ROSHDESTVENSKY’S REPORT TO THE OZAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1476, 9 June 1905, Page 2

ROSHDESTVENSKY’S REPORT TO THE OZAR.

GENERAL TREPOFF’S DECLARATION.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 11.40 p.m., June 8. LondoD, June 8.

Admiral Roshdestvensky has reported to the Czar that he engaged on the 27th twelve large Japanese battleships and armoured cruisers and twelve smaller vessels. Within an boar it was neceßßary for the staff to shift their quarters to another part of tho Suvaroff. In another hour Admiral Roshdestvensky, who was unconscious and wounded, was transferred to the Boniny, the supreme command passing from him to Admiral Diebogatoff. The Boniny separated from the fleet during the night with the Dmitri Donskoi and destroyers Biedovy and Cromky. On Sunday morning Admiral Roshdestvensky was transferred to the Biedovy." He learned Sunday evening that the Biedovy had surrendered to two Japanese torpedoors. St. Petersburg, June 8. General Trepoff, interviewed, ridiculed th 9 Zemstky Subur, or people’s parlia meut, determining peace or war. It was impossible to assemble under three months and it would take another three to understand the problem. The Czar must decide. No assembly convoked under Im perial manifesto would have a voice in such matters. Russia possessed ample forces to continue the war with the pro 3 pect of final success. General Trepoff insisted that the bulk of workers were indifferent to politice.