r-wij'''-'''r -- stw1" trt gpSfTiFSFi- THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MAY 9, 190. .If V -j--w-" - -tp RUSHUNDEBFIRE Smart- Movements of Japanese on Yalu. MOWED DOWN BY BULLETS Line Wavers 'for a Moment and Then Dashes On. OFFICERS SHOW GREAT SKILL Weak Point In Line of Russians Is .Made the Point -of Irresistible Attack by Weil-Trained Sol diers of the Island. KHARKOFF, Russia, May 8, Sunday. The order for the mobilization of the resenn, -which in to take place tomor row, ha caused a sensation here. LONDON, May 9. With the exception of vague, rumors of further fighting In the vicinity of Feng Wane Cheng there are few Items of actual news regarding the Far East appearing In the London papers this morning. Borne, how ever, have accounts .of the Klulien Cheng battle from correspondents with the Jap anese army, giving Interesting points. The Daily Mail says: "The moonlight night broke into a splen did dawn, and revealed the Japanese army drawn up as if on parade." Then, after describing the shelterless nature of the plain dividing the opposing armies, the Dally Mall's account proceeds: "The Russians did not respond to the opening of the Japanese fire, but remained silent and invisible. The Japanese line of infantry, two miles long and" entirely exposed, advanced from point to point by swift, sudden rushes, smartly executed in the most brilliant style, firing steadily all the while. We watched anxiously, an ticipating that each rush would enter the zone of fire. Wavered for a Moment. "The Japanese were working around the sides of Klulien Cheng Bay to their posi tion, when tho Russian trenches suddenly poured a hurricane of rifle Are Into them with deadly effect. For a moment the Japanese advance weakened and recoiled, then rallied and once more went forward across the stream, obtaining some shelter in a dead angle under the base of the mountain. "Tho Russians, not having guns, were unable to reply to the continuous fire of the Japanese artillery. The Japanese advance was now. marked by prostrate bodies. In one Instance two Japanese shells did terrible execution among their own men who were ascending the slope. '.'Two hours after the advance began, an official suddenly appeared at the top of the slope waving a large Japanese flag, sending an electric thrill through the be holders, all far and near shouting 'Ban zai " Superior Methods Win. According to tho Standard's correspond ent the Russians put Into action only two batteries. It is reported that they had with them 120 guns, including SO field guns and 20 quick-firers. . Under date of May 3, tho Times Antung correspondent says: "The Russian defeat on the Yalu was due primarily to their perfunctory, old fashioned methods and the Japanese suc cess must be attributed to their perfect acquaintance with modern conditions, to their skill and intelligence and to their concentration at the right moment upon the weak point in the Russian line. In morale tho Japanese soldiers are equal and possibly superior to European troops." spondent. to whom they made the fol lowing statement: "Without fear of the enemy's artillery on April 29, the Russians began to pre pare for battle. The .Second Battery of the Sixth Brigade occupied the Klulien Cheng position. On April 30. 12 of the enemy's three-Inch guns appeared suddenly on an Island opposite Klulien Cheng and then the battle began. The enemy shot bravely, their, shrapnel bursting over our heads. In a few hours our battery was destroyed by the enemy, who opened with howitzers, which could not be seen, this tending to demoralize our men. "Our ammunition was quickly ex hausted and it was necessary in the mid dle of the battle to issue a new supply. All around shells were bursting and splinters were flying in every direction. Captain Shounkoff, under a heavy fire, rushed forward and closed the ammuni tion box, which otherwise might have been exploded by the enemy's shells, and then returned to, the battery. It was an awful one-sided battle and lasted all day. Our battery lost heavily. Its hors.es were killed and we were unable to withdraw the guns, and we therefore de stroyed and abandoned them." Captain Tickorjevsky, an artilleryman, said: "We commenced the battle May 1, help lng the Twenty-second Regiment. The Japanese went for us on all side, and we were not behind them. We charged a few times as they attacked us. The men fought like lions and only fell back at 5 P. M., when we had lost half our strength. The loss of the enemy is believed to be 4000. They used humane bullets." GORK IN THE BOTTLE Russian Fleet Cannot Leave Port Arthur Harbor. HEROIC WORK OF