The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-02
THE BATTLE
DESCRIBED
BY A CORRESPONDENT. THE RUS.
SLAMS FELL INTO THE TRAP
LAID FOR THEM
WORK OF TORPEDO BOATS
Was Deadly. japanese Losses We're
very Small

Toxic, June 81 Il p. m. DE
layed in Transmission. The navy
department gives out the following
report from Admiral Togo:
Later reportsfrom the different
division of the fleet engaged in the
naval battle of May Fl, shows as
follow.
The Russian battleship Oslabia
was heavily damaged in the early
part of the fight on Sunday, going
down at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon.
The first Russian vessel sunk
was the battleship Sissoqveliky.
Thearnored cruisers Admiral Ma
kimoft and Vladimir Monomach,
after being in the general engage
ment during the day time. were
still further damaged by torpedoes
during attacks by night, and were
eventually completely disabled.
They drifted into the vicinity of
Tsu islands, where they were dis
covered on Sunday morning (May1
2S) by the auxiliary cruisers, Shil-
ano, Yawatae, Tainan and Sado,
which were about to capture them,
but they all sunk. The crews of our
auxiliary cruisers rescued oI2 of
the crew of the sunken Russian
ships,
"The battleship Navarin was
torpedoed four times after sundown
OH Lundya MAY 2S) and sunk.
Thesurvivors of the Navarin' 5 crew
confirm the story of her destruct-
ion. .-s
"Thecruisers Niitaka and Ottawa
discovered the Russian cruiser Svie-
tlana at 9 O'Clock on Sunday morn
ing inthe vicinity of Chappyan bay
and Immediately attacked and sunk
der. The commander Of the Nit
aka reports the following:
1T is suspected that the Russian
cruisers Alamaz and Aurora were
sunk by ;orpedoes on the night Of
May 27.
Later reports show that during
the night of May 27 our torpedo
boats numbered "a, IS and 69 were
sunk by the enemy's fire. Com
rades rescued the majority of their
crews. Besides the above no dam
ageworth reporting. No warships
nor destroyers suffered any loss Of
fighting or navigating power.
eve anticipated a heavy loss of
life but fnd that our casualties
were comaratiyely slight. They
do not exceed 500 killed and wound
ed. The casualty report is renls--
ed as speedily as possible in order
to reassure family and friends.
Nearly the whole strength of
both complaints met in the battle
and the area of the fighting was
very wide. The first day proved
foggy and even without smoke and
fumes, resulting from the battle,
it was impossible to see FIVE miles.
Consequently during theday it was
impossible to locate or observe all
the ships under my command.
Moreover the fighting having last
ed two days and the ships of my
command being Scattered for the
purpose of chasing and attacking
the enemy, having received special
orders after tue battle, it is impos-
sible to collect and frame any detail
report covering the whole battle
at the same time"
London, June 1.-The Toxic
correspondent of the Daily Tele-
graph sends an interesting de-
scription of the naval battle from
a correspondent with the Japan
ese feet, who describes the
scene as supremely terrible, the
guns of nearly fifty warships fir
ing.
Togo's vessels, this CORE
Spondent says, maneuvered with
perfect precision. For a time
both belligerents gave shot for
shot, but with a hostile squadron