The Baltic Fleet
Its Probable Destination
A Japanese Conjecture
Supplies fortiie Fleet
Sent Irani French Port
Press Association.—Copyright. (Received This Day, 8.30 am.) London, May 4 It is rumoured tit Tokio that (he Baltic Pieet'a dfisllnatlon is Petropaulovsk, a port of Siberia, where coal is being collected. > Japan has purchased since the beginning of Hie year from Britain, Germany, and elsewhere thirty merchant steamers, presumably for transports. The Times' Paris correspondent states that Admiral Rozhdestvensky is off the Island of Hoolon, near W hatning.
It is believed he is obtaining supplies from thfl shoie. It is understood that Admiral! Ponqmeres has again left for Saigon to renew the formal injunction that Rozhdestvensky must repect French neutrality. French seamen are guarding the Diana, the warship interned at Saigon. The steamers Eva, Dagmar, and Bourbon, loaded with flour, rice, I -vegetables, and cattle, are constantly ; plying from Saigon to the Baltic Fleet.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1318, 5 May 1905, Page 2
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