JAPANESE FEEBLE RUSSIAN RESISTANCE. Crossing of the Yalu Should Have Cost the Japanese Much. WIJU. May 1. (Via overland courier to Seoul, May 8.) Tho army under General Kuroki crossed the Yalu River today. The Japanese soldiers drove the Russians before them from strongly fortified moun tain posts which should have been held by a small army against a greatly superior force. The Russian forces are estimated offi cially to have numbered 10.000 men. They removed tho batteries during the night, leaving the infantry to cover their re treat. Tho Japanese dislodged the Rus sians by a frontal attack delivered oppo site Wlju. This attack might have in volved the Japanese In enormous losses, because they were obliged to advance across an almost shelterless sand plain, where their dark uniforms made the best possible kind of targets. The retreating Russians were flanked by two Japanese regiments, which cap tured 2S field guns, 20 officers and several hundred men. Jnpanese mountain batteries pursued the retreating Russians, but they Wore outstripped by the infantry, who made tho captures among the hills some miles beyond the river. Two Russian regiments, coming from Hloko, to reinforce their comrades were badly cut to pieces. AH the ammunition for the Russian ar tillery and largo quantities of supplies were captured. BATTLE OF THE YALU. Russian Officer Tells of Accuracy of Japanese Guns. NEW YORK. May S Despite the strict censorship that is exercised at Liao Yang, ," the Associated Press has been enabled to get out from that point the following the first dispatch giving the Russian side of the battle of the Yalu: Liao Yang. May S. Tho first lot of wounded .from Klulien Cheng arrived ntre yesterday. They were on a sanitary train and are receiving careful attention by medical officers. General Kuropatkln was on the train, chatting with the wounded. He distributed a number of medals for gallantry In action. Colonel Maister and Captain Filadelfoff. who were among the wounded, were inter viewed by the Associated Press corre- ZASSALITCH REPORTS RETREAT Cavalry Led Advance of the Enemy's Troops. ST. PETERSBURG. May S.-General Kuropatkln has sent the following tele gram, under date of May 7: "Lieutenant-General Zassalltch today reports that the enemy's cavalry and units of their advanced guard occupied Feng Wang Cheng today. "Two companies and two squadrons of their force proceeded toward Dallan dlapu Tso. Our cavalry and units with drew toward Tchtlndjano. "Scouts from Feng Wang Cheng report that two Japanese divisions advanced May C toward Feng Wang Cheng by the main road from Plan Mln. A third di vision, advancing by the valley of the Al River, occupied a position near Khuandlapu Tso and posted batteries to fire upon Feng Wang Cheng, counting upon finding our troops there. "The Japanese advanced slowly and very cautiously upon Feng Wang Cheng." RUSSIAN LOSS IS VERY HEAVY Monday's Fight at Feng Wang Cheng Resulted in 3000 Casualties. TOKIO, May 8. (Noon.) Last Friday, after sharp cavalry skirmishes at Erhtalt su, Santalsu and other places, a detach ment of Infantry belonging to General Kurokl's army took Feng Wang Cheng. The Russians, before retiring, exploded the magazine, but left large quantities of hospital stores, which are being used by the Japanese hospitals. Refugees from the woods and small vil lages are surrendering. The Russians buried many of their dead. Natives In the vicinity of Feng Wang Cheng say that last Monday the Russians carried about 800 wounded through that place and that their casualties probably were above 3000. REPORTS INCREASE CASUALTIES Japanese Bury 1400 Russian Slain Hundreds Put In Hospitals. TOKIO, May 8. (Noon.) Every supple mental report received from General Ku roki, commanding the First Japanese Army, increases the Russian casualties la last Saturday's battle at Chiu Tien Cheng on the Yalu River. The Japanese have buried about 1400 Russians and have 503 of the enemy's wounded in the field hos pitals. It is estimated that the total Russian casualties exceeded 2500. Over 300 Russian prisoners are on the way to Matsuyama, where they are expected to arrive on Wed nesday. Divisions of First Army. ST. PETERSBURG, May 9, C:50 A. M. The correspondent of the Novostol at Liao Yang, telegraphing May 8, says that the first Japanese Army which occupied Feng Wang Cheng consisted of three di visions, which marched in two columns along tho Aike RfVer, the main road, to Feng Wang Cheng. The troops debarked by the Japanese at Pitsewo, according to this correspond ent, belonged to the third army and marched In two columns toward Port Arthur, one along the shore and