Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-08-15
JAPAN AGAIN VICTOR
Admiral Kamimura Attacked
vladivostok Squadron.
WITHOFF KILLED on CEsARsVITCH
Naval Enlargement In the strait of
Korea Resulted In Destruction
of the Armored Cruiser
Rur1Ix.

L
squadron, after five hours of severe
fighting with the three ships of the
vladlvostok squadron on Sunday morn
ing off Tsushima island, in the strait
of Korea, sank the Russian armored
cruiser Rurik. The other two ships,
the Rossia and Gromoboi. which APP
peared to have suffered heavily, fed
northward. Our damages are slight"
A special from Tokyo says that Vice
Admiral Kapimura attacked the Rus
sian Vladivostoa squadron at dawn
on Sunday north Of Tsu island, in the
strait of Korea. The battle lasted for
FIVE hours and resulted in a complete
Japanese victory. The Russian cruiser
Rurik was sunk, and the cruisers Ros-
STA and Gromoboi fled to the north
ward after having sustained serious
damage. The injuries inflicted upon
the Japanese were slight.
The fate of the crew of the Rurik is
not known fully, but many of them
were killed or drowned. Admiral Ka-
mimura had the Adsuma, Idsumo,
Iwate, T%akashiho and other light cruis-
ers.
Tokyo is joyous over the news, as it
gives Japan mastery Of the sea and re-
stores commerce..
A special from Chefu says that the
! Japanese made a general assault on
Port Arthur this morning at 4 o'clock,
and there is a persistent that 1t
has fallen.
There is q general belief, which is
borne out by the latest dispatches, that
the situation at Port Arthur is desper-
ate.
Apparently the Japanese are concen-
trating all their energies toward the re-
| duction of the fortress in order to re-
lease heavy re-enforcements for the
operations against General Kuropatkin,
and 1t is thought that until this has
been accomplished the advance on LAO
| yang will be suspended.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says that
by command of the emperor Foreign
| Minister Lamsdorff has instructed nj.
| Nelidoff, the Russian ambassador at
! Paris. to request that France on be-
half of Russia shall lodge a strong
protest with the French minister ut
| Tokyo, NJ. Harmand, against what is
described as an outrageous violation
of Chinese neutrality and of univer-
sally recognized principles of interna-
tional law involved in the Japanese at
tack on the Russian torpedo boat de-
| stroyer Ryeshitelni in the neutral har-
L ~.
! Dor Of Chefu.
A dispatch from Mukden states that
the Japanese Port Arthur army has
been largely REINFORCED and has taken
I'D positions in two large bodies,
on the heights between Lungwungtao
and Pigeon bay and the other on the
hills neal Louisa bay. Guns have
| also been placed on the heights east
of the Wolf hills.
A Chefu dispatch says that Captain
/ Matousevitch, the late Rear Amiral
! Withoft's chief of staff, who was
wounded during the Japanese attack
on the battleship Cesarevitch, has died
Of his wounds.
The Japanese have demanded the de-
~parture of the Cesarvitch. but the gov
ernor of Tsingchou replied h a the
vessel would remain, but would be dis
mantled.
A Liaoyang report says:
Twelve japanese regiments have
left in the direction of Port Arthur.
SIT is stated on trustworthy author
ity that the mikado has ordered that
Port Arthur must be taken at any
cost. ever If 1t necessitates the sus-
pension of operations in Manchuria,
and it is quite possible that the main
Japanese force will proceed to Port
Arthur within a few days"
A report from Tokyo says that Jap
nnese guns dominate the ~dockyards at
Port Arthur, and in view of this fact
It would seem to be impossible again
to make seaworthy II fightable the
Russian battleships which have re-
turned to Port Arthur. 1t is probable
that the Russian battleship Cesare-
witch will disarm Mt Tsingchau.
The best possible naval force that
Russia can now concentrate at Vladi-
vostok is four cruisers.
viceroy Alexeieff in a dispatch to the
emperor gives the following report
from Captain Matousevitch, the late
Rear Admiral Withoft's chief Of staff:
"At dawn our Port Arthur squadron
began to make for the open sea and
emerged from the port at 8 o'clock.
The squadron consisted of six battle
ships, the cruisers Askold, Diana, Pal
lada and Novik and eight torpedo
boats.
'The japanese opposed us with the
following force: A first detachment
consisting Of the battleships Asahi,
Mikasa, Full, Yashima and shikishima
and the cruisers Nisshin and kasuga,
a second detachment consisting OF the
cruisers Yakumo. Kasagi, Chitose and
Takasago and a third detachment con-
sisting of the cruisers Akitsushima,
Idsumo, Matsushima. I~tsukushima and
Hashidate and the battleship Chin
Yen, with about thirty torpedo boats.
"Our squadron Unanswered to gain