The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-06-01
ROIESTvENSEY
DIVIDES FLEET
muemfAN ADMIRAL PLANS TO
DIVERT rooos SQUADRON.
NO INDICATION or BATTLE
German Squadron az Tningtau Said 90
ne Preparing FOR Eventnalities
Jap Land Forces IN
Daring Raids.

Shanghai, May 27.-There are lndl-
cations that Rear Admiral R%ojcstyen.
sky has divided his fleet Seventeen
vessels OF the Baltic fleet anchored ut
Saddle islands Thursday night. II "a
believed that they coaled there, and
that from that point they win proceed
north.
Scheme TO Draw or Japs.
Toxic, May 27.-It is believed here
that the action of the Russians in
sending some vessels to Shanghai is
part OF a diversion plan 20 draw or a
portion Of the Japanese feet. 1t Is
thought that possibly the Russians In
tend 20 inferno the slower craft, but
the visit and withdrawal of the faster
vessels is regarded to be without pur-
pose unless as q diversion. The where
abouts Of Admiral Rojestvensky's feet
Is not reported and opinion Is divided
as to whether 1t has entered the Pa
ciic OF returned to the lower Chinese
coast, The location of Admiral
Togo's feet continues to be secret.
Popular feeling is undisturbed and the
Japanese public is confident that Adj
miral Togo is prepared to meet any
situation.
Daring Raid Of Japs.
st. Petersburg, May 27.-The daring
attempt Of the Japanese May % to cut
the railroad and blow up the bridge
over a tributary OF the Tungliao, 20
miles south Of the Russian main line
from Kuanchengtsu to Kirin, which
are now connected by field railroad,
bears a striking resemblance to the
blowing up of the bridge over the
Kainskair river, 100 miles north Of
Mukden, by Maj. Nanganuma, of the
Japanese army, Just before Field Mar
shall Oyama undertook the advance
against Gen. Kuropatkin at Mukden.
Another parallel of the raid OF May
I23 occurred while Gen. Rennenkampf's
cavalry recently was working around
the japanese left south Of Fakoman'
I1ust as Nanganumais exploit conceded
with Gen. Mlstchenko's raid on New
chwang In September last. According
TO reports the raid of May 70 was
ilauucueu from
Germans Preparing.
Tsingtau, May 27.--The whole Rus
sian feet is assembled near Woosung,
and the German squadron at Tsingtap
Eis preparing for eyentualities.
Facing Starvation.
st. Petersburg, May 27.-The Russky
Blovo, OF Moscow, prints a dispatch
from vladivostok which indicates that
the Inhabitants of the whole maritime
region of eastern Siberia, including the
island Of Sakhalin and the Kamchkat.
ka peninsula, are facing starvation on
account OF the situation produced by
the war. Word has been brought 70
Vladiyostok from Okhotsk, eastern ST.
IBERIA, that the fish supply Of Sakhalin
was exhausted last winter and that the
inhabitants ate their dogs. There is
no -four on the island and the people
are confronted with death by starva.
ton. A similar situation exists al
Kamchatka, where the people are Jrac.
tically left to their fate. No work IL
going on in the Amur district. beggars
are roaming everywhere and the Orc
chans, a Siberian tribe who live on the
shores OF the Gulf OF Tartary, are dy.
ing Of starvation. The dispatch con.
eludes: SHOULD the war continue six
months longer, starvation will be uni.
versaI in all this remote region"