THE WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1448, 8 May 1905, Page 2

THE WAR.

GENERAL NEWS.

By Telegraph—Pibbs Association—Copyright London, May 5. It was Btated in Paris boforo the Japanese representative this week that France had sent a naval division to Bingbkoy Bay to vigorously enforce neutrality. Admiral Diebogatoff’s warships passed Singapore, bound eastwards, at dawn today, not Saturday.

A RUSSIAN RAID. FOUR TORPEDOERS DESTROY A SMALL VESSEL. | 33y; Electric Telegraph—Per Press 'Association —Copyright. Received 12.55 a.m., May 8. London, May 7. Four Russian torpedoers from v ledivostok arrived at the west‘coast of Hokkeido on Friday. They seized and burned a small vessel, and then returned to Vladivostok.

RUSSIA’S JOKE. JAPAN’S IRRITATION AGAINST FRANCE. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright Received 4.51 p.m., May 7. London, May 6.

Europe is amused by a St. Petersburg telegram announcing that Admiral Roshdestvensky has informed the Admiralty of the presence of Japanese warships in the territorial waters of Borneo. The telegram added that if the report were verified Russia would send a protest to Holland. In a later telegram the Admiralty denies

receiving such information from Admiral Roshdestvenßky. The Mikado has given a thousand sterling to the army branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association in recognition of the oponing of recreation and reading tents at the principal bases in Manchuria. The feeling in Japan is that Admiral Roßhdestvensky’s procedure is rapidly growing into deep resentment towards France.

The newspapers urge immediate aotion. One suggests an embargo on French merchantmen, pending Admiral Roshdeßtvensky’s final expulsion.