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GASCOIGNE ROAD, KOWLOON.

31st ult.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

JUNE 3, 1905.

able to all the gallant Togo's attacks and TELEGRAM S. REPORTED NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.

skilful plots in another two months' time,

We learn that the Fourth Baltic Squadron, consisting of two new first-class, one second- 'cruisers and ten The following copy correspondence has class battleships, two reached us from the office of the Colonial

new destroyers, is now practically ready Unly the fin- to sail from Cronstadt. Secretary :-

Letter from H.E. the Governor to Majorishing touches remain to be put upon some General Sir W. J. Gascoigne, of 24th March, minor work and the balance of the active service equipment to be placed on board by 1905.

the naval contractors when the ships will be ready to sail, which will be before the end of the present month. They will then come out at their best speed and are expected to reach Far Eastern waters in about a month-and-a- half or two months.

Government House, Hongkong, 14th March, 1905. Sir,-1 have the honour to transmit the ea closed copy of Government Notification No. 156 and to inform you that the main thorough fare recently opened across the Kowloon Peninsula has by my direction been named Gascoigne Road in commemoration of your connection with the dedication to the Public of the King's Park which the road partly traverses.❘ -1 have, etc.

(Sd.) M. NATHAN,

Governor, &c. Major-General W. J. Gascoigne,

London.

Reply from Sir W. J. Gascoigne. 13, South Street, 2028/05-C.5.0.

Park Lane, W.,

28th April, 1905. Sir, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's letter of 24th ultimo numbered above.

It is with very great pleasure that I learn

The fleet consists of the new first class bat. tleships:

-Paul tat, 16,700 tons, four 12-loch guns, 183 knots.

Slava, 13,600 tons, four 12-inch guns, 18

knots,

The second-class battleship Imperator Alexander and. 9,977 tons, two 13-inch, four

9-inch guns, 16 knots.

The Pamist Azova, armoured cruiser, 6,673

tons, two 8-inch, thirteen 6-inch guns, 19 knota.

The Admiral Korniloff, armoured cruiser, 5,000 tons, two 8-inch, fourteen 6-inch guns, 17.5 kéois.

Ten new destroyers of over 30 knots."

** HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH "

SERVICE

THE BALTIC FLEET.

BIRILEFFS APPOINTMENT. LESSONS FROM PORT ARTHUR. RODJESVEŃSĶY'S BLNESS EXAGGERATED. [From Our Special Correspondent.}

Shanghai, 27th May, 3 p.m.* The appointment of Admiral Biri- leff to the command of the Pacific squadron, including the Vladivostok and Baltic fleets, was solely prompt- ed in view of the lessons derived during the operations at Port Arthur when, after the death of Admiral Makharoff, the Russian fleet was loft without a commander-in-chief, and

RESULT UNANOWN,

From Our Special Correspondent,]

Shanghai, 20th May. It is reported that ships of the Russian and Japanese Fleets have Liten engaged forty miles north of the Saddles.

The result is at present unknown. RUSSIAN SHIPS OFF WOOSUNG.

TRANSPORTS REFUSE TO LEAVE, [From Our Special Correspondent.

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Shanghai, 20th May“ There were twenty Russian ships lying off Woosung on Sunday

Notwithstanding the protests of authorities the transports refuse to leave.

The officers on bourd declare that they are in need of coal and provi

that through Your Excellency's kindness a road JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND ❘ with a view of placing him in com-sians.

across the Kowtoon Peninsula has been named after me, thereby associating me with a Colony in which I passed five of the happiest years of my life.

I beg to express to Your Excellency my greal thanks for your kindness in allowing this hon. our to be accorded to me.-1 have, etc.

(Sd) W. J. GASCOIGNE,

His Excellency the Governor,

THE EXPORT OF COAL.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES CONTRACT.

mand of the northern section of the combined fleets of Russia when the Baltie Squadron, under Admiral Rod- Since the Baltic squadren made its appear.jesvensky, effects a junction with the ance in the China Sen, there has been some remnant of the Vladivostok Squadron

att their base.

apprehension among Japanese that the Rus Major General, sians would indirectly receive supplies of

THE FOURTH BALTIC

SQUADRON

The report of Admiral Kodjesveu- sky's illness, which has persistently found its way into certain inspired journals, is considered to be a grotes. que exaggeration of fact.

