The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1904-04-15
HEAVY FIRING IS Heard
SEA FIGHT BETWEEN JAPANESE
AND RUSSIANS is ON.
Believe to Be at Entrance of Port
Arthur-50 Jap Scouts Reported to
Have Been kiIled-Said to Have
Lowered Flags at Wiju-Tokio Has
Different Story.

Different Story.
Chefoo, April ia correspondent
at Tengchow, 40 miles northwest of
here telegraphs:
Sounds of very heavy firing were
heard at half past o'clock this (Wed-
nesday) morning. The firing evidently
was being done between here and Port
Arthur. 1t is believed at Tengchow
that the long expected sea fight among
the Miaotao islands has taken place.
The japanese battleship Asahi, flying
an admiral's flag, was seen off Chefoo
yesterday going to the west, and there
is no doubt but that the remainder of
the Japanese feet was in the vicinity
of Port Arthur.
The Russian file t also was seen out
side of Port Arthur yesterday"
Cheefoo, April 13.-(Noon.)-Th
captain of the steamer Lockshan,
which arrived today from Newchwang,
reports that he heard heavy firing be-
tween and Z O'Clock this (Wednes-
day. morning in the direction of Port
Arthur. The firing was continuous,
but no ships were visible. From the
direction of the sound, he judged that
there was fighting at the entrance to
Port Arthur. The Lockshan was the
last foreign merchant vessel to leave
NeWchWang, sailing at the same time
as the British gunboat Espiegle, at 1
O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
Port Arthur is about IS miles to the
north from Tengchow. The Miaotao
islands are on line between the two
points and about 25 miles north of
Tengchow. Dispatches received from
the far east during the past five days
have reported both the Japanese feet
and the Russian Port Arthur fleet to
be cruising at sea in the vicinity of
Port Arthur. Six Japanese warships
were reported off Weihaiwei on April
9, and on the 10th instant Japanese
warships were seen on the horizon
from Port Arthur. On April 10 the Rus
sian warships at Port Arthur were re-
ported to be patrOling actively, and on
the 18th instant eight Russian war
ships were reported to have been seen
ten miles outside of Port Arthur)
st. Petersburg, April 13-General
Kouropatkin, in dispatch to the en-
peror, says that General Krasnalinski,
on the night of April 8, ordered a de-
tachment of Sharpshooters to cross to
the left bank of the Yalu, opposite
Wiju. The sharpshooters landed on
the island of Samalind and surprised
a patrol of so Japanese scouts just as
the latter were approaching the east
side Of the island in three boats.
The Russians allowed the Japanese
to land and then fired on them. Near
ly all of the Japanese were shot, bay
oneted or drowned and their boats
sunk. The Russians sustained no
losses. NOncommissioned officers
Louchkine and Suhaschonov dis
tinguished themselves in the fight.
On the following day the Japanese
lowered their flag at Wiju and at their
outposts, which lately have been seen
and fell back. On the night of April
9 four Russians crossed the Yalu to
Yongampho and made toward Rus
sian village, where they found a squad
ron Of Japanese cavalry. They re-
NAMED II hours, when they were be-
trayed by Koreans, and found them
selves obliged to swim the river, their
boat having stuck on sandbank One
soldier lost his life
The Japanese pursued the Russians
in boat, but were in turn attacked |
by a Russian boat, which had come to
the rescue of the swimmers.
The Japanese were all killed and
their boat sunk.