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Show OBJECT OF THE RAID. Towns on the East Coast of Japan in Danger. St. Petersburg, July 20. The attempts at-tempts to create a sensation out of the passage of the Dardanelles by the Rus-s'an Rus-s'an guardship Chernomorts are re- I garded here as ridiculous. This war- I ship, being the regular Athens guard- I ship, has been passing in and out of I the Black sea for twenty years. The London Times' dispatch from Tokio today saying three Japanese torpedo tor-pedo boat destroyers had sealed the Llao river, where the Russian gunboat Sivouch and a Russian torpedo boat are anchored, and also the report that a battle had been fought July 15 seven miles from Ta Tche Kiao, are absolutely absolute-ly denied. The news of the first appearance of j the Vladivostok squadron in the Pacific since the outbreak of the war, tele- I graphed from Tokio, causes no surprise at the admiralty here, although it is j claimed that Vice Admiral Skyrdloff purposely had not notified them of the squadron's departure in order to prevent pre-vent the possibility of the information leaking out. Vice Admiral Bezobra-zoff's Bezobra-zoff's action in giving the slip to Vice Admiral Kamimura and passing Tsu-garu Tsu-garu straits is regarded as evidence of the Insufficiency of the Japanese naval j forces. ' .It is probably the purpose of Admiral .) Bezobrazoff to raid the coast towns of j Japan, capture merchantmen, make a i j naval demonstration off Yokohama and i generally create a panic among the . ? population, in order to compel Rear Admiral Togo to reinforce Admiral i Kamimura and thus weaken the fleet off Port Arthur. The idea that Admiral Bezobrazoff I . would seriously attack large ports of ' Japan is, however, rejected, owing to I the danger' from submarine boat, j mines, torpedo boats and shore bat- P teries. i The report is current that the Vladivostok Vladi-vostok squadron is homeward bound, i under orders to effect a juncture with i the first division of Vice Admiral Ro- jj jestvensky's Baltic squadron, which is j ready to go out on a trial trip in the f Baltic. . Both the war office and the admiralty are without important war news today, i 'l |