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Show TOGO HIDES HISFLEET LONDON. March 4. Except for a few brief dispatches pertaining to the movement move-ment of small details of troops and scouts, no news of consequence regarding regard-ing the situation In the far East has been received here. The absence of advices .regarding the movement of the Japanese squadrons leads to much speculation spec-ulation here among navy men. In connection with a brief dispatch received a few days ago a fleet of Japanese Japa-nese war vessels had appeared off Vladivostok. Vlad-ivostok. Navy experts believe that Admiral Ad-miral Togo with a portion of the fleet that has partially reduced Port Arthur has gone north to attack the Russian base there. The Siberian station. It is believed, will be much easier to storm than was the Russian stronghold in Manchuria. The entrance to the harbor as Vladivostok is much wider and in other ways the port is more open. Besides, Be-sides, the flower of the Russian navy, or rather what Is left of It In the Orient, is at Port Arthur. Of the fleet at Vladivostok Vlad-ivostok there are only one or two ships of any consequence outside of the torpedo tor-pedo flotilla. The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Telegraph asserts that three separate sepa-rate Japanese armies have landed in Korea, and the Paris edition of the New York Herald publishes a report from Chefoo to the effect that six Japanese cruisers escorting ten transports have been seen steaming In the direction of the Gulf of Llao Tung. Cabling from Chefoo under date of March 3rd a correspondent of the Dally Telegraph says that although Japan has lost a small cruiser and that the machinery ma-chinery of two of her warships has been damaged, these probably have been fully repaired, and in any event Japan has complete command of the sea and will effectually isolate Port Arthur. He predicts pre-dicts that, having secured the Talu river, the Japanese will threaten Kirin, cutting the railroad and menacing Vladivostok, Vlad-ivostok, while a second force deals with the Llao Tung peninsula. |