LAST NIGHT'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XXV, Issue 221, 7 March 1904, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S CABLES.

Russian Fleet Movements. Revolutionary Proclamations. Telegraph Press Association Copyright London, March 6. The Russian squadron left Vladiyostock on the 29th February, cruising the northern waters in the hope of capturing merchantmen. Numbers of revolutionary proclamations are being circulated in Russian cities, exthorfcing the public to promote popular risings while the majority of troops are absent in the Far East. Moscow merchants are boycotting American goods. .. ' Russians profess to interpret the Japanese attacks on Port Arthur as stratagem to divert attention from their operations in the direction of the Yalu river, and the landing of troops at Posaifc Bay is interpreted as a desire to prevent the Russian troops from Vladivostook proceeding to the Yalu. It is officially announced that Sir A. H. Hardinge, Assistant Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, has been appointed Ambassador at St. Petersburg. Sir Eldon Gorst, Secretary of the ■ Legation and Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government, succeeds Sir A. H. Hardinge. Advices from Tokio received in New York state that two vessels carrying Australian coal, also British, German, and Norwegian vessels laden with coal and provisions, passed through Tsugaru Strait between the islands of Yezo and Nippon, and reached Vladivostook unmolested. The Japanese coal supply is sufficient for the torpedo destroyers for a year. Reuter's Agency reports that,6o Americana have been sent to guard the American goldmines of Unsan, 80 miles north of Anju.