THE WAR IN MANCHURIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 788, 3 April 1905, Page 2

THE WAR IN MANCHURIA.

Ad Eiodns Stopped, PACIFTUG THE FULAXDEBS. SC_ RIPTiOM SfISPEIDEB. LONDON. ManchSlc General LtaovStth hft* rtoppad exodus from Harbin, oaocpt *oukM» and children. The Czar tew «rt|>endod the enforcement of conscription In Finland for throe yearn. According to French advices the concession is in exchange i(or the Finlandern' after of £3OQ.000 during the prosont crisis I JAPiMESE ADVANCING.

(Iteceivud April 2, 2.24 p.m.) LONDON. April 1. A Japanese column arrived at T*or nca, five miles northeast of FaUc* wen, marching to Fengttwa. Anothar expelled the* Russians from Tlenhu*cMcs, flfty-flvo mllos north of Tloliug. Japanese from SUnkinc reached Hbcnchoogtau, 105 miles norlh-oast of Iteming, aft«r routiM small bodice of Russian. _ The Peact Pnpiili m sUnun*tMunn THE BAX/nc FLEETi % DEEP QAMEt (Received April 3, 4.16 p-tnf) , „ _ _ LONDON, April IV Nothing Is officially known at To- ' klo or St. Petenbmy resuxMnf Pi«sidcnt Roosevelt's sefectikm u mediator.. authority tittt tiM vUtttooit It baseless. Apparently Rooavwtt is oniySnforoiafly acquainted witfe the outlines of the terns. President Roosevelt. tstaris ImmeW* or^lo <0 r "hooting at Cal< The Timer Pari* -*—iriraa—r "ozmtwivcnsky is mafcfof a. inil •ouib to av<*d «» JaSLi J®*™? ®ffI>*■ 1 >*■ *M« to clean ibe fou® bottoms, it j« stated ha km. i»« to Vla**a*o£ I* to *». THE CZAII OUDIiUATKj LONDON, April l. French message* describe the Cue as f n obdurate member of the war party,

VUIHVOBTKXSC,

THE PORTSMOUTH pp THE EAST

niii! ,0 i W l>rob " W » tint the Jan.heaving smashed up General foL rop«tWn * antuj—wiu < urn lheJr . i^lSU?*i VtaUlw * u,dt - 'olWlH Ing _ particulars of that city will b* roadvith interest. VUtivoMack la iw fZ r ? " lron * ly Rifled Umd to. « it?"' *** *** £i L? rtatfon and mat,, *1 and doekjmd of the Kuiwiia float dMU'oj od at Port Arthur. iw> i. wkilct time Vladivostok I* an in, bound harbour IsISSS Won, as powerful rfM spta have boon provided and feet SZI tionod there, which are mmU< at an .„ of l«*>ptag • chkr p»imi mmward tor the ahi{». ; ' Vladivostock cama into RwHtaa . hands in 1800 as tfceresult of very smart (vtrokq of diplomacy to the Russian Minister at Pcfcm « was not, howem, fortified till wrSv and tmn only on a very smell writ.' Nothing more was dime tor ■early . ten years, until 1887, when General rgnatlalT, Governor-General of Btoticrn Siberia, set Co worlc to gnln the place one of first-class import* ance in view ol the Russian Pact ftp ®eot then being carried out. The oM flotilla of muall cruiser* hitherto maintained by Russia in the Far East was to be replaced by armour- ■' l»«t«d ships, gunboats, and torpedoboats. Elaborate fortifications were now constructed, and Commlc minn ies were settled In the neighbourhoods Oeneral Ignatieft did hi* work thor. oughly, and arrangement* wert wir» ried out to make Vladivoetock tba headquarters garrison , of an arwK corps or 30,000 troop* of all armfc which, according to the latest wl port, is Ha present strength. A! visitor to Vladlvoatoclc in un mm the place then had the '■'aspoct ol a Rowing city in the Aioerlcan Fac West. But, the writer proceeds,"tha ull-prcvading flavour of mMilarMm overpowers the suggestion of the American Far West. The flint MM* lngs on tlie barren coast are mllitarx hospitals and barracks, andbfcmcka Ulicßen as the city is , approacML "< The dull roll of artillery and eoartalaariat waggons, the tramp, morninf and night, of brown battalions, anS continual throb of drum and blara of trumpet and bugle recall one Ut the fact that this is the capital at Russia's fast-crowing, aspiring Pact* Ac Empire.'-' . Not satisfied tiiat enough hail boar done at Vladlvostock, iu, 1807, after, the Chino-Japanese war, now fort* were built there, a special "Vladlnx stock Infantry Corps" of five battalions (3000 men) was raised, to he permanently ftuarteredl there, tots tress artillery and sapper companies, and a torpedo and sutfcnarine mining detachment, bringing up the stand-' ing garrison of the fortress to 7000. men, in round numbers, a consider* ably larger force than our on mm rison of Gibraltar or Malta. la 1887, also sixteen million rouble* were set aside for the extension ot the port.

