Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-02-26

was more than they could withstand.
The guns of the forts on the Tiger
peninsula, Golden hill and Electric cliff
were turned upon the enemy, and a
furious connonade was kept up until
the enemy retired. Then the firing
slackened and became desultory."
Admiral Togo is in command of the
Japanese fleet operating against Port
Arthur.
A report from Paris gives additional
details of the Japanese attempt to close
the entrance of the harbor of Port Ar
thur. 1t states that the Japanese sent
i've or six old transport hulks, con
yoyed by torpedo boats, to Port Ar
thur with the evident purpose of sink
ing the hulks at the entrance of the
harbor.
Having been the first to discover the
torpedo boats and having openeda fierce
fire on them, the Retyizan, supported
by the shore batteries, destroyed neal
the entrance to the channel two steam
ships which were bearing straight
down on her. The first of these went
| vi tllc IOChS ICdI luC lighthouse Oi Ii
grovy peninsula. The other sank near
Mount Tolstoi.
The firing against the torpedo boats
was continued until dawn.
Daylight revealed four steamships
destroyed in the roadstead and eight
torpedo boats fleeing toward warships
which were awaiting them at sea.
The Japanese crews saved themselves
in boats. Some of the men were drown
ed, and probably some were picked up
by the enemy's torpedo boats.
The channel to the harbor is clear.
The complete arrangement of the
Japanese plan was owing to the bril-
liant resistance and destructive fire of
the Retvizan.
One of the Japanese steamships
burned for many hours Floating tor
pedoes are still visible in the road
stead.
The enemy's fleet left the ofing in
two lines.
The fire of the Retvizan was strong
ly seconded by that of the shore bat
terry north of Port Arthur. The report
adds that two Japanese ships lie in Ii
ger bay, that along the shore another
Japanese ship was burned and that a
| fourth lies wrecked on the shore out
| side Tiger bay.
1t is believed that these wrecks are
not warships, but hulks designed to be
| sunk at the entrance of the harbor.
The wrecks are said to be at consider
| able distances from the harbor en-
| trance, which remains open.
The Japanese failed to effect their
purpose.
Two of the ships lie between the en-
trance of the channel and the Laothie-
shan peninsula.
The cruisers Bayan and Novik pur-
sued the Japanese torpedo fiotilla. 1t
is said that one OF the torpedo boats
was sunk.
The fact that the Japanese have re-
newed the attack is interpreted here
to mean that they are determined to
bottle up or destroy the Russian fleet
at Port Arthur in order to give them
selves freedom for land maneuvers to
cut off or invest the city or as a feint
to cover a movement elsewhere.
A Picking dispatch says the director
general of Chinese railroads reports
that 100 Russian infantrymen, an Off
Ger, a gun and a large supply of am
munition are ut Yaoyangho and that
200 Russian cavalrymen and two guns
have arrived at Luilichang. These
towns are both on the west side of the
Lao river.
The irritation against the United
States on account of the supposed IN.
friendly attitude of that country to-
ward Russia, which was slightly no.
ticeable throughout the negotiations.
seems to have become daily more pro-
nounced, and since the Vicksburg Incl
dent at Chemulpo, when the commander
of this American gunboat is said to
have refused to unite with the COM
manders of other foreign warships at
Chemulpo to protest against the fight
ing which resulted in the loss of the