Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1904 — Makararoff to Be Superseded. [ARTICLE]

Makararoff to Be Superseded.

A dispatch from Sebastopol says that when Admiral Skrydieff, arrives in the far East with the Baltic fleet lie will supersede Admiral Makaroff as admiralissimo. The correspondent asserts that there is a great shortage of naval officers, and that the ministry of marine has decided to quadruple the number of naval cadets. to blockade Port Arthur is giving great trouble, says the same correspondent. The Russians are trying to break up the sunken ships with dynamite, but stones six feet rnstze are difficult” of dislodgment. It has been ascertained that three out of four of the stone laden steamers which were sunk by the Japanese in the latest attempt to block Port Arthur were placed exactly in the intended positions.