the other to Polandln, where tho railroad communication was cut off. Crews of Stone-Laden Vessels Are Nearly All Killed by the Weli- Directed Fire From the Commanding Fortresses SPECIAL CABLE TO THE LONDON TIMES AND PORTLAND OREGONIAN. TOKIO, May 9. The report. of General Oku, commanding the second army, which Is now operating against Port Arthur, Indicates that that stronghold Is completely invested. The Slanchurlan railway was cut at Port Adams on Fri day, and at the same time the telegraph station was destroyed. General Oku and General Kuroh have a distinct under standing and are working in unison. The Russian losses to date In the opera tions up to the occupation of Feng Wang Cheng are more than 3000, while the Japanese have lost less than 1000. The retreat of the Russians from. Feng Wang Cheng was so precipitate that they aban doned large quantities of hospital sup plies, which have been turned over to the Japanese field hospital service. In directing the recent operations against the Russians, the Japanese have displayed a knowledge of military strategy that has amazed the foreign military ex perts.. When General Kuroki advanced with his entire army the divisions in Northern Corea were massed at Wlju and Antung and retained there as second reserve. In this manner it was possible for tho Invading column to move on with out having any fears for their base of 'supplies. Port Arthur Fleet Bottled. The Invasion of 'the peninsula was not attempted until the Port Arthur channel had been completely blocked up. This was accomplished by Admiral Togo on May 2, and on the morning of the 3d he steamed with all of his fleet, except ing the cruiser Division, which was left to guard tho harbor entrance, to the base agreed on, where ho met the trans port fleet and escorted It to the landing site selected. The landing was accom plished under the guns of the gunboat Flotilla, the battleships being held off shore In caso they should be needed. The Japanese officers at the front speak in tho highest terms of the bravery dis played by the Russian officers and men in the battle of Klulien Cheng. Four regi ments were massed on tho hills at Homo tung and held their ground for hours in the face of a vicious b'ombardment which early placed their guns out of commls-. slon. They fought like demons, and their lino was not broken until their reserves deserted them and permitted the Japanese to surround them. They cut their way through the Japanese lines, Inflicting very heavy loss during their retreat. The official report of Admiral Togo rela tive to the blocking of the Port Arthur harbor entrance states that five of the eight stone-laden vessels which were sent in were sunkldo by side, thus completely closing the channel, except at one side, where there Is a space large enough to permit a torpedo-boat to slip through. Killed by Russian Guns. The venture was very costly to the for lorn hope which undertook the task of blocking the channel. A storm was in progress at the time, and the sea was running high. To this was added the ter rific bombardment from the land forts, which was directed at the escorting fleet of torpedo boats. This kept the latter at a distance, and they were unable to savo but a few of the heroes, who took the steamers In, most of whom are believed to have perished, so far as is known. There were 159 men on the blockading detachment. Of these but 36 returned in safety, and half of this number were wounded. Fifteen are known to have been killed and the rest are missing. It is believed from Russian reports that 30 may have reached shore and tho rest are undoubtedly drowned. All of the known dead and missing have been promoted and their families pensioned. ' Tho gross tonnage of the eight steamers sunk was 7313, and their ages varied from 18 to 25 years. Three small Russian steamers have been captured on the Yalu, but shells damaged the boilers of two of them before they sur rendered. The third Is now In the Jap anese service. Keep Up Their Spirits. MUKDEN, May 7 (delayed In transmis sion). The spirits of the troops hero are not depressed because of the fighting on the Yalu and the investment of Port Ar thur and vicinity are awaiting an oppor tunity to meet the invaders. Wounded from the Yalu. are passing through Mukden on every train on the way to Harbin. The last passenger train from Port Ar thur before the line was cut arrived today. The woodwork of the coaches are marked with bullets which struck as the train dashed at full speed past a critical point. Japanese Enter May 8. CHEFOO, May 8, 11 P. M. A private telegram has been received hero confirm ing the report that the