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Show WAITS FOR THIRD SQUADRON Admiral Rojestvensky Won't Try to Reach Vladivostok. ST. PETERSBURG. Jan .'. 2 30 a m It seems now to be definitely understood that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron will not aft-mpt at present to reach Vladivostok Vlad-ivostok The decision has been reached that he will await the Third Pacific squadron, squad-ron, on width work Is proceeding night and day and several ships of which ure expected to be ready for service by the end of January , it Is hv no means certain that Rojestvensky will return with his ships tu European waters; he mas await the Third squadron off the coast of Madagascar Mada-gascar and seize and make his ham' one of th- unlnhablt'-d i r,r.-,i Inlands of Polvm -sl-i in view of the report that the Japanese intend to invest Vladlv 'tok. Gen. Patla-VOffl Patla-VOffl has expressed the oolnlon that If Vladivostok Should be blockaded Rnjeat-ven.iky Rnjeat-ven.iky would he compelled to return. Emperor Nicholas Is expected to return tomorrow to St Petersburg, when a council coun-cil of war will be held. |