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but a large amount of ammunition and two Nordenfelta from the Ordnance stores.
Starting at 7, they were round by 8.30 a.m., and pushed right up to the head of Tytam inner harbour. The Swift moored houd and stern, with her head about E.S.E., hauled close in to the rocky shore to the southward in less than two fathoms,
being coals and provisioned, and their ammunition put on board. After con- sultation with the General, the Com- modore had started them off at 7 a.m. round by D'Aguilar for Tytam Bay. De Horsey was in command of the Sicift, with 25 of his own men, two R.N.R. officers from the Empress of India (Messrs Tootham and Roswald). Sub.-Lt. Dayley of the Plover was in charge of the Rattler with Mr Nartlew, Chief Boatswain of the Yard, and an R.N.R. officer (Mr Atkinson) from the Radnorshire, with the remainder of the Plover's crew,—60 merchant seamen R.N.R. and others were in the Swift, and 30 in the Rattler. Only one Engineer was sent in each vessel, Messrs Mallett anded head and stern, head to the S. W., Rirish respectively, as the ships had only to get to Tytam; for the same reason only a small supply of coal was put on board, and no great quantity of provisions and water,
they were both flying light. She was protected to the southward by the rocky peninsula from fire from the bay. To at- tack her vessels would have to come round the point exposed at two cabl a distance to her whole port broadside. The Rattler was bauled further in towards Tytam Tuk, but on the northern shore in 9 foet-moor-
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dynamos. A party was landed to make a regiments of Nerehitusk and Tomsk and a small redoubt on the rocky hill south of thousand Artillerymen, 7,000 men in all- the Swift, armed with the two Nordenfelts, a Russian regiment numbers 3,003----and and manned by twenty men. The redoubt the crews of the four vessels amounted to commanded the cove to the south and the another thousand men. The troopers were Shaukiwan Road to the right, as well as escorted by the three destroyers, Borgo, preventing the enemy pouring fire right Revel, and Seaborg. The Orel, of the Rus- down on to the deck of the Swift.
sian volunteer fleet, had been despatched
The Commodore, with the Master At- from Vladivostock on the 7th inst. for tendant, towed down the nine German Saigon, as the French were short of trans- merchant steaners and the one French port. The Russian expedition left Vladi- sailing ship (the Du Guesclin), and moored vostock on the 15th, and going down out- them in a double lite across the Lyeemon side-cast of Formoss the allies were to passage, heavy cables being passed along rendezvous twenty miles south of the Gap then, taken in astern and passed out of the Rock at 4 p.m. on the 23rd. Akinoff could hawse-holes forward. The ends were or would give no details as to the French secured ashore. The shore ends being forces. As a fact the French brought up floated on cargo boste left no openings at 10,000 men in six ships, including the all. The Harbour Master and Staff Com Orel (of 2,850 tons), conveyed by the mander Jones moored the eight other cruisers Descartes and Eclaireur, and the foreign steamers and a Hawaiian barque old ironclad Triomphante, the reserve ship similarly across the Sulphur Channel. in Saigon. For some reason the French We wanted to torpedo boats in in the had not arrived at the rendezvous till 12 night. About 5 a.m., Dover (the Assis-hours after the appointed time. The Rus- tant Harbour Master) and Robinson (the sians, who thought the estimated resistance senior boarding officer) were sent out in two altogether overrated and the force entirely launches, the Gladiator and Vancouver, disproportionate for the object (a raid in a to see what had become of the enemy, time of profound peace), essayed a coup de Robinson went into Picnic Bay in Lama main, with results as narrated. Island, and had a long and hot walk over! Robinson, lying hidden in the bushes, the bills. Dover kept on round by the saw the French feet arrive about 9 a.m. Fast side of Lama, and coming round (accompanied by one prize, the Phra Chula Green Hummock into S. E. bay, came Chom Klao, Capt, Pigot), consisting of the plump on the Destroyer Sveaborg; she Orel, Adour, Dordogne, Guadalquiver, and opened fire smartly on the launch, killing two other large vessels which he could not Dover and sinking the Gladiator before she recognise, and the men of war already could be turned round. Two of her crew-mentioned, Chinese--swain
ashore and succeeded Anchoring, a council of war was held on in rejoining Robinson. The Seaborg pro- | board the Triomphante. The French Com- eeeded South to the Gap Rock about 7 a, m.mander-in-Chief, General Morbleu, as- Amongst the wounded in our hands was sumed the supreme control. All the new General Akinoff, second in command of the arrivals began hoisting out torpedo and Russian expeditionary force-the Comman- troop boats. The Eclaireur was despatched der in Chief, General Grombetchsky, had to the Eastward, where she subsequently been killed. General Akinoff was quite captured the Sungkiạng (Capt. Dodd) and willing to communicate the facts as to the the Verona (Capt. Tocque). The wounded Russian forces-they had consisted of the were boisted out for landing and tents to
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