TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12867, 27 May 1905, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

WARSHIPS FOR RUSSIA. BULGARIA tfELPS HER IN THE MATTER. Received .May 27, S a.m. Laridon, May 26. The Daily Ctironicle's Sotia correspondent reports that Bulgaria !has piunchasad four Argentine aramoftired cruisers and three destroyers,, ankl sells them to Russia in returti lor five million roubles' worth of railway rolling stock. Two tbousartd Russians left Liba/u last week to accept delivery of tJhe ivessels off New Guinea. TRANSPORTS NEAR SAIGON. RENNENKAMPF'S RAID AND RE -^ TREAT. Received Hay 27, 8.38 a.m. Lonidon, 'May 26. Sixty transports were seen at Saigon on Sunday, half with full cargoes. General Remienikampf's chedk was due to an audacious attemjpt at a raid. He was nearly surro(un(de)d by Japanese cavalry, infantry, an{d artillery, and his retreat paredSprbateSd. Half a brigade of Cossacks were Skilled or wounded. (The locality of the raid is not stated.) , GERMAN NEWSPAPER ENTERS PRISE. Recelvdd May 27, 8.25 a.m. , Lotoidon, May 26. The authorities at Macao, Ohiaia, granted clearance to a Chinese steamer, renamed the Caeeilie, c'hartereld by a German newspaper to follow tihe, Baltic fleet. Her s'u.pßosed destination is Manila. The indemnity "Japan proposes to as3k fro)m Russia is two thousand piilHon yen .(about two hundred million poiinds). ■ . A correspondent) writes :HThe , following mis •'quota lion 1 has suggested itself to ,nio as applicable* to the present situation of /the conumaincler of the first Russian Baltic (fleet : Admiral. Roahdestvensky (on the look-out, soliloquising) : To-go or not To-go? That is the question.