ON THE VLADIVOSTOCK SIDE.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1904, Page 5

ON THE VLADIVOSTOCK SIDE.

MERCHANTMEN UNMOLESTED. LONDON, sth March. Advices from Tokio received in New York stato. that two vessels carrying AuHtrulian coal, nnd also British, Norwegian, and Gorman, vessels laden with coal and provisions, passed through tho Tsugaru Straits, between tho islands of Yczo and Nippon, and reached Vladivostock unmolested. The Japanese Welsh coal supply is Buflicicnt for hor torpcdo-dcslroyorb for a year. RUSSIAN ORUIBKRfI ON THE WARPATH. • LONDON, 6th March. A Rui&ian squadron loft Vludivootook on 29th February, and 1« cruising In northern waters, in the hope of capturing merchantmen.' BOMBARDMENT OF TIIE TOWN. (Received March 7, 10.32 a.m.) LONDON, 6th March. Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of Reutor'ft Agency reports that a telegram, from Vladivostock states that on tho aftornoon of tho 6th live Japanese warships bombarded Vladivostook for fortyfive minutes. . [Vladivostock is, according to Mr. W. Downio Stewart, of Dunedin, who recently visited it, ono of tho most magnificent harboura in the East. 'It is indeed considored by many ono of the finest in the world. It lies at 0110 point of a long peninsula which divides the Gulf of Peter t)lis Ureat into two bays — Amur aud Usuri. This point is colled by tho RussiatiH tho "Golden Horn." The entmnoen jo the harbour aro hidden by a large island called Dundati Island, which divides the fairway into two mwrow pa««ages. Tho harbour itself is not moro than two or three miles long, with un average width of perhaps half a mile. It is of great dopth, and affords safe anohorago for an. unlimited number of vossols of deep draught. The hilla around the harbour are comparatively low. Probably they are not so high as the Otago Peninsula. At one time these hills wore olosoly wooded j now, however, they bristlo with forts and bat,teries which seem to command every point of tho harbour and its approaches.],