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Show ' LONDON', A; i-;: 17. There U. as ft no news of a r.aval battle in the far Tajt' or of 'the whirlabouts of the rival f.-.cts. The llor.pkor -J correspondent of the Dally Mail awr.Js a rumor cf a. small engage--ment. but there Is no confirmation of this report. ' Details r-ari31rr the Russian ships in Kamranh lav. Cochin- China, are too Bfiirr to b' In'Tuctive., According to the Imilv Malls t.ngnpore correKpoii' r.t, the North German Lloyd ,ptemer i'nns Helnrlch saw five battleships and tix cruisers In the bay, but the dispatches to other of the London morning newspapers are not so precise. The Dally Telegraph's Singapore- correspondent, corre-spondent, like the Associated Press, merely reports "eighteen vessels," and adds that the captain of the Prim Jleln-rlch Jleln-rlch states that possibly more warships ; were inside the harbor, but that they were Invisible from the offlng. . The pVesence of the Russian squadron off the Annam coast is raising keen Interest Inter-est here. In view of the possibility f their Infringing Chinese neutrality and of the likelihood of Rojestvensky having had to split his squadron. ' - The Morning Post's correspondent at Shanghai telegraphs that China has Instructed In-structed the Governor of the southern provinces to maintain strict neutrality. In view of the possibility of Russian ships sheltering there. - '-.-' |