New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-09
RUSSIAN SHIPS SUNK.
YORK OF JAPANESE GUNS.
Port Arthur Fleet Practically De-
stroaed-Bombardment Continued.

London. Dec 9-"The Daily Telegraphs" cor
respondent before Port Arthur says that all the
Russian battleships and cruisers. together with
the gunboats Giliak and Fusadneck, were sunk
or destroyed. and that only the torpedo boat de-
stroyers remain uninjured.
According to special dispatches from Toxic
and Shanghai. giving unofficial reports, the
crews CT al the Russian vessels in the har-
Dor OF Port Arthur were landed, and apparently
no effort was made to move the vessels. The
Japanese viii turn their attention to the
torpedo boat destroyers. and when these have
beer destroyed the guns viii be directed against
steamers and transports in the harbor.
Toxic, Dec. s-The commander of the naval
land battery en- 203-Metre Hill at Port Arthur
reporting at 230 p. to-day says;
AT 1870 to-day it became certain that the
battlsship Peresviet has been sunk. She is in
the same condition as the battleship Poltava
The Pallada, protected cruiser, is beginning to
list to port We are vigorously bombarding the
PaIlada."
The following report from the commander Of
the naval land battery in front of Port Arthur
was received at 2 O'Clock this afternoon:
The battleship Pobieda's middle funnel is
q.
and is submerged to the stern walk
The battleship Peresviets upper deck is sub
merged The battleship Retvizan is listing TO
sta-boerd, and her upper deck is nearly sub
merged
The protected cruiser PaIIada, which is lying
between the RetVizan and the mine ship Amur,
cannot be distinctly seen, but there seems to be
e slight sinking asteru. The actual extent of
the damage sustained by her is not yet known.
The armored cruiser Bayan is now burning to
her foredeck
The battleship Sevastopol appears to be lying
in the east harbor alongsii. the great crane,
but only the tops of her nlasts are visible. A
hill completely hides her hull
The principal aims taken by the naval and
military guns to-day were at the Pallada, the
Bayal and the Sevastopol
long list of decorations and promotions of
naval officers at Port Arthur. signed October "a
and published at St. Petersburg November %,
showed that the warshps at Port Arthur on the
former date included the battleships Retvizan,
s Pobieds, Peresviet. Poltava and Sevastopol. the
srmorsd cruiser Bayan. the protected cruiser Pal
iada, the gUnboaJs Esadnik Giiak and Bobr the
coast defence vessel Otvashni the transport Amur,
since described q mine ship; the transport An
CARA. since referred to hospital ship, and the
torpedo boat destroyers Sroin SLIM Smelly Serditi
Boiki. Bezshumi. Storosevoi. Ratsiastchi and Ras-
toropny
OF the destroyers the Rastoropny was blown up at
Che-Foo by her crew. having gone there with dis
paches. OF the other named ships, as the result
Of the japanese bonbardment from 203-Metre Hill
the PoItava has been sunk the Retvizan is list
ing TO starboard and her upper deck nearly sub
merged, the Peresviet has been sunk. the Palada
Sc beginning 20 TO port and still undergoing
vigorous bombardment, the Pobieda Is seriously
damaged listing aft and submerged to the stern
walk and the Bayan is aground and burning
Thus. OF the five battleships have been sunk,
two have been seriously damaged, in dan
ger Of meeting the fate Of the Poltaya and the
Peresviet, and the fifth. the sevastopol seems to
be somewhat out of the japanese range, protected
by hill. above which only the tops Of her masts
be by the japanese gunners. OF the cruis-
ers. the Bayan seems to have been altogether dis
abled while the Pallada is listing and is special
object Of the japanese fire.