RUSSIAN-JAP WAR
PRECAUTIONARY.
' HOW TERMINATED ? Per United Press Association. Uy Electric Telegraph - Copyright LONDON, .Vpril 80. Guns have been mounted 1 y the French on Stonecutter's IsUind and I-iong Kong harbour has been n .bed by the British authorities. ST. PETERSBURG’, April MO. The Russian Gazette, Moscow, cr.lculaHihg on Oyaina’s over-.vheluiijng force, predicts that, (hough Rozhdestvensky may be vieto -ioiis, the war will be terminated within a month. LATEST 1N TELLIGENCE CLAIMED RUSSIAN SUCCESS LONDON, May J. Received Ist, 9.56 p.'n. Linovitch -reports that on Saturday, night two Russian forces, atcacking simultaneously, expelled the -Japanese from live positions. LYING BIN WAIT Three warships, supposed tc be Japanese, were sighted on Sa'uriay of! tho Two Brothers Island, 150 iniles S.W. of Cape St. James. It is presumed they were waiting for Diebogatoff. DESULTORY PROGRESS
The steamer Stretton reports that forty ships of the Baltic il.-i.t were in IJoukohe Bay, Annum, <m Thursday afternoon, preparing to juo'ccd to sea.
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Southland Times, Issue 19549, 2 May 1905, Page 2
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157RUSSIAN-JAP WAR Southland Times, Issue 19549, 2 May 1905, Page 2
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