The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-23
JAPANESE FLEET
 iGAIA B0xBlRDS Port Arthur is Once More Made the Target For a Shower of Over Two
 Hundred Shells.
FORTSAND TOWN HAMMERED
TITO ATTEMPTS OF TORPEDO BOATS TO ATTACK REFUSED.

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 BOATS TO ATTACK REPULSED. Commander of the Garrlson Reports Five Soldiers Killed and Nine wound cd While Admiral MakaroH Says No Men of the Fleet Were Lost Claims One Japsnsse Vessel Was struck First of Attacking ships Appeared at Midnight monday-Mikado's Advance Now Beyond Apju.
 St. Petersburg, March 22.-The em- ] peror has received the following tele- E gram from viceroy Alexieff: .eLieutenant- General Stoessel reports that at midnight of March q Japanese torpedo boats were discovered by our searchlights. Our guardships and fort batteries opened fire upon them, the fir ing lasting for twenty minutes At 4 o'clock in the morning the attack was renewed.
 s.At 6:3O o'clock in the morning four of the enenny's ships appeared from the south, followed by the whole squadron of eleven ships and eight torpedo boats. Our squadron left the roadstead to meet the enemy.
 At o'clock the enemy's battleships opened fire on Liaotieshan, after which they took up position behind the rocky eminence of Liaotieshan and bombarded Port Arthur
 yiceroy Alexieff adds that he is wait ing for details.
 A later dispatch from viceroy Alex jeff received by the emperor says;
 According to a supplementary report from General Stoessel, the enemys fleet consisted of six battle ships and twelve cruisers. About g O clock in the morning the fleet divided, the battleships and torpedo boats talk ing up a position between Liaotieshan and Golubinaia Bay (Pigeon Bay), while the cruisers formed up in two di- visions to the south and southwest of Port Arthur.
 s'At 9:20 o'clock the battleship Retvi- gan opened fire over the crest of Liao- sN Ntieshan against the enemy's battleships, (which replied by firing on the town. Meanwhile our fleet formed up in line lin the outer roadstead.
 About Il o'clock in the morning the cannonade slackened and the Japanese reuniting, drew off slowly to the southeast, and at 12:3O o'clock had dis appeared.
 During the bombardment five sol ed. One soldier on the shore was bruised
 Another telegram from Viceroy Alex jeff to the emperor gives Vice-Admiral Makaroff's s report as follows:
 At midnight of March 21 two of the enemy's torpedo boats approached the outer roadstead, but were discovered by the searchlights of the batteries and fired upon by the forts and by the gum boats Bobe and Otvajny. They were obliged to retire.
 "A second attack was made at 4 o'clock in the morning by three torpedo boats, which also were repulsed.
 At daybreak three detachments of the enemy's fleet, consisting of six bat tleships, six armored cruisers, six sec- ond and third-class cruisers and eight torpedo boats, approached from all sides. At o'clock our squadron com- menced to leave the inner harbor, the cruisers leading, with the Askold, flying my flag, at their head and the battle ships following
 The enemy's battleships approached Liaotieshan and fired one hundred shells from their twelve-inch guns at Port Arthur and 10S shells at the en- virons of the town.
 Our shells, fired at a range of eighty cables, were we'll placed About 10 o'clock a Japanese battleship was struck by shell and retired.
 We lost no men during the bom- bardment, which ceased at Il o'clock, when the enemy's ships reassembled, and after passing along the outer road stead drew off without attacking our fleet"