RAISING OF RUSSIAN SHIPS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12861, 20 May 1905, Page 2

RAISING OF RUSSIAN SHIPS.

FKENQH WARSHIPS ON WATCH.

Received May 20, 8.31 a.m. London. May 19. The Daily Telegraph's Tokio correspondent reports that the Admiralty consider it possible to raise and repair the Peresvict, Poltava. Rctvwan, Pobieda, Bayan, and PaHada, at a cost of l£ 130,000 eaqh. The- German •Govern.tne^t states German sailors onlj 7 landed at Ifaiclian to .practise surveying. Forty-three Russian and German colliers are anchored ofit NJiabe, and more off Cape St. Jajmts. They are under observation by French warshjps. Genei'al Dragomiroff, dissenting from General Meokel-'s claim that German instruction was the chief factor of the Japancs-e successes, decla'rod that Fieid-Mlarshal Oyama and "Generals Kuroki and •■ Oku, whom Germany taug'lrt nothing, had accomplished everything. Getpiany was pluming herself on oliher men's success. Received May 10, 8.16 a.m.. ' , Paris, JT'ay 19. Harbin's war correspondent states that Admiral Gregorevitch's aide as scrts that when "General Stoessel ordered the sinking of the battleships at Port Arthur without contulting the Council respecting- a surrender, they assembled a number of the best sailors with the 1 intention of seizing .and imprisoning Stocdsol, but Smirnoff, tearing tlw troops .would revolt, refused to permit the arsest.