Show lAPS PAY COMPLIMENT TO RUSSIAN CAPTAIN Ruaslan Commander RefuBed to Leave His Sinking Vessel and Narrowly Escaped Death by Drowning 1 i TokloAn omcer of the naval staffs staff-s made a statement In which he f Pays high tribute to some of the HUB sian officers participating III the battle of the Sea of Japan Ills statement follows There were several Husslim of peers whose conduct In the recent bat tie deserves to be held high as a model and example for all naval of ficers Among them the most noteworthy note-worthy was the conduct of Captain 1 Hodlonoff commander of tho Nakhl moff His gallantry Is as praiseworthy praise-worthy as that of Commander Hlrose During tho first day of the battle the Nakhlmoff was exposed to the fire of our main squadron and sustained serl ous damage During the night shoO was made the object of severe torpedo attacks and finally completely disabled dis-abled drifted close to the Tsushima The vessel was sinking and Captain Cap-tain Rodlonoff sent seventy of the crow to land at Tsushima remaining ixboard himself with his chief navigator navi-gator When the Japanese approached toe sinking vessel they asked the captain cap-tain to leave the vessel but he refused re-fused The Japanese boarded the vessel ves-sel and endeavored to drag him Into a boat but ho resisted The ship was listing Badly and threatened momentarily momen-tarily to plunge Into the sea The Japanese were forced to draw off and the captain went below to there meet his death Suddenly the ship went down and our men thought the gal lant officer Was drowned But providence provi-dence willed otherwise We found the captain and navigator In tho water locked In each others arms They had embraced at what they thought was the moment of death and wero partly unconscious when we rescued them |