The Admiral is in the best of health. [Admiral Birileff started for Vladivostok on' 26th inst. According to a Londoa wire of 20th inst. it was stated that numerous correspond, ents at St. Petersburg affirm that Admiral Rodjesvensky is suffering from an internal disease and nervous breakdown, The Admiral hapes to be able to take the fleat to Vladivostok then resign his command and return to Russia. ED., H.K. 7

Received too late for publication on Saturday.

Japanese coal from Japan. Such coal sold to foreigners and shipped to Hongkong, Singa. be supplied to the Baltic squadron, while pore, and other ports of the China Sea mighty nothing could be done by the Japanese au thorities to prevent it. This was the general apaian, but the Japanese Government has The China Gazette of zand inst. prints the now decided to investigate into the quality, following editorial:--The information publish shipper, buyer and destination of coal export. ed from this country and to stop shipments the ed in another columa concerning the immedia te sailing of the Fourth Baltic Squadron for destination of which is thought to be inimical to these waters, will doubtless come as another the interests of Japan. These are announced as extraordinaryadministrative measures in time of great shock to the blind believers in and wor- shippers of Japan. The news that this formi.

war. In compliance with this decision the ship dable little squadron is almost ready to set sail, mentof 4,500 tons of Bazen lumpcoal, which was

to be slapped by the Moji branch of the Midzuand and that it will start upon its journey to rain.

shina Shoten, a coal firm in Sakaye-machi, force the strong flest formed by the First, the Second, and Third Baltic Squadrons now man. Kobe, for Saigon, in contract with the. Messa reuvring in Indo-China waters under admiralgeries Maritimes, has been stopped by the Redjestvensky, will, we imagine, prove almost authorities. as great a surprise to the general public in the Far East as did the sudden emergence of the mucb dended Baltic Fleet from the Malacca Strails on that memorable 8th April, when the hoodwinked readers of the carefully Japped press were expecting every moment to hear of that same fleet reaching Suez, homeward bound, recalled in despair and confusion, as they were daily and hourly told it would assuredly be.

The other day we were told that the Fourth Squadron might be ready to sail in the autumn. It is ready to sail now. Only a few stores and fittings' remain to be put on board and then we expect it to set sail at the end of the month. The addition of three such battleships as the Paul 1, the Slava and the Imperator Alexa der 1. to Admiral Rodjestvensky's already powerful fleet will give him an overwhelming strength in battleships, which the redoubtable Togo, with his four, and at most five, war-warn ships of this class, dare not face in line of battle but will be compelled to dodge and seek to damage by mines, torpedo attacks, by wiles and stratagems. The Paul I. is a magnificent new vessel of 16,700 tons, or 300 tons bigger than the largest British battleship now allost, while the Slava, with her 13,600 tons, is a sister ship of the new Russian flagship the Knjaz Suvaroff; each cairies four 13-inch guns, while the third battleship the Alexa der ., almost 10,000 tons, (or about the size of our Centurion), which formerly had two 12-inch and four g-inch guns, has since been rearmed with more effective modern batteries. The cruisers Pamiat Azova and the Admiral Korpiloff are both powerful and use. ful ships if not quite new, while the fleet will be further strengthened by ten of the newest palters destroyers of very high speed,

Such valuable and heavy reinforcements are certainly worth waiting for, and as they may be expected to reach Indo-China waters in about six or seven weeks from now, the idea naturally suggests itself whelber Admiral Rodjestvensky will not wait for the Fourth, as he has waited for the Third Squadron. After all, a month and a half or two months more will not make any great difference in the military situation, and seeing the enormous ad dition such a formidabic squadron would be to his present strength, and that all the talk about the Japs being able to take Vladivostock in dou ble quick order-seeing that they took a year to

take Port Arthur so much nearer their base-- is sheer nonsense, it would not surprise us in the least if we heard any day that the Russian Admiral would profitably pass the time in pre- fecting his various squadrons in maneuvring together in southern waters, until the formid able Fourth Squadron shall have time to join

bim.

the lie to all the many reports we have had reinforcements from Russia's yards surely gives from Reuter and the Tapped press agencies and papers about the utter chaos in Russia, the revolutions and strikes, which we were told and the resources of her naval yards. The were crippling all her powers of recuperation result as expressed in new ships in commission gives all these stories the lie emphatic and direct. Nor have they done the Japs any good. They quite believed Russia could not send out any more ships.

