Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-26 | Page 2 | News of Battle Daily Expected

NEWS OF BATTLE DAILY EXPECTED st petersburg there Is an air ot expectancy at the admiralty which in dicatos that news of importance re garding admiral s fleet Is awaited at any moment officially no information regarding the admiral s whereabouts is volunteered the officers making no concealment of the fact that they are not in the secret of ro plans but the majority entertain no doubt that the kussian fleet Is now steaming towards its ul dimate destination while there Is no official alon of the hongtong Hong kong report that the fleet has passed through the basee channel it is credited by those who have insisted from the begian ng that will give the island of formosa a wide berth to the west ward the admiral it is said here has had ample time to reach the pa alfie since he left the waters 0 inao the dispatches received from the front are meager but there are some indications that general linevitch has taken a leaf out of field marshal oyama s book at the river and at mukden and that he Is about to advance himself and undertake a counter offensive meeting the japan ese pressure against his left by ad avancing his right it is too early however to determine whether the moves thus far are more than the question of a general exchange of prisoners on which there have been some negotiations is still unsettled and the foreign office here Is not guayne that a general agreement Is possible A partial exchange cover ing the crew of the russian volunteer creuser captured at the opening of the war and the crew of the japanese steamer sabu captured by the russians has practically been