The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-08
JAPS SUNK RUSSIAN BOATS
ADMIRAL TOGO REPORTS THAT
HIT SENT TWO DOWN.
A Guardship and Torpedo Boat De-
stroyer Gone-Japs Surround Them
Activity Near Port Arthur-Heavy
Rains Cause Manchuria to Be Flood
ed-Neither Army Can Move.

Toxic, July A belated report from
Admiral Togo records a successful at
tack at the entrance of Port Arthur
last Monday night, June 81. in which a
Russian guardship and Russian tor
pedo boat destroyer were sunk.
The guardship is described as hav-
ing two masts and three tunnels. She
was either a battleship or a first class
cruiser and she was torpedoed and de-
stroyed. The torpedo boat destroyer
was struck and then blew up and sank.
Admiral Togo reports the loss of one
officer and 10 men killed, and one Of
ficer and two men wounded. He makes
no mention of damage to his fleet.
The Twelfth torpedo boat fiotilla, I'M
der command of Commander Yamada,
delivered the attack. The Japanese
vessels were revealed by the Russian
searchlight and the shore forts opened
heavy fusilade upon them. The Rus
sian guard ship was surrounded and
attacked by the Japanese, who saw the
vessel sink amid the huge volume of
water thrown up by the heavy explo-
sion. Following this, the Russian tor
pedo destroyers at once attacked the
Japanese vessels, which responded to
the onslaught. A Russian destroyer,
whiel within the area lit by the search
lights. was seen to explode, rise, fall
back into the water sideways and sink.
The guardship sank near the base OF
Golden hill.
The cause for the delay by Admiral
Togo in forwarding this report is not
known, but it is presumed that he was
busy and did not have time to commu-
nicate with Toxic.
Activity Near Port Arthur.
Recent reports from Russian sources,
Cheefoo and elsewhere, mention con-
tinued activity and several engage
ments by land and by sea near Port
Arthur from June "a to June 30. A
Russian official report said that on the
night of June 24-25, Japanese torpedo
boats approached the fortress at Port
Arthur and that on June 26 a Japanese
land attack was supported by can
nonade from the warships. During the
evening of June 29 the forts and bat
: teries at Port Arthur opened fire on
l Japanese torpedo boats. dispatch
from Cheefoo said a big battle was
4 fought on land near Port Arthur on
y June 26 and 81. No mention, however,
a has been made of Russian losses to
: correspond with those reported by Ad-
miral Togo. The Russian torpedo boat
destroyer Lieutenant Burukoff left
g Port Arthur the night of Tuesday, June
x 2S and reached Newchwang the next
day. She is believed to have come out
a with dispatches for st. Petersburg. The
t foreign office has given out dispatch
O dated June 80 announcing that the
J. Russian warships safely reentered Port
@ Arthur after the fight of June % and
e that not one of them was damaged.
+ Refugees from Port Arthur who have
n arrived at Chefoo report that four Rus
r sian battleships, with gunboats and
l. torpedo boats, are kept in the harbor
+ while two battleships, five cruisers and
# a flotilla of torpedo boats make excur
l. sions to sea.
Foreigners who left Port Arthur the
II evening of July 1 reached Chefoo July
e 2. Their reports made no mention OF
r the sinking of two Russian warships
e Recent Russian denials of nava
o losses have been particularly directed
a to the statement contained in pre-
c. vious report from Admiral Togo tina
on June % the Japanese inflicted seri
is GUS losses on the Russian fleet off Por
s. Arthur.
S. Manchuria a Vast Marsh.
~ Liaoyong, July 5.-The whole o