Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-02
A GREAT VICTORY
FOR THE JAPS
Admiral Togo's Warships Almost An
initiated the Russian Fleet Com
manded by Rojestvensky.
THE LATTER WAS CAPTURED
Togo in Report to His Government
Says that % of the Enemy's Ships
Were Either Destroyedor Cap
tured During the Battle in
the Straits of Korea.

Washington, May 31.-The latest Of
fetal Japanese report on the great
naval battle in the Korean Straits Sat
turday and Sunday is made in cable
gram received last night by the Jap
anese legation here from the foreign
office at Toxic, conveying Admiral
Togo's dispatches up to Tuesday after
noon.
The report says that Admiral Ro-
jestvensky and another admiral and
staff officers were taken prisoners on
the sinking of Rojestvensky's flagship,
the Kniaz Souvaroff, Saturday night
south of Urleung Island, off the Korean
coast.
The total number of ships lost to the
Russians according to Admiral Togo
now reaches % and he adds that, al
though the full particulars are not yet
in, none of the Japanese ships was
seriously injured and the loss to the
first division of the Japanese fleet was
over 400.
The report says that the armored
cruiser Dmitri Donskoi ran aground on
Urleung Island; that the battleships
| Oslabya and Navarin were sunk; that
the battleship Sissoi Veliky 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
slightly wounded. The protected cru
User Almaz, which has already arrived
at Vladivostok, is referred to in the
report as suspected to have sunk"
Vladivostok, May 31.-Two ships
alone of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky
hotilla, the cruiser Almaz and the
torpedo boat destroyer Grozny, lie at
anchor here, they having separated
from the fleet in the early stage of the
battle which began in the Korea.
Straits Saturday and headed with fun
speed to Vladivostok.
Officers of the Almaz and Grozny
say that both fleets had already sus-
tanned terrible losses when the Almaz-
and Grozny broke through the hostile
line.
OF the Japanese two battleships had
gone down before their eyes and two
cruisers, their sterns high out of the
water seemed ready TO plunge fore
most to the bottom of the sea.
The Russian fleet, they say. was
even in sadder plight Rojest-
vensky's flagship, the Borodino, and
the cruisers Oslabya and Ural were.
utterly destroyed and when the fog
closed down and hid the scene of bat
tie from sight northward of the speed
| ing ships, third Russian battleship,
the Alexander ILL.,, seemed in sore dis
tress, but was limping northward, put
ting up a valiant fight against throngs
! of torpedo boats and still continuing
| her attacks on the Japanese cruisers.
The AlmaZ, which arrived at her
anchorage here Monday evening, bears
scars of the battle. Her mizzenmast is
shot away and one of her smokestacks
is pierced by cannon shot. But the
Grozny, though engaged for several
hours in running fight at short range.
with large Japanese destroyer,
shows no signs of the fray. After her
commander had been wounded and an
officer and three men had been killed,
the Grozny succeeded in sinking her
opponent with a lucky placed shot
and reached Vladivostok yesterday.
London, May 3l.-The st. Peters
burg correspondent of the Standard
asserts that Nine. Rojestvensky, wife
of the commander of the Russian fleet
has received a telegram from Vladi-
vostok signed by her husband, saying
that he had arrived there on board the
cruiser AlmaZ and that he was Sc
vercly wounded in the neck, back, and
abdomen.
A dispatch from Kobe, Japan, says
that hundreds of Russians, many of
them badly wounded, are coming
ashore at Yamaguchi, on the coast of
Japan opposite the Straits of Korea,
in boats, or cinging to wreckage.
The correspondent of the Daily Ex-
press reports that the cruiser Gromo-
boi, of the Vladiyostok squadron, with.
nearly 500 men on board, issued from
Vladivostok in the hope of joining the
remnant of Rojestvenshy's fleet, and
that it struck a Japanese mine and,
sunk with all hands.
The correspondent says it is believ-
ed that Vice Admiral Skrydloff was on
board the Gromoboi
Toxic, May 31.-The captured Rus
sian battleship Orel arrived at the
Maizuru navy yard Tuesday. The bat
tleships Nikolai /. and Admiral Semi
avin and the coast defense ironcladf
Admiral Apraxine have reached
Sasebo.
The Japanese torpedo boats played
the principal role in the defeat of the
Russian fleet. They were sent in for
action again and again under perfect
hail of shot from the Russian rapid
firing guns.
A Killer Is Killed.