Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-06-05
ONE ADMIRAL
MADE ESCAPE.
Rear Admiral Enquist Reaches
Manila With Three
Cruisers.
ROOSEVELT FOR PEACE.

LONDON, June "a Manila dis
patch says that Rear Admiral Enquist,
on his flagship the Aurora, together
with the cruisers Oleg and Jemtchug,
which were supposed to have been lost
in the great battle with Admiral Togo,
have arrived safely at Manila.
Special dispatches from st. Peters
burg say that President Roosevelt's
tender of his good offices to bring
about peace is received with general
favor in the press and by the public
there, and a desire that some steps
should be taken toward securing an
honorable peace is increasingly mani
fest.
The Botrse Gazette says that Russia
must make the best possible use of the
friendly offices of the United States
and Great Britain.
President Roosevelt's plea for peace
is under discussion in st. Petersburg.
1t has the moral support of all the
great powers, including France. and
IF all the cars ministers except two.
The emperor has not yet decided what
course to adopt.
One of the emperor's most intluen-
tial ministers declared emphatically
that the emperor had not yet changed
his position with regard to the prose
cution of the war on account of the de-
struction of Vice Admiral R%ojestven-
;ky's fleet.
Everything depends OF the will of
my imperial master" the minister said.
Rear Admiral Train, on board his
flagship. the battleship Ohio, with the
battleships Wisconsin and Oregon and
the cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati,
was outside Manila, near Corregidor
island. m~aneuvering when the Aurora
Saluted with thirteen guns, and the
Ohio answered.
Admiral Train and his squadron ac-
companied the Russian vessels TO Ma
Mia.
Rear Admirals Train and Enquist
conferred in reference to the Russian
warships of his squadron. According
to an unofficial report, Rear Admiral
ILlliulNl dNhNNi " IOAl WI ~ 49,
in which to repair, coal and provision
his vessels. 1t is said further that he
alleges that the ships are unseaworthy
and are damaged below the water line.
Rear ADMIRAL Train will probably APP
point a board to investigate the condi-
ton of the Russian vessels. Both he
and Rear Admiral Enquist are work
ing in harmony.
Thirty-four seriously wounded Rus
sian sailors were placed in the Naval
hospital at Cavite. Rear Admiral En-
quist left the scene of the fighting be-
fore the battle was finished, and he
did not learn the final details until he
reached Manila.
A Shanghai report says that the Brit
ish steamer Buling has arrived there
towing in a Russian destroyer which
was found helpless north of Shawai-
han with three crews aboard. She had
been drifting for six days with $50
men on board and water sufficient for
only one day left and with very little
food. The vessel is damaged forward.
| Her crew has already been transferred
to the Russian transport informed at
Woosung.
At Sasebo Vice Admiral Togo visited
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky at the ma
val hospital and expressed his sym
pathy for the admiral's wounds. He
praised the desperately courageous
fight of the Russians and expressed
his hope that Vice Admiral Rojestven-
sky would soon be able to return to
Russia. Rojestvensky was deeply
moved by the admirals words and
thanked him. He congratulated ia
pan on the courage and patriotism of
her sailors and said it lessened his re-
greet and the sorrow of defeat to know
the high character of the victors.
At st. Petersburg it is reported that
all noncombatants have been ordered
to leave Nladivostok.