Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-30
R0JESTVENSKY
DIVIDES FLEET
RUSSIAN ADMIRAL PLANS TO
DIVERT ToGo's SQUADRON.
NO INDICATION OF BATTLE
German Squadron at Tsingtau Said to
Be Preparing for Eventualities
Jap Land Forces in
Daring Raids.

Shanghai, May 27.-There are indi-
cations that Rear Admiral Rojestven-
sky has divided his fleet. Seventeen
vessels of the Baltic fleet anchored at
Saddle islands Thursday night. 1t is
believed that they coaled there, and
that from that point they will proceed
north.
Scheme to Draw Off Japs.
Toxic, May 27.-It is believed here
that the action of the Russians in
sending some vessels to Shanghai is
part of a diversion plan to draw off a
portion of the Japanese feet. 1t is
thought that possibly the Russians in
tend to inferno the slower craft, but
the visit and withdrawal of the faster
vessels is regarded to be without pur-
pose unless as a diversion. The where
abouts of Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet
is not reported and opinion is divided
as to whether it has entered the Pa
ci1c or returned to the lower Chinese
coast. The location of Admiral
.Togo's fleet continues to be secret.
Popular feeling is undisturbed and the
Japanese public is confident that Adj
miral Togo is prepared to meet any
situation.
Daring Raid Of Japs.
st. Petersburg, May 27.-The daring
attempt of the Japanese May % to cut
the railroad and blow up the bridge
over a tributary of the Tungliao, 20
miles south of the Russian main line
from Kuanchengtsu to Kirin, which
are now connected by field railroad.
bears a striking resemblance to the
blowing up of the bridge over the
Kainskair river, 100 miles north Of
Mukden, by Maj. Nanganuma, of the
Japanese army. just before Field Mar
shall Oyama undertook the advance
against Gen. Kuropatkin at Mukden.
Another parallel of the raid of May
t23 occurred while Gen. Rennenkampf'
cavalry recently was working around
the Japanese left south Of Fakoman,
Just as Nanganuma's exploit conceded
with Gen. Mistchenko's raid on New
chwang in September last. According
to reports the raid Of May % was
launched from Mongolia.
Germans Preparing.
Tsingtau, May 27.-The whole Rus
sian fleet is assembled near Woosung
and the German squadron at Tsingtau
Is preparing for eventualities.
Facing Starvation.
st. Petersburg, May 27.-The Russky
Slovo, of Moscow, prints a dispatch
from Vladivostok which indicates that
the inhabitants of the whole maritime
region of eastern Siberia, including the
island Of Sakhalin and the Kamchkat
ka peninsula, are facing starvation OF
account Of the situation produced BY
the war. Word has been brought te
Vladivostok from Okhotsk, eastern 81
IBERIA, that the fish supply Of Sakha1ir
was exhausted last winter and that the
Anhabitants ate their dogs. There is
no flour on the island and the people
are confronted with death by starva
tion. A similar situation exists al
Kamchatka, where the people are prac
tically left to their fate. No work is
going on in the Amur district, beggars
ARE roaming everywhere and the Orc.
chans, a Siberian tribe who live on the
shores Of the Gulf Of Tartary, are dy
ing Of starvation. The dispatch con
cludes: Should the war continue ST,
months longer, starvation will be uni
| yersal in all this remote region"