Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-05-06

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Russia has bought three warships
from Argentina She is in the mar
ket to buy navy.
The Japanese soldier lives on rice,
dried fish and compressed meat. His
knapsack when full supplies him for
nearly week.
The results of torpedo usage in
the Eastern war is destined to reyo.
lutlonize the navies. The u. s. gov
eminent will probably await further
Developments before constructing the
big battleship provided for by Con-
gress. The opinion is growing that
the big battleships will soon have to
be discarded. They are easily in.
lnred by torpedoes, and when dam
aged founder and sink almost i'm.
mediately, giving no chance of escape
to those ON board.
The naval courtmartial of the
captain of the cruiser Boyarln, W which
struck mine aud was pai tally de-
stroyed near Port Arthur has brought
out some sensational facts. These
show that Port Arthur was in a state
or CONSERVATION at the time. Ac.
cording to testimony sharp duel
occurred between the Boyarin and
the Yenissei, both Russian ships and
each thinking the other Jap, W hich
lasted fifteen minutes, both being
damaged. The latter vessel later
ran into mine and was DESTROYED.
The Boyarin gave her no aid. Sub
sequently the Boyarin also struck a
mine,
THE ROOSTER AND THE MULE.
Our Russian friends are getii,g
facetious and frisky. Here is a dis.
patch from Port Arthur which an
nounces that ga japanese 12-inch
shell exploded in the yard of General
Stoessel's house, outside Port Arthur.
lt broke ROSTERS Leg" Pity the
sorrows of that unfortunate fowl. 1t
10 wicked and inhuman thing for
the Mikado's wsrshipg to show SO
little consideration for General Stoes.
sells chickens. The next thing that
may happen may be a raid by Japa-
nese soldiers on the Generals hen
roost. The wounding of a rooster
by shells hurled from the guns of n
battleship recalls one of the atrocities
of the Spanish-American war. Our
tieet appeared off Matanzas, Crba.
and began Q terrific bonn bsrdment.
The next day the Spanish oomman-
der cabled to Madrid that the Amer
lean gunners had succeeded in kill
ing one mule. The Matanzas mule
and the Port Arthur rooster will 90
down in history together.-Ba Baltimore
San.
JAPANESE TRANSPORT SUNK.
Russian torpedo boats of the Vlad-
ivostok squadron sank a Japanese
military transport, the Kinshiu.
Maru, of 1000 tons, during the night
OF April 26. Two hundred soldiers
who refused to surrender, were sent
to the bottom with the ship.
The Russians captured on board
IL officers, 90 soldiers, IS military
carriers. and 65 of the crew, who
surrendered The remainder of the
men, who were to form a landing
party, and who were left without
officers, obstinately refused to sur
render or 90 on board a Russian
cruiser. They offered armed resist
snce TO the Russians. In the end
they were sent to the bottom with
the transport. The Japanese ON
board did not cease firing and made
no attempt to save themselves, al
though they had launch in which
they could have left the transport.
The fire of the japanese actually
until the waves closed
over the ship.
The satisfaction of the Russians at
the exploit is tempered with admira-
ton for the bravery of the japanese
who preferred to drown
rather than surrender.
1t develops that number of the
Japanese soldiers on the transport
kinshiu-Maru, who went down with
their ship off the Korean coast rather
than surrender to the Russians. COM |
United suicide rs the vessel sank.
Some committed harakiri, the
peculiar Japanese form of stabbinp |
ones self In the abdomen, and Others
shot themselves with rifles. Accord |
ing to Toxic advices, rs were lost.
but the Russian version puts the
at 100.
The captain of the Japanese
schooner Chihaya, which arrived at |
Gensan announced that he had res
cued q boatload of As soldiers and |
nine members of the crew of the
japanese transport Kinshiu. Maru.
which was torpedoed and sunk by the
iipssians Of midnight of Monday
last.
The Russian squadron, after sink
ing number of Japanese merchant.
men and transport with soldiers. got
safely back into Vladivostok.
JAPANESE WIN BIG BATTLE.
The first ey tensive land battle of
the Rnssian-Japanese war began early
sunday morning along the Yaln
river. The Japanese won a substan-
Lial success. They began the forcing
of q passage across the Yalu river
from Korea into Manchuria Tuesday
Of last week. Fighting continued
every day of the week. Two BON.
.oon bridges were completed near
WIJu Saturday, and on that night a
large japanese force crossed. The
Russian left flank was turned and
The Japanese captured Chiu. Tien-
Cbeng, which is regarded as the kew
o the Russian position. They drove
he Russians back by an infantry
charge over a frontage of four miles.
ihe japanese say they have the
advantages Of position and numbers.
They estimate the Russian strength