The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-06-07
RUSSIAN FLEET IS CRUSHED
Admiral Togo lnflcts Great Dam
on Squadron of the Enemy
in Straits of Korea.
FIGHT COST RUSSIA 22 SHIPS
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, With
Another Officer and Eighty
Men, Taken Prisoner.

The official Japanese report on the
latest details of the great naval bat
tie in the Korean straits is made in q
cablegram received at Washington by
the Japanese legation from the for
eign Office at Toxic, conveying Adj
miral Togo's dispatches up TO May
Both.
The report says that Admiral Ro-
jestvensky and another admiral, and
staff officers were taken prisoners on
the sinking of Rojestvensky's flag
ship, the Kniaz Souvaroff, Saturday
night, south of Urleung island on
Korean coast.
The total number Of vessels lost
to the Russians, according to Admir-
al Togo, now reaches %, and he adds
that, although the full particulars are
not yet in, none of the Japanese
ships was seriously injured, and the
loss to the first division of the Jap
anese fleet was over 400 The report
says that the armored cruiser Dmitri
Donskoi ran aground on Urleung is
land; that the battleships Oslabya, al
ready admitted by the Russian ad-
miralty, and the Nayarin, were sunk;
that the battleship Sissoi VeliIy went
to the bottom Sunday morning; that
the coast defense ship Admiral
Oushakoff was sunk after a vigorous
pursuit her crew being rescued, and
gives other details as TO vessels sunk
or disabled.
The Japanese Admiral Misu was
cruiser Almaz, which has already ar
rived at Vladivostoh, is referred to in
the report as suspected to have
sunk"
According to officers of the Almaz
the fleet under Rojestvensky met the
Japanese in the Straits Of Korea near
the Tsu island, and the opposing
fleets Immediately closed in. Being
lightly armored the Almaz, as had
been ordered by Admiral Rojestvensky
before the battle, separated itself
from the main fleet at the first op-
portunity and headed for Vladivostok
soon after the commencement of the
engagement, but not too soon to
observe the loss on both sides in the
Titanic combat.
Arly in the battle an officer Of the
Almaz, while watching Rojestvensiy's
flagship, the battleship Kniaz Sou
varoff, for a signal, saw the flagship
shudder from stem to stern, as If
under a blow from a gigantic ham,
mer, and hesitate in her course, while
the waves rose high from her arm
ored sides. Then she commenced to
list and sink.
The officers believe that the debut
of the submarine boat as an effective
agent in naval warfare, or perhaps a
large mine, caused the disaster to the
KniaZ Souvaroff. The damage, how
ever, was so extensive that the flag
ship soon went down, leaving the
deck officers and many Of the crew
struggling in the waves.
One of the Russian torpedo boats
either the destroyer Bunny or the
Bravi, ran in and picked up a num-
Der of the swimmers. one of whom
was recognized through a glass as Ad-
miral Roiestvensky. Under a Cruel
ling attack by the Japanese warships,
aided by torpedo boats, mines and
submarines, the Borodino, Osliabia
and Ural were placed out of action
and followed the flagship.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
"Daily Telegraph" says the COM
pleteness of the Russian defeat was
largely due to a mistaken battle for
mation. The armored ships were on
the starboard side with cruisers and
gunboats on the port side. The Jap
anese main force coming from the
northwest attacked the port line first,
and promptly threw it into disorder
This disorganized the starboard line
Thus the real action was of very
short duration.