According to the Osaka Mainichi, to which journal we are indebted for the above informa- tion, Midzushima Shotea had for ten years held a contract with the M.M. Company for the supply of coal to its fleet, the, cual to be delivered at Hongkong, Singapore, Saigon," and Kobe. Last year the Mitsu Bishi Com- pany supplied the coal required at Saigon, but this year the Midzushima Shoten was again successful in its tender. The quantity of coal 40 l delivered at Saigon this year was 10,000 tans, of which 4,500 tons were shipped on April 13th. Recently the Midzushima Shoten chartered the British steamer Balasu, for shipment of coal from Moji to Saigon at $2.30 per ton. The steamer, arrived at Moj en plied to the Moji Customs for permission to ship to Saigon 4,500 tons of the best Buzen lump coal in addition to you tons bunker coal for the steamer,

i3th instant, and the Midzushima Shoten ap

Usually a permit is given at once, but this time it was delayed and the shipper was told that in view of the present situation of affairs he had better apply for permission to certain authorities. On the 14th instant application was made to the authorities, and on the following day the application was returned with a note to the effect that the ship. ment of coal by the atasu would not be allowed, and that an explanation would be given on application to the Home Minister. A few minutes afterwards the Moji Police lele. phoned that the shipment of coal by the Hatasu should be postponed until further instructions from the Governor. The matter was communi- cated to the head office of the coal company at Kabe and the loading of the steamer stopped. Nothing being heard from the Governor, ca the afternoon of the 16th the Midtushima office at Moji telegraphed to the Governor asking for ar explanation of the stoppage, and explaining that the detention of the steamer would result in heavy losses to the firm. In about an hour a reply was received stating that the shipmen! was stopped in compliance with instructions of the Government. Thereupon, the Midzushima Shoten immediately gave notice to the M.M. Company and the master of the lawu can. celling the contract and charter party. The

contract entitled the firm to take this course if

unable to fulfil its agreement by wit major, such as the collapse of the colliery or the pro- hibition by the Government of coal shipments.

The Osaka journal adds that when the con tract was accepted towards the end of last year,

the coal market was extremely depressed and the Mizushima firm entered into competition The contract works with the Mitsa Ilishi, so that the contract was taken at a very low rate.

SHIPPING DEMORALISED.

RECALCITKANT SEAMEN,

[From Our Special Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 27th May. The appearance of the Baltic Fleets in these waters has utterly demoral- ized the shipping business.

The crew of the str. Bentorlich, which has been chartered as a mail bout by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, have refused to proceed to Japan because they allege the stearner his bitually carries contraband of war, including munitions.

CONDITION OF RUSSIAN SHIPS.

STATEMENT BY. OFFICERS. [From Our Special Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 27th May.

The cruisers Rion and Smolensk have escorted the colliers into Woo. sung.

The officers aboard of the coal steamers report that the Baltic war- ships are in splendid fighting condi- tion.

THE SITUATION AT SHANGHAI

UNCHANGED ON SATURDAY.

[From Our Special Correspondent.]

RUSSIAN WARSHIPS SUNK.

IN TSUSHIMA STRAITS.

[From Our Correspurulent,]

Shanghai, 29th May, 2.35 p.m.

In a naval encounter in Tsushima Straits five Russian warships have been sunk.

RUSSIAN TRANSPORTS DISARM.

The Russian transports at sung have surrendered (sic).

The third report, received on the morning of May agth, states that the main force of our combined aquadron, had continued the pur suit since the 27th inst, and attacked on the 18th instant, near Lian-court Rock (North- cast of Okinoshima), a group consisting of Nickolai T, (battleship), Orel (battleship), Senyovin, Aprusine and Fremrud, while in the engagement the fund fled and the remaining four vessels surrendered. No damage to our ships was sustained.

According to the statements of prisoners, the vessels sunk in the engagement of May 27th were: Borodino (battleship), Alexandre III. (battleship), Zemichug, and three other ships.

