Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — THE RUSSIAN NAVY’S NEW HOPE IN THE WAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RUSSIAN NAVY’S NEW HOPE IN THE WAR

Admiral Skrydloff, the new command-er-in-chief of Russia's naval forces at the scene of the war, whose appointment has created much enthusiasm, has said to his friends in St. Petersburg that w%en he arrives in tlie Orient he will attempt to unite the Port Arthur and Vladivostok squadrons at Port Arthur, and use the combined squadrons there as a menace to the Japanese Mintil re-en-forcements arrive.

ADMIRAL SKRYDLOFF.