THE BALTIC FLEET.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 101, 1 May 1905, Page 5

THE BALTIC FLEET.

SIX MONTHS' PROVISIONS. LONDON, 29th April. Adiniro-l lW.hdestvensky's Hquadron, Including twenty-five warships, a repairing fJiip, water supply ship, and a number of collioiH, hnvo quitted Kamranli Bay, carrying six months' provisions. It is expected they Mill junction with Admiral DirbogatofTs squudrnn and et«er for tho Pacific, en route lo Vladivostok, nftor sending buck tho transports nnd colliers. There are six Russinn colliers at BaUivift. TRAINING THE RUSSIAN CREWS. LONDON, 29th April. French ndvicos received from St. Petersburg state that «n engineer from Madagascar reports that Admiral Rozhdratvansky, besides having boilers on his vcrhclb repaired while nt Mndugaacitr, engngoti Greek, Gorman, Italian, British, Chilian, and Argeutino ex-officers and potty tofltcera to train his crews. THE JAPANESE FLEET. LONDON, 29th April. A merclmntinnn that hns arrived at Shanghai ,rcpoitH sighting on important division of Admiral Togox fleet off Tsuuhinia Islands, BtrniU of Korea. WATCHING SINGAPORE. LONDON, 29th April. Tho Britlfth wnrshipo Sutloj (12,000 tons, 21 knot*), Amphitrito (11,000 tons, 20.75 knots), and Ipl^ginia (3600 tons, 19.75 knots), are patrolling outsido Singapore. THE LAND CAMPAIGN. STRENGTH OF TTIE JAPANESE FORCKS. LONDON, 29th April. Rumiaii tdvicm t>tnto that Mimhnl Oynma commands 600,000 effective troops. TRANSFORMATION OF KOREA. (Received May 1, 8.34 n.m.) LONDON, 30th April. Dr. Morrison, tho Pokin correspondent of Tho Times, (icscribcA Koiou's wonder- I ful transformation. Railways, hnrbourn, and HghthouHes havo been urccted, and land reclaimed. Tho Jnpwnew Imvo suecoodod tho foroign advisor* and tho police. Mr. J. M'Lotivy Brown still rotnins his position nn tho Director of Cu«Uuns. There nro, w»ya Dr. Morrison, sixty thousand Japanese settlers in Korea nnd evoryono is content, except tlio Emperor, cunuclw, nnd parasites.