The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-06-09

sian feet reformed as well as it might
and once more took up its despairing
run for the sea of Japan and the haven
of Vladivostok, but Togo still held the
straits.
Hanging onto the already beaten
enemy, an easy matter with his faster
ships, he picked off the Russians all
of Saturday night with his searchlights'
occasionally sending long-distance
shell toward one of the shadowy hulls
that were racing to get through the
straits. But just as Togo had selected
his fighting grounds for working out
one chapter of the tragedy, so now he
chose the scene of the second day g
fighting.
VLADIVOSTOK, May 80, 4:3O p. m.
Two ships alone of Vice Admiral Ro.j- |
cruiser Almaz and the torpedo-boa
destroyer Grozny, lie at anchor here
today in the curving harbor of the
Golden Horn. They separated from
the fleet in the early stages Of the
battle, which began in the Corean
strait Saturday and headed, in obedi-
ence to orders, with full speed to Via
divostok.
Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon no
other vessel of the Baltic fleet had
yet arrived and the signal stations at
Askold and Rimskykorsakoff islands
reported none in sight.
Officers of the Almaz and Grozny say
that both fleets had already sustained
terrible losses when the Almaz and
GroZny broke through the hostile line.
SAW TWO JAPANESE SHIPS
SUNK.
OF the japanese two battle-ships
had gone down before their eyes and
two cruisers, their sterns high out of
, the water, seemed ready to plunge
foremost to the bottom of the sea.
The Russian fleet, they say, was even
in sadder plight. Rojestvensky
flagship, the Kniaz Suvaroff, and her
sister ship, the Borodino, and the cruis-
ers Os'iabia and Ural> were utterly de-
stroyed, and when the fog closed down
and hid the scene of battle from the
speeding ships n third great Russian
battle-ship, the Alexander ILL.,, seemed
in sore distress, but was limping
northward, putting up a valiant fight
against throngs of torpedo boats and
still continuing her attacks on the
cruisers of the island empire.
Torpedo boats We're also clinging
round the other ships of the fleet like
angered wasps, separate flotillas dart
ing in again and again to launch their
weapons.
The Almaz, which arrived at her an
chorage here Monday evening, bears
scars of battle. Her mizzenmast is shot
away and one of her smokestacks is
pierced by cannon ball. But the
Grozny, though engaged for several
hours in a running fight at short range
with long japanese destroyer, shows
no signs of the fray. After her COM
mander, Captain Andriffski, had been
wounded and an officer and three men
had been killed, the Grozny succeeded
in sinking her opponent with luckily
placed shot and reached Vladivostok
without further adventure at IL clock
this morning.
SURVIVOR WARMLY GREETED.
For the past two days vladivostok
has been buzzing with rumor and ex-
eitement. The fact that battle be-
tween the rival fleets was imminent,
if Rojestvensky was not already st
hand grips with Togo, was made
known through kilograms from Europe,
and when il was known Monday morn
ing that a Russian cruiser had been
sighted off Askold island headed for
the harbor, the city was filed with the
widest reports of every nature.
The inhabitants clustered in the
streets, thronged the water side or
climbed the frowning hills overlook
ing the harbor for better view.
Finally toward 6 o'clock in the even
ing graceful cruiser with two snowy
white stacks shot into view at the en-
trance TO the Golden Horn and round.
ed to an anchorage beneath the brist-
ling guns of the curving promontory.
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