The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-05

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The battle ragged the whole day July
81 along the southern and eastern
fronts. The japanese advanced with
overwhelming force. thanking the Rus
slams on their right. The losses Of the
Russians. however. were slight. The
seventeenth Siberian regiment row
the japanese out Of n position.
Activities OF the V~ladiyostOk Squadron.
St. Petersburg. August I'm a
lengthy telegram to the Emperor. Vice
Admiral Skyrdlof relates the doings
of the VladivosIok SQUADRON under
Rear Admiral lessen.
With the cruisers Rossia. Gromoboi
and Rurik. Admiral lessen left Vlad-
ivostok July 90. After sinking a small
Japanese vessel, the cruisers held up
the British steamer CamarE, but as
she had no cargo and was not caught
in the act of carrying c~ontraband OF
war. was compelled to let her 60" SAYS
the dispatch.
A Japanese coasting teamer WIS
next met. but "as most Of her fifty
passengers were m We deter
mined to release her
Two japanese chooners were sunk.
Then Admiral lessen fell In quick
succession with the British steamers
Arabia and Knight Commander. OF
the Arabia, he says nothing new.
The Knight Commander only stopped
after the fourth shot" n admiral
reports. Her cargo being railroad
material, undoubtedly ~contraband for
the ~belligerent party. n not being
able to bring her to the nearest Rus
sian port lowing to her not having
enough coal) without manifest danger
to the squadron. We sank the Knight
CoDnraonda offar TAXING off all her
crew and removing her papers"
Two more japanese schooners laden
with salt were then sunk
The steamer Schinau. from Austria
liza for Yokohama. was inspected and
released.
July "a the Thea. a German vessel
of 934 tons register. with a full
cargo of fish from America to Yoko-
hanna. was stopped. n was regarded
a legal prize. and her crew was TAX
en- off and the vessel sunk. owing to
| the impossibflity of bringing her to q
| Russian port"
On July 80. near The northern coast
| a Japanese third-class cruiser and
l seven torpedo boats. taking the same
course as the Russians, were sighted
while on the western coast near the
| Tsugaru straits a coast defense battiet
/ ship hove in sight. "An these Ships
<NuAAhA OIL SSSNh SASSf 49, $4,000
of our cruisers. and after two hou
they turned back The Russian
| squadron suffered no loss in men and
| no damage, and there wars no loss OF
life on the vessels sunk or taken"
Sakharoff Reports Obstinate Fighting
ST. Petersburg, August 2--Genera
Sakharoff, under date of August 1
reports obstinate fighting in the direc
ton of the SaimaUsza-Liao Yang roa
July 80 and 81, the Russian vanguard
retaining its positions until August 1
when it retired to Yangze pass.
During a reconnaissance in The di
rection of Feng Wang Cheng July 80
General Sakharoff reports that tive
officers and thirty-four men wer,
wounded, and ON July 81. during
reconnaissance in the direction O
Laokaoutsia, two officers were killet
and one officer and twenty men vel.
wounded. The same day. when tn,
Japanese occupied the pass between
Yaashukan and Houtsiatze (25 mile
from Liao Yang), five officers and fort,
meI were wounded. General Sakha
rolf also states. The enemy is actinl
undecidedly."