| Show N J JAPANESE r f ENGAGE b b bS l RUSSIAN S I t fl J Nothing Definite Known but it is Believed the Latter taller Was WasI I Destroyed WAS VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON i News Lacks Confirmation London is 19 I s scry t Very cry and Askold London March 9 IThe The Dully Dally Tele Telegraph Telegraph graph this thin morning publishes hes u LI Ills 1 patch front from Teklo 10 dated March 7 i day Bay Baying ing It Is III rumored that the Japanese fleet neet engaged the Russian nu Vladivostok j squadron nt lit sea nea yesterday The result of ot the tho engagement en Is I not announced but It Is believed the limo ships were destroyed or captured The Tho tar far eastern e stern news published hero continues to be he most meager The Tho dispatch teh of ot Viceroy adds practically i t nothing to the accounts of ot the i t Vladivostok bombardment contained in III inthe Inthe the dispatches dl of ot Monday There Is III no further mention of ot the rumor that tho the Russian Vladivostok squadron has hns h s been hell engaged and tho the Tokle correspondence of ot tho the Dally Dall Tel Telegram Telf Telegram f cabling on the tho night of or Tues Tuesday Tuesday day March M 8 Hays Ha No 00 details have yet been received of ot the tho light fight fi ht of ot Tho The of ot tho the Vladivostok squadron Is IB still unknown and It would I appear to bo be unlikely that a n 1 na nn naval val nl battle has hM occurred Tho The sending of ot Marquis I Ito Ian on olin n a mIll mis Mon to Korea Korell Is regarded here as ali the tho i most significant noun of ot tho the day da and andIs andla Is la believed to a n 1 virtual prote protectorate t over Korea Koren which will become the tho Japanese military base and of lit supplies Ito enjoys rent Iani Ho Ian i visited vi lilted tho the emperor of ot Korea In to 1598 HS and Ince then has bus been beon held In the tha highest esteem by b the tho emperor who often otten consulted with him It Il Is III reported from t that Viceroy Is ls preparing to remove his hili headquarters to Harbin after liar haY having haYIng ing log In vain alII ordered the Tartar general rl to the tho Chinese garrison nt at Mukden In Hh It Is III believed behoved that tho the Japanese J will till attempt Urn the th ot of o us ns III as nil tho the Ico lea clears clearsA A l correspondent of ot the tho Express nt at Shanghai asserts the tho Russians urn lire throwing up 11 a n continuous hue Una of ot earthworks front from to lino Iho Yang The correspondent of ot tho the Dally Daily ally reports report that Hint a noose fleet has hall been seen proceeding In Inthe inthe the tho direction or of Among other unconfirmed reports It ItIs Is III sold nt mil t that the time Japans Japanese J e ll have advanced to o 1 tin tint In t about 40 northwest jt of ot It Is reported that news hUH him reached Japan of nn an engage between Japanese J and flail Russians lit nt n a point tulles mills from Vladivostok V In which the lIell lIellA He HeA A nf ot tho the Dally Daily nail Telo Tele Tel Telegraph graph nt It Tokia says that to tn reports from Port Arthur the tho Russian I battleship and the cruiser Askold have been A SEA POSSIBLE St Petersburg March 8 The where whereabouts of ot Capt Vladivostok squadron Is carefully guarded by II the tho military authorities but hut there Is a n strong impression hero hr ro that when the tho seven Japanese warships appeared off tho the harbor Sunday and nud yesterday tho the Russian squadron was outside per hops down dawn the coast operating with tho the Russian land hind force o the tile mouth of ot tho the river If Ir tho lire Russians were outside mind the tilo Japanese definitely ascertained that fact u II big III sea se fight Is probably Imminent ns nl It Is considered certain that the Japanese In that case will llo on and ort off Vladivostok to prevent the tho return of ot the tho Russians giving battle battlo It If they are aro caught In the open son sea All tho the har harbors bars bors along time the coast In III which the tho nUll Rus Russians shins might seek seel refuge are oro frozen n nOor over and tho tine must eventually be lie forced to return to Vladivostok for tor coal 1011 All told toM the tho Japanese squadron Is superior In numbers and guns consist consistIng lug Ing III of or a 1 battleship anti and tour four armored cruisers two of ot which watch lire are believed to tobe tobe tobe be the and the Y and two cruisers Tho The four armored cruisers under Capt Roll nelt Rd U the Rossla Rank aul are oro among time the finest yes sell Kels In III the rho Russian navy nn constituting ns 1111 sister Bister ships hlll n a 1 homogeneous light fight fighting lightIng ing unit l experts expert II hero here are ro not lIot certain tain that they thc could not take tako tho the measure of ot Rear Item Admiral UrlA ships shillS A naval service organ orK II hero here lengthily that tho the present Japanese naval disposition presages a n movement on nn a n largo scale In the time sea ion ot of Japan Jupin mind tho the paper accounts for tor nil the Japanese ships liS tho the amid tho the cruiser crIser one first das ria claps protected cruiser and live second class tho the battleships Fuji and amid IIII armored cruisers lu Iu wale mm i and the tho protected cruiser as bring being Injured |