Japanese have oc cupied Feng Wang Cheng. The date of the occupation is given as May C. Every thing was quiet here today. ARM TO MEET BRIGANDS. Niu Chwang Civilians Are Returning to Their Homes SHAN HAI KWAN, May 9. S A. M. Refugees from Niu Chwang are returning there armed to resist brigands who are said to be across the river near YInkow, waiting an opportunity, to enter Niu Chwang and pillage between the antici pated evacuation of the Russians and the entrance of the Japanese. The refugees have urgently requested that a second gunboat be sent to Niu Chwang. The British Consul has al ready requested the presence of one gun boat. It Is believed here that Viceroy Alexleff and Grand Duke Boris are still In Port Arthur. It has been reported from. St. Peters burg that Viceroy Alexleff and Grand Duke Boris left Port Arthur before the Japanese closed the lines of communica tion, and a dispatch from Mukden said Alexleff had arrived there May 6. Saphedde Tou never take me Feriously. Miss Pert And yet tome people claim that women have no sense of humor. Phila delphia Record. PORT ARTHUR IS CUT OFF. Russians Are Retreating Toward Base at Mukden. SHAN HAI KWAN. May 8, 7:30 P. M. It is reported here that there has been severe fighting at Feng Wang Cheng, in which the Japanese were victorious. They took many prisoners. The Russians are retreating toward Halcheng, 32 miles north of Niu Chwang, and are evacuating the western side of the Liao Tung Pen insula. Thursday and Saturday of last week tho Japanese landed 10,000. men at Kln chau Bay, 10,000 at Foochau Bay and 7000 at Pltsewo. They occupied the towns of Wafung Tien and Pulan Tien and de stroyed several miles of the railroad. Heavy firing has been heard in the direction of Kaichau, where Japanese transports have been seen recently. The Isolation of Port Arthur is complete. Sixteen Japanese warships protected the landing of troops at Klnchau Bay, di recting a sweeping fire over the narrow isthmus before tho soldiers disembarked. Seventy-five Russalns who were wounded in this fighting were brought to Niu Chwang on tho last train to arrive there. Food is scare at Mukden: the troops there live on bean cakes. The Russians are preparing to leave Niu Chwang and that city Is in a tur moil of hurried flight. Orders for Russian Generals. PARIS, May 9. The Echo de Paris St. Petersburg correspondent cables the fol lowing: Major-General Kashtallnsky was told off to watch the Japanese movements In battle. Lieu tenant-General Llnevitch is oper ating In Vladivostok Independently of General Kuropatkln and under Viceroy Alexleffs orders. It Is believed that he will be summoned to clear tho Liao Tung Peninsula. It is expected that General Rennen kampff, commander of the Far Eastern Cossack Division, will Join General Kuro patkln. A balloon from Port Arthur has come down at Takltzao, near Liao Yang. The "Different Store'' Jfcftima 5th and Wash ington Sts, Monday, Hay 9, 1904 Good Morning THE WEATHER? Fair and pleasant a hot spell just ahead, better prepare, we'll help you. Violent price disturbances at this store have caused eruptions all over town. Price barometers forced down a little lower here than in any other local mercantile locality. The conditions that caused the flurry are briefly mentioned be low. Quality continues to rise at this shop. 4th Floor Today Bargain blows among the Lace Curtain stock. A big factory sale opens this morning. The May clean-up of mill-ends; 600 Curtains, are price-tattered this way 28 styles in the lot: $6.50 Curtains at S4.25 7.50 Curtains at S4.75 ?8.00 Curtains at $5.00 Bi Summer Hammocks up from 65c. OAEPET ADVERTISING We've the largest stock of new Carpets of any store in the North westwo thought our prices were the lowest, now we're sure of ik Read so many carpet claims by store writers, we sent a carpet ex pert 'round to remove doubt. Came back,, reported every make of carpet marked lower here than elsewhere in every instance, and a careful average showed our prices 5 per cent under other city stores. Worth saving? Better buy your -Carpets here, then. We tell carpet truths in advertising. 3d Floor Today A regular tidal wave of bargains that will bear out on its recede vast lots of Household Use fuls and Kitchen Needs. A sweeping clearance sale em bracing our entire line of Granite, Tin, Iron,' Nickel and Wooden Ware, Lawn Mowers, Cooking Ranges, etc. See yesterday's Ore- gonian for list of reductions. 