The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-10
Special Gable to The Globe

Special Cable to The Globe
LONDON, April 10.-Accurate infor-
nation in respect of the Russian; and
Japanese fleets now in the China sea
indicates on the surface that Admiral
Togo will meet an adversary supe-
Tior in armor and in guns. Whether
some of the Russian battleships and
cruisers alleged to be with the fleet are
actually afloat or have ever been out
OF the Baltic dry dock. is question
that cannot be answered by naval au-
thorities. Several OF these warships
have never been discovered outside of
press dispatches sent through st. Pc
tersburg.
They were not with Rojestvensky's
fleet when he fired on the fishing boats
in the North sea. They have not been
reported by any merchant vessel from
any point. Two of these shadowy bat
tleships and three cruisers of the same
authentic class have been reported off
Madagascar and also at Jibutil in the
Red sea. These doubtful vessels are
Nicholas /, Alexander II, in the battle
ship feet, and the cruisers Vladimir,
Monomach, Svietlana and Pamyat.
Taking these away however, the
Russian Baltic fleet outnumbers the
Japanese in battleships practically two
TO one, but is far inferior in armored
cruisers when compared with its enc
my in the China sea- 1t may be ac-
eepted as true that the Japanese navy
has only four battleships There seems
to be no doubt that Great Yashima
went to the bottom last June in the
Yellow sea, after contact with mine.
This was denied at the time by the
Japanese, but the weight of informa-
tion since then makes it certain that
she was lost. The battleship Hatsuse,
of $4,000 tons, sister ship Of Mikasa,
was destroyed off Port Arthur and in
full sight of the garrison, by one of the
Russian sea mines. This practically
leaves Japan with three first class bat
tleship, and the Fuji, now eleven years
old, is not OF much lighting value. In
addition she has an old battleship, Chin
Yen, captured from the Chinese at the
battle of Weihaiwei, and built twen-
ty-tWo years ago.
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF
the Telegraph says that the sober,
calculating minds among naval Off
cials do not anticipate a decisive VIC
tory for the Russian fleet. All they
expect is that Admiral Rojestvensky
will withstand the Japanese onslaught
Stubbornly and successfully, destroy
ing or disabling a sufficient number
Of the enemy'S ships to enable Vice
Admiral Niebogatoffs contingent, in
conjunction with the last Russian
squadron, which he detached in June
to the scales in the struggle for naval
supremacy.
All Is Quiet on Land
Special Cable to The Globe
ST. PETERSBURG, April 10.-Gen
Linevitch is sending several divisions
to VladivoStok in view of the expected
siege. The position south OF Harbip
has undergone no important change
Five days IN rch still separates Mar
shall Oyama's forces from Linevitch's
positions near. .Kintuling The same dis
tance presumably separates the Jap
anese forces ct Taulu and Kailuntchen
from the detachments guarding the
Russian left.
No immediate developments are
therefore probable, although the
grandiloquent tone of the official mes
sages published today would lead one
to infer that important events are i'm
minent.
The same correspondent says thai
the military committee has at last re-
ported its conclusion that it would bt
a grave mistake to abandon the strug-
gle before Russia'S resources are mani
festly exhausted and that Russia still
has effective means of continuing the
war with the hope of such success a.
will influence the character of peact
conditions
Rumors are rife that another meet
ing of the committee will be held tC