The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-01
JAPS LAID
| MANY MINES
Specialists Have Examined
Point Where Ship Sunk
NO DOUBT JAPS DID IT
Court of Inquiry Reports Facts
in the Case.

Paris, May 1.-According to the st
Petersburg correspondent of the Echo dc
Paris, specialists who have examined the
spot where the battleship Petropavlovsk
sank declare that the japanese had laid
large group of connected mines, each
containing eighty pounds of lyddite, in
Port Arthur roads. These, the CORE
spondent says. have now been found and
removed by the Russians.
st. Petersburg, May 1.-The finding OF
the court of inquiry that the battleship
Petropavlovsk was destroyed by Jap
anese mine has caused little surprise in
st. Petersburg.
This finding has been expected since
Viceroy Alsxieff's dispatch of April 81
in which Vice Admiral Togo's claim that
he was responsible for the blowing up of
the ship was practically admitted
The conclusion of the court of inquiry
is based on the testimony of the survivors
of the disaster. as it probably would
have been impossible to send down divers
even to recover Vice Admiral Makaroff S
signal cipher books. which. in the pos
session of the enemy would be an i'm
mense disadvantage to the Russians.
The publication of the findings of the
court is pointed to as proof of the desire
of the emperor to get at the truth, no
matter whether or not it shows a victory
for the enemy. and to inform the people
in order that they may know where TO
place the responsibility.
IN THICK FOG.
St> Petersburg May lin telegram
to the emperor. dated April 80, Viceroy
Alexieff says:
About o'clock yesterday morning
four Japanese torpedo boats appeared in
the gulf of Usuri, off the Skrypler light
house. but shortly afterward put out for
the open sea again.
1T is reported from Askold island at
twenty minutes past seven in the morn
ing that ten cruisers and two torpedo
boats of the japanese were coming up
from the south. They steamed first in
the direction of the gulf of Usuri without
coming in range. At 10 o'clock in the
morning they headed toward Cape Ga
nova and steamed along Russky island
as far as Scott island. eventually disap-
pearing in a southerly direction in a
thick fog. which prevented further OBJ
servation of their movements"
UNKNOWN DESTINATION.
Toxic, April 800 a m.-Fourteen for
egn military attaches, who have been
assigned to the first army, left Toxic
today by rail for the port of Shmon-
oseki. They will sail May 3 for an un-
known destination. Members of the gen.
,as-
crowd of people bid them farewell at the
railroad station.
ENEMY LAID THE MINE.
st. Petersburg, May 1.-The following
telegram from Viceroy Alexieff, under
date of April 80, has been received by
the emperor: 81:
The special commission appointed to
inquire into the cause of the sinking of
the pattleship Petropavlovsk has estab-
lished beyond doubt the fact that the
battleship struck a mine laid by the
enemy within the radius of the custo-
mary evolutions of our fleet on the oc-
casion OF its sorties into The outer road
stead to get the enemy The explosion
of this mine under the boat compart-
ments and bunkers of the Petropavlovsk
resulted. according to the view of the
commission of experts in which I share,
in a series of explosions through the de-
tonation of the Pyroxelin and the twelve
inch shells in the ships magazine and
in the explosion of the powder cartridge
stores, as well as of the cylindrical
boilers. These several explosions were
observed in the two minutes before the
battleship was wrapped in a sheet of
flames and disappeared beneath the sea. -
Toxic April 30.-Captain Kugaji Sa-
kuraio, who was drowned when the
transport kinshiu Maru was sunk of
Gensan by the Russian cruiser Rosia.
has been decorated by the government
for the observations. reports and decon-
noisances he made in Northern Korea,
which are of'value TO the army.
ST. Petersburg, April 30-An official an
nouncement is gazetted to explaining that
the emperor is refusing all applications Of
foreigners for permission TO serve as VOL
unteers in the far east. because he con-
siders that the life and strength of the
individual belong above all TO his native
country.
Moscow. April 3o-The Slavonic society
has sent deputation TO America to pre-
sent diplomas to the prominent Slavo-
philes jeremiah Kittreck. founder Of the
chair Of Slav languages at the Chicago
university and Thomas Czapek chairman
OF the Pan Slavist congress.
odessa. April 3o.-A court martial has
sentenced Colonel Audreianef 10 the loss
OF his rang and civil rights. and to be i'm
prisoned for two and a half years for
recruiting frauds
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