Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-06
SECRETARY TAFT SENDS WORD
TO ENouIsT THAT HE MAX
STAY.
! CANNOT MAKE REPAIRS

The Secretary Cables Instructions to
Governor Wright at Manila Today
Russians Receive Roosevelt's offeri
With Favor - Disorders Near Tsar-
Il skoe-selo.
Washington, D. c., June 5. - Ad-
miral Enquist will not be allowed to
repair his ships at Manila. This gov
ernment has decided that as the in
juries to the vessels were not caused
by either sea or storm they will be
Obliged to refuse permission for the
vessels to be repaired there.
Instructions to Wright.
Today Secretary Taft cabled the fol-
lowing instructions to Gov. Wright
at Manila: Time cannot be given for
the repair of the injuries received in
battle, therefore the vessels cannot be
repaired unless interned until the end
Of hostilities."
Secretary Taft stated that If the
Russians agree to leave Manila in
their present condition they are well
/. come to do so.
Will Probably Remain There.
Secretary Taft's message to Gov
ernor Wright adds that in strict pur-
suance of the international policy
adopted by this governm ent Admiral
Enquist will be allowed to inferno
his ships, the Aurora, Oleg, and Jemt-
chug, at Manila. In case he does not
LII ~ 1&@r
after the period allowed by interna-
tional law has expired, will be to put
to sea. 1t is fully expected here that
Enquist will decide to inferno his
ships.
Russian Left Advances.
Gunshu Pass, June 5.-The Russian
left has been slightly advanced, but
otherwise the situation here is un-
changed.
Uriu Near Shanghai.
Shanghai, June 5-The flagship To-
kiwa under Vice Admiral Uriu, with
two cruisers and two destroyers, have
arrived off Gutzlaff island, in Hang
Chow bay. More cruisers are expect
ed. Uriu came from the Tsu islands
! around Formosa, looking for Russian
j vessels. During the battle of the sea
Of Japan shell passed the Tokiwa' S
aft, but did not explode.
Presidents Offer Welcomed.
st. Petersburg, June president
Roosevelt's tender of his good Offices
to bring about peace is received with
general favor in the press and by the
public and desire that some steps
should be taken toward securing an
honorable peace is increasingly mani
fest.
The Russ declares that the Presi
dents offer should be commended as
an act of friendship. tending to bring
out Japan's terms of peace and Rus
sia's acceptance of an offer which
would mean surrender on humiliatine
terms.
Direct Negotiations Wanted.
The paper maintains, at the same
time. that negotiations, if begun, must
beiirect and that there must be no in
tervention by other powers.
The Bourse Gazette says that Rus
sia must make the best possible use
of the friendly offices Of the United
States and Great Britain. This paper
as well as the Syno Tchestva and the
Nashazhisn and others. advances thu
idea that Japan will be disposed tx
W grant better terms to the Russian peo
pie than to the bureaucrats who begar
the war.
Demand Zemsky Sober.
These papers reiterate the demand
80 i5r zemsky sober to settle the ques
ton. Even the Grashdanin declare!
fho
Tremya alone dissenting from the gen
.ayal chorus by saying that peace il
not so essential as foreign and inter
nal enemies" imagine, and picturin.
Great Britain, the United States, ant
the continental powers as beginnin,
to tremble in face of "the yellow dan
ger"
Fear Efforts Are Fruitless.
Members Of the diplomatic corp
Sunday expressed their pleasure tina
President Roosevelt had taken tn
lead in urging Russia to give up th
prosecution of the war, but they sal
they were apprehensive that the Pres
ident's efforts would be fruitless.
Baron Rosen, the new ambassado
to Washington, does not seem to b
accelerating his departure on accoun
of developments in the United States
He will sail on Jul. 81
"a Police Charge Russians.
st. ePtersburg, June 5.-At a grea
demonstration last evening in th
Pavlovsk gardens, near Tsarskoe. .Sele
the 5000 persons present clamored 70
funeral march in memory OF the Rus
sian soldiers who had lost their live
in the naval disaster in the seas @
Japan
The members of the orchestra bt