Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — Old papers for sals at this office. BLOW UP DALNY DOCKS. [ARTICLE]

Old papers for sals at this office.

BLOW UP DALNY DOCKS.

Russians Reported to Have Destroyed Improvements Costing Millions. Viceroy Alcxieff telegraphed to the Czar Thursday announcing that the Russians have blown tip llte docks nud piers at Port TTaTm-', Liaotung peninsula, presumably to render more difficult a Japanese landing at that point. Port Dalny, on Talienwan bay. on the east coast of the Liaotung peninsula, was intended by Russia to be the chief commercial emporium of its eastern dominions. An edict providing for its const ruction was issued by the Russian Emperor July 30, 188!). and Port Dalny, full} equipped with all modern improvements, docks, warehouses and railroad facilities, was opened to commerce in December, 1901. Talienwan bay is one of tiie finest deep-water harbors on tlie Pacific. It is free from ice in winter and ships drawing thirty feet of water can enter at low tide without difficulty, and without the aid of pilots con sail or steam alongside the immense docks and piers, where their cargoes can be loaded into railroad cars and run direct for (5,000 miles into the city of St. Petersburg. Five large piers bad been constructed, each supplied with numerous railroad tracks and immense warehouses and elevators, gas, electric lights and water, and a Jorge breakwater warming constructed so that ships could lie arts the piers and load and unload regardless of weather. Docks for foreign vessels, steam and sail, extended between the piers and along the shore for two miles. There were two first-class dry docks,. one intended for ordinary ocean steamers and the other designed to accommodate the largest vessels of war or commerce. Over $(5,000,000 had been expended on the harbor system before the end of 1902 and it was estimated that the cost of completing the works would he $20,000,000, but this does not iu any way represent the total cost of the erection of this jjreat commercial port, which, with Port Arthur, distant about twenty miles, was leased by the Chinese government to Russia in 1898. Nearly 25,000 men were employed daily on the work of constructing the port and town. The total population is estimated at about (<O,OOO, mostly Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and Russians.