Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-05-30
BLACK PESSIMISM
REIGNS IN RUSSIA
St. Petersburg Gloomy Over
News of Naval Battle.
WAITING FOR OFFICIAL REPORTS
Admiralty Had Expected Their Ships
To Reach VIadivostok in Safety, and
the Blow Rojestversky Has Received
Is Demoralizing Them.

st. Petersburg, May 29.-1:55 p. IN.
AT the admiralty this morning ad-
solutely nothing was known of the ma
val battle in the Far East except the
news contained in the dispatches of
the Associated Press. The general i'm
preston produced by the cable mes
sage individually was extremely
gloomy While Admiral Rojestven-
sky was expected to pay the price for
reaching his haven at Vladivostok the
complete loss of two of his four best
battIeships, besides several other war
ships, with heavy damage to other
ships which such havoc indicates is
admitted to spell disaster unless the
Japanese suffered correspondence For
this reason news from Vladivostok
where the first communication with
the Russian fleet will be established
is awaited with intense anxiety. The
communication with Vladivostok
might be established as early as this
afternoon or tonight, but as all des-
patches must first go to the emperor
the news is not likely to reach the
public before tomorrow. 1t is mat
ter of general comment that the most
definite and most reliable information
received up to the time the official
announcement was sent out from To
kio came by way Of Washington. The
receipt of the Toxic official bulletin an
nouncing that Rojestvensky's feet was
practically annihilated was a crushing
stroying- the hope to which many Of
them had clung-that the silence OF
the Japanese government might favor
ably be construed. The wording OF
the official dispatches were interpreted
to mean that Admiral Togo had sue
ceeded in barring and holding the en-
trance of the straits of Korea against
Admiral Rojestvensky.
Some of the foreign press dispatch
es were confusing, but everything
seems to indicate that Togo delivered
a series of desperate torpedo attacks
during Saturday night with the sup
port of his heavy ships. The reported
sinking of SO many ships, it is be-
lieyed. might also be partially due to
mines soWn ahead of the advancing
Russian columns. The belief is also
strengthened that Rojestvensky was
forced in order to secure mogeniety
in speed and fighting power to divide
his fleet only a single division pass
ing tn estraits of Korea, the other
going around Japan. The straits Of
Korea division, however, evidently in
cluded the pick of the Russian fleet,
the Borodino and Orel being two of
the four best battleships. 1t is pos
sible that Admiral Rojestvensky trans
ferred his flag from the battleship
Kniaz Souvaroff to the Borodino or
Orel before the fight in order to pre-
vent the concentration Of the fire on
his own ship. Captain SreberinnikOff,
Of the Borodino, and Captain Ignitieff
of the Orel, are regarded as extremely
capable officers.
Owing to the decision Of the news
papers to suspend Monday publications
only kilograms are being printed on fly
sheets. The NovOe Vremya alone com
ments editorially on the battle under
the coptain '.The Hour of Fate Has
Struck"
The paper says: Russia has been
reproached with putting too much
trust in God, sending too many ikons
to the war and not enough men. The
result is now, in the language Of the
Americans, in the hands of the
men behind the guns We Russians
will be patient until the full results
are known"
Black pessimism reigns among tTe
public.