Show AST HOPE OF THE EMPEROR RUSSIAN SUCCESS IS NOW CEN GEN UPON I 1 his squadron is expected to defeat defea t admiral togo and thus break long cha it of defeats the announcement that president roosevelt Aw sevelt has left washington on a vacation trip is accepted in st pet kersburg as evidence that the efforts to draw russia and japan into peace negotiations shave have come to grief for the moment no definite explanation of exactly what happened is forth com ing but the general impression is that japan either declined to treat upon the russian basis or demanded a direct avowal that there wai a pacific dispo at any rate the advocates of 0 a of the war seems se cure of their position and everything indicates that chat the hope of an imme diate change of fortune is staked on vice admiral whose squadron according to the best anfor mation is now actually actu all on its way to meet the japanese the admiralty is creati encouraged by py the prospect that y will tie be able to dp teat feat admiral togo owing to the asplen did reports which have just arrived liere here arom dated from the island of madagascar recounting in detail the condition of the ships and par and the results of the target practice pt pf the squadron and an d of the maneuvers in which the war ships have been drilling for three months |