The copper era., 1905-06-08
INDIGNATION IN RUSSIA
Over Seeming Sacrifice of Ships-TOeO Wounded = Reduce Estimates of
 Losses.

AuHllIdl 1OSOS SuppleuSHIdiy IC- port of the naval battle reached the navy department last week and it makes the defeat of the Russians staggering disaster unequalled in naval history.
 Practically every fighting ship of the once splendid fleet of Russia was either sunk or captured, represent ing loss of tonnage exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand tons.
 The remaining units of the fleet consisting largely of auxiliaries and transports have been dispersed, some going to Vladivostock and others to the China coast.
 The total Japanese casualties are under eight hundred. Three Japan csc torpedo boats were sunk, but no warship suffered any loss of fighting or navigation power.
 The daily Telegraph's Tokio cor respondent says that three Russian warships have arrived at Hamada on the west coast of Honshiu, Japan, and that they will probably be cap tured or surrender.
 The report reached Nagasaki last week to the effect that little hope is now entertained of the recovery of Admiral Rojestvensky, who is in the naval hospital at Sasebo.
 Fully $500 Russian naval prisoners have been landed.
 Three damaged Russian vessels have drifted ashore off the coast of the Province of Negato.
 The rough estimates which have been made of Russian losses in the battle fought in the sea of Japan, exclusive of nearly the 4,000 prison CTS, vary from seven to nine thous- and.
 l The state department has received a dispatch from Ministea Griscom, at Tokio, stating that it has been off, cially announced that Admiral Voel- kersham was killed, and not captured as previously reported to the depart ment.
 According to dispatches from Baron Ferzen, commander of the cruiser Izumrud, the battleships remaining in the fight were still in squadron for nation when he was cut off. This increases the deep resentment felt at St. Petersburg at the surrender of the ships; Novoe Vremya even de- claring that the officers ought to be courtmartialed and shot for hauling down their flags and turning their ships over to the Japanese. The paper cites articles of the naval regulations forbidding a commander to surrender except as last emer- gency.
 The Japanese legation at Washing ton received an official dispatch which confirms in every detail the Ass ociated Press report from Fokio giving details of the Russian defeat, and designating the three Japanese torpedo boats which were the only Japanese losses. It states that prac- tically the whole fighting strength of both fleets was engaged, and that the Russian fleet was practically an initiated.
 Rear Admiral Toelkersam, who was commander of the battleship squad ron of the Russian fleet, was, it was announced last week, killed the first day of the battle, May 27, in the coming tower of his flagship, Os- labya, one of the vessels sunk by the Japanese.
 It was Voelkersam's squadron, ac- cording to report, which fired on the British steamers in the North Sea, mistaking them for Japanese torpedo boats.
 The Japanese losses in the battle of the Sea of Japan were 113 officers and men killed and 424 off cers and men wounded. Completion of the revised list shows the losses were under the original estimates. Commander Togo was wounded on the Adzuma.
 Ugly stories are circulating of the demoralization and even treachery of the crews of several Russian ships during the battle and it is even said the crews of the battleship Orel bound the officers and hoisted the white flag.
 Details from a trustworthy source leave little dou bt that Admiral Nebogatoff's sailors mutined in the battle of the Sea of Japan and threw their admiral and many off cers overheard or, according to an other version, burned them in their cabin and hoisted the white flag.
 Eight men in Nebogatoff's squad ron were, it is again asserted, hanged for mutiny in the Red Sea.
 It has been planned to bring the battleship Orel to Yokosuka, where the emperior will visit her. A re- markable story is in circulation con cerning the wounded on the Orel. It is said that at the opening of the fight 300 men were killed and wound ed and that the groans and shrieks of the wounded exercised so harmful an effect that it was decided to