Fort Wayne News, The (Newspaper) - February 11, 1904, Fort Wayne, Indiana v f n i n n i t i n ui i M i i 311 n 11 1111 in n i LIKELY TO WIN A NOTABLE TRIUMPH OT- DIPLOMACY RUSSIAN BEAR GROWL He the In a of n i CZAR VERY IN DEBT Recent Injuries to Government Credit May Be Great Factor In V the War WASHINGTON Feb Bay's suggestion as con- in his circular vote to the powers prevail have added another and most ant achievement to his distinguished record as a diplomat Great Britain aba Germany have to proposition nations will probably follow order China and Italy are almost certain to adopt the plan the neutralization of China France will wait upon and as for Japan it is one of the objects for which she has been negotiating in- directly and is Russia Much Put Ouf practical effect will be powers up the broken off by Russia and Japan to settle them ally Russia be averse to this plan but it is prophesied by the shrewd diplomats in Washington thai even she? in the end will submit and matters in- is regarded here as tied to Russia's apron will likely A moment could not have been chosen for suggestion v danger war with key and the Balkans to European nations and ening actual conflict as in Korea and thai in enough for The Precedent 61 the war when Russia snatched port Arthur from the tor's country from if is shoved but Of Another federation advised Iby the diploma ti is that after a few days fighting the loss of ten ships of has dropped assets at least and in greater proportion weakened a credit already It is pointed out that her enormous as they are must be as in all partially developed of the crudest nature and not easy to realize upon While as a rule the money has been ing her savings to a sort of inimical basis Germany is inter- cited in Russia only as a capitalist with all cash tied up in she cares to risk and Great Britain ifc likely tb be asked to loan I Foir reasons the mats look upon Mr Hay's as possible of Purposes oi Japan Japan through Minister Takahira has already avowed that should she Until the railroads elevate tracks an invention to convey people would be hailed with joy Report That Japanese Have Destroyed Their Fleet OTHER VESSELS CAPTURED Everywhere the Little Fellow Seems to Be Report of a Disaster to Japanese Ships prevail bVer action would be to turn bock Manchuria to He is quite confident with the issues saying that Russia's in Manchuria is greatly overrated is not over while Japan can put 000 the fieltL So far as known by States no steps have as yet been taken only to establish communication with and Japan through dispatch running from those countries tion to tSe yesterday as at- taches Lieutenant General Young and Major General Alfred Bates retired will observe field operations with the Japanese an ial capacity been mined however to revision the Russians The feeling In ST thie upon them to unite with the United States in presenting to the combatants in the east tp leave the wat area to the ir- in official circles here It is believed that the is designed tb Russia's future ments It is thought however that the note will not be effective much as assurances have already been ved of Germany's benevolent in accordance with a secret the czar arid Em- William at v France is bound to all possible ways short of armed inter- vention These two countries at least it is considered will not en- dorse the communication There great chagrin and disgust felt over the naval defeats at Port Arthur and but nobody the slightest doubt here that eventually land victories will occur which will the partition of the range of practical politics FIVE THOUSAND MEN AT WORK WHITE FACE CLERKS LABOR SIDE BY SIDE WITH BRAWNY PORTERS IN MORE Feb gigantic task of rehabilitating the Greater Baltimore is on in earnest Five thousand men are at work today clearing the streets Qf Two thousand men began work By midnight it is expected men will be at work Only clerks porters laborers employes of suspended car companies and drivers of that gone iare in the different parts of the fire zone The of their respective wotk iside by side with white-faced clerks while others are mere boys Baltimore and Pratt streets and place have been cleared and flat cars are being loaded with iron girders and other debris The two railroad companies have 200 loaders at work with their cars the beams and tons pf Street Cleaning this morning he would streets cleared Feb Edward day signed the declaration of in the far a meeting of the privy council M GROUP OF FIGHTING TARS THE CASE N River Can Walton at Work Feb Routes from an unofficial elates that the Hour ami sunk and that two Japanese damaged ht en- gagement Wednesday off Port Arthur the the ami the entrance of the fore the fight DESTROY RUSSIAN MAIL STEAMER LONDON Feb Shanghai correspondent It is reported there and generally believed that Japanese warships have strayed the Russian mall steamer Mongolia bound for of xe as ordered by tB to t which is man and Meyer afternoon in the presence of a number of interested some members of the water and the was applied who has been with the city water plant for a ber of years having teen appointed as a democrat The guage showed the in former the city pounds pressure utf abla at the most more than thirty to bwing to the acts that when Afe is full with sixteen feet ot Water its volume of water will not permit a greater ty The report in morning paper hat the pressure tb forty pounds was today denied Jones who said to The The the city mains at he Walton connection with tank yesterday after- noon ranged from pounds to 25 with two mains being off Just pressure was testing vanja pipe Mr sent to notify who had two nch to so that the exact pressure of the mains be taken With nch