The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-04-21
THE RUSSIAN-JANANESE WAR
Jaran's Statement.

! Washington. Special.-The japanese
legation received the following cable
gram, dated Toxic. April Is:
| Admiral Togo reports that the
| combined feet. as previously planned
| commenced on April Ilth the eighth
! attack on Port Arthur. The fourth and
| the fifth destroyer fotilla and the
/ fourteenth torpedo fotilla and the
! koryCmaTu reached the mouth OF Port
! tr:h;r at midnight OF the 18th, and
/ effected tho laying of mines at several
! points outside the port. defying the
! enemy's gcarchlights. The second de-
! stroyer aotilIa discovered at dawn OF
! the 18th one Russian destroyer trying
! TO enter the harbor. and after ten min
! utea' attack. sunk her. Another Rus
sian destroyer was discovered coming
| from the direction OF Laotishan and
I vas attacked, but she managed 10 fee
! into the harbor On our side no casual
! ties. except two seamen on the Ika-
zuch slightly wounded There was no
/ time TO rescue the enemy's drowning
! crew as the Bayan approached. The
third feet reached outside OF Port Ar
thur at a. m, when the Bayan came
out and opened fire. Immediately af-
terward the Novik, Askold, Diana. Pet
roDaylOysk, Pobieda and Poltava came
/ out and made an offensive attack.
| Our third feet, hardly answering, en-
tiCed the enemy fifteen miles south
east of the port, when our first fleet,
informed through wireless telegraphy
| Fl ON the third feet. suddenly appeared
before the enemy and attacked them
While the enemy was trying to regain
the port. battleship struck mines laid
by US the previous evening, and sunk
at 1892 a. m. Although the ship was
observed TO be sinking, she finally man.
! aged to regain the port Our third
feet suffered no damage, and the enc
! my's damage, besides that above men
toned, is probably slight also. Our
first fleet did not reach firing distances.
Our fleets at ] =. m. prepared for an
other attack They re-sailed April II
I toward Port Arthur. The second, the
fourth and fifth destroyer f1otillas
and the ninth torpedo tlotilla also join
ed Us at a. m, and at a. m No
enemys ships were found outside Of
the port. Our first feet arrived at the
port at 8 a. m. and discovered three
mines laid by the enemy and destroy
erS. The KaSagu and NiSsin were dis
patched to the west of I4aOtiShan. and
made indirect bombardment for two
hours. it being their first action. The
new forts on Laotishan were finally
silenced. Our forces retired at 1:30
p. M
PetrOpavlovsk Was Torpedoed.
London. BY Cable.-No further news
from Japanese sources concerning the
/ Port Arthur disasters has reached Lon
| don.
The Daily Mails Chez Foo corre-
! both Russian and Japanese sources in
! dicate that the battleship Petropa-
! ViOvsk was torpedoed. By pretence
/ OF an attack On the harbOr by the
enemy, Admiral Makaroff, says the
correspondent. was enticed outside Of
| the Japanese torpedo boats, which crept
behind him and awaited his return, and
| dealt the blow as he was nearing the
! harbOr on the return.
+ Character of the Petropavlovsk
st. Petersburg. BY Cable.-The Pc
/ tT0pavlovsk. which had twice previous
~ been reported damaged by Japanese
attacks on Port Arthur, was a first
class battleship of 10,960 tons displace-
Inent and 14,213 indicated horsepower
She was 2671a feet long, had So feet
beam and her armored belt was of
! about 16 inches of steel, with 10 inches
/ cf steel armor on her turrets. Her ar
mament consisted Of Pinch, II g.
! Itch. "a smaller guns and 6 torpedo
tubes. The complement Of the Petro-
: Iavlovsk, when fully Manned was 700
/ men. She was built at st. Petersburg
and was completed in 1898.