| Show I l I ONLY ONty R LEfT EFT 5 1 Los of tt Y Off Port Dalny in June Last Finally by the of Men Iden MenS Lost is Not Stated S I ARIS Not oJ ln P Press Plu p h a position tI n Od l Jo Joto 5 to state 1 oi ly dis dispatches patches from Crom fo Por Po rth d i Tokio bU last t June to the that the thc 1 Japanese had bel ben n I by a mine O which dis dispatches patches were by the Japanese authorities at th thEme j me have 1 been officially The government has ed foreign got go of the l of the ship The number ot of men h went down with i the vessel Is not l wn hut but it i l to have malJ The official show that a Russian mine ant later attempted to tOd make Dalny but this proved roved I Impossible and sh sank in deep water I IThe The loss Joss of th lias been n I by the J Japanese though the tha 1 Russian aut believed fo for some Uma th tbt l the that the I battleship had ed were vere car cor recto It is s l ce it Is no disclosed that Japan Tapan hus only tou fo modern battles hiP Tt l se are the Asahi Asahl Jik alid Shi hl ma aA rl d battleship lathe is the yen front Chi t a In but she is old and not ot or of orn n t fighting value Naval experts sa say that the small battleship force pos pea Sf by Admiral Togo was responsible hie ble for the tactics she o observed at the aval battle batUe or of Aug 10 when Admiral attempted to escape from port Arthur the Japanese battleships S refusing to come to close quarters with withe the e enem enemy but pounding them froma front distance distan e and sending In tle torpedo b at destroyers to ni night attacks The was one of the finest battleships of the Jap Japanese naY navy Her displacement was as tons about the si e or of the American battleship Maine and she had a speed ot of nineteen knots She carrIed a 11 heavy aY battery batter of four 12 l linch inch t ten n Ginch and twenty four other guns of smaller calibre The Russian squadron at Part Ar Arthur r thur in includes ludes five modern lips more inane orle or less g damaged and Rear Ad mimi miral command which is now en cn roUte the Baltic to the far east cast also numbers seven battle batUe In view ut If tile the or of the J Japanese in battleships their armored strength they be beg g superior to the Russians s in inthIs in thIs t |
