CABLE MEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3524, 20 May 1905, Page 2

CABLE MEWS.

Russo Japanese .Struve-. THE RUSSIAN FLEETS. LoxnoX, May 18% Ririloff, who will OOtfl mand the Fourth detachment' of t&0 Baltic ■ fleet, exchanges posts With Admiral Skrydloff at Vladivostock. The battleship Slava is Admiral gjjjloff’s only fighting vessel of any value. Tho departure of his squadron will !eavG -tb© Ba'tic Bea at Germany’s jprercy, as ail Rozhdestvensky's and ■ .Diebogatocff’s vessels surviving, if the/ art? defeated or victorious, must remain in tb o Fat ’East. Aloxieffs influence pa with the Cztr, who is mo/® than ever resolved to continue th/ ' w * c even at the cost of Russia’s inttV®stß in the Balkans. Admiral Rozhdestvens kyte laha message was received at St. Pete** burg, via China. This fact is inter* protod at St. Petersburg to mean that be is proceeding north. The steamer Segovia reports passing 42 vessqls of the Baltic fleet on 15th' off Cup Varel i a, ; CochinChina. One hundred and fifty junks* igphwiv' i.Tlen with supplies, wetft spiffed' on .'he 16th off St. John’s Cape, t fcaj-'a;'® behevod to be proceeding to the‘BW|ltic fleet. The Japanese near tbe Pescadores, the , ateamee Quanguara, bound Saigon to Hongkong with coal, fP fl® intended for the Baltic fleet.