The Irish standard., 1904-07-02
ROUTE RUSSIANS IN BATTLE
CARS TROOPS ARE DRIVEN
FROM FENSHUILING.
Japanese Lose 100 Men in Engage
ment-Togo Strikes
Hard Flow.

Toxic. June 23.--After a hot fight,
which lasted for six hours Monday
morning, June 81, the Takushan d.
vision of the Japanese army complete
~ defeated five battalions of Russian
infantry, which, supported by two regi-
ments Of cavalry and 1G guns, &C.
cupied Fenshuiling, 81 miles northwest
OF Siuyen. The Russians finally fell
back in the direction of Shimucheng.
The Japanese casualties aggregated
about 100 killed ard wounded. Maj.
Oba was killed during the battle.
London, June 29.-A dispatch to the
Central News from Toxic says it is
reported that another Russian battle
ship has been discovered stranded off
Tiger Rock. 1t is presumed she was
wrecked while returning to Port Ar
thur after the recent naval engage
ment
Rome, June GA dispatch from
Toxic to the Giornale d'Italia says the
Russian Admiral Prince Uhtomsky
and $50 men were drowned when the bat
tleship Peresviet was torpedoed and
sunk.
Toxic, June 27.-ln supplementary
report of the naval battle at Fort
Arthur Admiral Togo says:
"On June 90 my combined fleet at
tackled the enemy off Port Arthur.
Early in the morning the fact that the
battleships Peresviet, Poltava and
Sevastopol, with the cruisers Bayan,
Pallada, Diana, Novill and Askold, pre-
coded by several mine dragging steam
ers, were emerging from the harbor en-
trance was reported to me by wireless
telegraphy from the scouting ship.
Then, according TO arrangements pre-
viously made to provide against the
enemy's egress, fastened to the APP
pointed rendezvous. sending my fourth
and fourteenth destroyer fotillas to
| watch the enemy'S movements.
AT IL O'Clock the battleships Care
| witch, Retvizan and Pobieda Joined the
dragging steamers, which commenced
, cruising about in the mines section,
, and attempted to make fairway. We
/ kept troubling them. AT three o'clock
p. M. my fourth and fourteenth flotillas
engaged seven Of the enemys Destroy
ers which were covering the dragging
operations and defeated them. One of
, the Russian vessels, catching fire, fled
, into the harbor.
THE enemy having cleared a fair
! way with the aid of their dragging
, steamers the Novik steamed out TO sea.
Our third fighting squadron, keeping
in contact, drew the enemy southwark
On a southeasterly course. Our first
squadron, hidden south of Sugar
island, waited for the enemy and con-
centr2ted all its destroyers At G:15
p. III. our first squadron sighted the
enemy eight miles northwest of Sugar
, island The CZarevitch was leading,
with the Novill and the destroyers on
its right.
'They steamed south. At 1880 p. m.
our distance from them was $4,000
yards. The enemy changed course
Slightly to the starboard and we fol-
lowed them, trying to draw the
enenly's van. At eight D. m. the enemy
j altered their course to the north and we
| turned eight points and steamed in till
sunset, at $500 p. M, when we parted
eight points. and | ordered the tor
pedo craft to attack the enemy. At
! $3.50 p. M. when five miles distant
from the harbor, the fourteenth tor
! pedo totilla made its first attack on the
enemys rear, the first ilotilla follow
| ing.
The enemy was thrown into dsor-
| der and could not make port. 50 they
anchored al 1890 p. m. in the road
stead, where we attacked them eight
/ times before dawn. At 1890 D. IN. our
/ sixteenth iiotilia dashed from Shoosen
point and launched two torpedoes into
the bows Of battleship resembling
the PcrcsViet which Immediately sank.
We could ascertain no other results
till morning, when we saw that one
battleship was missing and two vessels
OF the Se"asiopol and Diana class I'M
able TO use their engines On the lwcn-
ty-fourth G'riday) the enemy's fleet
entered the harbor, some being towed
and others under their own steam, the
last getting in at four O'Clock D. H."