Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1905-06-02
\ CHIT ON WATER
ON SATURDAY,.
Five Russian Vessels Have
Been Destroyed
MEET CLOSE To
ISLAND GF G.. !.
En-agcm nt SAnS 10 Ild,a. Z .4t
liunnlAg 0se.
FIRST ADNlCBS ARE
FAVORABLE TO TOGO.
Roj"sivenshy Appears In the korean
straits l'uriD- the MornIn. In
a Fog, hut Latter Lifted
and battle Iegins.

Washington. May 2s.--Act ording IN
The latest information. up 10 = ucnu, X
Monday morning. th- battle Leiw. .n
the Russian and JIpaness. naval forces
for the supremacy Of tie oriental se.. >
an which hangs ire outcome nf The IA :
'nsi"'h strugse. has begun. II II la,
n'h terminated dscislvely. All the l's.
I'hlr'es received by the Associated
I'rrsS pointed 20 "a Japanese victory.
though II is noi yet known whether
the full force Of RoJestvenskys fight
iis ships took part in the contest
"hh-h. according To the dispatches took
piece in the comparatively harrow va
t"'s ~ the Straits uf Koren 'Tl.e FAST
Information came in dispatch from
the American consul at Nagasaki 70
the state department at washington
telling that the japanese had sunk one
Russian battleship. four other warshlps
and repair ship In the Korean
strait. and this was followed by n DIS
patch. received by the state DEPART
nlent, the date OF which was not given.
that the Japanese government had
made the announcement that it's fleet
had engaged the Russians in Straits
OF Korea Saturday and held them"
The state department also received
information that two of the vessels
reported to have been sunk were the
Orel and the Borodino. and that three
or the other chips were cruisers From
Tsingtau, the German port on the
Shangtung peninsula. came a report
that running naval engagement took
place near the Island of Oki In the Sea
of Japan. 200 miles northeast Of the
Straits of Korea. and that the whole
Russian feet did not participate. the
slow vessels having been sent Arot,nd
Japan. Russian sources give no news
of the battle. while the japanese CIV
ernment following its custom. is ST.
lent as TO either the battle or it's out
come.
The Orel and Borodino are Of 1896
tons displacement each, heavily armed.
well protected, and We're designated
to make eighteen knots. They measure
3s7 feet by &c feet, with twenty-six-
feet draught, and both have a lofty srar
deck fully thirty feet above the water
line. extending from the bow to the
quarterback Forward is mounted a
pair of 12.4-inch guns in a turret pro-
tected by eleven inches OF Krupp ar
NOR. Another pair Of guns of the same
size IS mounted aft. There are thirty
other guns of the intermediate hat
terry, and the vessels carry two sub
merged toperdo tubes and two above
water. special feature of the ves-
sells is their vertical longitudinal bulk
heads Of inch armor, running through
the. whole length of the ship at a dix
tance of nine or ten feet in board from
the ships sides, designed TO localize
the effect of blow from n torpedo
The belief in naval circles in Wash
ington Is that the Japanese resor:ed
to free use Of their torpedo boa Is
IN their attacks on the vessels of vice
Admiral RojestvensNy's fleet The
japanese have a large number ~ torpe-
do boats in their fleet. and they dem
cnsirared their e''oc'iveness IN ,he o.
eratlons around Port Arthur Naval
officials here express the opinion that
II was unlikely that such serious -ss-
I. as those reported coYl2 have been
inflicted by Ordinary fire