensure, so far as is

possible, the comfort of the soldiers en route. The general public knows but lidle of the way supposed that in winter the men are huddled in which troops are conveyed, and it is often together in unheated goods waggons and that they have to suffer hunger and cold while on

desires to remain inco. But he gives some

vivid accounts of his experiences "up north."

THE SPY MANIA."

and American members of his firm thought When the war started, he said, the English

they at least were safe from molestation, being connected with a firm which was

their journey. When the troops embark on a half-Russian. But after the first attack on l'ort

The Japanese are landing in force under the

out encountering serious opposition. The number of mea disembarking is estimated at ten thousand with transports arriving with

it look wire of reinforcements. An early investment of the

of the Port, the public gardens, the Admiraltymin, or when the military train passes through | Arthur, the Russians ran madly around lookingwangcheng is estimated at 80,000. The van-

a station, the curious spectators see only for the most part the red-painted goods waggons the windows of which are filled with the high

gardens, the museum of the Geogra:hical Society, the residence of the Governor of Primorsk, the grounds of the Marilime Club, the native bazaars, and the steamboat quayfur caps of the soldiers, but it does not occur At one point there is a magnificent granite the enlookers that the interior of the monument surmounted by a bronze globe, on which perches au eagle with outstretched wings. waggon is by no means the same as that of the This monument commemorates the memory of sides and the floors of these transport-waggons ordinary goods waggon. In the first place, the Admiral Nevelski, who made several voyages

are covered with felt, and are also double in the East in the early fifties. Un the north

boarded; they have iron stoves and glass win side of the street there is the cathedral of the

moveable beaches, which, by a very simple ar. dows. Then, the waggons are fitted with rangement, can be altered at night so as to form thirty-two sleeping berths, on which the men can lie at full length.

Holy Virgin, and there are also the offices of the Municipal Council, the Post and Telegraph Bureau, and the railway station.

The Svetlandskaya is crossed by the Aleuts- kaya, and the point at which these two streets Intersect is the commercial centre of the town. The main street is well payed with granite, and it is efficiently drained. The sidewalks are raised and asphalted, the houses--offices or public buildings as they may be-are imposing and lofty structures of brick. The pretensions to architectural beauty which Vladivostok

boasts come to those who know Siberia and the untidy wastes of the towns there as a pleas ing contrast.

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for spies. They found spies in every shadow of the sun; nobody was safe from the accusation; a Chinaman with slack queue found himself

after discovery. Even the man in the moon grew kneeling in front of an executioner half an hour

affrighted, and hid his face behind the hill.

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN EMPLOYS. At last a raid was made on the mess run by the English and American employes. An officer and balf a dozen Cossacks appeared in

And the dozen Anglo-Saxons were marched off the door-way and said "You are under arrest."

Not an article of clothing to the guard room, not a scrap of paper, not a cent of their money were they allowed to take with them. They were marched off—in the dead of winter-just as they stood.

Three weeks they spent in the filthy prison. They were allowed to buy their own food and handed money to the Cossacks to get the food. The Cossacks waxed exceeding thin-no more need be said on that point.

with the reinforcements received General Ke

Another wire of the same date reports that,

roki's force which is now sweeping on to Feng

guard of the retreating Russian army has reached Feogwangchen. It is reported that the Japanese have now over a thousand pri- soners. There have been many straggling bands of Russians captured.

TAR OIL SHIP FIRE.

"VOLUTE'S" ENGINE ROOM BURNED.

The steamer

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Full particulars of the fire on the oil ship Volute are to band this morning, says the left the wharf at Pulau Buxom a 6 a.m. and Singapore Free Press, May 4.

