The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-20
seUADRoN,s RAID OVER.
Believed Russian Ships are Going Back
 to VIadiyOSt0k

Believed Russian Ships are Going Rack
 to yIadivostok.
 Tokio, June 19.-Tie remarkable raid of the Russian Vladivostok sauad- ron evidently is over. The squadron disappeared yesterday off Cape Hena- shi, steering to the north. and 1t has not been reported since 1t is as- stunned to be returning to vIadivostok.
 Whether or not a portion of Vice Admiral Kamimura's squadron IS awaiting the Russians of Vladivostok is a carefully guarded secret As- suming that Vice Admiral Kamimura despatched some of his vessels to Vladivostok when he learned that the Russian sqadron was off Xxi Island, these ships would have had ample time to arrive there ahead of the Rus sians and will be ready. to give bat tie.
 The weather has been foggy and thus conditions have been against the Japanese. It is said that the raiding Russians captured a British steamer laden with coal. bound south from the Island of Yezzo. and sent her to vlad- vostok with a prize crew. but the re- port Is not confirmed by the Japanese navy department.
 The transports Sado Hitachi and Izumi were the only ones overhaul-I by the Russians. Japan had thirteen transports in and near the strait of Korea the morning the Sado and the Hitachi were caught and she was for- tunate that only the three ships mem toned were overtaken by toe enemy.
 It is impossible to get complete -acts concerning the sinking of the Hitach4. She evidently failed to stop when sig nailed to do so by the Russian vessel. fpr- A. bell, the English master of the Hitachi, refused to stop and planned to ram the Russian. but this is denied It Is said that the Japanese officers on board the .Hitachi declined to surren- der and required Captain Campbell to keep his ship going.
 The assertion that the Russians nred upon the life boats in which the men were escaping from the Japanese transport has been fully substantiated.
 The raid of the Vladivostok squadron has brought an unwarranted amount of criticism upon zee Admiral Kami- mura from the Japanese and his fall ure to catch the Russians in the fog off Gen sam off the coast of Korea, when the Japanese transports Kinshiu was sunk, April 26. with loss of about two hundred men, have been re- called
 Some declare that if Kamimura fails to catch the Russian vessels before they reach Vladivostok, he should either re- sign from the navy or commit suicide, The popular demand for his replace ment is growing, but the public is without information as to the nature of his orders or the plans of the naval campaign and fails to make allowance for the limitation of conditions.
 Vice Admiral Kamlmura's squadron was lying off Tsu Island. when the raiding Russians reached Okino Island. He immediately started in pursuit of the enemy, but rains obscured the sea and an electrical storm fnterfered with his system of wireless telegraphy. Vice Admiral Kamamura is a splendid off cer and the only possible indictment against him is the one of lack of good luck. The Japanese generally magnify the importance of this Russian raid which has no material effect on the war. It was desperate venture and l. is believed here to have succeeded only through blind luck
 The Yawata and the Ansei. two sail ing ships, were sunk by the Russians on Thursday between Ko Island and Okushiri Island, off the west coast of Yeseo and north of the Tsugaru Strait