The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-03
n,s.,,,n ,,arnediately listed nearly to TIVE

Z ! 4 i 81 s
,,ars,iip Immediately listed nearly to Tue
waters edge. .
meanwhile, the cannonading OF tho
y ,,,botn5 Jannnese fleet, as II controlled by
,ne automatic switch was c0nGen raheu
,,y,on Tho crowd OF officers aud men stanu-
Ing beneath the solitary mast ana VIII Wilt
IN n few seconds they were scattorea mo
fragments in the air Ike dry leaves pef-
fore tho WIND. ..Ah,,
reared &,,p. as perpendicular as pole I'M
headcd in the ground. and plunged 10 t he
bottom OF the sea. !,
How Rojestvenslsy Was Captured
The Tclcgraph's sascbo correspondent N =
further wircs: 81
81 nave been able to obtain Tie FOL
,n,,,,,r narrative of the circumstances uil-
,er which Roiestvensky was chp'uiesu.
I,n was at first on board his ilassliip,
tbe Iiniaz souraroff. From the peg
Of the battle on May q, he fonsh. VIII W.
magnificent courage. hui on N,us -, - 80, -.
Angship became separated from 1'ie
mainier of the fleet.
larhere il was isolated, but kept on
J;r,nt, all It's guns, one battleship against
nverwhelning odds For a time she was
Tho solitary target OF the japanese
fleet. a,no
..shells swept her decks like a. cyclone lone,
and il was soon evident that sue mus
snaediIv sink Therefore, the admiral
with eight of his staff officers" was re-
moved to the destroyer BiedoVS.
"All the while the Japanese continued
! 4, nour In their storm of shells 10
icstvensky. having fed from his fiaEsh'p.
was now the target of the coinntltI ~.
fleet. The destroyer. now the auir'ir RAJ
flagship, attempted to break away, nrsl
mounting her head one way then aho'i .i
in her efforts TO find n gap IN the fihe
Of ships and guns. -
,..Thc Japanese DESTROYER Sasanaini ha-
yancea from the lines to meet the az
nirals destroyer, and she glded through
The water. pouring in q terrible ana close
ire. THE Biedovy became disabled ana
was unable to use her steering gear
which had been rendered useless =
at was now that Rojestvensky nndd. MS
chief of staff We're wounded again, ana
this time the admiral was scriolsl! IN
iured. The Biedovy was boarded nS
crew OF the sasanami.
.s,rhe japanese searched hibh and low
All the russians on the Biedovy We're
made prisoners and Roiestvensky was
Y the last man to be discovered. He was
found hiding In the bottom of the de-
Nstroyer bleeding freely from many
a wounds.
How Nebogatoff Did It.
Another dispatch received by the Daily
Telegraph from Toxic states that when
Rcar-Admiral NeboEatoff surrendered,
the Russians lloisted red flags on thelr
topmasts, with Russian flags below them.
The crews were drawn up in parade
order on the decks, and some or the
4 sailors were waving white flags. The
whole affair, the dispatch says, was a
'.contemptiblc spectacle
nj, N ppp tn saw.
ut is understood that Admiral Ncbo-
eatoff, who Is grateful for the kind
treatment given him by order of the
4 Mikado will be allowed to proceed nome
within n few days. His surrender was
disgraccful and unaccolintablc. An ex-
animation OF his ships show that, though
the guns were rusty and the bottoms OF
the vessels covered with sca-weed, there
4 was no lack of fighting resources. There
were heaps Of ammunition, and no trace
Of damage by the Japanese shells.
The crew of the cruiser Ural describe
how three successive 11-inch shells COM
pletely disabled the vessel and sent her
(. to the bottom inside Of forty minutes.
All stories, the Teegraph's correspon-
dents say. contrast the accuracy Of the
Japanese igunnery with the wild firing
of the Russians. who were outfought,
3 and out -manoeuvred, Mt all points.
It is stated that Admiral Togo. on the
night before the battle when he knew
from his scouts that tho Russians would
be off ,rsu Island the following morning,
and knowing that Ill his preparations.
were complete slept soundly.
Togo's Location.
The Daily Telegraph publishes the fol-
lowing:
TOXIC, June IA correspondent at
sasebo sends the following brief, tactical
summary Of the naval battle:
admiral Togo has never changed his
plan Of operations. He had always wait
ed in Tsushima Straits and lay there,
ready, for three months. Not even the
Officers of the ships Of other squadrons
knew the place where Togo's main squad
ron lay harbored."