2d Floor Today A veritable storm cen ter. Profits washed away and price foundations are sapped. No half hearted, reductions in these great fashion salons. If you've apparel in mind that's ready-to-wear-away, SUITS, WRAPS, TJNDERMUS LINS or MILLINERY, you'll surely do yourselves the justice of getting leading makes in authori tative styles and superlative quali ties when this FAMOUS OLD QUALITY SHOP offers bargains as we do today that rise above the mass of this great style store's followers feeble power-lacking trade magnets as the eagle soars above the meadow larks. WHERE ON THE PACIFIC COAST CAN YOU FIND BARGAINS TO EQUAL THESE TODAY? (Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday only.) W gonis Women's Tailored Suits at Half Price. All new, handsome, elegant crea tions. You've but to see these smart, exclusive creations to real ize the immensity of the bargain' offer that again DEMON STRATES OUR ABSOLUTE LEADERSHIP IN WOMEN'S WEAR AMONG WESTERN STORES. No other store west of Chicago shows the variety, the novelty, the exclusive elegance and price lowness oracularly proven here day by day by our showings. $15 to $85 SUITS TODAY AT HALF PRICE TODAY. Undermuslins caught in the bargain. vortex. Infants' Goods, too. 75c and 90c Corset Covers. . 5S $1.75 Gowns S1.19 $5.00 Petticoats $3.49 Infants' 30c Shoes 32 Infants 65c Shoe3 44 65c Women's Tea Aprons, 49p 30c Center Pieces 17p $2.00 Cambric Petticoats.. $1.35 (See the Fifth-street window display of above.) In the Millinery Salons Misses' Hats $1.95. A special lot of Misses' jaunty, stylish hats trimmed with knot of velvet and quill to match special value, today only $1.98 Women's Walking Skirts at Half Price. New, jaunty, handsome, all wanted fabrics and colors, $7.50 to $20 skirts for one-half today. Raincoats Today $32.50 to $38.50 values for $22.65 1st Floor Today Silks in the swirL $1.25 Shirtwaist Silks at 69 $1.50 Shirtwaist Silks at 87 Bedspread Bargains $3.25 Marseilles Spreads 2.68 S1.75 Marseilles Spreads $1.35 Ribbon Novelties. Our experts at the ribbon conn ter will quickly fashion with deft fingers the sashes, shower bows, hat wreaths, roses, corsage boquets, etc., so much called for by fair iwearers. Any style you wish quickly made to your order. $2.25 Silk Gloves at $1.50. In the popular 24-inch length, the coming Summer Glove, black or white. Dress .Stuffs lose a part of their price too. $1.50 Colored Dress Goods S1.09 $1.75 Colored Dress Goods S1.32 $2.50 Colored Dress Goods $1.49 $2.25 and $2.50 Black Dress Goods for $1.49 Handsome, new, white Shirtwaists Today $3.00 Waists for $2.29 $3.50 Waists for $2.49 $S.75 Waists for $2.68 $4.00 Waists for $2.89 $5.00 Waists for $3.27 "g Rich Radiant Ribbons at prices that pull buy ers. To Portland's leading ribbon store. No such bargains in swell, new, bright ribbons as this store offers ever. This week we'll strengthen our reputation as leaders and keep the ribbon sellers on the jump fill ing your wants. Hundreds of yards of new, pretty ribbons in fancy stripes, -Dresdens, handsome flow ered designs and plain, wide Taf fetas in all the wanted Summer colors and white, widths from 4 to Syz inches. Values of the 35c, 40c and 50c sort; starting this morn ing, we'll place on a special counter at, the yard 25 25c Persian Band Trim mings 1 5c. In the newest, most effective ideas for trimmings. Dainty, wanted Wash Fabrics make rare values at this week's economy prices. 30c Piques at 23 35c Mercerized Madras at...26 20c Wash Suitings at..... 12 Children's Parasols. In pretty colors, plain or fancy effects, 35c to $1.75. Ladies' Sun Umbrellas. For carrying in rain or sunshine, at home, at the shore or mountains, solid colors, or fancy stripes, checks and fancy bordered effects, $2.50 up. Women's 'Kerchiefs. Of pure linen, plain hemstitched effects with tiny initials, in fine sheer lawn or linen cambric 15, or $1.50 dozen. 45c all-over Lace Nets at 25c. A special lot of very attractive all-over lace nets, 45 inches wide, adapted for the dainty 'Summer Shirtwaists or evening party dresses, in pink, orange, blue, green, red and cerease, usual 45c values this week, or until sold, yard 25? Ladies' Neckwear. Just ready for first showings today a lot of very swell stock collars in stole-front effects. Some in pretty contrasted colorings for trimming, others of fine lace with stole fronts, cream or white. At neckwear counter today 23 BRAZIL 18 HOSTILE Peruvian Legation Complains of State's Attitude. ACTION TENDS TO END PEACE Smaller Government Declares It Is Desirous of Leaving to Arbitra tion the Question of a Boundary Line. WASHINGTON, May 8. In view of the statement made by the Brazilian Lega tion defining Brazil's position In the boundary dispute -with Peru, the Peruvian Legation today made a counter statement to the following effect: "Peru has never