The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21
THIRSTTNG FOR
SWIFT REVENGE
ALL RUSSIA IMBUED WITH NEW
AND FEvERIsH ENERGY.
GREAT ACTIVITY SHOWN
Muscovites Would Avenge Their Re-
cent Disasters. japanese Fleet
Heading for Port of Kin Chou. I'm
possible to Raise Petropavlovsk.

st. Petersburg. The authorities
here are recovering from the depres-
sion which followed the last week s
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. Crowds gather on the streets.
The Russ extra bulletin boards are
constantly surrounded, although little
of fresh news is posted
The vivid eye witness picture Of the
torpedo boat fight and the Pretropa-
vloysk disaster, transmitted from
Russian correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press, under date Of Lao Yang,
Manchuria, is reprinted here and is
the talk of st. Petersburg and Of Off
cial and private circles, being the first
connected account published.
1t also contained the first definite
information that Vice Admiral Maka-
rolf was at his post on the bridge when
the explosion occurred. Besides, it
put at rest all doubts as to where the
ship was struck. She went down bow
first, as the Victoria did, and exactly
as Makaroff s own model did when,
during lecture, which he delivered
IN 1894, he demonstrated the instabil-
ity of heavily armored ships and the
impossibility at the time of a disas-
ter, by collision mats or otherwise, Of
restoring the equilibrium Of such steel
monsters.
The admiralty still lacks definite
data as to the cause of the catastro-
phe, although the talk of a boiler ex-
plosion and submarine boats contin-
ues. The public shows an indisposi-
ton to accept Vice Admiral Togo's
version that his mines were response
BILE.
Members Of the naval staff frankly
admit that they do not know the cause
of the disaster, but some of them al
ready are inclined to admit the proba-
bility that the enemy avowal is true.
Perhaps the mystery will be like that
of your Maine" said member of the
naval staff to the correspondent of the
Associated Press. cit will take an
examination of the hull to determine
whether the explosion was internal or
EXTERNAL
The reason the naval staff was at
first disinclined to accept the posi-
bility of Togo's claim was because if
true the mines were laid not only
without discovery, but without arous-
ing the faintest suspicion.
The general staff has no information
IN regard to the rumored appearance
OF japanese transports off Yin Kow,
the port of New Chwang
A special telegram from Port Ar
thur says the cruiser Bayan exceeded
her trial speed when she went out to
tn rescue of the torpedo boat destroy
er Strashni
The same dispatch reports that a
Japanese cruiser was sunk, adding
that the cause is unknown.
The Novoe Vremya publishes an ex-
pert article showing the impossibility
and futility of trying to raise the Pc
tropavlovsk.
"She's sinking; she's sinking
walled some one beside me.
"The Petropavlovsk began to settle
slowly by the head, heeling far over
to starboard until her rail was under
water. Her bow had already disap-
peared and now the foremost was
sinking. | could still see the coming
tower. Then her smoke stacks dis
appeared. They seemed to fall through
the water and the sea began to en-
gulf the mainmast. Her after turret
with its guns pointing skyward, quick
ly vanished; then her stern with the
port propeller still revolving. could
see figures desperately clutching at the
slippery hull. The flagship was no
more
"Boats from the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Gaydamak hurried to the
scene of the disaster. It was forty
minutes past nine in the morning.