THE BALTIC SQUADRON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 16 January 1905, Page 5

THE BALTIC SQUADRON.

JAPANESE AND LABUAN. EXTRAORDINARY RUSSIAN STORY. (Received 8.47 a.m.) LONDON, January 15. i The Java correspondent of the < St. Petersburg josuraal, Noroe , Vnmya, report* that the Japutmc , warships sent to meet the Baltic , squadron recently established a ' base tor naval operations on the British island of Labuan, six miles , to the north-west of Borneo. The British authorities, says this ' payer, deliberately took steps to ' conceal their presence. They even went so far as to cams* the teleI graph office to cease working far I twelve days on the pretence of a J breakdown of the wares. i &USSIAXB AT MADAGASCAR. 1 ANCHOR IN THE OPEN. (Received 8.37 a-m.) LONDON, January 15. Advlees received from Port Louis, the j capital of Mauritius, state that Admiral Roahdeetvenakv, with fifteen warships, J anchored on the 31*t ult. at Diego Bua- | rea, the bay at the north end of the 1 island of Madagascar, ' The volunteer transport Cuban, with 510 men and eight guns, had reached : Diego Soaiw on the posvvioas day. j