Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-31
RoJEsTVENsKY A PRISONER

ROJESTVENsKY A PRISONER.
There is no longer any doubt about
the fate of Vice Admiral Rojestyensky.
He and Rear Admirals Voelkersahm
and Nebogatof are prisoners, and, ac-
cording to Admiral Togo's latest official
reports, the Russians lost % ships, with
an aggregate tonnage of 1884,
The japanese destroyer Sazanami
Saturday evening captured the Russian
destroyer Biedovy, wherein were found
Admirals Rojestvensky and another adj
miral, later identified as Voelkers aim,
both severely wounded. With them
we're the staff officers If Rojestvensky's
sunken flagship. All were taken prison
ers.
The vessels captured by the japanese
include two battleships aud two coast
defense armored ships. The ships sunk
include six battleships, five cruisers, one
coast-defense ship, two special service
ships and a number of torpedo-boat des-
| trOyers.
Admiral Togo further reports that as
far as ascertained no japanese ships
were seriously damaged, and all are still
engaged in operations. The casualties
in The first japanese division were over
400. Admiral Misu was slightly wound
ed. Russian casualties are roughly esti-
mated at 5000.
The only two vessels Of Rojestvensky's
fleet to reach Vladivostok are the cruiser
Almsz and The torpedo-boat destroyer
GrOzny.
The two captured battleships and two
coast-de tense armor-clad ships have been
brought to Saseb,. The battleships are
slightly damaged
Foreign naval officers, observers of the
battle, sharply criiicise Rojestvensky's
alignment of his ships, in which he ex'
posed the weaker vessels. They also in
innate that Admiral Nebogatof showed
cowardice in surrenderiog his ships prac-
ticaly without fight, and in st. Peters
burg Nebogatof's conduct is considered
a disgrace.
Admiral Durnoyo, a member OF the
council of the Russian empire and su-
perintendeDt of posts and telegraphs I'M
der the Minister of the Interior, has re-
ceived dispatch from his son, who is
in command of the Bunny, describing
fully how his commander-in-c chief, Ad-
miral Rojestvensky, was saved. The
admiral was washed of the deck of the
Kniaz Souvaroff just before the flagship
iouudered, and was picked up by the
torpedo-boat destroyer Bunny.
The belief that Japan has proved a
leader among the nations Of the earth in
the expert use of the submarine as de-
stroyer of the battleship is growing with
the arrival of late reports OF the destruc-
ton of the Inflated Baltic feet, and stu
dents of the subject are willing to con-
cede that no such destruction among
modern battleships and cruisers as that
wrought by Japan could have been ef-
fected except by the employment of tor
pedos from the bottom, aimed at the
unprotected portions of steel=clad ships.
The only question is where the japanese
could have secured so quickly fleet of
submarine boats, provided she was I'M
able TO build them in her own naval
yards without the knowledge of other
powers.
Vladiyostok sent ont word yesterday
that the cruiser Almaz and the destroyer
Crosby had reached that port but no
reference was made to Admiral Rojest-
vensky, whose arrival was reported in
St. Petersburg dispatches. The officers
of the Almaz reported that two japanese
battleships had been sunk.