admitted in Brazil any right whatsoever to the territory actually In dispute. The treaty of 1851 contains no recognition In Brazil rights as alleged by the Brazilian Legation. The treaty is one of amity and commercel and made no reference as to the territory now in dispute. "According to late reports It would seem that the government of Brazil, in stead of framing its policy in accord ance with the provisions of its constitu tion, which provides for the settlement of international disputes by arbitration, assumed a hostile attitude and has taken steps by no means conducive to the peace solution It has pledged Itself to seek. "The Brazilian Legation's statement that Peru took advantage of Brazil's trouble with Bolivia to send military forces to the headwaters of the Rivers Yuroa and Peru Is unwarranted, and as a Peruvian population always has ex isted there as well as small garrisons to preserve order. Peru today Is desirous of resorting to arbitration, without de manding previous conditions, unnecessary to governments really wishing to reach a prompt, just and pacific settlement of their differences. This she can offer as the best proof of her good faith and fraternal sentiments towards her sister republics." had been ceded to Bolivia. ly tho treaty of 1867 and containing for" "many years a numerous Brazilian population, and ac quired, moreover, a right to- the terri tories which Bolivia claimed on the basis of the Usuale. to the north of 11 degrees southern latitude. " .'The Peruvian government wished that her representative participate in the negotiations, and soon after proposed that the boundary questions between the three countries bo submitted to arbitra tion. The Brazilian government could not accede to these proposals on the con sideration that it was simpler and more practical to discuss first with one of the litigants and then come to an understand ing with the other. Such was the con duct of Brazil In her boundary ques tions and such was the course also fol lowed by Peru when in. 1851 she first negotiated with Brazil and afterwards with Ecuador and Colombia, and in 1887 and 1890 with Ecuador first and then with Colombia. " 'The attempt made In 1894 to settle simultaneously these three boundary questions In a conference of plenipoten tiaries and through a triple arbitration did not have the result expected by Peru. Up to this date these disputes continue unsolved. Now since the treaty of Petropolls, Peru is in a position to nego tiate separately and settle with less diffi culty her boundary questions with Brazil and Bolivia. " 'The rights Peru pretends to have were reserved. Brazil does not refuse to take cognizance of her pretensions, but will not enter Into discussion before the military forces sent by the Peruvian government to the Alto Yurao and Alto Purus are withdrawn. Brazil cannot tolerate that, during the dispute raised by Peru and other grounds are unknown to her, the Brazilian population living peacefully in those regions be governed by Peruvian authorities.' " GIVE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Brazilian Legation's Statement in Regard to Boundary Dispute. "WASHINGTON, May 8. The Brazilian Legation tonight .issued the following ad ditional statement regarding the boundary dispute with Peru: "In the message addressed by Mr. Rodriguez Alvez. President of Brazil, on the occasion of the opening of Congress, May 4, the following Is said in regard to the relations between Brazil and the republics of Bolivia: " The difficulties which existed between Brazil and Bolivia were settled by the treaty of Petropolls, which, under a loyal execution, will contribute to strengthen the friendly relations of the two peoples and develop their commercial Intercourse. By that treaty Brazil re covered nearly all of the territories of the Alto Purus and Alto Yurao, which EVER SEEKING THE SEA. Russia's Weary Search for Past Two Hundred Years. New York Tribune. Russia for two weary centuries has sought the open sea. In those centuries, and. Indeed, since ttys days of Daniel, three centuries earlier still, she has been one of the greatest land grabbers the world has ever known. Yet, by a strange perversity of fate, not all her acquisitions have gained her that one supreme desire. Ivan and Vasslll Ivanovitch gave her a frontage on the White Sea and on the Arctic Ocean, but those were not the sea3 she sought. Ivan the Terrible gained As trakhan, but the Caspian was a mere in land lake. Peter the Great secured his window looking upon Europe at the head of the Baltic: but the Baltic Is Icebound. Catherine the Great extended the empire to the Euxine; but the