The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-11
ROJESTVENSKY'S PLAN
 REMAINS A MYSTERY
NO LIGHT YET THROWN ON HIS
 STRATEGY.

STRATEGY.
 St Petersburg as Much in the Dark,
 Apparently, as the Rest of the World
 -one Report That Opposing Fleets
 Have Already Met and That Togo
 Has Lost Five ships-Conjecture as
 to Intention of Four Missing Battle
 sIips-Quiet on Land.
 St. Petersburg, April 11.-2:47 a. m.- Russia's information regarding Rojest- vensky's fleet, it's location, destination and intentions. is based solely on for eign dispatches, which are all too meagre to prevent quick ripening crop of rumors, according to one of which the adverse fleets have already joined battle.
 Others of these dispatches are at tempting to locate variously the battle ship division of the squadron. The ad- miralty steadfastly professes it's ina bility to impart any light or clarify the situation, and there is reason to be- lieve the profession is made in good faith, at least as applies to all except the very highest officers. .....
 The admiralty informed The Associat- ed Press to-day that the report receiv- ed yesterday was not from the com- mander of the squadron, but from the captain of merchant ship who had en- countered the fleet and reported to the Russian consulate at Singapore.
 Some naval officers conjecture the four battleships are delaying in order to effect junction with Vice Admiral Nebogatoff's division but generally cre- dence irs given to the report that the battleships are taking a southern route through the Sunda straits, the selec- tion of the Singapore route being re- garded as in the nature of feint and to minimize the danger of 8 torpedo boat attack on the mainstays of the feet.
 Meanwhile events in Manchuria have come to pause, and at home the main attention is being given to the work of the Bouligan commission. which is charged with formulating the plan for tfie representative assembly promised by the imperial rescript of March 8. The commission is meeting twice weekly and in private. The statement that the preliminary report of the com mission will be ready before Easter is incorrect. The amount of material for its consideration is too great to permit of this The chief problem is that of representation for nations where zems- tvo organization is not at present in stalled and election machinery is not available ...7
 The summary closure of the lawyers congress in St. Petersburg yesterday in the midst of the opening session of what promised to be repetition of the Moscow conference of doctors mani fests the firm hand with which Cover nor- General Trepoff is managing the difficult situation. @
 Revolutionaries yesterday contrived an impromptu meeting in front of the Putiloff iron works at the hour for be- ginning work. An immense crowd of Workmen was attracted, and revolution ary speeches were made, red flags pro-. duced and proclamations distributed.
 Six policemen who attempted to dis perse the crowd were roughly handled, but the assemblage scattered at the approach of the police reserves.
 The verdict of the commission ap- pointed to investigate the conditions at Port Arthur at the time of the surren- der is expected soon.
 Anti-Senite proclamations have been issued at Smolensk and Orel, and post ed at fence corners in that section of Russia, calling upon the people to arise and beat the Jews, with whom the proclamation links students. The ef- feet of this indictment on the peasant population in the present condition of affairs in the rural districts is feared
 Several cases of destruction of por- traits of Emperor Nicholas, following the example of the students of St. Pet ersburg, have been reported recently. The latest of these was at the high school in Romany, as related in The Associated Press dispatch from Mos- COW.
 A revolutionary leafiet entitled "The Peoples Journal" distributed by thou sands among the working classes of Moscow and the peasants of that vicin- ity appears to be a counter blast to al- legged attempts to incite the proletariat against the educated classes. Review ing the grievances of the lower classes, it declares that the "intellectuals' were the first to understand the causes and enlist in defence of the people, and it indirectly. comments barn burning, bread riots, and terrorism; pillories M. Witte with von Plehve, Grand Duke Alexieff, M. Bezobrazoff and the dow ager empress for causing the war; praises "the brave Japanese;' and de- mands the instant termination of the war and the summoning of constitu- ent assembly,.
 < EXPERT FIR ENCH OPINION.