PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1905, Page 4

PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

The "best information indicates that tha HiKsinn flt^t i» now in the Pacific Ocean," but th*r« is nn information, as usual — best or otherwise — of the whereabouts of the Ih-ct of Togo. The Russian Foreign Office denies that Ro/Julestvensky— who, it would tints fcoem, N still on dock — contcmphilM n base anywheie in the Philippines, j he mfonn.it ion it) supoi Ilium.*, for Cousin Jonathan would ninke too strong a prott*»t, l>ut it does not follow th.it the HusM.ins will not cojl to tho limit of their rights in American waters. From MdPehuiin we learn of bickering between tho nulitaiy loaders, and with a tremendous buttle immiru-ut. If f.incvitch and Kuro parkin .itc thui divided, think of the disto:d in the staffs behind tin 1 in, and Iho H.un to the enemy. Ou the Russian right the ndviini'b j;u!iid» have boon diivcn in, but time is no woul yot of the barking of tho big guns along the fighting lines. Iho lailway lino from Khnrbin to Vladivostock has been cut, a piece of work finely timed t<» add to tho anxieties of Lineviteh, when lie must givo hii uncliviilcd attention to the gieat battle immediately beforn him. What leads like a pnhiru plot is reported fiom IviolT. thoobjoct being no less than the kidnapping of tho infant Tutrcvitch. It is cii'cumf-Untmlly nddtd that treachery among; the eonvpiratois led to discovery, and that there followed tho dismissal of mnny members of the domestic suite of tho Russian ruler and his Kmpiuss. With the granting of religious freedom, 26,000 Poles have, it id suid, gonu over to the Roman Catholic Church, and the authoiities aro describod as " furious."