RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12865, 25 May 1905, Page 2

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

•BIiyLOFJJ 1 SUCCEEDS HOZH'DIiISTVE^SKY. BALTIC FLEET IN PACIFIC WATERS. United Press Association. — By Eleotrio Telegraph .r-Copyright. | London, 3Lay 21. ! | Admiral Biriloli has boon juppointod • to the convni'iVnd of iihe Russian Baltic Jlcet. ' ! Tho Daily Telegraph's Tojkio coii-es- t poddent indicates that best i'n'Eorkna- ' » tion indicates the Baltic fleet is now •in tho Pacific. It is reported in Tokio that the HarTcMii-YlacUvost'Qk railway has been cut. j Count Kats"ura, Japanese Premier, in an address, tfulog-isecl tlhe Bidtish alliance. Tho Japanese, ho sal'd.. were ' - ready to shed their last 'drop of blood. [ '31. Kato, Japanese Minister foi* For- • eig'n Affairs, inierviewed, declared that if Russia as"ked for ipoajce, Japjan woiuM demand an uncoaifclitio'nial armistice, tilxe retiu*n of Maiialiluria tto China, recog-nition of Japanese sjnlzprainty over Korea, the cession of Saghalien ,to Japan, the .destroyiing' of the 1 .Vladivostok fortificatidns, anid payment of an inldamlnily of two million. yen. I Admiral Birileft will have' the rigiits and authority of a camtoanfcler ol atn injdopem'dent force. ( M. Kato added thai s,ucji liberal 1 terms woUild afford no oocasion for the Powers' intervention.