Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-13

l Engagement Took Place or YentaO
 Island = Askold, NOvik, Another
 Cruiser and Destroyer Ran Into
 Kaiochau-Four Russtan BattIe-
 ships on Saddle HsIands.
 WARRINGTON, Aug. 13.-The Japa- nese legation has received the follow ng cablegram from the foreign office at Tokyo:
 Admiral Togo reports that the Rus sian squadron proceeded southward after the sortie from Port Arthur and were attacked by the combined Japa- } nese fleet twenty-h miles southeast pf Port Arthur. They were pursued in m easterly direction. Sharp fighting continued from p. n. until sunset. The enemy apparently suffered heavy damage, and later their ire slackened greatly, while their battle formation was completely deranged.
 "The Askold, the Novik, the Cesare- ritch, the Pallada and some destroyers led southward, and the rest probably Hed to Port Arthur after an attack by pur destroyers and torpedo boat notiila 1t night. Our fleet suffered no serious damage, and the total casualties were about ITO"
 | A Shanghai dispatch says that the Russian protected cruiser Askold has lrrived at Woosune with her fifth fun nel gone close to the deck, all the fun hels riddled with shell holes, one gun m the port, side. dismounted and sev' { eraY large shell holes above the water dne. One lieutenant and eleven men had been killed and fifty men wound kd.
 Dispatches from various points indi- eate that the attempt of the Russian Port Arthur squadron under Admiral Withoft to reach Vladis&tok failed md that the vessels have 8scome wide iy scattered. The hattleship Cesare- Fitoh, the cruiser Novik and torpedo boat have arrived at TsingChau, at the entrance of Kaiochau bay, the German concession on the southern shore of the shangtung peninsula.
 According to other dispatches the cruiser Askold is also at Tsingchau, but advices to the German foreign of Ree do not include her. Another Rus sian cruiser and, torpedo boat de- stroyer are reported as near Shanghai md four battleships are off the Saddle Islands, about seventy miles southeast of that port. Chefu reports say that pne Russian torpedo boat was captured off the Chinese coast, and Tokyo hears that a number of the. vessels of the squadron have returned to Port Ar thur.
 The German foreign office has given instructions that the uninjured Russian warships at Tsingchau must leave port within twenty-four hours.
 It is the opinion here that if the Che- eu expedition was genuine cutting out affair there is no question that the Japanese have committed an of Eense against International law by vio- lating Chinese neutrality and, in addi- ton, have broken the agreement they entered into at the beginning of the war at the instance of the United States government to limit the field of warlike operations to Manchuria and Korea and their waters.
 The navy department at Tokyo has Issued brief statement of the engage. ment with the Russian Port Arthur squadron, as follows
 According to reports received to late, the enemy's fleet which emerged from Port Arthur was attacked by our Geet south of Yentao island. The Rus sian feet fled during the night, The cruisers AskoId, Novik and another cruiser, with one torpedo boat destroy CT, ran into Kiaochau bay on the even ing of Aug. Il One torpedo boat de- Etroyer went to Chefu, and three of the enemy's battleships, one cruiser, prob ably the Diana; one hospital ship, two gunboats and several torpedo boat de. etroyers seem to have separately re- turned to Port Arthur between dawa and noon of Aug. Il. Our fleet ap- pears to have sustained no damage
 Later reports say that though at least four Russian battleships appear to have reached the open sea, the cruisers Pal lada, Askold and Diana and one battle ship remain unaccounted for, The in- jurtes sustained by the battleship Cesarevitch give her sanctuary in the harbor of Tsingchau, but the Novik is under notice served by the German authorities to leave. As she is vew fast. being capable of making twenty lhree knots an hour. there are strong hopes that she will escape unless there are Japanese cruisers awaiting her on the outside.
 A report has also been received at Chefu to the effect that Admiral Wit hoft has been killed in the naval battle off Port Arthur.
 A strong detachment of Japanese warships is reported to have sailed for the purpose of intercepting the Vladi- vostok fleet, which, it is believed. has not yet effected junction with the vessels reported to have been pur- chased by Russia from the Argentine government.
 A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that the Japanese armored cruiser Ka- suga, formerly the Argentine warship Rivadavia. was sunk, with all on board during the engagement off Port 4 II.