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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH, 1905.

MR. GEORGE KENNAN'S DES- CRIPTION OF THE BATTLE IN

THE SEX OF JAPAN.

JOINT STOCK SHARES..

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The

Mesare, Vernon & Smyth-suy in their workly share report dated Hongkong, 15th Septembar, 1905.-Wo! have nothing to relieve the monotony of our report. It is the old whee, nothing of any importance to report, business slack, and rates, with very few excaptions, inclined to weakness. mouy recently released by dividends gaid appears to be mostly absorbed, mut cash business has he curtailed in consequsoor, while forward bashuss, altuough a small amount has besa transacted on somewhat noyol grounds, is prso- fically speaking noi est. Thote appears to bo no clasicity or go in the market, and the field of operations seems to be gatting more cartajlad every mouth, It is most probably only a temporary pirise, and one which will flod its own care in time, now that peace and peasports of improved business in the Far Eat is prac tically assured.

find her engines wore intact, but sixteen dook j officers out of sighteen were killed or wounded; she hail been on fire three times; and bor thinly protestaľ supzestrusture, outside of the turrets, Was a chags of smashed and tangled wreckage Sho was seaworthy, but she could not fight.

Any naval power that attempts to cope with Th-the Outlook Mr. Georgo. Kennon had a highly interesting article on The Destruction Jupau must give the offers and gunners of its battleships better and more adequate protection of the Baltio Font." As to the condition of the battleship Orel and the nature of the from Shimos abell fragments than was afforded projectiles fired by the Japanese as well as their by the conning tower, turrets, and barbettos of effects, he said At first sight the big Russian the Ort. The observation-lit af the latter's Vessel looked like an old naval dereliot which conuing tower was big enough to take in 15-inch shell, and a Shimese projectile, of any size, had been picked up at sea and towal into port bursting on or near the ego of it, would Her bottom, so far as it could be poor through the clear water of the bay, was incrusted with inevitably fill the tower with Iron splinters, barnacles and green with the slime of submarine and might kill or disable erary officer in that tropical vigalation; her sides, along the belt of most important and vital part of the ship. Ths ero abrasures of the tarrots, toe, were very armour just above the waterline, were spotted with pairhos of rust where the black imperfectly shielded, and many offers were had ban cheeked or seraped off by the wounded by shell fronts that came in along Impact of shells in the upper part of her huil, the barrels of the guns. I am not a mural above the armour belt on the port side, there architest, and I to unt kuow whether it is

BANK-Hongkong & Shanghais, from the ware three or four yawning chasmus big enough possible to protect embrasures and

hot in such

troy as to prevent splinter cause as reported in our fast, have' COU

$800, and $895 close steady with buyers at 8900, This demand has this wedi has avautunted to some extent by the enmour of a nut China loan, but nothing ofletul is known about this, and although very probable the rernou must be accepted for what it is worlk Nationals:

to

The following Pianos are thoroughly some in a wheelbarrow both of hor is coming ihesi, ntitio same time, allow † tinued to advance, and after Bill salos at $897

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the officers and goners to look out; but thorn mail-kegeertainly can be no good reason for having an opening eighteen fuches wides in a heavily armoured coning tower. In a fight lasting half a day, the Japaness are likely to hit such tower two or three times at a range of four miles, and a large Shines shell, fursting rainst one edge of the observation sit in the conning tower of the flag-ship, might kill the commanding admiral and all of his nusistats,

her!

Je been partly ent through by large projectiles; one of her yellow funnels had lost its top, while the other had a hole fa i as big as a two large steam entiers, which she carried on clicks amidships, had been riddles and smashed by largo shrapnel ballots and shalls Forestopsail yard had been partly eut from the slings and lung cross the most at an angle of forty-five degrees; and what little running rigging she carrie aloft had been so torn to UPRIGHT PIANOS ces by fragments of shells that it dangled

FOR THE CLIMATE. intending bufors should not miss this most favorable opportunity of securing one of the Great Bargains.

Sate Former Price.

Prios. $150 $475

180 290 295

from the spaes in swaying ends nad tatters.

