The San Francisco call., 1905-04-08
Russian Ships Sighted North
of Singapore and japanese
Squadron Was. Last Seen
Heading i'm That Direction
FLEET FORTY-SE
STRONG. OBSERVED
Second Effort to Bring
Warning Powers Together
Reported to Have Been
Begun by the Financiers

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SINGAPORE, Straits. Settlement,
April S.-The British steamship Tara
reports having sighted forty-seven
Russian warships 130 miles north of
Singapore. The Russian ships were
steaming southwark.
dispatch from Durham. Natal,
March 20, said that the British steam
ship Dart from Rangoon reported that
she passed on March 19 thirty warships
and fourteen golfers (probably the
Russian fieeO steaming eastward, 250
miles northeast of the island of Mada-
gascar. The fleet reported by the Tara
is probably the same as the one sight
ed by the Dart.
LONDON, April S.-A dispatch from
Singapore to the Daily Express says
that the captain of coasting steam
ship reports having sighted twenty
seven warshps seventy miles south
west of Penang. A Batavia (Java) dis
patch to the same paper says that
Chinese. junks report that Japanese
warships are policing all the straits
available to Rojestvensky in an at
tempt TO reach the China Sea.
LONDON, April S.-The last heard
from Admiral Togo's squadron was
from the waters south of the Philip
pines. The squadron, greatly augment
ed, was then moving in the direction
of the Dutch Indies. Should the ships
reported by the Tara prove to be a
part of Rojestvensky's fleet. great
naval conflict is imminent
JIBUTIL, Gulf of Alden, April T.
Vice Admiral Negogatoff' division of
the Russian second Pacific squadron
sailed this morning.
SNOW CHECKS CAMPAIGN.
xGUNSHU PASS, April 7.-Important
operations are thought to be out Of the
question for some time to come, rain,
snow and thaw having spoiled all the
roads and created impossible mud.
TOXIC, April sa.l s5aIg.Ssisan forde, gfi
the Russians who wssasssss{aeahtly defgat-'
ed in, the fleighborhood OF Chinchiatun
has deviated toward Shumiencheng,
and a part of it has retreated along the
Fenghua roadsI On the evening of April
5 no Russians were to be seen south of
iatun. A small force of Russians is oc-
cupying Talisiyo, twenty-six miles east
of Weiyuanpaomen.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 7.-Chief of
Staff Karkovitch in a dispatch to the
general staff, dated to-day, says: Yes
terday our sharpshooters forced the
japanese cavalry to retire from Erda
heZe and Tsulushu. One of our detach-
ments on arriving on the morning Of
April at Sintsatun (Chinchiatun) en-
gagged the enemy, who had 5000 Chinese
bandits with them. I have not received
a report of the results of the battle"
The Japanese insistence on an indem-
nifty, it is now learned, wrecked the re-
cent attempt to bring the warning pow
ers to negotiations. Another effort on
different lines to bring Russia and ia
pan together is believed to be under
way, the movers now being French and
English financial interests with heavy
connections in the two countries.
TO INSIST ON INDEMNITY.
LONDON, April 7.-Baron Suyemat-
su, formerly Japanese Minister Of the
Interior, has written an interesting and
significant article for the Outlook un-
der the heading, War and Indemnity
The japanese Claim"
The whole trend of the article is in
tended to show that Japan will carry
on the war until Russia consents to
pay indemnity. The Baron says:
IA canon of the japanese Bushido
is One should not sheath the sword
unless one is totally overcome or has
secured equitable satisfaction for ones
cause This is our ideal in interna-
tional intercourse. The sword of Japan
is drawn, and the aim for which 1t
was unsheathed has scarcely been at
tanned. We want peace which will
secure tranquility in the Far East for
at least generation or two.
''I believe that in case of the adver-
sary asking for peace, the satisfaction
which she will have to make to Japan
should include making good the mate
rial loss of Japan; in other words, in
demnity.'
Baron Suyematsu says further:
Japan has not formulated definite
terms of peace, because she might be
accused of skinning the bear before 1t
is shot. We have, however, outlined
our idea"
This article is followed by one under
the heading "Russia's Alternative" by
Archibald Ross Colquhon, author of
Greater America and who has trav-
eled extensively in and written voIum-
inously regarding the Far East. He
scouts the possibility of intervention,
and says that the only possibility of
peace is in direct negotiations and the
payment of an indemnity of at least
$4,000 900 either in money or in kind,
and describes Sakhalin and Vladivo-
stok as of small monetary value to
japan.
CLEANING UP MUKDEN.