Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-30
GOVERNMENT IN A QUANOARY.
|, ia Possession Of Its Own Version
or Naval Disaster but Don't Know
IIsw 10 Break II to Country
the CAR HOLDS A WAR COUNCIL
l, Urged 10 Issue a Manifesto Moth :
lng Decided 0u--Ilopc Of Mastery
or the Sea Vanished

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81 Petersburg, May 30 noon, "A
,ong cipher dispatch reached Emperor
Nicholas during the night but lts con-
tents have not yet been made public
II IN Unonically stated that several
of the fos, Russian ships succeeded IN
shaking ~ their pursuors ana have
reached Vladiyostok, and That the gov
cmmtnt IN now In possession of iis
,wn version Of the naval disaster "
Saturday ana Sunday In the straits ot
Korea. Nevertheless II appears TO bo
IN ID quandary as to how TO break the
nows to the country, A war council
was held at Tsarskoc.Sclo last nlght
"A which tho emperor was urged 10 IL.
sue an imperial mOnlfcSt0, but MOTH
mg has yet been decided,
20 far as the newspapers are cone
,crned the public might believe vice
Admiral RojestYonsky had achieved
Victory, The censor passed all mo
Vague rmors favorable 10 the RUS
slams but blue poncllod oNolylhinB m
dcatlng Russian disaster While tho
NlNNNllNnN llfNN fbl'h'i INV NilAEi'
by word Of mouth over tho capitol ana
was quickly tclographod privately 10
big centoR by the nnti'g0Vornmont
leaders the country can be said To be
attn IN Il state OF ignorance ns 10 what
has happened. The editors Of the Lib.
oral papom here being convorsant with
the contents Of the Toxic dispatches
warn their readers IN "a roundabout
fashion against harboring fulHo hopes
based upon dispatch n which appear
IN their news columns, The liourso
Gazette quite openly declares II would
b. sin TO conceal the fact that an
hope Of Russia obtaining the mastery
Of the sea has vanished adding
THE aignincancc Of the collapse OF
this hope Nv gclf.evldonL"
The Noyoo NTomyl ana the russ,
while admitting that the 'ato OF tho
iar east has been determined, decline
10 accept the Japanese reports, Thclr
editorials however breath II tone "
unolcrablo sadness.
FIRST DEFINITE NEWS,
st. Petersburg, May 80, p, m,--Tha
FIRST definite news from Russian sources
Of the naval battle fought IN The
straits Of Korea came from capt
NhaNn OF the cruiser Almaa, who has
arrived AT Vladlyostok, lie lclcgraphca
10 the emperor that he had witnessed
the sinking of the buttloshlp Knia1
Souydloff ana reported that Admiral
RojostYoneky was wounded, capt Chl-
Gin saw Roiestyensky lowered ON board
the lorped0boat destroyer Bunny ana
said the admiral presumably was saved,
The Bunny however, had not reached
NladNos,ok when capt chogin sent ms
telegram and her whereabouts was not
known,
GERMAN COMMENT,
Berlin, May Gothic Berlin morning
newspapers with the latest nt'Ns or the
naval battle give the fullest recognition
10 Vice Admiral T0gos achievement AMI
say that II VIII rank among the great
cst oyons " history, The battle II chnr'
uclorlled M the greatest drama ever
known Some OF the newspapers as'
sumo, however, that an important part
OF the Russian fleet was not present at
the combat, and that the vesaolR com-
posing this part viii reach Nl0dlVostok
ana stll give the Japanese trouble,
fome oNpross the opinion regarding tho
tate 81 the vessels fleeing toward Nlad.
lNoNtok that they VIII hardly escape the
Japanese swift cruisers,
Ast0nishmont IN expressed M the s0r-
~ rgOrc cut by the Russian bnttlcships
Vhlh leads a naval expert, Writing IN
the lOkal Anaolgcr, TO point out that y
modern battloshlp ls n most moihcient
nnenlno unlcss manned by thoroughly
ualn.d officers and soamoni that tho
hueslnnb were VIGOROUSLY deficient m
trolning during the time Of peace, and
mat N was impossible Tor them 10 make
lood MS defect SINCE the war broke
out The event, therefore, the writ ~
taNs, tanNol be regarded nv u sentence
pl Judgment upon the bnttlcship, but
only the Russian officers and seamen,
The National Zoitung curIously idcn.
vines The entire white race with Rus.
ha's defeat, which, IL says must hll
any one with grave concern who be-
llevos IN the great economic ana oiylllg-
lng mission Of the white rnoo, The pas
per anticipates that the white race VIII
10 longer be regarded with respect by
the yellow races OF east Asia,
THE ENGLISH VIEW.
London. May SO,--Tho naval battle be-
Noon The fleets Of Togo and Rojost.
Nensky strikes the Imagination of the
british public with far greater force
man any OF the military operations,
HenVe ToRos victory Rrousos far moro
lllnlHe interest hero than any Incident
ol We war and In greeted by the nows-
papers ana the people with great jubiln.
Won, Everywhere II " being compared
WIN Trafalgar and hboukir
Iogo," says the Daily Telegraph
.lllorlally, has won the Trafalgar of
,ne lar east, and won Il, as hla allies
Ieloloo TO note, IN Nelson's year"
4. The same editorial recalls the fact
NAV the battles of Manlln bay and
santiago did not cost the Americans u
tlnglo ship and indeed hardly single
lte, and II would therefore not be sur.
lrislng TO ma that Togo had gained u
relatively bloodoss victory"
~ varying strains OF oulogy al the
nupers pay tribute 10 Admiral rogos
extraordinary success They say That
,lo sun has set on llussln's naval glory
nn1 comment on possibilities OF peace
universal opinion w that II would be
criminal for the emperor OF Russia TO
continue the war; but serious doubln
nic expressed M 10 whether Saturdays
uheslcr VIII oven convince the war
party N 81 Petersburg OF the hopeless
ess OF q further struggle The be-.
ol seoms 10 prevail that II VIII rather
harden the hearts Of tho war advocates
10 nolHoVOro to the bitter end