The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-09
ADMIRAL TOGO'S FULL REPORT
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destroyer iotilla from a south-easter-
ly direction. The torpedo-bo fotil-
las under Fukuda tMasateru), Otaki,
Kondo (Tsunematsu), Aoyama and
Kawada, pursued from a southern di-
rection the enemy's main squadron as
we'll as a group of cruisers proceeding
parallel to the left rear of the main
squadron on the enemy'S side. AT sun
set we gradually disposed our squad
rons in order to envelope the enemy
from three sides. Apparently giving
way to the danger thus threatening
them the enemy, after sunset, fled in
confusion to the southwest and then
appeared to change their course to the
east On the delivery of the first at
tack by the YAKIMA destroyer fotilla on
the enemy's head at SIS p. m, all the
destroyer and torpedo-boat f1otillas
rushed onward simultaneously and
swarmed around the enemy, whom they
fiercely attacked at close range until II
p. m. From sunset the enemy defended
themselves to the utmost by gunflre
and searchlights but finally gave way
to our attack. The enemy's ships lost
sight of each other, and separately
sought to escape. but We're pursued by
our attackers. A terrible melee en-
sued, resulting at least in the complete
loss of the fighting and navigating ca
pacity of the enemy's battleShip Sissoi
Veliky, armored cruisers Admiral Max
himoff and Monomach, all of which
were torpedoed. On our side. the tor
pedo boat No. 50 Commanding boaD of
EH,,Iy, f0rra1n-hnat- HOti1la for
pedo boat No. "a commanding boaD of
the Aoyama torpedo-boat flotilia, and
torpedo-boat No. 35 of the Kawada tor
pedo- boat fiotilla. We're sunk by the
enemy's gunfire while delivering the
night attack. The destroyers Haru-
same Akatsuki Ikazuchi. and Yugiri,
and torpedo boats Sagi, No. 6S. and No.
SO sustained some damage due to the
enemy's gunfire or through collision,
and for a while were prevented from
participating in the operations. The
casualties were comparatively large, es
pecially in the Fukuda, Aoyama, and
Kawada torpedo-boat flotillas. But
the crews of the three sunken torpedo
boats were saved by their fellow boats
Karigane, No 81, and No. 81, and
others.
According to the statement since
made by the prisoners of war, the
severity of the torpedo attack on that
night was almost beyond description.
Our destroyers and boats advanced in
such quick succession to the attack
that the enemy had no time to prepare
for defense. and the distance between
the attackers and defenders was so
short that our boats entered within the
dead angle of the enemy's guns, which
therefore could not be laid on our YES
sells.
In addition to the above, the Suzuki
(Kantaro) destroyer flotil'a and the ter
pedo-boat f1otillas not mentioned above,
searched for the enemy in other direc-
tons. On the 2Sth at a. m. the Suzu-
XII destroyer f1otilla discovered two Of
the enemy's vessels steaming north
wards at point q nautical miles
northeast by east of Karasaki, and at
once torpedoed them, sinking one. Ac-
cording to the statement Of the prison.
ers, this vessel was the battleship Nav
arin, which received two consecutive
hits from torpedoes on each side, of the
hull. Other f1otillas searched for the
enemy in every direction throughout
the night, but failed to discover any
Of the enemy's vessels