The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-07
EYES ON ROOSEVELT

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tinued to command the Aurora without
receiving any surgical aid. He never
gave up the cOTnmand of the vessel at
ans. period of the fight or while on her
way here. Chief Surgeon KraVtcheuk0
praises the captain highly for his cour-
| age and endurance.
Empress Birthday Is Celebrated.
st. Petersburg. June THE city is
| decorated and befagged today in honor
/ of the empress birthday. Those who
! expected the day to be signalled by an
/ imperial proclamation were disap-
pointed.
| The first act of Count Won Vorontzoff-
/ DashkOn as viceroy of the Caucasus has
/ been the introduction of a regular po-
! lice regiment modelled on the Russian
system for the preservation of public
order. The Tartars are continuing their
assaults on the Armenfans whose revo-
lutlonary committee is very active.
Enqlist Receives His Orders.
Manila, June AT Il O'Clock this
morning President Roosevelt's order
was delivered to Rear Admiral Enquist
| directing him to sail within "A hours
after noon OF June or intern. He
will permitted to take coal and sup
/ plies sufficient to reach the next port.
Rear Admiral Enquist has asked for
] SE.
/ Petersburg. Governor General White
! has returned Rear Admiral Enquist's
visit.
Heard Japanese Were Coming.
Nagasaki, June the British
steamer Cilurnum, chartered by tbs
Mitsui Busasn Steamship company of
| Toxic, bound from Shanghai for Kobe
Japan, was stopped on June .. 80 miles
from the bell buoy off the entrance to
Woosung, by the Russian transport
! Rion.
A boarding party, after the steam
er's papers had been examined, re
moved her matches and threw over
4 board All bags of beans, 125 bales of
/ cotton and II boxes of anthony. The
/ Russians left again suddenly, stating
/ that the steamer was released. 1t is
supposed that they received a wireless
message announcing the approach of
1 the Japanese Warships.
Linevitch Still for War.
Headquarters of the Russian Army.
/ GodZya ADAM, Manchuria. June TN
/ dismayed by Rojestvensby defeat and
/ full Of confidence as to the outcome of
/ the approaching battle. Lieutenant
/ General Linevitch is for war to the Bit
/ ter end, and he believes that the Man
! churian army is now strong enough to
! assume the aggressive.
! To a question put to him by the cor
7 respondent Of the Associated Press to
] WuOtu he grained an interview TODAY,
/ as to whether he was for war or peace,
| the commander-in-chief replied firmly
and without the slightest hesitation:
Most certainly I am for war, I am a
/ soldier The emper0r's will is naturally
my law, but my voice now as before is
! for the continuance of the fight.
/ with the destruction of our feet
! Yan1sheS OF course the hopes of those
/ who at the beginning of the war wished
! who at the beginning of the war wished
! IA inf rod
absolutely not one whit. I consider
/ myself strong enough not only to hold
/ my ground but even to advance.
/ i am no prophet and have no desire
/ 10 be one, but I firmly believe that
i can and will defeat the Japanese at
I Manchuria.
4 have asked the war Office to send
! me reservists of the youngest classes
! instead of older ones, not because the
/ latter make poor soldiers but because
! with plenty of young and vigorous re-
/ servtsts it will be unjust as well as in
/ advisable to call the older men from
/ their more settled life"
The OreI Was Terribly Battered.
| Toxic, June Is a. ma CORE
! spOndent of the Associated Press has
! been permitted to inspect the Russian
! battleship Orel, now lying at Maizuru.
The Orel received a terrible battering.
1 Her hull shows forty graping holes
! pierced by shells and many smaller
/ ones where she had been hit, while the
supehstucture, her upper works and
/ upper decks were riddled by shells.
/ steel fragments and splinters. The
1 starboard forward 12-inch gun was
smashed ten feet from the muzzle
either by shell or by explosion. A
! fragment Of the gun went over the
( bridge, smashing the rail and after
carrying away the breach of a r.
FOUNDER buried itself in the signal
locker.
From the main deck upward the
condition of the vessel was terrible to
behold. Steel partitions were smash
ed, the gangway was broken and
stanchions we're wrecked. Gear of
various kinds covered the deck and
the state Of the alleyways shows that
the ship was afire several times. The
mark of the flames increased the
scene of desolation.
The main armOr belt is intact. The
I turret armor generally withstood the
hattering from shells although two of
the Six-inch turrets were rendered I'M
fserviceable by shots which struck
close to their base. Several smaller
guns were dismOunted and smashed
A grewsOTnR sight was a bu1kh cad be-
spattered with bloody fragments Of
flesh and hair.
The Orei is sound structurally al
though it will be necessary to prac-
ticaIIy reconstruct her from the water
shows that the crew underwent a ter
rlble ordeal before they surrendered.
i Submarines Were Used.
! London. June THE correspond