Rear-Admiral Nebogatoff and about 2,000 other Russians were taken as prisoners.

The following is the damage suffered by the enemy in addition to those given in the

above :-

I could ascertain none of them are seriously. fojured, all being still engaged in operation, Our full casualty list is not yet ascertained. Those of the first division atë a little over 4001

Imperial Prince Yorihoto is in excellent. was slightly health and Admiral Misuz wounded on the 27th instant.

FURTHER RUSSIAN LOSSES CONFIRMED, The sixth report, received on the after- noon of the gathi Instant, states that the loss of the Oslabia and Navarin is confirmed. The Sisoi Veliki is also definitely reported to have been sunk on the morning of the 28th inst

RUSSIAN LOSSES. -

22 SHIPS

AGGREGATING 153,411 TONE.

Since the commencement of the battle,

Tokio, 30th May, 10.30 p.m., as reported by the commanders not under

(received 31st May, 5 a.m.) immediate command of Admiral Togo and by the observation stations, Admiral The official statement of the "Russian

Dmitri Douskoi, Svietlana, losses so far ascertained is as follows:- Aakhimoy, Admiral Ousakoff, Kamichalka, Irutchush The following six battleships were sunk : and three destroyers were sunk. Vladimir |--Kniaz Suvaro, Imperator Alexander III., Monomach foundered after capture. Borodine, Oeliabia, Sissoi Veliki, and

One special service:ship whose name is 1 Navarin. unknown and one destroyer were captured. The following five cruisers were sunk

The Russian losses definitely known so far Admiral Nakkimo, Dimitri Bonikol, may be classified as follows:-Two battle Vladimir Monomach, Srielluna, and Zemt- ships, coast defence ship, 5 cruisers, a chug. special service ships and destroyers were Bunk. Two battleships, 2 coast defence ships, special service ship and destroyer were captured.

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It is not yet clear whether three vessels, as stated by the prisoners to have been sunk, are included or not in the above list. There are more than 1,000 prisoners besides 2,000 taken by the main force of our combined squadron.

The naval engagement is still in progress, so that it will take some time before the final

Woo.results can be known.

(In the text of the message the word "sur rendered" is used by our correspondent, who evidently meant to say that the transports have disarmed in consequence of the pressure exer: cised by the Chinese for the due, observance of the neutrality of the port.-ED., H.&.7.]

FIRING OFF WOOSUNG Firing has been heard off Woosung,

THE NAVAL BATTLE:

A RUSSIAN VERSION.

ALLEGED JAPANESE LOSSES.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 30th May,

2.25 p.m..

The transport Korea and the mine laying tugboat Sur have arrived at Woosung.

The officers report that three Japanese warships were sunk by the Russian fleet within half an hour of the commencement of the engage. ment of Saturday last.

They further alleged that five of the Japanese ships are missing.

FURTHER ALLEGATIONS. SUBMARINES REPORTED USED.

BATTLESHIPS TURN TURTLE.

[From Our Special Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 30th May, 4.40 p.m. The collier Korea has arrived here from the straits of Tsushima with a hole in her bows.

A coast-defence ship, the Admiral Our hake, was sunk; two special service ships, the Kamtchatka and Nutish, and three destroyers were also sunk,.'-

Two battleships, the Orel and Imperator Nicholai I, two coast-defence ships, the General Admiral Apruzin and Admiral Sen- yurin, and one destroyer (Biedory) were captured.

Thus Russia lost altogether twenty-two ships, whose aggregato tonnage amounts to 153,411 tons, besides the cruiser Alma, which is suspected to have been sunk.

CAPTURED SHIPS

IN JAPAN.

Tokio, May 30, 3.30 p.m... Four captured vessels have been safely brought into our naval ports on the gath inst., viz., Ore? (battleship) to Maizuru; while Nichelai 1. (battleship), Apraxin and Senyapin (coast-defence ships) arrived at Sacebo..

