TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12866, 26 May 1905, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

RUSSIAN FLEET APPROACH-! . ING THE ENEMY. JAPANESE, WARSHIPS ON THEWATCri. OYAiMA. ■ GRmTLY RETNFOROEp. EUSSXAiN, DEFEAT.. Received May 26, 8.40 a.m. , " London, ?»f ay 25..; (General" Mistche'nko, after a fo\\r days' a-ecownaissance on the Japanese ' flairk v . retired 'pn Monday twenty niilcs' ; h6r*ti*west! Russians in the Batan Straits on the 10th stopped the Norwegian stea;mer Oscar for Nagasaki, Japan. The squadron consisted of fourteen converted cruisers and six destroyers. ( It is officially stated from Luzon that fifty warships, supposed to v h* Russians, passed eastwards of Batan 1 Islands on the 20th, sailing northeastward. | (Batan Isla-nd is -norbh of the Philippines, and, roughly, ahout 1-iO miles from the southernmost . portion of the Japanese island of Foitmosa.) \ t i Tokio messages indicate that mai^y Japanese warships are watching ;tke Tsushima, .Tsugaru, and. Soya Straits. 1 French advices from St. Petersburg indicate that" Field-Bl'axshal Oyafina has been immensely reinforced. (Advices from St. Petersburg state that 'General Rennenkampf was wyerely defeated when aHaokimg the Japanese in an unnamed position. There were several hundred, casualties, but the details have, been censored. (General Linevitch demands General Kuropatkin's recall.