But the injuries visible from the outside of the ship wore to striking nor so impressive to the "Imagination as the destruction that was errywhere apparent when we climbed a pope 250 Judder to the upper decks and walked through flo cabins, mesx-rocans, turrets, and barbettes. The superstract of the big vessel had hoon 525 struck by forty-free large ealthy projectiles and perhaps as many more of smaller size, and 450

there was hardly a square yard of surface, inside 500 or on that did not show damage. One of the

huge twelve-inch guns ou the port side of 480 forward turret and been broken short off shout eight feat from the muzzle; a big perpendicular made in one of the six- 366 inch gun turrets, and fla

one side of this seem bad been driven five inches out of place; two or three of the quick-firing in the lateral barboltes had busz becken

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and sy derange the whole plan of battle Something of this kind sees to have happened on the Kainz Sururoff, whore Admiral Ruzlidest vensky and many of his officers were disabled by shell splintors in the first two hours of the

engagement.

and and without businers

FIRE INSURANCES: Hongkong have fogud further buyers at 5336 and less study at that rat, Chinis eustinuing in demand the rate has improved to $80 with anyors and as sellers.

MARINE INSURANCES.-Unions have ban placed during the wook at $767! and $770, and- loss with inmyers at $775; it is reported that the Sarity will recommend a dividend of $1) per

shure. China Traders have continued to rul quist, and after fair sales at 8:0 thủ inikot los with sellars at that rete. Cautans, Yaug tszes and North Chinas unchanged with o "Business to report.

quote also the concluding page of the urticle:-The reasons assigned by the Russian officers a

for their disuatrons defeat are, bridy, 2 follows:

1. Insufficient iuferation will regard to

Sur PINO-Hongkong, Canton and Macao the whereabouts and disposition of Admiral continue at $263, with bayers and no sales. Tog's ships.

Indo Chicas remain very quist, but ataudy at 3. The superior speed of the Japanese vessels, Sunt with but a small burini Douglases, "bare whishenabled them to take the positions that improved to S with buyers on an authentic most advantagons, and to fight, throughout the report of a dividend of $3,50 about to be segugelacuts, at ranges of their own choosingclared. Other stocks ander the houding

Ngani, or crack, hati been of steel at Rassion ships and brua cloned as well as cantitina nezlected nad without business.

gilb

500

off, suash, or distionated, and in one place (1l+

the inner-eel wall of such a barbeito was 500 lost iterally plastered with blood and small,

half-dry frogments of human fesk.

750

So far as I could discover, the heavy armour

it was possibly to dean them without docking facilities, but their bottoms were still foul, unil not one of them could make naything like its

record spel,

3. The uprising and extraordinary geney of the Japanese gua-fire at long ranges This, the oicers of the Drel think, was the decisive factor in the confest. They 600 of the turrets and of the hull just above the agres in. stating that their ships were

water-line had not been piorced; but through

overwhelined arid defeated by gun-fire the thinner walls of the higher superstructure, long before a torpelo-toat was brought into 650 through the port holes of the cabins and mess action. The Anis Suvarof, the alge, the rooms, and though the embrasures of the small. Alexander II, the Berading, the Sissoi Vetika, 750 lateral barboties, shells had come in everywhere, the Admiral Oushakof the Smietland te

and the destruction that they had wrought in

Nuvarin, and the Orel wero all disabled, the interior of the huil almost battly description.

Some of them were primarily by shells. The general appearance of the ship seemed to track afterward by torpedoes, and finally sank indicate that to Japaneso in this engagemout used three kinds of projectiles, vis: (1) pointed, as the direct and immediate result of the torpedo attack; but they had virtually been armour-piercing solid shot of eight-inch to twelve. fuch calibre; (2) sholls of all sizes fonied with but out of aution by gunfire before the Sbimose powder; and (3) heavy shells in which torpsin-boats BP of four miles," said Lieuten-

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Japan side of the strait, and so get nearer to thes, but they were too fast for us. They circle around ahead of us, and knocked us to pieces at such long ranges that we were barely able to see them through the mist."

REFINERIES. China Sugars, with a fow settlement sharos in the ofing, lave ruled quist, and sales have been effected at $230 for

the 19th inst Latzons are on offer at the releed rate of FIT.

MINING. No change or business to repart, Doers. WHARVES AND GonowNs. Hong- 18 and so steady at that rate. Kowloon kong and What, on Decks have buon placed at Wharves inve found ready barers at 310, bat shares are seat and holders inclined to sit tight. Nothing ele under this heading calls for notice. kong Lands have been placed at is reduced LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINos-Hong-

ruth of $120, and close quiet at that rate. Points remain steady at 35, but without sales. amphogs, after having box planed at $124, close on demand at that rata, Hotels have improved to Site with huyo s.

