Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-08-17
PALADA WAS SUNK.
Russia Lost One of Her Great
Protected Cruisers.
SECOND SORTIE FROM PORT ARTHUr
Japanese Shell Fire Makes HarboI
Too Hot For ships to stny-D!-
nna Reported to Ne safe
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LONDON, Aug. 17.Aspecial adviccs
from Chefu say that the Russian ships
at Port Arthur made Il sortie yesterday
and were pursued by tho Japanese.
The Japanese fleet kept off some dis
lance from the entrance to Port Ar
thug, fearing danger from torpcdoes III
the darkiiess i'll consequence.
The Russian protected cruiser Pal
lada was sunk by a torpedo during the
engagement on the night of Aug. l,
Admiral Togo's reported sinking of /,
snip Of the Pallada class. being con
firmed.
1t is reported that shells Of the Japu
nese land batteries are falling i'll the
harbor at Port Arthur, rendering il
impossible for ships to remain there
any longer.
1t is also interpreted in some quar-.
tiers as Indicating the eve of the storm
ing ofsthe fortress.
The torpedo boat destroyer Bunny Is
the only Russian destroyer sunk Oft
Weihaiwef.
A Tokyo report says that the Rus
sian protected cruiser Pallada was tor
pedocd and sunk during the naval bat
tie of Aug. 10.
She failed to return to Port Arthur
and has not been reported since Admi-
raj Togo's fleet departed on various
missioss the night of Aug. 10, when
the Russians ~fetrcated.
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a naval officer has telegraphei to his
family that the cruiser Diana has ar
rived at vladivostok.k
A dispatch from Tokyo says that the
Japanese are comparing the Treatment:
accorded to the crew of the Rurik to
that accorded by the Vladivostok
squadron to those on board the trans
port Hitachi, which the squadron sank
during its first raid. A prominent of
fetal said:
Japan has avenged the Hitachi.
Admiral Kamimura rescued and sue
cored those who aided in sinking the
Hitachi and who sailed away from
hundreds of drowning victims. We Of
fer their living for our dead"
A Chefu dispatch says a striking In
cident of the Port Arthur naval en-
gagementi was the surrounding of the
battleship Retvizan by Japanese tor
pedo boats, the other Russian vessels
having gone to the assistance of the
Cesarevitch, which was then hard
pressed. The Retvizan desperately at
tempted to break through the line and
tried to ram the cruiser which APP
preached, but she was fairly blown out
Of her course by a hail of shells from
the cruisers which now began partici-
pating in the fight. Every officer of
the Cesarevitch was either killed or
wounded.
While the C~esarevitch was making
for Tsingchau funeral services were
held, in many cases over heads, arms
and legs. One sailor whose hand was
severed by II fragment of shell became
craZed by pain and the horror of blood
about him. He approached the cap
tain, held out the severed member III
his remaining hand and requested that
prayer be said over it.
Advlces from Tokyo say that q big
oil warehouse ut Port Arthur Is bIaz-
ing furiously and that the position of
the besieged is such that the japanese
are urging them to surrender.
The cruiser Novik of the Port Arthur
squadron has been sighted off the
strait of Van Diemen steering for Via
divostok.