RUSSIA-JAPAN WAR

Southland Times, Issue 19554, 8 May 1905, Page 2

RUSSIA-JAPAN WAR

FRENCH NEUTRALITY'

Pelj United Press Association. Dy Electric Telegraph. — Copyright

LONDON, May 5. It is stated in Paris that before the Japanese representations this week France had seHt d itaval division to Binglikoy Bay to vigorously enforce neutrality. Admiral Diebogatoff’s warships passed Singapore eastwards at dawn to-day, not bn Saturday. LATEST INTELLIGENCE ROZHDESTVENSKY MAKES A DISCOVERY LONDON, May 6. Received 7th, 4.51 p.m. Europe was amused by a St. Pct- 1 ersburg telegram, announcing that Rozhdestvensky had informed his Admiralty of the presence of Japanese warships in the territorial 'waters of Borneo. The telegram added that if the report were verified Russia should send a protest to Holland. A later telegram states that die Admiralty denies receiving Such information from Rozhdestvensky; APPRECIATED The Mikado has given LiOOO to tho army branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association in recognition of their opening of recreation and, reading tents at the principal bases in Manchuria. BECOMING INTOLERABLE The feeling in Japan re Rozhdestvensky's procedure is rapidly growing into deep resentment lowards France. The newspapers urge immediate action. One suggests an embargo on French merchantmen pending Rozhdestvensky’s final expulsion. A PUNY DASH LONDON, May 7. Received Bth, 12.55 a.in. Four Russian torpedoers from Vladivostock arrived on the west coast of Hokkaido on Friday, seized and burned a small vessel, and returned to Vladivostock.