Show TAKEN CAPTIVE BY JAPANESE I I Russian Admiral Found on Board Destroyer J Severely Wounded Only T Two o of the Russian Warships Have Reached Vladivostok the Cruiser Almaz and Destroyer Truth Kept From Russian People to he latest reports from Vh 14 Admiral Togo to his hk govern oer the lo i to th the Russians in I ships sunk or captured now numbers t en tv two while full particulars are not Dot yet et in an The admiral say yn that none of j ids Is hilt big fighting was wac da damaged ed Int Un news comes con from Vladivostok sent nt t by the of t the Pres wh the arrival there re of the prote protected ted cruIser Almaz and nd the torpedo boat r The officers of the Almaz Almas say flaY they witnessed ed f he sinking of two Tap nese 1 and that two Japanese were listing badly and about to sink when ben the fog oI their vie view of the There seems to be great 5 to the fate of 0 the vice admiral Ro j It is said that he arrived at Vladivostok on the torpedo boat boet Buill bally badly wounded and that hi wife ife has receIved a tel ram from him while a report received from Tokie late Tuesday night at the Tapa lega iun at Washington on says he as captured on board bord the Russian s ian destroyer Bif OVY with another admiral both severely and with several staff Mat r of his flagship the KnUtz Kniaz the of which is con continued by tile the of the 4 1 L May lay 4 p m in V Two ships ship alone of Vice lee Ad Admiral mirat miral powerful tile the swift cruiser er Almaa and tIt tIl t torpedo host boat destroyer Grana Gran Ii at anchor here today in curving harbor 0 of Golden Horn tIlt y having hang separated from the th t iH HI the early stage of oC the I battle I began hegan In the Korea Kore strait Sat t urda and headed in obedience to or 01 orrs lr rs with full sl speed to I p I 4 this afternoon 00 no noU U cher f el of the Baltic fleet t had d an air V vel and the s signal nal stations at As s nd ind Islands re reI I none in of the 1108 And say tt tit t fleets flet had already sustained t C rr ib I losses the A and Gr Ii broke through the hostile line If the he I Japanese two battleships bad d gele down before their eyes and two urs their sterns stems h high h out of the thet t rr r seemed ready to tf fore t tf the bottom of the sea I Swarm of Torpedo Boats The Russian fleet they say as ase e 11 in a sadder plight flagship the Ku al hEr s sister ship the Borodino and tIo cruisers and Ural were irly and when the fog don And hid th the scene of bat batt batt t t from sight northward of the peed perd Jg shIps a third great eat Russian battle battleship ship the Alexander Ill III seemed in sup distress but limping northward up lip a valiant fight against t of torpedo heath and sUn still her attacks on the of oC tc n e empire Torpedo boats boat i t t also clingi clinging round the other ps nf Sf the fleet like an angered ered wasps In again in and again n to launch their weapons Limped Into Port The which arrived at her an here Monday evening bears bearss s F an ar of battle Her is shot away and one of her d by a cannon shot bot But t the though 4 engaged for fOl several even I Lurs in a running tight fight at short ran range Ith ah a long destroyer shows lows I 1 signS ign of the fray After her corn r der Captain had been and an officer and three men en bf killed th the sac I c d in sInking her r opponent with a hi lt I k placed shot and reached vo Vot t k without further adventure at n 11 k this morning Great Excitement For Fr the past t two o days Vladivostok I 1 s been buzzing with rumor and ox c TIM The fart fact that a battle boP be bet t II 1 the rival rhal fIets was a Imminent If ROlf fl Was nut not already at hand g i p with T Togo o was waR made known knon L ugh h telegrams 1 from and k J n it was as learned Monday morning ye t a er had been beenS S f oft ot Askold Island hea headed for fort tJ t harbor h a the city t was waa filled with IUt the theon on it reports of every nature ADMIRALTY STUPEFIED tok Advices Hold Out No NoRay NoRay Ray of Hope PEtersburg May 31 1 42 a m in inTi Th Ti Plan admIralty is literally Mu Mur T r 1 at the extent of the disaster ant safi i f 1 I 1 by Vice Yke Admiral C t t and i its own ow advices paint the sit sil silt t 1 t l Ii in even een worse wone colors than the I i i dispatChes r Associated p Press Vladivostok us fJ h received at an early hour this c on for only two to ships I great t Russia n ii tilt cruiser z and the torpedo boat dt destroyer Y and the a absence of r news new about I t I and the cruisers C lid ii Aurora which are the only fie n 1 shins of any value aloe not B a i the Japanese Janese lists list of destroyed r tun d and bich 11 un to 4 C h yesterday afternoon had not r I Vladivostok renders renden almost ny hOe that they w were able to tor r if the pursuing Japanese ernie ernier r 4 reach the fter of the fort rc rc T I Golden Horn Wore Were Probably Mistaken officers of the Almas dispute Ad Adr r 1 claim of victory with r J f no loss kiss and declare that saw w two ships go down before their azid aud two cruisers ere on the I I 1 of 1 foundering when hen they last hust Lb L I the battling fleets ts But they n l ni t I hat ht the of their ships feu I t the h scene of battle and fog made tL it w difficult l has agreed to disarm and io In Int te t th the big fleet of colliers and trans f ent nt to the coast when n fl J determined to try and ff frt f t the he Straits of oc Korea Kora It Is i be beHe bei He i d here that the admiral did nOt notto to be hampered by a big convoy convey i 1 n i f e sea a tight and the decision to send tho ii to the rear compelled Ro Re to adopt the t route rosite i 1 th the way of Tan island as seine of 0 ki tIr ships could not carry enough coal eoal oJ v 1 their bunkers to steam Ta Ja Enough to Convince Iff brought by t the Almaz and in iii