The San Francisco call., 1904-07-04
Japanese Admiral
Reports a Sea
Victory.

TOXIC, July "A belated report
from Admiral Togo records a desperate
and successful torpedo attack at the
entrance of Port Arthur last Monday
night, June q, in which a Russian
destroyer were sunk.
The guardship is described as hav-
ing two masts and three tunnels. She
was either a battleship or a tirst-clas
cruiser and she was torpedoed and de-
stroyed. The torpedo-boat destroyer
was struck and then blew up and sank.
Admiral Togo reports the loss OF one
officer and thirteen men killed and one
officer and two men wounded. He
makes no mention of damage to his
fleet.
The twelfth torpedo flotilla, under the
command of Commander Yamada, de-
livered the attack. The Japanese YES
sells were revealed by the Russian
searchlights and the shore forts opened
a heavy fusillade upon them.
The Russian guardship was sur
rounded and attacked by the japanese,
who saw this vessel sink amid the
huge volumes of water thrown UP by
a heavy explosion. Following this the
Russian torpedo-boat destroyers at
once attacked the Japanese vessels,
WHICH IGSpOuQSO " TIE OAlSld05AlA. "A
Russian destroyer while within the
area lighted by the searchlights, was
seen to explode, rise, fall back into the
water sideways and sink
The guardship sank near the base Of
Golden Hill.
The cause of the delay by Admiral
Togo in forwarding this report is not
known, but it is presumed that he was
busy and did not have time to COM
municate with Toxic.
Recent reports from Russian sources
mentioned continued activity and sew
eral engagements by land and by sea
near Port Arthur from June "a to June
80. A Russian official report said that
on the night of June 24-25 Japanese
torpedo boats approached the fortress
at Port Arthur, and that on June 26 a
japanese land attack was supported
by a cannonade from the warships.
During the evening of June % the forts
and batteries at Port Arthur opened
fire on Japanese torpedo boats. A dis
patch from Chefu said big battle
was fought on land near Port Arthur
on June 26 and q. No mention, how
ever, has been made of Russian losses
to correspond with those reported by
Admiral Togo.
The Russian torpedo-b boat destroyer,
Lieutenant Burukoff, left Port Arthur
on the night of Tuesday, June IS, and
reached Newchwang the next day. She
is believed to have come out with dis
patches for the army and st. Peters
burg. The Russian Foreign Office has
given out dispatch, dated June 80,
announcing that the Russian warships
safely re-entered Port Arthur after the
fight of June % and that not one of
them was damaged.
Refugees from Port Arthur who have
arrived recently at Chefu report that
four Russian battleships, with gum
boats and torpedo boats, are kept in
the harbor, while two battleships, five
cruisers and a fotilla of torpedo boats
make excursions to sea.
Foreigners who left Port Arthur the
evening of July l reached Chefu on
July 2. Their reports made no men
tion Of the sinking of two Russian war
ships.
Recent Russian denials Of naval loss
es have been particularly directed ito
the statement contained in a previous
report from Admiral Togo that on June
% the Japanese inflicted serious losses
upon the Russian fleet off Port Ar
thur.