Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-07-09
JAPS SUNK RUSSIAN BOATS
TOGO REPORTS THAT
HIT SENT TWO DOWN.
A Guardshp and Torpedo Boat De-
stroyer Gone-Japs Surround Them
Activity Near Port Arthur-HeaVy
Rains Cause Manchuria to Be Flood
ed-Neither Army Can Move.


Toxic, July A belated report from
Admiral Togo records a successful at
tack at the entrance of Port Arthur
last Monday night, June q, in which
Russian guardship and Russian tor
pedo boat destroyer were sunk.
The guardship is described as hav-
ing two masts and three tunnels. She
was either battleship or a first class
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 13 men killed, and one Of
ficer and two men wounded. He makes
no mention of damage to his fleet.
The Twelfth torpedo boat flotilla, I'M
der command of Commander Yamada,
delivered the attack. The Japanese
vessels were revealed by the Russian
searchlight and the shore forts opened
a heavy fusilade upon them. The Rus
sian guard ship was surrounded and
attacked by the Japanese, who saw the
vessel sink amid the huge volume of
water thrown up by the heavy eXplo
sion. Following this, the Russian tor
pedo destroyers at once attacked the
Japanese vessels, which responded to
the onslaught. A Russian destroyer,
whiel within the area lit by the search
lights, was seen to explode, rise, fall
back into the water sideways and sink.
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Golden hill.
The cause for 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 commu-
nicate with Toxic.
Activity Near Port Arthur.
Recent reports from Russian sources, |
CheefOo and elsewhere, mention con-
tinued activity and several engage |
ments 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 can
nonade from the warships. During the !
evening of June 20 the forts and bat
teries at Port Arthur opened fire on
Japanese torpedo boats. A dispatch |
from Cheefoo said a big battle was
fought on land near Port Arthur on
June &c and q. No mention, however, |
has been made of Russian losses to
correspond with those reported by Ad- |
miral Togo. The Russian torpedo boat
destroyer Lieutenant Burukoff left
Port Arthur the night of Tuesday, June
%, and reached Newchwang the next
day. She is believed to have come out
with dispatches for st. Petersburg. The
foreign office has given out dispatch
dated June 80 announcing that the
Russian warships safely reentered Port
Arthur after the fight of June % and
that not one of them was damaged.
Refugees from Port Arthur who have
arrived at ChefoO report that four Rus
sian battleships, with gunboats and
torpedo boats, are kept in the harbor
while two battleships, five cruisers and
a flotilla of torpedo boats make excur-
sions to sea-
Foreigners who left Port Arthur the
evening of July l reached Chefoo July
2. Their reports made no mention of
the sinking of two Russian warships.
Recent Russian denials of naval
losses have been particularly directed
to the statement contained in a pre-
vious report from Admiral Togo that
on June % the Japanese inflicted seri-
GUS losses on the Russian feet off Port |
Arthur.
Manchuria a Vast Marsh.
Liaoyong, July 5.-The whole Of |
Manchuria seems to have turned into |
a marsh and the waather almost rro