OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1469, 1 June 1905, Page 2

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

THE TRIUMPH OF THE YELLOW MAN.

AN APPEAL TO THE WHITE RACES.

INDEMNITY OF £200,000,000 STERLING WANTED.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 9.21 p.m., May 31. London, May 31. The hospital ship Orel and a torpedoer I have arrived at Vladivostok. The cause of tho defeat is attribnted largely to Admiral Roshdestvensky’s defective strategy. It is Btated in Russian oircles that tho officers included many military who had been impressed into the naval service, and who were brave, but incapable of defending the ships. The St. Petersburg newspapers, Birzhevija and Viedomosti, says tho battle of Tsushima decided the issue of the war and opened new ways for the currents of history.

I The German press incisively comments I upon the defeat. I Tho Kreuz Zeitungsays the surrender of I Admiral DiebogatoS and 3000 men is unprecedented in the history of naval warfare. The Russian collapse is due to the Bystom and not the individuals. The National Zeitung says: Withßoshdestvensky’s wrecks the sea swallows, besides Russia’s prestigs, the white man’s credit among tho yellow races. May the white world bo found armed for the protection of their most important, material, social and racial interests. The Taglicho Kundschau writes in a similar strain. It is reported at Washington that Japan wants an indemnity of two hundred million sterling.