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COTTON MILLS.-With the exception of un improvement in Ewos to Ta 32 buyeru. we have nothing to report under this heading.

MISCELLANEOcs.--We have no changes to report, and business under this heading has been confined to small sales of Watsons at $14, Cements at $28, and uld Electries at $15.

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abarstig charge of Shimoss was murrounded an X-,"the Japanese gunners seemed to by concentric layers of very large shrapahit us with almost every shot that they fired; bullets, weighing about three ounces each. Then if you've been through the Orel, you know 600

projectiles that caused most damage to the Orel what they did to us. were numbers 2 and 3-Simso shells and Hongkong. 4th September. 1906. · 12055

Shinose shrapnel. The explosive energy of the Practico enough, to shoot aanrately at such Wo Boped that we might be able to composition known to the Japaneseas Shimaose crowd Toga's ships up toward the land on tho A SAFE REMEDY

is about equal to that of blasting gelatine, and when it is firul by dotonation, it fears its iron FOR ALL SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES easing, not into a few large fragments, but into

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The officers of the Orel admit that shaam.--Venite, Crazeh; Te Deum, Real Hymns, 985, 181, 413, and 227; Kyrie, Schubert, Hely larger than the paring of a thnabbail. These Japanese torpedo-bouts rendered gand service on stato of the Honi, Fans WHATEVER CAUNE ARISINI saw splinters at Maizara that were hardly

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12.14. Evening Prayer, 6.30. Məgai- small fragments of iron fiy in ovory direction the night of the 27th after the assion forms-onion.uc Distis, Tale: Hymns, 237. with almost inconceivable velocity, find their tion had been broken, but they insist that

in at every crash, crevice, or loophels of a simp's defenele armour, and pierce, or eat to torpales played a willy abordinate and piocas not only from partition walls and decks, Ruzhdestvensky wouldhave been defeated evenit but poaking tubes, electric wires, and every there had been no torpedo-hosts or destroyers in other medium of sending orders or transmitting Toge's fleet. We were smashed, set on fire, and power that is not protected by a heavy covering finally disabled," they say, "by projectiles which. of stort. I hesitate to say how many holes, donte, bruises, and abrasions had been tule in the the beginning at least, were fired at very long superstructure of the Orel by fragments of these ages over which our gunners could do lite or no execution. The Japanese, torpedo shells, but think is Ant xaggerate when I

practice, as a rule, was not good, Tho made estimate the number at a thousand. Some were hits only when they waca el so up to disabled loles in partition walls that we big enough.

-skips." put one's list through, some were dents four

The extraordinary efficiency and destruc- inches wide and two inches deep in iron tiveness of abcle loaded with Shinose powder. plates, and some were merely scratches and Ihare already described the effects produced by Scars such as would to caused by a handful

these shells, and used only add here that the nickel coins fired out of an old-fashioned offtears of the Ore fully confirmed my judgment onderbuss. One iron wall in the super with regard to them. They attribare the dis structure, which had a superficial area cabling of their ships largely to the explosive only eighty or a hundred square fest, had been pierced, dented, or abraded in at least fifty peculiarities of the projectiles.

The amount of interior woodwork in many Paces. Nearly all of the enters of the Oret of the Russian ships-particularly the battle- were disabled by shell platers of this kind ships--and the presence of coal in bags on their Clue of them had six wounds, another fourteen, decks. Everything combustible was set on fire and I have a phatographe audrel nad thirty that ensued demora ized the euss, distracted

of a Russian sailor

by the Shimose shells, and the conlagrations who has beзn hit by one small fragments of a single shell. I lay parti- their attention from their proper work, and onder stress upon the destructive power of these sostines soshrouded the vessels in snok den-o Shimose shelle, partly house it "impressed me clouds of smoke that the offiers and

gwoners more than anything else that I saw on the re could see nothing whatovor of the fight. and partly because those projectiles were nous suffered less from this case than some of the the mos important of the secondary agungis other ship did," said Lieutenal X ——-; "be- that brought about the destruction of the Baltic an

canse we bail less woodwork, but even on the feet. When every shell that bursts inside a

Orel sverything seemed to burn down to the ship or on her deck sets fire to everything

the first stage of the battle the that will bura and at the same time throws very paint.

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