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Show ADMIRALTY REFUSES TO DIVULGE MOVEMENT OF VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON ST. PETERSBURG. May 12. The Admiralty-declines to divulge any information informa-tion which it has about the ships of the Vladivostok division which are reported to be off the coast of Japan, but the Impression Im-pression prevails in naval circles .that, acting under the instructions of Vice-Admiral Vice-Admiral Rojestvensky they have passed through Tusugart straits into the Pacific on a reconnaissance -to ascertain if the passage Is free of mines and feasible for Rojestvensky's squadron and also to threaten Japanese commerce. All the Russian naval divisions now In the Far East are acting under Rojestvensky's orders. or-ders. ' . - M. Vronskl, the military expert of the Novoe Vremya. explains that the failure of Field Marshal Oyama to undertake an advance, aa well as the failure of the Japanese to send an expedition to. the Island of 8akhallen. Is .due to the appearance ap-pearance of Rojestvensky's squadron in Chinese waters. - "In his hands is now the destiny of the Far East." the paper says. "May God grant him success." The Slovo reproaches the imperial guard for not going to the front, saying l "Its place is on the battlefield. In all Russia's wars the guard has won glory. It la composed of the picked men of the empire and should show the world what Russia can do." |