Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-06-08
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TALE Of RUSSIAN OFFICERS
ARRIVED AT VLADlVOSTOK
TWO JAPANESE BATTLESHlPS
WENT DOWN IN THE FIGHT.
THE LOSS OF THE
FLAGSHIP.

FLAGSHIP.
Vladivostolt. May 80 (4:30 p. nh
Two ships alone Of vice.Admiral Ro.
jestvensky's powerful fotilla, the
swift cruiser Almaz and the torpedo
boat destroyer Grozny, lie at anchor
here today in the curving harbor OF
Golden Horn, they having separated
from the feet in the early stage Of the
battle which began In the Korea straits
Saturday and headed, in obedience to
orders, with full speed to vladivostok.
' Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon no
other vessel Of the Baltic fleet had yet
arrived and the signal stations at As.
kold and RimsRykorsakoff islands re-
ported none In sight.
| Officers of the Almaz and Grozny say
that both fleets had already sustained
terrible losses when the Almaz and
Grozny broke through the hostile line.
Two Japanese eattleships Seen
Sinking.
OF the japanese two battleships had
gone down before their eyes and two
cruisers, their sterns high out Of the
water, seemed ready to plunge foremost
to the bottom Of the sea.
! The Russian feet, they say, was
even in sadder plight. Rojestven.
sky's flagship. the Kniaz Souvaroff, and
her sister ship. the Borodino, and the
battleship Oslabya and the transport
, Ural were utterly destroyed, and when
the fog closed down and hid the scene
Of battle from sight of the speeding
ships a third great Russian battleship.
the Alexander III seemed In sore dis'
tress put hmping northward' puttihe
up valiant hsnt asa'hs' s"ar"s VI
torpedo boats ana sun continuing hei
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empire torpedo poats were also cihs
ing ro"nu 'ne o'her SHIPS vi 'ne nee'
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heir weapons
The Aimaz, which arrived at her an
chorage here Monday evening, bears
scars or battle. Her mizzenmast IL
shot away and one OF her smokestacks
Is pierced by a projectile. But the
Grozny, though engaged for several
hours In running fight at short range
with a long Japanese destroyer, shows
no signs OF the fray. After her com.
mander, Captain Andriffski. had been
wounded and an ofiicsr and three men
had been killed. the Gr0zhy succeeded
In sinking her opponent with n luckily
placed shot and reached Vladivostok
without further adventure at IL o'clock
this morning.
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aapsbip the battlesbin Kniaz suv,ro,,
for n signal saw tho a.gsbin sbnddo,
from stem N stern no ~ nnder a h,ow
from n gigantic hammer and hesitate
in her course while the waves roso
high from her armored sides Then
she commenced IN LIST and si,k
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the submarine boat as an effective
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large mine, caused the disaster 10 tho
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