The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-09
WIPED OUT.
Such Is the Fate that BefeIl the
Russian Baltic Fleet.
CAUGHT IN A TRAP

After an Explosion. First
Stories of the Great Bat
tie at Sea.
Out Of the great feet that went into
battle on Saturday, May 81, all but
four have been captured or sunk by
the Japanese.
The admiral of the tleet, Rojest
vensky, Is a prisoner and Gesreratelv
wounded.
Admiral Voelkershem is dead, shot
or drowned.
Admiral Nebogatoff is surrendered
prisoner.
Two vessels out of all the gallant
Armada that vas headed for Vladi-
vost0k have reached that port. Such
catalogue Of overwhelming ills seems
past precedent and is all terribly
true. The japanese report Of the
capture Of Rojcstversky Is direct and
exact, but ST. Petersburg insists that
the Ao miral has escaped.
The Admiralty authorities there in.
sist that he has reached Viadivostc
and the L0rdon Standard prints a
dispatch from its correspondent in the
Russian capital in which he asserts
that Nine. Roiestvensky has received
q tele gram from Vladivostok signed
by her husband, saying that he had
arrived there on beard the cruiser AL
MAJ, and that he was severely wound
ed in the neck, back and abdomen.
Against this is paced the circum-
stantial report received by the Japa,
nese Embassy that the commander
vas captured on Saturday evening Of
the Corean island OF U:elung, with
another admiral and eighty Other
Russians, including staff officers. II
seems undOubted that the Almsz has
reached Vladivostok, and In addition
to bearing some one WHO at any rate
claims to be Rojestvensky, she carries
the story that refugees on board were
eye witnesses Of the destruction o1
two Japanese battleships Itis day
OF strange stories.
Admiral Togo Is still securing the
Sea Of Japan in quest Of some rem.
nant OF the enemy that may have es
capped him, but the list Of vessels
sunk and vessels, captuIed dn IA q
wonderful one, as it Is set out In the
official dispatches. Here Is the tally
Battleshjps-Prince Suvaroff, I'm
perator Alexander I'LL, Borodino
Oshabia, Sissoi. Veliki and Navarin.
Cruisers-Admiral Nakimoff, De
mitri D1n koj, Vladimir Monomach
SvietiaDa al z mtchurg.
Coast Defense Ships-Admira Ush
akoff, two special service ships, the
repair ship Kamtchatka and three de
BtroyerS.
CAPTURED.
Battleships. and Imperato
Nicholai 1.
Coast Defence Ships-Admiral Ap
raxln and Admiral Senyauvin.
Destroyer biedovy.
Making the terrible total OF twenty
two ships with an aggregate tonag
of 153 All.
Now that the glory Of the victor
and the misery OF defeat are write
large, the stories IF dad ard wound
ed men in agony are coming to tn
front.
Wreckage and the diafgured bodie
of dead sailors are bsiLg wa:hc
ashore along the shores OF the Coreel
Strait. The twisted and shattere
hulls OF the Russian vessels lie Oh th
shoals or are hung on the rocks, an
Japanese fishermen are collecting tn
fearful flotsam Of the fight
The captured ships, with prisoners
iyir of pt rrion
erS have been landed at Tsu Island
300 have been brought to Iwami, am
tie captured v.s els are beire brough
to Japanese ports by priz crews TO b
reatted and to fly the flag Of the Ri.
ing Sun.
TOGO POSITION TACTICALLY PERFECT
From a score If various source:
from crippled Russian war vesse
staggering into various ports, fror
captured Russian Ulcers and meI
and from the niggardy reports OF tn
Japanese Naval Bureau, addition;
facts are learned Of the great encoun
or, none OF which change the mai
facts, but all Of which add vividnes
action and color 10 the story OF tt
engagement.
One intensely interesting point
and it is made by q Russian inform
ant-is that Admiral Togo's dispos
tlon Of his forces was iactically pc
feet Not only we're his squadrons
foated as to guard both channel
that to the east and that to the we!
of Tsu Island, but he had also pr
pared for deploy OF his force s shou
Rojestvensky split his fleet, and ser
one division around Japan on the ou
side way, while with the other
made a dash for the Sea OF Japan az
Vladivostok by way OF the Cores
Strait.
Togo, with his main squadron, Ii
off the Corean coast, in the roadste'
OF Masampho, while his torpedo f
tillas were disposed back OF Tsu
land.
Admirals Kamimura and Uriu he
their squadronS further north, rea'
to head of sucn Ct the Russian shi
as might get through Togo's lines,
to scamper up to the Strait OF Us
garu and bar the way there, at t
instant it was reported that any
the enemy we're trying to gain +
outside route.
ToGo's DISPOSITION WAS IDEAL.
Togo held the Strait, indeed, a