Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-05-30
FIGHT ON WATER
ON SATURDAY.
Five Russian Vessels Have
Been Destroyed.
MEET CLOSE TO
ISLAND OF 0KI.
Engagement Seems 10 Have Been q
Running One.
FIRST ADvICES ARE
FAVORABLE TO TOGO.
Rojestvensky Appears 10 the koresn
Straits Duriag the sorniny 10
Fog, bat Latter Lifted
and Battle begins.
Engagement Seems 10 Have Been a
Running One.

Washington. May 29.-Aecording TO
the latest information. up 20 2 o'clock
Monday morning. the hattie between
the Russian and japanese naval forces
for the supremacy OF the oriental seas.
on which hangs the outcome Of the far
eastern struggle. has begun. u II has
not terminated decisively. All the dis
patches received By the Associated
Press pointed to a japanese victory.
though II IA not yet known whether
the full force of Rojestvensky's fght-
ing ships took part IN the contest
which. according TO the dispatches took
place in the comparatively narrow va
ters of the Straits Of Korea. The FIRST
Information came IN a dispatch from
the American consul az Nagasah to
the state department at Washington
telling that the japanese had sunk one
Russian battleship. four other warshlps
and a repair ship IN the Korean
strait and this was followed by dis
patch. received by the state Depart
ment. 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
% Korea saturday and held them"
The state department also received
information that two OF the vessels
reported 20 have been sunk were the
/ Orel and the Borodlno. and that three
OF the other ships were cruisers. From
Tsingtau. the German port on the
Shangtung peninsula came a report
that n running naval engagement took
place near the Island OF Oh in the Sea
of Japan. 200 miles northeast of the
Straits of Korea. and that the whole
Russian fleet did not participate. ihs
slow vessels having been sent around
Il Japan Russian sources give no news
Of the battle. while the japanese gov
ernment. following its custom. IL ST
lent as 20 either the battle or its out.
come
The Orel and Borodino are of 1855
tons displacement each. heavily armed
well protected and were designated
20 make eighteen knots They measur,
3s7 feet by 20 feet. with twenty-six.
feet drauEht and both have a lofty sfai
deck fully thirty feet above the watel
line. extending from the bow 20 th'
Quarterback Forward Is mounted
pair % i2t-lnch guns IN a turret pro,
tecied by eleven inches OF Krupp ar.
NOR. Another pair % guns of the sans
size Is mounted AFT. There are thlrtl
other guns % the intermediate bat
tery, and the vessels carry two sub
merged toperdo tubes and two abov'
water A special feature of the YES
sels IA their vertical longitudinal bulk
heads Of inch armor, running through
the whole length % the ship al a dis
tance OF nine or ten feet In board from
the ships sides. designed 20 locailz
the effect of a blow from a torpedo.
The belief In naval circles In Wash
ington Is that the japanese resorie'
20 q free use of their torpedo boat
In their attacks on the vessels OF VIC
Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet IN
japanese have n large number of torpe
DO boats In their fleet. and they dem
onstrated their effectiveness In the OF
erations around Port Arthur Nava
officials here express the opinion tha
lit was unlikely that such serious loss
IS as those reported could have bee
inflicted by ordinary FIRE.