THE WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1453, 13 May 1905, Page 2

THE WAR.

GENERAL NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 11. Regarding the Diana incidont, cabled on April 25tb, the Times* Paris correspondent learns that the Russian commander was permitted to make a trial trip in the Saigon river after the cruiser had been repaired. Ho steamed towards the sea. Threats that she would bo fired on by the artillery alone prevented the cruiser escaping.

Fifteen thousand Japanese are garrisoning Formosa. Mines have boon laid and the fortifications greatly strengthened.

The police at Tokio arreßted Iwasaki, a former naval engineer, Captain Bongouin, former French naval attache, and Bongouin’s English stepson, named Scange, on charges of supplying the Russians with information.

RUSSIAN WARSHIPS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 9.5 p.m,, May 12. London, May 12. The cruisers Rossia and Gromboi have been sighted at Aomori. It is officially announced at Tokio that since the Kamranh incident M. Rouvier has repeatedly instructed officials to watch the coasts to prevent the belligerents’ warships entering French waters.

. A PESSIMISTIC TONE. By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association— Copyright. Recoived 12.45 a.m., May 12. London, May 12, The battleships Canopus and Goliath have left Spithead for China. The Times’ and Standard’s Tokio despatches are more pessimistic,the Japanese, judging from the newspapers, threaten to appeal to their ally if France renews facilities for tbo Russians.