hydrants to the place of pressure n the city mains be reduced Iti spite of city pressure that of the Pennsylvania Nailed The pressure played up in Jnes and in the account pressure re- corded was only instant and due to what the in- spector called caused by the stoppage the water at the standpipe It is instantaneous and does not figure in of water ure at all w An employe board waa sent over the Holman lines day to note tns effect of the closing of the valve in the planing mill pump boiler house which located by Mr the shut off and flushed the consumers at once expressions were noted by Improvement San the j 515 Holman river was high the wa- ter has been bad But it is all right Henry 535 Holman was bad during heavy but it is all right now James 615 Holman The bad after it right George doling Holman the river was Jutes 538 Holman J noticed that the water was bad three weeks ago Monday It is all right this morning Mary Vollmer 602 Holman The water has been bad all along but was worse during high water It is 4 NEW? OF CAPtURE fSi TOKIO Feb with Russia today The capture of the Russian steamers and Mukden Russian whaler Rossla by Japanese is Feb was reported here that the not mentioned in previous dispatches in between Russian and Japanese vessels outside Port Arthur bn ANOTHER DISCREDITED PARIS Feb rumor is current on the bourse today that the anese have lost eight ships in battle in the Yellow Sea The rumor Is not credited on Second ENDED A SPREE PETER GARDT SHOOTS HIMSELF THROUGH HEAD ATT ST Peter Gardt a moulder at the Bass works residing at 1831 Hanna street shot himself in the left temple while bed in Room No 25 at the St Nicholas hotel en West Main street ten minutes before 2 o'clock this after- noon The wound is possibly not tal and he may recover Gardt came At 2 o'clock this morning and asked fbf a room He said he had been out time and did not care to go home until after he had got over his spree He was under the influence of liquor at time The clerk gave him room No 25 on the second floor near to the office and he went to bed I Hear the Fatal Shot 1 This was the last heard of him until this afternoon About o'clock the housekeeper went to his room and called him There was a response and she left and went Into the office Twenty minutes after she heard a coming from the room She at once notified Mr Grouse the etor of the hotel and they went to the door of the room and looking through the key hole saw him lying on the bed and a revolver on the floor The police were at once called the broken open and Gardt was found on the heavily still Stults was at emMed He the maa ad bin nis name tod ate head about two bat mw The am BULLETIN LONDON Feb report is rent here this afternoon that Russia is negotiating with Turkey for mission to send the Black sea fleet through the Dardanelles and that key is trying to secure Great Britain's consent to such 4 procedure BULLETIN BERLIN Feb interest Is manifested today in a report that Czar Nicholas has notified the German em- of his desire to send a fleet of fifteen warships to the east through the Kaiser Wilhelm canal from the Baltic sea LONDON Feb is con- ducting her campaign against Port Arthur with indomitable force and uninterrupted vigor Word reached here this morning that the Japs had yesterday made a hard but to land troops baek of the city Their object was to cut off the Russian line of communication and to invest Port Arthur by land and sea The attempt was conducted along well planned lines and did not prove a failure until after a hard tle had been fought and according to reports many were killed and wounded on sides Fleet Covers Landing The reported details of the attempt state that the fleet steamed up ns close to the land ns was sible and then sent a large force to land The landing force protected by the battleship and ers of the fleet were thet with a stiff resisting force and finally compelled to put back to their vessels Several of these attempts were made but in each case the Russian was too heavy and the fleet was at last com- to abandon the attempt There is hardly a doubt that the Japanese will Drive Ouf the Japs hoped to accomplish ly by this move is easily seen of Port Arthur on the Mck of Is ated Here that the to efforts the ions but which the Russian ties seem anxious to avoid if possible With a force at Dalny the Japs could so elevate their guns that the shots would carry high in the air and fall among the closely packed vessels of the Russians in Port Arthur harbor and thus make it so hot for them from the rear that they would be compelled to save themselves make for the open Inasmuch Japanese fleet in the Yellow sea and is more efficient in Vli 0 ways that the fleet in the harbor the of a battle in the open sea would hardly be any doubt Cut Off Communication Advices from Che Poo state that further naval attacks will be made on Port Arthur fortifications by the Japanese The latter having accomplished their purpose of abling the Russian ships will to wait out A direct attack on the land the ships Would be less arid perhaps suicidal are among the and have an 0 v thirty big guns as well as j batteries of six-inch four The only why to capture these fictitious would be land ment As the first step in this cutting off of the communications be- tween these fortifications and v by land will continue to be the obi the This has been already effected by of the bridge Of railway leading into Arthur Stirring Up the Chinese t PATHS Feb prints m from its Shanghai corres that Japanese sarics are the for an uprising in Manchuria the complicity of have into Manchuria rifles and It fe reported that Prince Tuan of will be leader and bv plain an attock on il a wort bert of
