The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-17
RUMOR OF A NAVAL BATTLE.
HONG KONG HEARS THAT THE
FLEETS NAVE CLASHED.
Russians Last Reported SAILING North
on Friday Might've Lights shown
-Wheres' rts OF Admiral TOGO's Fleet
sun = MSstery-ConierS Held Up.
Special cable DnpaieA,s 10 TEE sun.


Special Gable DI1aieAtI 10 TEE Sun.
LONDON, April IA despatch to the
( Daily Mail from Hongkong says that a
email naval engagement between Rus
slams and japanese Ia reported No DE-
tails are given.
The British steamer Lincolnshire reports
that Russian torpedo boat has been scout
ing outside Of Hongkong boxing for four
steamers with cargoes OF Cardiff coal.
These oolliers arrived there Saturday and
their crews refuse to proceed further with
them.
SINGAPORE, April l6.--The North German
Lloyd steamer Prinz Heinrich which arrived
here to-day reported that on Friday she
sighted at noon eighteen vessels OF the
Baltic feet at Kamranh Bay, AMMAN. She
SAW no japanese vessels.
PARIS, April ia despatch TO the Petit
Journal from Haiphong, Tonquin, says
that coaster which has arrived there
reports that she passed forty Russian
vessels Friday night lin latitude IL north
They we're steaming north at the rate OF
twelve knots, with their lights out.
TOXIC April l0.-It Ia understood that
the transmission Of cable dispatches from
Japan will be suspended, owing TO the
approach Of the Baltic feet. Nothing
authentic concerning the Russian vessels
has been heard since April IL. 1t is be-
lieved that Admiral Togo is kept well In
formed Of their movements by his cruisers
and picket boats, which are scouting In
every direction.
HoNGKoNo, April l6.-The British steamer
North Anglia reports that late on Friday
she sighted a strong feet Of cruisers twenty
miles on Bombay Reef steering south.
They used their searchlights for forty
minutes. The North Anglia Il unable to
say whether they we're Russian or japanese.
A private despatch reports the presence OF
Russian vessels In Tourane Bay.
LONDON April lo-The Bait 10 feet seems
to have temporarily disappeared as etfec-
tualy as the Japanese feet 1t is oonsid-
cred here that little, IL anything, can be in
ferTed from the report made by the German
steamer Prinz Heinrich at Singapore, which
does not specify the character Of the ship
she sighted. 81"
It Is pointed out that they may have been
oolliers and transports from which Admiral
Rojestvensky had taken what he wanted
and then proceeded north with his fighting
ships. The captain Of the Prinz Heinrich
said there might be more than eighteen
vessels in Kamranh Bay, although they were
invisible. Kamranh Bay Il a hndlocked
harbor that could accommodate Fifty ves-
seb.
1t il a coincidence that the Japanese
Imperial Prince and Princess Arisugawa
are on board the Prinz Heinrich en- route
to Germany to attend the wedding Of the
German Crown Prince.
II Admiral Rojestvensky's feet is Coa,ilE
in Kamranh Bay, as some Of the critics
believe, there seems little probability Of
an engagement for some days. IL Ia also
evident that the Admiral has not continued
the course on which he was sailing on April
II; otherwise he would have been now $50
miles north Of Hongkong instead Of 600
miles south Of that port