The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-06-01

Togo Swoops Down Upon Rojestvensky
in the Straits of Korea and Skaters
His Great Fleet Of Warships.

yensky's original sixteen fighting
ships absent from the list OF YES
sells sunk or captured, and with the
japanese pursuit still continuing, NJ
naval authority has the temerity to
dream that Russia can again attempt
to wrest the mastery Of the sea from
Japan in the present war. The cap
tured vessels alone will furnish ia
pan with ready-made reinforcements,
which will be more than a match to1
the fourth Pacific squadron now about
to sail from Cronstadt. The emperor
was completely prostra.2d by the
news, and, according to reports, he
broke down and wept.
The effect of the disaster will be
terrible blow to the government.
The futility of trying to stagger on,
on land, is everywhere recognized,
and the cry for peace at any price
is sure 10 be raised. This time, 1t
is believed, the government cannot
resist such a cry. Indeed the radical
liberals are openly rejoicing in this
hour of their cpuntry's humiliation.
They declare that the disaster means
peace and a constitution, and that
the deaths Of thousands of their fel-
low-countrymen and the loss of over
a hundred million dollars worth OF
warships is not too big a price to
pay.
The friends of peace in the govern
ment are already reproaching the war
party with forcing the issue between
Togo and Rojestversky. When the
feet appeared in the strait of Malacca
they tried vainly to persuade the en-
peror that the time was opportune
for the opening Of peace negotiations,
but the war party convinced his maj
esty and Rojestvensky, for the honor
Of the navy, insisted that the fleet
should be given a chance to retrieve
the disasters suffered on land.
Diplomats entertain no doubt that
the belligerent faction will continue
to urge that the war be fought to the
bitter end, but the friends Of Russia
abroad, and especially France, are now
bringing overwhelming arguments to
bear in favor Of peace.
Japs Rejoice Greatly.
The news of Togo's great victory
over Rojestvensky set all Japan in
a wild delirium of JOY. While there
never has been a doubt in the minds
of the people of the ability of Togo
to smash the Russians when they
met, the long delay and impenetrab;e
secrecy maintained had caused a con-
dition of nervous tension, which has
now given way to unconcealed ella
ton, which grows as the magnitude
of the victory becomes apparent.
The last doubt of complete Japanese
success has been removed by Togo's
magnificent victory, and it is said, on
high authority, that the land opera
tions will be pushed with great vigor
now, and an effort will be made, with
out delay, to cut off the entire Rus
sian army in Manchuria.
List Of Ships Sunk.
In the battle fought Saturday in
the Strait of Korea, the Russian bat
tleships Borodino and Alexander III,
the armored cruisers Admiral Naka-
hir, Dmitri Donskoi and Vladimir
Monomach, the coast defense iron
clad Admiral Oushakoff, the protect
ed cruisers Svietlana and Jemoitu-
CHG, the repair ship Kamchatka and
the cruiser Irtessin were sunk.
The battleships Orel and Nicholai
I and the coast defense iron clads
Admiral Seniavin and General Adml-
raj Upraxine were captured.
According to later advices, the Jap
anese, in addition to the ships AL
ready named, captured the Russian
battleship Sissoi Veliky and the Rus.
sian flagship was seriously damaged.
Reports were current on the stock
exchange in London purporting to be
from authoritative private sources
that Admiral Rojestvensky's private
ship, Kniaz Souvaroff, was among The
vessels sunk, and that the Japanese
were following up the Russians and
picking off their ships one by one.
Greatest Since Trafalgar.
A dispatch from Berlin, Germany,
says: Naval critics in the evening Ds-
pers accept, without reserve, the dis:
patches from Toxic and build on them
the view that the war has entered
upon the last phase in which the
Japanese command Of the sea will
continue unthreatened until the end.
/ The battle of Saturday is called the
greatest feet action for hundred
years, or since Trafalgar, and is class
ed as being immensely greater than
the Adriatic sea fight in 1866 Or the
naval battle of Santiago in 1898.