The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-07-12


| the Daily Mail from st. Petersburg
says sufficient confirmation has been re-
ceived of the sinking at Port Arthur of
three Russian ships of the types of the
Sevastopol, or Poltava, and the Peres-
Wet and Diana. The vessel of the last
named type succumbed to a torpedo.
and 1t is stated she sank in deep wa
ter. The loss of life is said to have been
| enormous.
The Russians assert that they sank
four-funneed torpedo boat destroyer
and seriously injured by shell fire two
cruisers, which were taken in tow by
| the other Japanese vessels. Crowds
returning TO st. Petersburg from the
country last evening were greeted with
the news of the loss of the Russian
ships which drove them to frenzy.
PARIS, June 27.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Echo de Paris
says the battleship Peresviet sunk in
ten and a half minutes after she was
torpedoed. Those on board were saved.
The battleship Sevastopol was seriously
| injured The cruiser Diana was struck
amidships.
DECOYED RUSSIANS OUT.
! LONDON, June 26.-The Central
| News has received the following dis
patch from its Toxic correspondent,
dated June Goth, evening:
"A detailed account of the naval bat
tie at Port Arthur has just been pub
| lished here.
THE Russian battleships Peresviet
Poltava and Sevastopol and cruisers
Bayan. Askold and Novik attempted to
emerge from the harbor at dawn on
June 23d, led by steamers used for
clearing the mines. At II a. m. the
battleships Czarevitch. Retvizan and
Pobieda joined the others.
"All the ships then advanced endeav-
oring to dispose of the mines laid by
the japanese, but they were hindered
by two japanese torpedo-boat Destroy
ers which had been guarding the mouth
of the harbor.
at 3 D. IN. the japanese torpedo
boats exchanged shots with seven Rus
sian destroyers, which were covering
the clearing operations. One of the
Russian destroyers was set on fire and
retired inside the harbor.
subsequently the Japanese decoyed
the Russians out to sea and awaited
an opportunity to begin a general ac-
| ton, but between 8 and p. m. the Rus
sian ships made for the harbor. The
| japanese torpedo-boat destrOyers and
| torpedo boats chased the Russians, and
at $3.50 delivered the first attack. in con-
sequence of which the enemy was
thrown into disorder.
During the night eight separate at
tacks were delivered. lasting until dawn
| Iyr;Ia IN
Chirataka twice torpedoed a battleship
of the Peresviet type and sank her
A battleship of the Sevastopol type and
cruiser of the Diana type were dis
abled and lowed away. The Russian
vessels re-entered the harbor during
Friday.
1.-The newspapers publish eulogistic
articles upon Vice-Admiral ToSos
prompt action"
PRINCE UCHTOMPSKY DROWNED.
ROME, June ga dispatch from To-
kio to the Giornale d'Italia says that
| the Russian Admiral Prince UchtOmsky
and $50 men were drowned when the
battleship Peresviet was torpedoed and
| sunk The japanese lost six killed.
Four of the Japanese torpedo boats
were damaged. dispatch from Che
foo to the Agenzia Liberal says Cen
eral Stoessel made a sortie from Port
Arthur on Friday with 1000 men. but
was repulsed. General Oku. the Jap
anese commander. sent an envoy to the
Russian commander The envoy advis-
ed the Russian commander to capitu-
late, with the honors of war. The sit
uation at Port Arthur is grave. There
| hoe ri nd
some bread.
RUSSIAN DISCORD.
TIEN-TSIN, June GA cores
pondent has seen a translation OF
private letter from an officer high in
command under General Kuropatkin
to brother officer, giving a gloomy
view of the situation for Russia and
making disclosures. The writer said:
1T is a shame to see officers con-
stantly Quarreling. divided into
cliques and fighting for their own in
terests until Japan, the common en-
envy. is forgotten. Everyone. from the
| Viceroy and Kuropatkin to insignifi-
cant subalterns, is quarreling and I'M
willing to obey orders. In the eyes
of the correspondents and foreign at
taches We are disgraced. Until the
whole system is changed We cannot
hope for victory. Jealousy and sus-
picion are rampant throughout the
army. The members of our secret SER
vice are so busy spying on each other
that they cannot apprehend the spies
and Japanese agents, who work with
impunity. Japan seemingly knows
every plan made by us, which ac-
counts for many plans having been
changed suddenly. Our brave soldiers
go into battle like sheep to the sham
bles. No one can deny their loyalty,
! but until they are properly Differed