Dardanelles re mained barred by an alien power. Alex ander H planted his banners on the shore of the Sea of Japan; but "Vladivostok Is Ice locked for nearly half the year. Mean time, Poland. Finland, Georgia, Tartary and many other lands fell into Russia's hands, enormously Increasing her area, but giving her, after all, not one single port upon an always open sea. The his tory of the world, contains no comparable example of so great an empire so shut In and away from the blue water which forms, and must ever form, "the world's highroad of commerce and of power. Now, let us see in what directions a Russian outlet to the sea might be ob tained. One Is on the North Atlantic. But Sweden and Norway will never grant It to her, and she could scarcely hope to take it from them by force fr6m them and from those who would arise as their protect ors. For the same reason an advance down the Baltic to open water Is impos- 1 slble. The third opening Is into the Med iterranean, if she could make the Black Sea a Russian lake and secure both shores of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. But Captain Mahan is doubtless right In his opinion that Germany and Great Brit ain cannot possibly permit her to gain such mastery of tho Levant. In the fourth place, there is the Persian Gulf, toward which she has long been pushing; but to reach it she would have to effect the conquest of Persia, and then to meet Great Britain's positive prohibition. Fin ally, seeking the sea by the line of least resistance, though In this case It is by far the longest line, she has built a. rail road across the broadest of earth's con tinents to seek her goal upon the shore of the Yellow Sea. It is her latest effort to realize her ideal we might almost say her last hope of realizing it; for if, after all she has done to cross Siberia and gain a footing in Manchuria, she shall be turned back and barred away from the Yellow Sea, with what expectation can she renew her quest elsewhere In less hopeful directions? That Is Russia's stake in her war against Japan. Her lifelong yearning for the open sea, her desire to become as great a maritime as she is a land power. her craving to enter into those relation ships with other nations which are pos sible only to those who. have unbrm pered access to the high seas that is the object for which during all these oen turles she has fought wars, conquered realms and poured out not only gold, but blood, as freely as the Volga pours Its torrents Into the Caspian. For all the Volga's pouring, the Caspian remains un fillednay, Its waters are actually re ceding from the brim. We know not whether It will be more heart-breaking or brain-maddening, if, after all that she has done to reach the sea, she finds an Insuperable barrier still interposed and the goal of her desires made even more remote. DEATH DECLARES USE GIVES LIE TO THE CHRIST! SCIENCE SPEAKER. Young Woman Drops Dead Durj Service In Steinway Hall, San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, May 8. At Christian Science services In Steint Hall today, while the reader was delW ing a sermon on the Immortality of soul, and declaring that there Is no thing as death. Mrs. Mary Burrot young woman who was In the assemble suddenly expired from heart disease. FRENCH HOUSE COLLAPSES Twelve People Are Killed by Fall Material. ST. ETIENNB, France, May 9. A thr! story house collapsed this morning. lng at least 12 deaths. It is believed corpses are under the ruins. Many sons were injured. Big Order for Rifles. ST. ETIENNE, France, May.8. The : tlonal Rifle Factory has received or for 200,000 Lebel rifles. It Is belle! that they are Intended for Russia. WAR ON DIVORCE. (Continued from First Page.) H which smacks so strongly of trusts. He must encounter the Bryan-Hearst rad icals, and push Tamany out of the lime light. Above all he must keep a watch ful eye upon that adroit and slippery pol itician, Arthur Pue Gorman, who is still a candidate despite all his smooth talk about Charles A. TJowne and other Im possibilities. When the gavel falls at St. Louis Judge Parker will probably have 400 or 500 dele gates; Gorman will have 100 or 150, and Hearst will have about the same number. CockrelL Olney and others will have a few votes at the outset. There will be a splendid fight to secure the 700 neces sary to nominate. Suicide of Engineer at Helena. BUTTE, Mont., May 8. A Miner special from Helena says that Charles Wicks, a stationary engineer of Deadwood, S. D., who came to Helena eight days ago, committed suicide In the mountains back of Helena this morning. 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