Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-16
RoJEsTvENskY AND NEBoeA
ToFF, WITH FLEETS UNITED,
WILL HASTEN NORTH.
RUSSIA QUIET SUNDAY.
Much HeraIded May Day soclaIlstlo
Demonstration Did Not MaterIaIlze
Land Forces in Manchuria Main
tain Calm, Though oyama's Armies
Are Ready For Advance.

st. Petersburg, May ia naval
action within few days is regarded
as likely in well informed naval cir
cles. The Associated Press learns
that Rojestvensky and Nebogatoff
Joined forces on May 10 and there is
reason to believe that the united fleet
will proceed northward Immediately.
An evening paper here published an
extra today announcing that naval
battle had commenced but the admi.
rally discredits the report.
Fleet Lingers at Honkoe Bay.
Toxic, May 15.-It is definitely
known that Admiral Rojestvensky, aft.
er temporarily leaving Honkoe bay
May 8, re-entered the bay and contin-
ues at anchor there. The government
has prohibited the expectation of coal
to Saigon as long as the Russian fleet
is in Indo-Chinese waters
French Officials Make Denial.
Paris. Nay 15. In regard to the
dispatches saying the Russian fleet
has returned to Honkohe Bay, the
French officials say they are positive
the Russians are not within French
waters.
Sailed Sunday Morning.
Saigon, May Is. The Russian
fleet which reappeared off Honkohe
Bay sailed northward early Sunday
morning.
Russians Near Singapore.
Singapore, May 15.-Thirteen Rus
4 sian warships were sighted May IL OFF
4 Cape Harella, about fifty miles north
,lof kamranh bay. by the steamer Ja-
Z son, which arrived here today.
Land Forces Quiet.
4 Gunshu Pass, May 15. - Skirmish-
Ing continues in the Olouria mountain
region on the Russian left but the
fighting is not serious.
Calm continues on the right. The
i Chimes, however, report that Oyana is
directing large masses of troops from
Fakoman toward Tounziakoi1. where
concentration is proceeding and the
river Is being bridged by pontoons.
About $4,000 Japanese reinforce
ments have arrived at the front.
Prisoners say the Japanese armies are
ready to advance when the word is
given.
i May Day Was Quiet.
st. Petersburg, May 15.-The widely
/. heralded May day demonstrations in
st. Petersburg were fiasco, and re-
ports from Moscow and the provinces
indicate that order reigned on Sunday
generally throughout Russia Minor
disorders were at Reval, Kisheneff,
) and one or two other places. but up to
? midnight there were no reports Of SER
!. ious tumults or loss of life, and the at
! tempt of the social democrats and So
cial revolutionists to signalize May
day by great anti-government demon.
strations appear to have been fail.
ure
Dispatches from Kazan, Tifiis, Sara
! taf, Cronstadt, Rostovon-D Don, Kieff,
Vologda, Tomsk, and other cities say
the workmen observed the day as a
I holiday, that the shops were closed and
that quiet was not disturbed.
In st. Petersburg the day passed In
almost perfect quiet and without blood
2 she'd The revolutionaries found It
: impossible to execute the program Of
3 demonstrations and bomb throwing
| ! which they had advertised, the work
: ingmen declining to sacrifice them
> : selves to advance the propaganda Of
Z their self-constituted leaders. and the
meetings were attended chiefly by
spectators
e Ship Yard Workers Strike.
: There was serious disturbance this
4 afternoon at the Newski ship yards in
. Schlushiburg causeway. above st. Pc
!, y tersburg.
:, The Associated Press was informed
: by telephone that the men at the ship
:. :. yards walked out in body, carrying
: red flags and singing revolutionary
= songs.
When the representative Of the AS
sociated Press arrived at the scene Of
5. the disturbance all was quiet. The
e presence Of the guards was unneces.
e sary.
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