The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1904-03-28
THE RUSSIANS REPORT
i: ast A DIFFERENT STORY

St. Petersburg, March 28.-Under
cover OF darkness Vice Admiral Togo
made another desperate attempt to
bottle tip the Russian feet in Port Ar
thur, but he failed again, and when att
ef, daylight Vice Admiral Makaroff
steamed out to give battle the japanese
commander refused the challetige and
sailed away. -. "' !
The japanese practically repeated
the tactics OF Feb. "a by sending in
FIVE fire ships, accompanied by tori
pedo boat tiotilla, with the exception
that the FIRE boats this time were arm
ed with Hotchkiss guns for the pur::
pose OF, keeping off Russian, torpedo
boat destroyers. - ..si ...,. r.
The enemy intention was discover
ed by means OF short searchlights and
heavy FIRE was maintained by the bait
teries and two gutlboats which guard
the entrance of the llarbor.
= The torpedo boat Silfia, commanded
by Lieutenant Krinizki, turned the
merchant vessels from their course by
blowing up the Prov of the first and
then boldly attacked the enen1y's tor-
pedo boats. In the fierce fight which
followed, Chief Engineer SWyereff OF
the Silna and six marines were killed
and the commander and twelve men
were injured e y s.ssrszsse - = =
The Japanese plan TO block up the
Ientranceto Port Arthur was frustrat-
| ed, & however. and the channel is still
lclear. s&S
Vice Admiral Makaroff, command
/ ing the Russian naval forces at Port
Arthur, has sent the following tele-
gram to the emperor: ...>
attacked the enemy and destroyed the
at 2 o'clock this morning the enemy
made second attempt to block the
entrance to the infer roadstead. For
this purpose they dispatched four large
merchant steamers, conveyed by six
torpedo boats, to the entrance. s
"sFhe enemy S ships were promptly
discovered by the searchlights and
were bombarded by the. batteries and
by the guardships Bohr and Otvajny.
Fearing the enemy's ships might
break through, Lieutenant, Krinizki,
commanding the torpedo boat Silna,
attacked the enemyand destroyed the
bow of the foremost Japanese steamer
with torpedo. This steamer turned
to the right and was followed by two
others with the result that the three
were stranded to the right of the en-
trance Al fourth steamer went to the
right OF the eneiny's ships and likewise
sank TO the. side OF the fair way. The
Stihi then battled with the ef1emy's sin
torpedo boats. Engineer Artihcer
SWyeref and six seaine1l were killed
| and the commander and twelve seamer,
were wounded.
The entrance to the flarbor remains
clear s
IA Hotchkiss one-inch ca1iber qiuck.
|firer was found aboard one of the sunk
en- steamers from whicha fire had been
kept up on our torpedo boatsl
Al boat left each Of the snnken
ships, carrying their crews. One of
these is believed to have been picked
|up. M
Toward; 4 O'Clock the enemy's tors
|pedo boats retired and the lombard
|meflt ceased Vice Admiral Makaroff
at once. proceeded in a steam launch to
inspect the enenny's sunke1 steamers
The eneiny's torpedo boats reap
|Deared at S o'clock this morning. They
|Were sighted south of Port Arthur and
the batteries opened on them. Toward
|6o'clock the enenny's squadron appear
ed on The horizon and ours steamed
ont to- meet ii. at 6:3o the batteries
Opened FIRE Our ships batteries soon
ceased, the Japanese drawing off TO the
southeast evidently declining an en-,
|gagement. AIT 10 o'clock they disap-
|peared below The horizon 4 "
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