Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-04-28
THE. JAPANESE ARE
NOW LOSING BOATS.
japanese Military Transport Sank-A Number of OFF,
GERS and Part OF Crew Taken Prisoners-Some Who
Refused to Surrender Sent Down With the Boat
Russian Press Aroused Over Mediation Talk

st Petersburg, April 2S.-Russian
torpedo boats belonging to the Vladi-
Wostok squadron sank a Japanese mili
Hary transport. the Kinshiu Maru, OF
1900 TONS during the night Of April
26, with all on board with the excep-
ton o1 seventeen officers, twenty sol
diers, sixty-five of the crew and eighty
i've coolie carriers The others, who
refused to surrender, were sent to the
bottom with the ship.
The official report of Rear Admiral
Yeszan to the emperor is as follows:
During the night of April 26 two
Russian torpedo boats met at sea the
Japanese military transport Kinsh1u-
Maru. of 1000 tons, laden with rice
and other military stores and about L.
500 tons of coal. The transport was
armed with four Hotchkiss guns of AZ
millimeters. The Russians captured on
board seventeen officers, twenty sol
diers. eighty-nye coolies and sixty-hve
of the crew, who surrendered. The re-
manner of the men, who We're to form
q landing party and who We're left
without officers, obstinately refused to
surrender or go on board a Russian
cruiser. Furthermore they offered
armed resistance to the Russians. In
the end they were sent to the bottonfs
with the transport.
The number of men drowned is not
given
Admiral Yeszen also reports hat be-
sides. the sinking of the Japanese
steamer Goyo-ATaru at Gen-San April
%, the Russians sank at sea the same
evening the Japanese steamer Kaka-
mura.Maru, of 220 tons, whose crew
were saved
st Petersburg, April 2S.-Engfneer
Brouseneff, who was sent out, in the
spring of 1908 by the Imperial Acad-
emy of Sciences, in company with Lieu
tenant KOlchak and number OF eX-
perienced Yakuts and coast people, to-
ward New Siberia and Bennett island
to search for the Polar expedition
headed by Baron e. Toll, has returned
here Baron Toll has not been heard
from since he and his companions left
the yacht Zaria May %, 1902, in COM
pany with two Yakuts and started for
Bennett island. The Brousneff expe-
dition visited Bennett island after
lieutenant Kolchak had searched
Kotelnyi island, New Siberia, and the
Thaddeus islands.
No trace of Ine Toll expedition was
found. Brousneff believes the mem
bers. Of the party died of cold and
xatiOii. He says Baron Toll killed only
six reindeer on Bennett Island and
adds that the baron probably encoun-
tered open water on his ice journey
south to New Siberia and there per-
ished Lieutenant Kolchak, who is a
naval officer, received orders at IT.
kutsk. Eastern Siberia. to proceed to
the scene of the war in the far east.
Chefoo, April 2S 5 p. m.-Chinese
junkmen arriving from the Yalu say
that a Japanese force has occupied
KurIien Cheng, a town just north of
Antung, on the Manchurian side of
the Yalu river. They say only small
body of the Japanese army has
crossed that river.
Admiral Tsah reports the Chinese
cruiser Hai-Tien total wreck on FL
lott Island, north of Shanghai
st Petersburg. April %, 1:12 p. M
The Russian press is aroused over the
talk of mediation and is inclined to
attribute the responsibility for the
proposal to the Anglo French agree
ment, the result being that the agree
.ment does not obtain favor. The No
voc Vremya declares the Anglo
French understanding has rendered
poor service to Russia in prompting
the idea of mediation, and adds:
1T is idle to expect an Anglo-Rus-
sian understanding as q result of the
Anglo French entente. 1t will take a
long time for Great Britain to reach
Russia's confidence" !"
The Port Arthur correspondent of
the Russky Invalid writes:
."The Japanese have Invented a new
combustible. 1t is inextinguishable.
They tried to burn the battleship Ret
vizan by setting adrift rafts loaded
with this burning material. The Ret
vizan sank them, but the combustible
continued to burn under water. A
japanese 12-inch shell exploded in the
yard of General Stoessers house, out
side Port Arthur. 1t broke a roos
ters leg"