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Show : RUSSIAN VESSELS STILL AT MMRANH BAY; FRENC1 CLAIM WAR' VESSELS ARE OUTSIDEl THREE-MILE NEUTRAL LIMIT i . . ' No Reply Received to Japan's Protest; a New Turning Movement Against Russian Army in Manchuria. BULLETIN, j ' SAIGON, French Cochin China, April 20. Admiral Bo jestvensky's fleet 'la still In Kamranh. hay. The French Admiral, Jonquieres, .has taken -erv step to Insure neutrality. neutrality by the Russian squadron. ; Furthermore, this squadron has been outside French waters for several days past." . ' Outside the Limit In view of today's press dispatches saying the Russian squadron was at Kamranh bay. the last part of the semi-official statement appears to indicate in-dicate that Admiral Rojestvensky has withdrawn outside the three-mile limit lim-it from the shore line of the bay, which, according to French law, constitutes con-stitutes the open sea. i BULLETIN. ST." . PETEBSBUBa, April 20. A dispatch from Gunshu pass says the Russians have discovered a turning ,- movement eighty miles northeast of Kuanchengtsu, about thirty miles northeast of Ounshu pass, by two each of 3000 Chinese bandits, several thousand Japacse cavalry " and twenty-two guns. Kuanchengtsu , is identical with Changchun, the extreme right of Gen. Iinevitch's main front, which extends thence toward" Xirin. i " BULLETIN. T0KI0,.April 20, 5 p. m. The reply re-ply of France to the protest of Japan against the Russian squadron using Kamranh bay, has not been received . in Tokio, but is expected shortly. The statement that the Cabinet and the elder statesmen, after a conference confer-ence held, forwarded a protest is incorrect. in-correct. France was approached through the usual diplomatic channels. chan-nels. , The officials here are not -certain 'whether , the Russians are still at Kamranh bay, although they were reported re-ported to be there yesterday. .t BULLETIN. ST. PETERSBURG, April 20, 5 p. m. It' is claimed here that Admiral Rojestventky has not overstepped the French rules of neutrality at Kamranh Kam-ranh bay, the coaling and provisioning provision-ing of his ships occurring outside territorial ter-ritorial waters. Russia has not been advised that Japan has lodged a protest in Paris. The charges of Russian violation of neutrality, coupled , with the revival tof the story that Russia intends to send her Black sea fleet through the Dardanelles, and the report that the British Mediterranean fleet has been - ent to the Aegean sea to head off the Russian fleet, cause extreme irritation. irrita-tion. PARIS. April 20. No confirmation has i yet 'been obtained of the report thaAv Japan has formally protested against the stay of the Russian squadron squad-ron in the waters of Indo-China as being be-ing a breach of neutrality. The following fol-lowing guarded, semi-official statement was issued: . "Nothing is known in the highest French diplomatic circles concerning . the protest which., according to certain cer-tain foreign reports, has been formally ' addressed by Japan to the French Government relative to the violation of |