*** The Nicholai is a battleship of 9,671 tons, and was built in, 1898. The Gritis also an up-to-date vessel having been built last year. Admiral Seniavine and the Admiral Apraxini, Her tonnage is given at 13,516 tons. The however, are small vessels, which can hardly be regarded as battleships in the accepted suic of the word The first named was built in 1892, and has a displacement of 4,100 10 while the second was launched in 1895, and is of 4,260 tons. It is significant that, besides being comparatively small boats, they carry very little coal. The Icumrud which escaped is a protected cruiser and was only built last year. The Borodino and the Alexander III. which it is reported were sunk on the 7th ins were sisterships of 13,516 tons, built in 1904. The Zemichug was also a new yerkel, a pro tected cruiser of 3,100 tons launched last year. The remainder of the vessels which are stated to have been sunk were only fourth-rate war- ships of no power or speed. For instance, the Admiral Nachimoff is described as a battleship, but as she was built in 1888 and was only af 8,500 tons displacement, she must have been a rather antiquated vessel. The Dimitri Donskoi was even more aged, having been built in 1885, her tonnage being 5,860 tant. The Svietiana was an 1897 boat, of 3.818 tons, while the so called battleship Admiral Ousato was one of a batch launched in 1895 of 4,260 tons. The Kamchatka was only a repairing ship; while

The Sisnoi Veliki, Nuchinoj" and "Monol the Vladimir Mononach which foundered after

much, having already suffered heavily mid capture dated from 1885 and was of 6,051 tone.

[The above despatch was issued in a "special day of the 27th May and on the same night, extra" early this forenoon.-Ed., A.K.T.] were so damaged by our destroyer and tor

pedo-boat flotillas, that they were COMPLETION OF JAPAN'S VICTORY,pletely put out of action. They were

RUSSIAN ADMIRAL A PRISONER

· AND SEVERELY WOUNDED,

RUSSIAN FLEET ANNIHILATĖD.'

'ZEMTCHUG'S FATE UNCERTAIN.

JAPANESE CASUALTIES 800,

Tokio, 31st May, 6.50 p.m. (Received 1st June, 9 am.) Admiral Togo's seventh report, received

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on the moming of 31st May, states that from the reports of various divisions under me, it appears that the Oxliabin was seriously damaged at an early stage of the battle" of ·· 27th May, left line, and was sunk at 3 pm.

com-

discovered on the next morning drifting pear Tsushima by our converted cruisers Shinano-muru, Yawata-muru, Tainan-muru and Sado-mara, but sank before they could Tokio, 30th May, 7:45 pm,

be captured. Their survivors, about 915, (received 4.50 a.m., 31st.)

were rescued by the above mentioned con- The fifth report from Admiral Togo,verted cruisers and the people on the coast.

received on the afternoon of the 3oth in-

It is certain, from the statements of the stant, states that the main force of our comprisoners, that the Navarin was struck by bined fleet, upon accepting the surrender of four torpedos from our torpedo flotila on the remaining Russian main force near 27th May and sank. Liancourt Rocks, on the afternoon of the 28th instant, as already reported, stopped the pursuit and, while engaged in, the disposition of the surrendered ships, found in the south- western direction a coast-defence ship, the Admiral Oushakoff.

Thereupon the Iwate and Yakumo were immediately despatched to pursue and invited her to surrender; but the invitation being refused they sank her at 6 p.m. and

She came in flying the Russian commercial flag.

The Bussians say that the Japanese The various stories as to the pro-lost three large ships during the en-rescued her remaining crew of over 300

Shanghai, 27th May.

gagement of Saturday last.

ximity of the fleets off shanghai have not been substantiated and reports They further assert that submarine of engagements between Japanese boats were used both by the Russian and Russian ships are so far without and Japanese navies. foundation. Every tug-boat and stem-launch available has been

their agents who have surrounded the Russian vessels.

The Chinese here are non-plussed

which they thought had disappeared at the appearance of the Russian Bag

from these seas for ever.

The Russian battleship Orel is on fire, while the battleships Nicholai I

striking a raine or coming in contact

with a submarine.

[According to the information received by the rendered and were subsequently taken to Sasebo.-D.; .K.T.] Consul for Japan the Orel and Nicolet I sur

men.

