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Show RUSSIANS ARE HOPEFUL. Delleve Great Naval Victory Will Occur In .Straits of Formosa. Whether Vlco Anilrnl Itojestvensky's battleship dllslon panned througu tho . Straits of Hundi or the Straits of Ma lacco. It Is-practically certain now In St. Petersburg that ho Is moving to effect a Juncture with tho dMslon which passed Hlngaporo April 8 According to tho admiralty's Infor mtlon, tho Japaneso havo had an ob-sonatlon ob-sonatlon squadron In tho waters off 1-nbuan, llrltlsh llorneo, vihero they took tho samu adtnntngo of Ilrltlsh neutrality as Itnjcstensky did of French neutrality at Madagascar, and this squadron Is helloed to hao been summoned by Japaneso scouts to ro-main ro-main In touch with the Husalans uni.l they go north to tho Straits of Kor-moia, Kor-moia, whero It Is bellocd In St I'c l tersburg, a battlo will occur. Consld- rrlnr the vital nature of tho Issue, tho admiralty Is Inclined to think Togo will not daro to aend ships to Vladl. voitok or learo K'ssots behind him to cope with tho Iluislan vessels at that port, and that tho Japanese coaata and tho transport fleet will practically 1 havo to shift for themselves until tho naval battle Is fought |