Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-06-08
They Lose twenty-five Ships in the
Great Naval Fight.
ROJESTvfNSKYS FLAGSHIP AMONG TIE LOST
The Vce-Admiral is Wounded and Falls Into the Hands
of the Japanese Victorious Islanders in Hot
Pursuit of Escaping VesseIs-A Fin
sng Blow to Russians

Late advlces Of the great naval bat
tie between Russian and Japanese
| forces in the Straits of Korea, which
began on Saturday morning, May q,
confirm the magnitude of the disas-
| ter suffered by the Russian fleet and
| point to the fact that Russias hopes,
so far as this war is concerned, now
| lie in whatever may be accomplished
by the oft-beaten army in Manchuria.
WASHINGTON-The official Japan
ese report on the latest details of the
great naval battle in the Korean
straits is made in a cablegram receiv-
ed Tuesday nisht by the Japanese le-
cation here from the foreign Office at
Toxic, conveying Admiral Togo's dis
patches up to Tuesday afternoon. The
report says that Admiral Roiestven-
sky and another admiral and staff Of
| fcers were taken prisoners on the
sinking of Rojesvensky's flagship, the
Kniaz Souvaroff, Saturday night south
of Urleung islands, off the Korean
coast The total number of vessels
lost to the Russians, according to Ad-
miral Togo, now reaches twenty-five,
and he adds that although the full par
ticuiars are not yet in, none of the
Japanese fleet was seriously injured
and the loss to the first division of the
! Japanese fleet was over 400 men. The
| report says that the armored cruiser
Dimitri Donskoi ran aground on IRE
| t,,,cr gc1o lnt n,
liabia (already admitted by the Rus
sian admiralty and the Novarin were
sunk; that the battleship Sissoiveliky
went to the bottom Sunday morning;
that the coast defense ship Admiral
0ushakoff was sunk after vigorous
pursuit her crew being rescued, and
gives otner details as to vessels sunk
or disabled. The Japanese admiral,
Misu, was slightly wounded. The pro-
tected cruiser Almuz, which has al
ready arrived at Vladivostok is refer
red to in the report. The report fol
| lows:
Fifth report from Togo, received
afternoon May 80:
"'Ihe main force of our combined
fleet, upon accepting surrender of the
remaining Russian main force Near
Liam court Rocks, in the afternoon of
May %, as already reported, stopped
pursuit, and while engaged in the dis
position of surrendered ships found, in
q southwestern direction, the Admiral
Ushakoff, a coast defense ship. There
upon lwate and Yaliumo were imme-
diately dispatched in pursuit and in
vited her to surrender, but she refus-
ed and was sunk at p. m. Her crew
of over 800 men were rescued.
"'Cruiser Dimitri Donskoi was also
found in the northwestern direction
at p. m. ard was Immediately over
taken and fired on vigorously by our
fourth division and second destroyer
fotilla.
"She was attacked that night by
the second destroyer fiotilla and the
next morning was found aground or
the southern shore of Urleung island
off the Korean coast. Our destroyer
Sazanami, captured toward the even
ing of May 81, in the south of Urle
ung island the Russian destroyer Bied
ovy, wherein were found Admiral Ro
jestvensky and another admiral, boil
severely wounded, together with eighty
Russians, including staff officers from
the flagship Kniz Suvaroff, which was
sunk at 5:29 p. m. on May 81. They
were all taken prisoners. Our cruiser
Chitose, while cruising to the north
ward on the morning of May IS, founC
and sunk another Russian destroyer
Our cruiser Niitaka and desJroye
Murakamo attacked also at noon OF
May % a Russian destroyer, whicl
finally went aground According t.
various reports hitherto received an,
statements of prisoners, the result O
the battle from May 81 to May 20 i
, as follows:
'Sunk-Suvaroff. Alexander III
Borodino, Dimitri Donsld, Admira