River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
TOGO STRIKES A HARD BLOW
SINKS ANOTHER RUSSIAN BAT
TIE SHIP AT PORT ARTHUR.
Two Other Vessels Damaged-Fleet
Comes Out of Harbor, Makes At
tack and Is Repulsed.

tack and Is Repulsed.
| Rome, June GA dispatch from
Toxic to the Giornale d'Italia says the
Russian Admiral Prince Uhtomsky
and 15O men We're drowned when the bat
tleshlp Peresviet was torpedoed and
sunk.
TOXIC, June 27.-In a supplementary
report OF the naval battle at Port
arthur Admiral Togo says:
'On June % my combined fleet at
tackled the enemy off Port Arthur.
Early in the forming the fact that the
Dattleshlps Peresviet, Poltava and
Sevastopol, with the cruisers Bayan.
Pallada, Diana, Novik and Askold, pre-
ceded by several mine dragging steam
ers, were emerging from the harbor en-
trance was reported to me by wireless
| telegraphy from the scouting ship
Then, according to arrangements pre-
v1ously made to provide against the
enemy's egress l fastened to the APP
pointed rendezvous, sending my fourth
and fourteenth destroyer fotillas as
watch the enemy's movements.
AT IL O'Clock the battleships Care
witch, Retvizan and Pobieda joined the
dragging steamers, which commenced
cruising about in the mines section
and attempted to make fairway. We
kept troubling them At three o'clock
p. m. my fourth and fourteenth f1otillas
engaged seven of the enemy's destroy
ers which were covering the dragging
operations and defeated them. One of
the Russian vessels, catching fire, fed
into the harbor. The cruiser Novik
came out to cover the other fiotillas
and joined the main fleet
The enemy having cleared fair
way with the aid of their dragging
steamers the Novik steamed out to sea-
Our third fighting squadron, keeping
in contact, drew the enemy southwark
on southeasterly course. Our first
squadron, hidden south of Sugar
island, waited for the enemy and con-
centrated all its destroyers. At 6:15
p. m. our first squadron sighted the
enemy eight miles northwest Of Sugar
island. The Czarevitch was leading,
with the Novik and the destroyers on
it's right.
"They steamed south. At 1880 p. m.
our distance from them was $4,000
yards. The enemy changed course
slightly to the starboard and we fol-
lowed them, trying to draw the
enemy's van. At eight p. m. the enemy
altered their course to the north and we
II &c nd CT cd IN,
sunset, at 500 p. M, when we parted
eight points, and l ordered the tor
pedo craft to attack the enemy. At
$3.50 D. M, when five miles distant
from the harbor, the fourteenth tor
pedo flotilla made it's first attack on the
enemy's rear, the first flotilla follow
ing.
THE enemy was thrown into diSor-
der and could not make port, so they
anchored at 1920 p. m. in the road
stead, where we attacked them eight
times before dawn. At 1926 p. m. our
sixteenth fotilla dashed from Shoosen
point and launched two torpedoes into
the bows of battleship resembling
the Peresviet, which Immediately sank
We could ascertain no other results
till morning, when we saw that one
battleship was missing and two vessels
of the Sevastopol and Diana class UNI
able to use their engines. On the TWEEN
ty-fourth (Friday) the enemys fleet
entered the harbor, some being towed
and others under their own steam, the
last getting in at four o'clock p. m.
st. Petersburg, June 27.-Under date
of June 26, Viceroy Alexieff telegraphed
the emperor as follows: "Our Port Ar
thur squadron, commanded by Rear Adj
miral Without, consisting of six battle
ships, five cruisers and ten torpedo
boats, put to seat at eight o'clock on the
morning of June %. According to re-
ports received from the signal stations
on the Liaotieshan promontary the ships
went out without accident. When our
vessels reached open water the enemy's
fleet, consisting of nine large ships, of
which three were battleships and 20
torpedo boats, was sighted on the hor-
lion. Our squadron attacked the enc
my. Up to the present have received
no news of the result of the fighting"
I.
churia are lining up for the decisive land
battle of the war, according to the re-
ports from the Russian headquarters at
Liaoyang. Gems. Oku and Kuroki, lead
Ing an army aggregating six divisions,
or 100000 men, are advancing upon
Kouropatkin's forces, practically in bat
tie formation, and prepared to precipi
tate struggle which will be far greater
than any conflict in the war up to the
present time. Three times the number
of troops engaged at the Yalu, Kinchow
or Vafangow will take part, and the evil
dent determination of the Japanese
leaders is to accomplish Kouropatkin's
complete defeat before the rainy season
sets in, and it is due in short time.
Washington, June 27.-This cable
gram was received at the japanese lega-
ton Sunday from Toxic: Gen. Oku
reports that our casualties at Telissu
were 247 killed, including seven officers
and 946 wounded, including 43 officers"
Wheat Crop Damaged.