Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-05-31

ond and third fleets is nearly annihi lated. Please feel assured of it.
 The captured Russian battleship Orel arrived at the Maizura navy yard at noon yesterday. The battleships Nikola. l. and Admiral Seniavin and the coast defense ironclad Admiral Apraxine reached Sasebo at II o'clock. It is re, ported that the Orel and Nikolai I. are slightly damaged.
 Early in the battle an officer of the Almaz while watching Rojestvensky's flagship, the battleship Kniaz, Souva rolf, for signal saw the flagship shud der from stem to stern as if under a blow from a gigantic hammer and hes itate in her course while the waves rose high from her armored sides. Then she commenced to Ist and sink.
 The officer believes that the debut ot the submarine boat as an effective agent in naval warfare or perhaps a large mine caused the disaster to the Kniaz Souvaroff The damage. how ever, was So extensive that the flagship soon went down. leaving the deck off, cers and many of the crew struggling in the waves.
 One of the Russian torpedo boats, either the destroyer Buiny or the Bravi. ran in and picked up number of the hized through glass as Admiral Ro- jestvensky.
 Other dispatches from Nladivostok say the Russians lost twelve warships sunk and captured during the engage ment. According to these reports, the Japanese torpedo boats played the prin- cipal 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. More than one-half of the Japa- nese fotilla of torpedo boats was sunk. The protected cruiser Jemtchug, re- ported sunk in the Tokyo dispatches, has arrived at vladivostok.
 The Russian government seems to be in quandary as to how to break the news to the country. A war coun- cil was held at Tsarskoe-Selo at which the emperor was urged to issue an i'm perial manifesto.
 So far as the newspapers are concern ed the public might believe Vice Ad- miral Rojestvensky had achieved a victory. The censor passed all the vague rumors favorable to the Rus sians. but blue penciled everything in- dicating Russian disaster.
 The Novoe vremya and the Russ while admitting that the fate of the far east has been determined decline to accept the Japanese reports. Their editorials. however. breathe tone of unutterable sadness.
 The admiralty officially admits the sinking of the battleships knisz Sou varoff. Borcdino. OsIabya and Orel and the repair ship kamchatka. The loss of these vessels was definitely estsb- lished by Captain Cfagin of the cruiser Almaz. No statement regarding the ships captured was made
 Russian survivors of the great battle who have reached various ports of Ja- pan say their fleet had absolutely no chance of winning the battle
 The Japanese attack was so sud den and so complete and the plan of attack so different from that expected that the entire feet was panic stricken. The long range fire of the Japanese was deadly. and there was no chance to reply because the Japanese had chosen their own range which no Rus sian ship could equal
 SHANGHAI. May 3l-It now sp- pezrs that the report of the sinking of an American vessei by the fleet of Ad- mirsI Roj~stvensky grew out of the seizure by the Russian ne>t of the