Pilot Snow left her at 7 o'clock, and shortly after this, when just beyond the Sultan Shoal Malwa New Light-house, it was discovered that the stoke- hold was on fire. The Volute burns liquid fuel so it was no use trying to put out the fire with water, and Captain Halliday battened

fatnes, but this only kept the fire in check. down the hatches to try and smother the

Meanwhile H.M.S. Talbot, which was cruising Persian (Papers. in the vicinity, sent an offer of assistance, and the steamer Trigonta of the same line, which was entering the Port stood by to render and it necessary. The tugs Sunda and Mercury then arrived, and it was decided to try and smother the fire by injecting steam into the stoke bold. This was done and by tour o'clock in the afternoon the outbreak was completely

During the day soldiers sit round the stoves,

ried in each waggon. Of course these wag- As a rule forty men, or eight horses, are car-

gons are by no means wagons de luxe, but they are warm and they permit the soldiers to move about. Moreover, everything is done to provide for the soldiers' comfort and wants; supplied with boiling water for making lea, and thus, at every second station the soldiers can be for this purpose the railway stations are fitted with huge kettles containing about fifty gallons, Every day the soldiers must receive warm food containing threequarters of a pound of meat, and the chief of the company is responsible for They were ordered to live in tents outside the food being good. Most of the military the town. Probably they obeyed that order

There is, therefore, a very large native popula-which contain a kitchen, so that it is possible buildings and many of the private houses were extinguished. An examination of the engine trains comprise also ordinary goods waggons, the more willingly because most of the public tion, alien to Kussian authorities, but contented, at all times to provide the soldiers with boiling wrecked-the result of the Japanese bomoard. root was then made and it was found that the

Labour in Vladivostok is native-Chinese, Korean, or Japanese, the Russian authorities finding that greater efficiency is procurable at

the hands of these workinen than is the case when the work is given over to Russians,

peaceful, and industrious. This section of the population not only supplies the labour market, but controls a large proportion of the trade which makes Vladivostock its centre. The trade of Vladivostok is comprehensive. Its imports include most of the products of the west, while its exports are characteristic of its position and quite local as regards their

destination. As a commercial centre Vladivo stok is superior to Dalny, altough the wonder. ful city which is in process of completion in the vicinity of Port Arthur threatens one day to eclipse its northern sister.

water or with hot porridge. Every waggon carries firebuckets to be used in case of an outbreak of fire, and the oldest soldier has to see that the waggau is kept clean and warm. very train carries from 200 to 300 shovels,

which can be used when a snowdrift bars the

progress of, the train. During the transpon various places are fixed upon beforehand, and at these place one day's rest is given both to the men and to the horses on sanitary grounds, and then the waggon is cleaned thoroughly. A surgeon and a male nurse ac- There is a very cosmopolitan population in company every train. Thus, if the rogulations Vladivostok, made up of adventurers from all are observed, it appears that there is not to climes: English, French, German, and Ame. much truth in the reports of the Russian rican business men from the west, and a soldiers dying from cold and hunger while sprinkling of pretty women from an Fran being conveyed by rail to the Far East. The cisco. Upon the whole, it is a motley, unic.waggons are warmed to 66 degrees, Fahrenheit, v.ting community, to which the principles of and even to a higher degree, and the soldiers morality are strangely wanting. However, the are supplied with food and tea in a way which days speed merrily enough in Vladivostok: many a third-class passenger may well envy. there is no little social gaiety, and although But, Russian officials are negligent, and the the place is a military and naval centre, there general public knows only too well how great is little harshness of discipline and much good can be their carelessness. The article referred feeling. The country round Vladivostok is to may hold good of military transports in bare and hilly; there is no timber, yet, exclud- Europeas Russia; but, in the Far East, it is ing the reservations given over to the military more likely that rough and ready methods will authorities, it is quite possible so enjoy apart be used under the stress of war. in the immédiate vicinity of the harbour, The

·auibontles offer few obstacles 10 such means

FORTS NEAR FORT ARTHUR.

be found among their possessions they were at As nothing of an incriminatory nature could

last allowed to go free. But there had been a holocaust at their mess. Nothing remained there after the visit of the Cossacks

LIVING IN TENTS.

ments. At any rate they went under canvas and lived at the expense of the Russians who had commandeered everything.

Sometimes the dry staleness of their meals induced them to dine at the Oriental Hotel. Dinner cost anything between $.8 and $zo ahead, so they were living at the rate of some millions a year while they dined.

