Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-06-13
SIX SHIPS GO DOWN
Great Naval Battle Off Port
Arthur Rumored.
JAP FLEET BOMBARDS MILITARY TRAIN
Russians Were Bringing Troops to
and F0rtifying Kiachau When
shelIed-Russian Dead Buried
at Nanshan Numbered yO4.

She1lGO-nuSS1an OGAu buE40O
at Nanshan Numbered zO4.
LONDON, June 13.-Advices from st.
Petersburg say rumors are in circula-
ton there to the effect that great
naval battle has taken place off Port
Arthur in which two Russian and four
Japanese battleships were sunk.
A Tokyo report says that Rear Adj
miral Togo has reported that the feet
bombarded the west coast of the Liau-
tong peninsular near Kaichau and
drove back a military train that was
approaching southwark. No trains have
been seen since.
The enemy was bringing in troops
and throwing up works, evidently ex-
pecting a landing of the Japanese on.
that point and making all preparations
to prevent it.
Small gunboats sent close in by Rear
Admiral Togo bombarded the Russians
at work and it is believed caused con-
siderable damage.
The military commission assigned to
bury the Russian dead in the battle of
Nanshan hill at Ninchau has present
ed its final report at Tokyo.
Ii SldtSS JudI IL huDS1dD O11COIS anu
1854 men who fell in the battle have
been carefully buried and that 30 men
were buried by the outposts, making
the total number of killed left behind
by the Russians 704.
The Russian government has not yet
returned an answer to British Ambas-
sador Hardinge relative to his govern
ment's protest at Russia's declaration
that rice and other foodstuffs are con-
traband of war, but it has been learn
ed that there is no intention on the
part of the Russian government to
make notifications to meet the British
view.
The protest is based on the rule OBJ
served by Great Britain during the
Boer war that even foodstuffs destined
for hostile country would be consid-
cred contraband of war only if intend
ed for an enemy's forces.
A Tokyo report says the Siberian rail-
way steamer Manchuria, which was
captured by the Japanese, has left the
Yokosuka naval station, carrying sixty
guests of the navy department. The
trip of the Manchuria has been ar
ranged for the foreign naval attaches,
prominent members of the diet and ten
of the foreign correspondents. The tin
erary of the vessel includes visits to
the Kure naval station, the Saseb6 ma
val station, Chemulpo Chinampho, the
Sir James hall and the Elliott groups
Of the islands, Talien bay, Port Arthur,
the advanced naval bases at the mouth
of the Yalu and the army bases on the
Liautong peninsula.
A Haicheng dispatch says:
"a f1anking movement of the Japa-
nese around the Russian left from
Fengwangcheng has been repulsed
with loss of two whole battalions.
"a large japanese force moved out
cheng and Haicheng road. The. Rus
SLAMS had force strongly posted in a
ravine thirty miles southeast of Hal
cheng. The Japanese were preceded
by two battalions, who walked into the
Russian ambush. They received a
murderous rife and artillery fire at
close range and were wiped out, only
one or two escaping.
''The main Japanese force, which
was greatly superior to the Russian
force, tried to outfiank the Russians,
who drew off without losing a man.
The Japanese, closing in, found the
ravine vacant save for their own
dead
Eight hundred infantry and no cav
airy or artillery whatever is the total
Japanese garrison at Wonson, and
these are the only troops Japan main
tains on the eastern Korean coast The
lack of cavalry prevents effective scout
ing. Infantry is useless against the
mobile Cossack bands forming the
principal Russian force for 200 miles
to the north.