Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-20
INNER FORTS TAKEN
Japanese Success Reported
 at Port Arthur.
IzUMI SUNK BY VLADIVOSTOK FLEET
Russian Cruisers Caught Third Japanese Transport and Sent Her to the Bottom With the Hi-
 tachi and SadO.

pdTCn says mere IS current L0eT0 q Fu- nor that the Japanese have captured one of the inner forts of Port Arthur, losing 1000 men in the engagement.
 The Japanese transport Izumi, which was reported missing few days ago, has been sunk by the Vladivostok fleet off Oshima island.
 The island of Oshima is situated near the northwest of the western entrance of the Tsungaru strait. The Izumi was retiring to Japan and was carrying 10S passengers. The crew took to the boats when the Russian fleet was sighted The armored cruiser Gromo- boi signaled for the boats to approach. They complied, and all were taken on board and confined between decks. The nnoncombatants were released and sent on board the Japanese vessel Un- ko, which brought them to Maiaum. According to trustworthy advices re- ceived, an entire. infantry regiment, with it's commander, was sunk in the i transports Hitachi and Sado.
 The Hitachi evidently failed to stop 1 when signaled to do so by the Rus sians. The claim is made that Captain Campbell, the English masAar of the Hitachi, refused to stop and planned to ram the Russian, but this is denied. It is said that the Japanese officers on board the Hitachi declined to surren- der and required Captain Campbell to keep his ship going. The assertion that the Russians fired upon the lifeboats in which men were escaping from the Japanese transport has been fully sub- stantiated.
 The raid of the Vladivostok squad ron has brought an unwarranted famount of criticism upon Vice Admi- raI Kamimura from the Japanese, and his failure to catch the Russians in the fog off Gensan off the coast of Korea when the Japanese transport Kinshiu was sunk with a loss of about POO men has been recalled.
 The Yawata and the Ansei, two sail l ing ships, were sunk by the Russians between Ko island and Okushiri island, off the west coast of Yesso and north of the Tsugaru strait. Thirty-seven survivors have reached Esashi. This makes a total of five Japanese ships sunk or destroyed by the Russian raid- CTS.
 A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the total Russian losses at the battle of Vafangow (Telissu) were about 2,0O0 men, including more than fifty-five officers. The Russian forces which took part in this fight were described as marching to the northward, and it was said that the Russians had forty two battalions engaged against forty four Japanese battalions and that the Japanese had great superiority in ar- tillery, having more than POO guns. A St. Petersburg dispatch says Elm peror Nicholas has received the follow ing dispatch from Vice Admiral Skrydloff:
 Our cruiser division has encoun- tered in the strait of Korea a Japa- nese transport steaming from the south in the direction of the Japanese coast, which was visible on the hori- zon. The vessel proved to be the Izumi, with troops on board.
 "On the expiration of the time given those on board to lower boats and leave the ship, permission to do which was taken advantage of by part of the crew, the transport was sunk by our 1 guns.
 Shortly afterward two more trans ports were sighted to the southeast They proved to be the Hitachi and the Sado, the former with troops and the 1 latter carrying coolies, horses and railway. plant. These transports re- fused to surrender, and at the end of the period granted those on board to take to the boats the two vessels were sunk by torpedoes and shells.
 'The losses on the three transports, 1 the tonnage of which aggregated about 15,OOO tons, consisted of por- tion of the troops and crews, large quantity of war material and the rail- way plant.
 "Our squadron later met the British steamer Allanton, which was proceed ing south with a cargo of coal from the port of Mourorun, island of Hok- kaido (the administrative name of the Japanese island of Yesso). The lack of clearness of her papers and the irregu- ] larity of her log excited suspicion con- l cerning the neutrality of her cargo. The steamer, therefore, was sent to l Vladivostok in charge of detachment of soldiers commanded by Lieutenant Pitroff She has arrived at Vladfvos- tok, where prize court will consider her case"
 A Tokyo report says:
 "The remarkable raid of the Russian | vladivostok squadron evidently is over. The squadron has disappeared off Cape Hanashi, steering to the north, and it has not been reported since. It is as- sumed to be returning to Vladivostok
 Whether or not portion of Vice Admiral Kamimura's squadron is awaiting the Russians off Vladivostok is carefully guarded secret. Assum- ! ing that Vice Admiral Kamimura dis l patched some of his vessels to Vladi- 1 vostok when he learned that the Rus sian squadron was off Xxi island these ships would have had ample time to arrive there ahead of the Russians and will be ready to give battle. Fur ther news of the movements of the l squadron are awaited with intense in-