The commander of the Nataka reports that the Spittland was discovered at 9.a.m., on 28th May, off Chikuben Bay, Korea, and was sunk by the Alitaka and Olowa

The Aurora and Almas were suspected to have been sunk during our torpedo attack on the night of 27th May,

Respecting the Zemichug on the list of sunken ships in a previous report, her fato is uncertain and her name should be cancelled from that list pending a reliable information. After all eight battleships, three armoured

The cruiser Dmitri Donskoi was also found at 5 p.m. in the north-western direc- cruisers, three coast-defence ironclads, which tion and was immediately overtaken and formed the main force of the Russian fiect, fired upon vigorously by our Fourth Divi were sunk or captured, and most of the second sion and the second destroyer flotilla. She class cruisers and other subsidiary vessels was attacked at night by the second des were destroyed, so that the whole Russian

ing aground at the south-eastom shore of Urieung Island off the Korean coast.

battle.

out at about Y1.50 per ton below the price now The equipment of these enormous naval ruling, and if the coal can be sold otherwise chartered by Japanese officials and and Osliahia turned turtle alter troyer flotilla and found on the next morn Squadron were practically annihilated by this.

calculation of our contemporary, gain abrut the Midzushima Shoten will, according to the.

10,000 by the Government's prohibitios. We find upon making inquiry at the Kobe agency of the M. M. Company that is inaccurate in some particulars. In the first the above account, while substantially correct, place the Midzushima Shoten did not ship any cual on the 13th ult, as stated above, and no separate cargo of 4,500 tons was to be dispatch. ed. While the flataru was loading, the com pany were unable to obtain the usual clearance JAPANESE CONSUL AND COLLIERS, permit of the authorities, and in due course learned that the cargo could not be cleared. This will not seriously affect the M. M. Com pany, as the coal supply at Saigon is ample. It is thought that the embargo of the Govern- meat will soon be removed-Japan Chronicle.

AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT

AT RESCUE.

ACTION BY CHINESE,·

[From Our Special Correspondent.] Shanghai, 27th May, 5.30 p.m.

At the instigation of Mr. Odagiri, the Japanese Consul-General, the Chinese authorities here have refused.

[Official Telegrams.]- ' DETAILS OF THE BATTLE.

THE RUSSIAN LOSSES: FIGHT STILL IN PROGRESS.

OFFICIAL NEWS.

Tokio, 29th May, 4:15 pm,, (received o.zo a.m. 30th.) Mr. M. Noma, Consul for Japan, has to allow the Russian colliers the entry kindly forwarded to us the following tele of the port in the usual Customs way.

soners,

THE JAPANESE FLEET. Regarding the damages to our feet subse Our destroyer Sazonami captured, toward the evening of the 27th instant, south of quent reports show that, during the night Biedovy wherein were found Admiral Rod- 35th, and 69th were sunk; but most of their crews were rescued by their comrades. Urleung Island, the Russian destroyer attack of ath May, the torpedo-boats 34th, jestvensky and another Admiral, both Otherwise no ship whatever was lost. The sevetely wounded, together with 80 Rus sians, including the staff officers from the damage to larger vessels, including des Flagship Kniaz Suvaroff which was sunk on troyers, were very slight, and none of them

were incapacitated for action." the 27th instant; they were all taken as pri-

Our total casualties are now estimated at 800. The prospect of Admiral Toge successfully

Our cruiser Chitose, while cruising north-As nearly the whole of the Japanese and opposing such an overwhelmingly strong ar- ray of battleships, or of breaking up the forma-

ward, on the morning of the 28th instant, Russian fleets engaged in the battle, the tion of Rodjestvensky's advance, would then

found and sank another Russian destroyer. field of operations was greatly extended. be exceedingly remote indeed. It looks now.

Our cruiser Niitake and the destroyer Moreover, the weather being misty, it was that if some of the people in authority in

Murakumotacked, also at noon of the impossible to see more than five miles. I Russia at first seriously anderestimated Japan's

28th instant, a Russian destroyer which was, therefore, unable to keep in sight all military resources, Japan has likewise.com-

finally went aground.

divisions under me even in daytime. Be mitted a fatal blander in underestimating

According to various reports hitherto Russia's naval powers of recuperation, and made a deadly mistake in thinking that the

received and statements of the prisoners the sides, the battle was fought for two days and badly equipped, unready Port Arthur Squadron

the enemy who were scattered in every direc A Canton letter states that on the 9th instant

result of the battle of the 27th to 28th inst. agats, and our various divisions attacked. once disposed of, Japan could lay undisputed

tion and some are still engaged in duties claim to the mastery of the Eastern Seas. She while a body of troops encircled the execution

The reports from Admiral Togo received is as follows A

Knias Suvarof, Alexander III, Borodino herself can get no more battleships or big ground of Stihwanhsiang. (Cantonese Call

Dmitri Denskoi, Admiral Nachima, Vladisubsequent to the battle, so that it will be cruisers during the continuance of the war Shekwanbhcop) in the Nanhaihsien (Cell.

