The San Francisco call., 1905-04-19
Russian Fleet Ap-
pears to Be
Divided.
TOCO'S SHIPS SIGHTED
Barring RoJestven-
sky's Passage
Northward.
SLANS CUT A CABLE
Sever Line of Com
munication With
Formosa.
sLANs CUT A CABLE

LONDON, April 19.-The Daily
Mails correspondent at Singapore
learns that Russian agents have cut
the cable between Fuchow and For
mosa. A dispatch to the Daily Mail,
dated Manila, April Is, says: '"This
morning sixteen Japanese cruisers and
torpedo-boat destroyers were scouting
off Sampaloc Point
ST. PETERSBURG, April 10, $40
a. ma sheaf of dispatches from Of
ficers of the various battleships, crlIis-
ers and torpedo-bo of the second
Pacific squadron has been received.
They bring no information beyond the
news that all are well on board and
the censorship suppresses the names
of the places where the dispatches
were filed.
LONDON, April IA dispatch
from Shanghai to the Morning Post
says: ssTwo junks have been blown
up by mines near Chusan. The ap-
pearance of mines south of Shanghai
is causing great apprehension for the
LEBUAN, British Borneo, April IS.
The United States torpedo-boats
Chauncey and Barry left this port
this morning to join the cruiser Raj
eigh in patrol of the Southern Phil
ippine Islands.
LONDON, April 19.-The latest news
from the Far East shows to q cer-
tainty that a portion of the Russian
second Pacific squadron was still coal
ing at Kamranh Bay on Saturday
morning, April 10. This news was
taken to Singapore by the British
steamship Sue Slang and to Hongkong
by the French steamship Phu Yen. The
former merely reported having passed
the Russian ships at IL o'clock in the
morning. The Phu Yen's officers saw
twenty vessels coaling in the bay. and
it is suspected that the remainder of
the fleet was inside the harbor.
According to the Daily Mails corre-
spondent at Singapore, the Sue Slang.
which was not molested by the Rus
slams, sighted a big French warship
two hours later. fourteen miles to the
southwark. evidently proceeding to
Kamranh Bay.
The piecemeal character of the news
excludes the possibility of any accurate
estimates of the movements of Vice
Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron. but
1t would indicate that the vice admiral
has divided his forces. a portion of
which went northward before Satur-
day. What has occurred since then 1t
Is impossible to say and there Is no
clear evidence even that the Russians
have been within the three mile limit.
which would bring them. according to
International regulations. into infringe
ment of French neutrality. The fact
that they were visible to passing ships
would appear to show that they were
outside the limit
Japanese sentiment. however. is
greatly disturbed. The correspondent
at Toxic of the. Daily telegraph says
he has no hesitation In declaring that,
should the occasion arise and her pre-
liminary protests be ignored. japan
would regard any anchorage occupied
by the Russian fleet as its naval base
and deal with the situation accord
ingly.
a dispatch from Saigon states that a
quantity of goods purchased there has
been delivered to a portion of the Rus
sian fleet off the coast of Indo-China
1t is impossible to locate Sampaloc
Point, off which, according to the
Manila correspondent of the Daily
Mail, sixteen Japanese cruisers and
other craft were scouting on Thursday
morning; but the Daily Mail believes
the japanese fleet was naneuvering to
prevent the Russians entering the Pa
cific between the Philippine Islands
and Formosa.