The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-04-21
Big Fleet Of Transports Sighted Near
Port Arthur, Which City Has Not
Yet Fallen-Late Details of Five
Days Bombardment.

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ten warships protecting the transports
with them. The Russians
have 10000 troops concentrated at
Taku Shan.
Fleet Headed for Kinchou.
Tientsin, April 19.--From several
reports have been received here
saying that a japanese feet of over 70
transports is heading for Kinchou,
north of Port Arthur.
Port Arthur Has Not Fallen.
Port Arthur, April 19.-Since the
bombardment of Friday all has been
quiet here. Viceroy Alexieff has hoisted
his flag on the battleship Sevastopol.
The above dispatch indicates the
falsity of dispatches received on Satur-
Cay that the battleship Sevastopol had
been destroyed, and that Port Arthur
had fallen. .
Says Japanese Cruiser Was Lost.
st. Petersburg, April ia dispatch
from Port Arthur says several eyewit-
nesses assert that q Japanese cruiser
was lost outside Port Arthur April IL by
striking n of it's own floating mines.
Recovering from Depression.
st. Petersburg, April 19.-The au-
thorities here are recovering from the
depression which followed the last
weeks disaster. They seem imbued
with new and feverish energy. The
greatest activity prevails. The public
is more aroused than at any time since
the war began and now is thirsting for
revenge. Russ extra bulletin boards
are constantly surrounded, although
little fresh news is posted. g.
The vivid eyewitness. picture of the
torpedo-boat fight and the Petropav-
lovsk disaster transmitted from a Rus
sian correspondent Of the press under
cate of Liaoyang. Manchuria, Sunday
night is reprinted here and is the talk of
st. Petersburg and of official and private
circles. beirg the first connected account
published. It also contained the first
definite information that Vice Admiral
Makarof vas at his post on the bridge
when the explosion occurred. Besides,
1t put at rest all doubts as to where the
ship was struck: She went down bow
first. as the Victoria old, and exactly as
Makaroff's W model did when during a
lecture which he delivered in 1894 he
demonstrated the instability of heav-
ily-armored ships and the impossibility
ct the time of a disaster. by collision
mats or otherwise, of restoring the
equilibrium of such steel monsters.
The admiralty stilllacks definite data as
the talk of a boiler explosion and sub
marine boats continues. The public
shows an indisposition to accept Vice
Admiral Togo's version that his mines
were responsible. Members Of the naval
staff frankly admit that they 90 not
know the cause of the disaster, but some
of them already are inclined to admit
the probability that the enemy's avowal
is true. g
Five Days Bombardment.
Toxic, April 19.-The official report
of the recent attacks by the Japanese
fleet on Port Arthur states that the &C.
ton commenced on Monday, April IL,
The bombardment was resumed the
following Tuesday, night at midnight.
The Japanese destroyers sunk a Rus
sian destroyer and narrowly missed
capturing another. The battleshil
Petropaylovsk, the report says, struck
q mechanical mine which had been
submerged by the japanese prior to the
attack. The fleet reopened the attack
April II and continued the lombard
ment until 1870 p. m. the next day
(Friday). In this action the guns OF
the cruisers Kasuga and Nisshin
which were purchased from Argentine
before the outbreak of the war, were
found to work satisfactorily. The jap.
anese loss was two men slightly
wounded. Some slight damage was
sustained by the Japanese ships. This
since has been repaired. The Japan
ese feet, the report declares, maneu.
vered among the enemy's mines with
out sustaining any damage.
Togo Reports.
Admiral Togo's report covering tn.
naval action outside Of Port Arthur
which resulted in the sinking Of til.
Petropavlovsk and the injury to thu
Pobieda is as follows:
1.-THE fourth and the fifth destroyer
fotillas, and the fourteenth torpedo
fotilla, and the Keryo Maru reached
the mouth of Port Arthur at midnigh'
Of the 18th, and effected the laying o
mines at several points outside of tn,
port, defying the ensmy's s~earchlight
1.-THE second destroyer flotilla discov
cred at dawn of the 18th one Russia!
destroyer trying to enter the harbor
and after, ten minutes attack sunk II
Another Russian destroyer was dtscov
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