The first report received on the morning mir Monomuch, Zefaichug, Admiral Oushake, some days before the detailed reports can be

forwarded: and unless she can and some way to invoke Namboi) district of Canton city, where three it stated that Mr. Hobson, the Commissioner at the Headquarters are as follows intervention there is no means open to bandits were about to be beheaded, a number of Imperial Maritime Cusiems, has refused to

were sunk; and Nicholas I., Orel, Admiral her to stay the deadly progress and deli- of their comrades suddenly broke through the exact any bend from the shippers that any coal of May 27th states that immediately upon berate steps by Russia for the recovery cordon and carried off one of the doomed men. they carry is not intended for the belligerents receipt of the report that the Russian one converted cruiser and two destroyers of the command of the sea, temporarily It so happened that this was not done before the issuance of the clearance papers squadron was in sight, our combined squa-praxin, Admiral Senkarin and the destroyer

until he bears from Peking. The Tastal, at the dron started for an attack,

Biedovy were captured until two of the three had already fallen under wrested from her not by the Japanese navy

The weather is fine, but with heavy seas. According to the statement of the prison. but by the incredible sacrifices and stupendous the executioners heavy two-handed sword. instance of the Japanese Consul General, in- efforts of the Japanese Army. Seeing now This gave the opportunity for all the troops tends to prohibit the export of coal from Shang. The second report received on the that so far all efforts to embrail Franco by the present to rush after the audacious rescuers. hai. According to the Ste Wan-pao the Viceroy most petulant course of complaints about The bandits were too weak: in numbers to of Nanking wired to the Troias that the former night of May 27th, states that the ers, the Oslabia was sunk at about 3 pm. The Almar was observed, on the 27th; breaches of neutrality have failed, and that maintain a successful rear guard fight as it had been informed by Mr. Odagini that andis- combined squadron attacked the Rus on the 77th instant, and the Navarin also Admiral Rodjestvensky has so far received were, with the result that while four bandits putable evidence has been obtained through bis siau squadron to-day near Okinoshima outled to receive under French laws of managed to recapture the rescued man alive smuggled out from Shanghai to the Russian sinking at least four ships and inflicting condition; but her final fate is yet unknown. only what Japanese ships would be equally were killed outright in the fight the soldiers foreign and native spies that coal has been (South-east of Tsushima) and defeated it, instant, to be disabled and was in a sinking. neutrality, we do not think Japan need count and also one of the rescuers. The sentence Fleet. The Viceroy instructed his subordinates heavy damage upon the others,

that no ship must be allowed to leave Shanghai, any longer upon getting her ally's aid in stay, was then carried out as previously arranged,"

Our destroyer and torpedo flotillas del ing the progress of Russia's avenging Armada, with the addition that the man who was taken with coal unless the shipper give sufficient The damage to our ships is insignificant.

Livered an attack after sunset. which, bar accidents, has now all the chances at the same time was also beheaded. - V. G. D. security that it is not couligned to the Rus in its favour, and will be mill more invulser i News

fin a late issue of the China Gazelle we find

grams:-

was sunk.

THE JAPANESE FLEET.

DAMAGES VERY SLIGHT

THREE TORPEDO-EDATS LOST)

„Tokio, 31st May, 3 p.m.--- (received 1st June, pag-a.m.)

It is officially announced that, in the last naval battle, the damages to our fleet were

CONDITION OF THE JAPANESE PREET. vety slight and, none of our battleships, Full particulars regarding the injury to cruisers, destroyers, nor any other ships our ships are not yet to hand; but so far an cept three torpedo boats) were lost,

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