Constant alarms were the rule at Port Arthur, Every other day a few unhappy wretches who looked like Japanese, and may have been japanese, were marched out to executions, charged with being spies, and their heads were speedily sliced off. The Russians seemed to live in continual fear that they were speaking to spies. At night the Japanese torpedo boats dodged about outside the harbour, laying mines and generally keeping the Russians Ively. Food bad risen to enormous prices, the com forts of life had disappeared, and indeed, life had become intolerable to the non-combatant.

ESCAPING FROM PORT ARTHUR, About three weeks ago the refugee now in Singapore met the skipper of a collier who bad got permission to leave Port Arthar. He was struggled aboard and managed to get clear of the fortress, and made tracks for Singapore. He states that the Russian fleet at Port Arthur is in a terrible plight. The Reiviran les embedded on the mud and is used at a fort--some day a strong wind will bottom.

of recreation. Indeed, they welcome the of the Daily Mail, recently cabled the follow-shift her from the mud and she will sink to the

stranger with a frank and open hospitality so long as he preserves discretion, exercises tact, and congeale his camera. The camera and curiosity are at the root of any trouble which occurs in Vladivostok.

Mr. Ernest Brindle, a special correspondent

The Askold is a mass of patches, ing important intelligence; A new fort is being built to the east of 20-ti-shan Light-house, as The Tsar.vitch is also patched up, though

engines had beeu damaged and the stoke-hold almost gutted.

The 'olute was towed into Keppel Harbour this morning, and after her cargo of oil has been discharged she will be surveyed and docked.

THE TIBET MISSION.

(Rangoon Times' Service,}

Chalu (Tibet), 20th April. The Viceroy has telegraphed to Colone! Younghusband and all the members of the Mission escort his congratulations on their having reached Gyantse in the face of diff- culties unexampled in warfare. The message caused much satisfaction, for indeed the force came though great tribulation, and it would be impossible to exaggerate the hardships and misery to which the men were exposed in camping, marching, and fighting in intense cold at excessive altitudes. Of the 500 com posing the Tuna-garrison, 26 died in three mouths, as the result of the unavoidable ex- posure of large convoys of sick and frost- bitten men sent down every month to India, and those that have reached Gyanise represent the survival of the fit est. Unfortunately the troubles of the force have not ended with its arrival here at the Gyantse plain, for the basin of the four valleys is a kind of vorter in which whilwinds form. Hurricanes, loaded with heavy dust, tear through the camp every day. To-day the towers and gateways of the fort were blown up, and the building was then vacated.

a present the Japanese are immune from the how firmly it is difficult to say. There are Russian fire when behind this coast. The bills four or five cruisers ia fair condition and about around Port Arthtir are a net work of wire eight torpedo destroyers. fencing and pikes, with the object of checking the advance of the Japanese if they land. The But the greatest chagrin to the Russian | village, which has been fortified. Local rumour

JAPANESE ARMY PRIZE COURT REGULATIONS.

The Army Department has issued the fold lowing regulations relating to the adjustment number of sidings at the railway station bas been increased, and 700 cars are in readiness of matters connected with prizes of wariin.

ART. 1. The prizes referred to are the usual ¦ in case of retreat," seizures made in connection with the war Extensive damage. has been done to the according to the recognised pratices of warfare.. western forts which, are now, silent. On the The Commander referred to in these regula woep in the Commander or others called upon

THE TSAR'S CHAGRIN.

mind is the failure of their much-vaunted fleet Our informant stated that the Tsar had sent several stinging messages to the officers of the feet

"You have disgraced, my fleet," the Em

east the fire of the Japanere guns has put out peror said in one message. "You have made

of action one of the forth, S amy navy the laughing stock of Europe. You

The General and Staff are returning to Ghumbi, leaving the Mission with a strong escort in the

credits the Lhassa lamas with attempting to raise a fresh army in the Kham province. Four Tibetan officials, who had left Lhassa to interview Colonel Younghusband, are said to have halted on the way on hearing the news of the recent fighting. None of the officials hold rank high enough to enable them to negociate.

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