A<t tho present time Vladivaatntg possesses one largo graving 825 ft long by 120 ft wide, and 80ft deep on the trill at the entrance at hfgfe-nintcr spring tides, capable ot taking iho l»iggc«t KuMtan battleships and cruisers, constructed at gninile, and completely tfialppaf witli the most modern applianoea?" It was begun in the Umo of General I*. natied, and took «qv«d years totftiiM |and complete. There is also a floating sectional dock. 801 ft long, wit* a depth of from 18ft to 00ft on (fcg sill, capable of repairing small erat- ' sera and vessels up to about 8000 ■■ tone. A' second large duel is atitl ' under construction.

The harbour itself is as fine a one as the llaiuoa a> at' J'l.vmtmUr, whitfi it somewhat rescmUcs in general appearance. it is cmqptetaty land-tocfc-«d with hills—crowned wffih powerful . forts —sheltering and commanding ft on all aW<». Cowing in from the aaa, the harbour-first runs for thnequarters of a mile north, and theft turns eastward for a mile and a ' half. lhindas Island commands Mm fairway off tto entrance, and {aetar > Dradas Island the high groundof <jW»rva«on Hill-the look-out «*- tion of the portative* a- clear view seaward over a wide Kwoeii of approach. Tho radical defect of VUmR> vostock is tho fact that for four months every year, from December Lo April, the port is ice-bound, frosMr t hard. Two Ice-fxrcakeri, are, Iwiwn, kept as part of the naval -f lU'rii ment, and when both an In sin Has oivlcr no difficulty is experienced is , keeping a clear channel to the «pm sea« It was by means of (hem fcfrwcakcrs that the Hosaia, OromdbM, Uurlk.-and Uogntyr manand to M out. J

Vladivostock, in normal timM of peace has a population of some M r 000, the civilian (dement tnoctly ihrt ing on tho northern side of 'the tifer* bour. It is a well-buHt town, wltK One schools, cliurchos, hospitals, and other public buildings. Ooveratoeot House, tho quarters of the Cormnandant, overloots the harbour. Tho » arsenal and dockyard are on the west side, and the raagaxJao* and barracks for tho 100.000 troops on the east. Vladivostock to the termnus of the Trano-Siberian railway, Jalnlng DfijLU We liraucii line to Port Arthur ar HarMlt, about ttio mikw off. A subsidiary line to Khiilmrosk, the military headquarters «t*» tion of ihe province, on UtcAvMr, 475 miles away, Johu the main Mmj at a point mine SO utile* (rota Vladivostok. Berfldes being a naval port - [ Vludlvotrtock is alas the bwrUtartcra in tKo Tar East of Ute ; Volunteer fleet, Odeum being "iw . European port of Um «ertt«b Ua ; distances from certain potato ofiiZ. torcsti JueC nog fcre »—Ta PorffetE ■siffjsr v£AsrrS J