Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1904 — ALEXIEFF REPORTS DAMAGES [ARTICLE]

ALEXIEFF REPORTS DAMAGES

All of Thom, He Bayn, Are Reparable. Battleships Most Complicated.

St Petersburg, Feb. 12.—The czsr has received a telegram from Viceroy AJexieff, describing the damage done to the Russian Warships daring the bombardment by the Japanese fleet at Port Arthur. It says: “The Gaaievitch and Pallada were' brought into the harbor Tuaadsy. The RetvUan la making temporary repairs to a hole. Repairs to the battleships are so complicated that it Is difficult to say wbaa the sbipa will be ready. Hie Pallada and Novlk will be docked in torn, sad I expect them to be ready is a fortnight. All the other vessels injured in tha fight are now repairing and coiling in the harbor. I expect then to be ready in three days. “The wounded officers, Lieutenant Colonel Zaioatchkovaky, of the artillery corps, and Lieutenant Petrol are

doing well. Four of the wounded, hare died. A majority of the injured belonged to the cruiser Pallada, and their injuries are due to gases from the explosion of a melinite torpedo. A careful search by cruisers and torpedo boats day and night has not revealed the presence of the enemy.” It is officially announced that no news has been received here of the light at‘Chemulpo, the landing of Japanese, or the blowing up of a bridge on the Manchurian railroad. The charge is made here that the Japanese attack on Port Arthur was made from Wei-Hai-Wel on the north coast of the Shan-Tung peninsula. The Novoe Vremya bitterly assails Great Britain, saying: “In ullowing Japan to nse the harbor as a basis of operations Great Britain violated the fundamental principles of neutrality. Wel-Hai-Wei must be regarded henceforth as part of Japanese territory, and Great Britain has forfeited the right to participate in any deliberations over the eventual fate of the harbor.” The Novoe Vremya further bolds that the case is analogous to that of the Alabama. London. Feb. 12.— ; 1t is said at the foreign office here that the assertion of The Novoe Vremya, of St. Petersburg. that the Japanese fleet in Its attack on Port Arthur used Wei-Hai-Wei as a base for its attack on Port Arthur is absolutely untrue.