The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-04-22

saved. among them being the Grand
| Duke Cyril, who was wounded The
| dispatch also gave the information that
Vice-Admiral Makaroff was killed and
that the total loss of life was nearly 700.
The first telegram received by Grand
Duke Vladimir said briefly that Grand
| Duke> Cyril had been wounded and the
| Petropavlovsk had been lost, without
mentioning fight.
1t was further reported that a naval
battle was progressing off Port Arthur.
the result of which was unknown.
Vice Admiral Makaroff ordered his
whole squadron out of the harbor to
meet the attack, and while preparing to
draw up his line of battle in the outer
roadstead the Petropavlovsk struck n
mine on her starboard side amidships
and Immediately began to heel. Before
the crew could flood the port compart-
ments of the vessel in order to keep her
on an even keel, she turned turtle and
sank in few minutes, carrying down
almost the entire crew. Captain MAX
ovloff, the Grand Duke Cyril and two
other officers were saved because they
were standing on the upper bridge. The
frightfu loss of life among the officers
and men was due TO the fact that they
were all at their stations ready for ac
ton.
The Petropavlovsk turned turtle in
a manner similar to the British battle
ship Victoria, which was rammed by the
Camperdown in 1893, and to the incl
dent in the China Japanese war when a
Chinese war ship turned turtle, many of
the crew remaining alive for several
days hammering desperately on the up
turned hull.
OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The following official dispatch has
been received here from Rear-Admiral
Girgorovitch, the commandant at Port
Arthur, addressed to the Emperor:
PORT ARTHUR, April I3.-The
Petropavlovsk struck mine, which
blew her up and she turned turtle. Our
squadron was under Golden hill. The
Japanese squadron was approaching.
Vice-Admira Makaroff evidently was
lost Grand Duke Cyril was saved He
was slightly injured. Captain Jackos-
vleff was saved, though severely injured,
as were five officers and thirty-two men,
all more or less injured. The enemy's
fleet has disappeared. Rear-Admiral
Prince Ukhtomsky has assumed conf
mand of the fleet"
The following dispatch to the Gar
has been received from Viceroy Alex
Jeff:
MOUKDEN, April IA telegram
has just been received from Lieutenant
General Stoessel, commander of the mil
itary forces at Port Arthur. / regret
to report to your MAZE that the Pa
cifc fleet has suffered an irreparable loss
by the death of its brave and capable
commander, who was lost, together with
the Petropavlovsk."
Another dispatch, from Viceroy Alex
Jeff to the Gar, says:
According to reports from the conf
mandant at Port Arthur the battle-ships
and cruisers went out to meet the enemy,
but owing to the enemy receiving re-en-
forcements, making his total strength
thirty vessels. our squadron returned to
the roadstead whereupon the Petropav-
1ovsk touched a mine, resulting in her
destruction. Grand Duke Cyril, who
was on board, was saved. He was slight
Nv injured. The whole squadron then
re-entered port. The Japanese are now
off Cape Lao Shan No reports had
been received from the acting command
er of the fleet up to the time this dis
patch was sent"
EMPRESS SHEDS TEARS.
PARIS, April 14.-The Echo de Pa
ris's St. Petersburg correspondent says
that the Emperor, when reading the dis
patch from Rear-Admiral Grigorivitch,
commanding at Port Arthur, announc
ing the loss of the Petropavlovsk, turn
ed pale He was much moved, and did
not speak for several minutes. Then he
asked a lady in waiting to inform the
Empress, who burst into tears.
The Emperor ordered the news made
public Immediately and commanded the
commission of censorship to COMMUNE
cate the dispatch to the newspaper cor
respondents. He next sent for his con- !
fessor to celebrate a requiem. His maj
esty said:
God has willed that the Yenesei should |
perish by touching mine, and that the
Boyarin should be damaged Now, prov
idence. whose designs are inscrutable |
has willed also to deprive us of the Pc
tropavlovsk and the brave men aboard |
her"
HEARTBREAKING, SAY THE RUS
SLAMS.
ST. PETERSBURG, April I3.-The
awful disaster TO the battle-ship Petro-
pavlovsk at Port Arthur, with the loss
of almost her entire crew of over GOO
men and the death of Vice-Admiral Ma
karoff, has been a terrible blow. 1t
would have fallen less heavily if the
ship and the commander in chief of the
fleet had been lost in battle, but to be
the result of another accident, following
upon the heels of succession of TRACE
dies of which the Port Arthur fleet has
been the victim, has created something
like CONSERVATION.
"Reverses we can endure" said a
prominent Russian, but to have the Pc
tropavlovsk meet the fate of the Yenesei
and the Boyarin is heart-breaking."
RaCiJpc II has iuCt bacona Luoutt, |