Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-12-09
TOGO SURE
OF VICTORY
Destruction.of Port Arthur Squa-
dron Prevents Its Helping
Rojestvensky.
GARRISON is STARVING
Recent Prisoners Taken Say Supplies
Are Giving Out. ..Bonbafdment
Still Goes On.

| Toxic, Dec. 9.-Considerable aston
| ishment is expressed here over the
fact that the Russians in no way re-
sisted the disabling of the Port Arthur
! fleet. Now it is disabled, it is deemed
impossible for the Russians to over
| come the inferiority of the second Pa
| cific squadron to Togo's fleet, unless,
at present unforeseen, the Black Sea
| fleet is allowed to pass the Darda-
nelles.
Have Accomplished Purpose.
| Toxic, Dec. 9.-In disabling the Rus
sian fleet at Port Arthur, the preclud-
ing possibility of its being able to re-
/ inforce the Russian second Pacific
squadron, the Japanese have accom-
plished the main object of their des-
perate assaults against the fortress,
which they have been making for the
past three months. There is now a
strong probability that while contin.
uing the siege, they will avoid any loss.
es of the magnitude that already have
attended their efforts and instead of
assaulting will rely on starving out
the garrison.
Make No Reply.
Toxic, Dec 9.-The latest observa-
tions of the Japanese commanders in
front of Port Arthur show there is no
activity in the west harbor or in the
visible portions of the east harbor.
The Russians, strangely, are not re-
plying to the Japanese fire.
Food Supply Giving Out.
Headquarters Japanese Third Army,
Before Port Arthur.-Russian prison
ers report the food supply Of the gar
rison is insufficient. The men SUBJ
sist on short rations of bread made
of flour and coarser grains, while the
officers get horse flesh twice a week.
Dysentery and typhoid fever, the pris-
oners say, are very prevalent. Owing
to the bad weather, a supply of fresh
cannot be had and the sup
ply of timed meats was finished a
month ago. The appearance of the
prisoners substantiate their state
ments. They are we'll clothed, but
Destructive Bombardment Continues.
London, Dec "a dispatch to the
Japanese legation from Toxic dated to-
day, says: "The naval staff at Port Ar
thur reports that on Thursday even
ing the Pallada was set on fire and
heeled to port with it's stern sunk
Eleven shots hit the gunboat Gilak
The Bayan took fire and is still ablaze
at Ais p. m. The Amur, a transport,
was hit IA times and sank. Many
shots greatly damaged the warehous-
IS and other buildings near Pei Yu
mountain and the arsenal"
Japanese Good Marksmen.
Toxic, Dec. 9.-The following report,
lated December Sth, 10 p. M, has been
'eceived from the commander of the
laval land batteries in front Of Port
Arthur: Eight of our shells struck the
cruiser Pallada today and set
on fire. simultaneously, it began to
ist to port, lowering astern It is
eemed untitled for navigation Dur
ng this action we discovered the gun
'oat Gilak to the landWard to the
Of the battleship Peresviet,
nd bombarded it. Eleven of our shells
we're effective. This vessel is also
leemed disabled. The armored cruis-
sr Bayan which received total of %
tits from our naval siege guns caught
IN fire at 1880 o'clock this morning,
Ind as the fire was not extinguished
It 4:15 this afternoon the cruiser ev-
IDENTIFY is seriously damaged. The re-
ults of our bombardment to the battle
hip Sevastapol, the mine ship Amur
nd the transports are not yet known.
The above mentioned hits were
made with shells from the heavy
uns. Those made by the small shells
re not mentioned in this report. An
ther report from the same command
r dated at 3 o'clock this morning is
S follows: CAS- result of our naval
ombardment yesterday (Thursday).
he Bayan was hit six times and the
Imur fourteen times. The Amur is
linking astern"