An official dispatch to tonight I night is supplemented b by the results of th interviews had b by the Associated Th s correspondent at Vladivostok ith the officers of the Almaz and This information is very in I complete te as the Almas being scantily arm red and carrying U light ht ns of 0 lit tP use in bet battle drew off o after atter the with the T Saturday d headed for ff Vladivostok at tv full II The laM v view t the had of If ib hI td was HII at al dusk k hen the attacks attack had alread I co and the Ute the Borodino tM the and the Ural had gune to the bottom while the Al AJ euer II III had been badly damaged Sunk by Submarine The Press is informed that the unpublished portion of the official r rd d dispatch the contents of which Were sent by a wireless dispatch to Molt stok before the arrival of the cruiser there says that the Knias was HS blown blon up Captain of the Almaz Almas giving it as his opinion that the destruction was the work of submarine boats bots The captain gives gin s the number o of Japanese torpedo boats partIcipatIng in the attack as The admiralty withholds the name of the raft craft to which is ili re reported reported ported to ha ve been transferred OWing to doubts as to whether it was as the d do or the destroyer Mistake Was Made The report sent t T da of the ar arrival rival of the at Vladivostok ok was due to a telegraph message sent to the Grand Duke Alexis by Admiral Dour Dovo a member of the council of oC the minister of the interior informing him bun that he be had bad received from Vlad Vladivostok that the destroyers common comman commander der Admiral son had I picked up and had fol followed Oed lowed the Almaz out of the battle Ad Admiral Admiral miral Dournovo bein being under the im imI I that the admiral had reached Vladivostok so o informed the Associated Press account t of the arrival of cap warships at Japanese ports was as asmore more to the Russian l naval authorities than the news of the tle de deL deThe feit L The opinion here Is that nothing can ens t the e failure of 0 the Russian to sink their ships under their feet rather than to allow to fall into the en mys bands the admiralty advancing Ute the Supposition that the Ships were re stranded on some sho l before being surrendered War Party Defiant This q question ion of inaugurating peace negotiations is not likely to IH be opened until full reports or of the Russian diana tr toy have been received The war wac par party party ty continues its defiant attitude d that peace is im ble while many Russians who ho heretofore have I been in favor of peace but who are arenow arenow now humiliated by the sting of the do de defeat feat of their nay navy Are giving their voice in favor of II a continuation or of tb war Nevertheless the peace peee party Insists on the absolute futility of pro prolonging prolonging longing tile the struggle ru le Ever slow to reach a Ion deci it is I Improbable that the wIlt m I deride decide Qt on the course it wilt m pursue un I itil UJ til after battle has bas been bee joined in an curia charts me Associated p Press dispatches in that Marshal bt al already already ready In motion and that a grand en enga ga nt is Imminent The government still the publication of the losses In ships not contained In Its own advices but so far as St Petersburg ja is the j is known CAPTURED Wounded Admiral Discovered in Crippled Destroyer Xa May Japanese in Ie gallon tonight gave Vt out the following cablegram from Tokio Fifth report front T Togo o received on the afternoon of May 31 30 Fhe main force of our combined fket upon accepting surrender of the I lug Russian Ru main force near I rocks in the afternoon uC of May ay s Z as 88 al already ready reported stopped and while hift engaged in the of surrendered ships found In a southwestern t direction the Admiral a coast defense ship hip Thereupon upon hat and were immediately dispatched In pursuit and In Invited Invited her to surrender but she refused refu ed and was sunk at p m Her crew o of over men were rescued Cruiser Dmitri Donskoi was also found In the northwestern direction at ati i p m and was immediately overtaken and fired fiNd on vigorously b by our fourth dl vision and second destroyer flotilla Captured SIte was as attacked that night by the second destroyer flotilla and tM the next morning was found aground nd on the smith eastern shore bolt off ung Island off elf the tbt Korean coast Our destroyer toward the evening of May lay Zi Z Zin i in the 8 Uh south of 15 Island the Rw Rus stan destroyer r y wM wherein n were found Admiral ky and another admiral both severely wounded to together with eighty Russians including staff of fi fleets ra from rom the n flagship hip Prince which was sunk at o p in on May 4 They were all taken Our Cl while to the north DOrth northward ward on May lay t found and sunk another r rRue Russian Rue destroyer fr Our cruiser r and destroyer at attacked kH she ailo sheat at noon on Xay S a Russian destroyer which finally went aground A to various n reports hitherto received and Statements of 0 prisoners the re result of the battle from May 7 27 to May is ha as tel fol lows Results of the Battle Alexander I 1 TI fI Bore Boro DMItri AdMiral ff Admiral oft hoff one oae converted cruiser aud two de ale sunk Nicholas T 1 Or rI Admiral A II Ad Admiral miral and destroyer Capt captured l According to lo the Ute the sunk Mink about 3 2 p lit sa and the Na varin also was sunk Almaz Oft on May ay r 27 w was observed in a disabled and sinking but bait her float final fate is 1 yet t unknown The full par particulars re regarding the Injury to our slOpe ar are not yet at hand but so tar far a I 1 rosin ascertain BODe alone were weN seriously injured All being Stilt ea enga ha The w whole e casualties a are not DOt M eert l CaB alt tJI fIrst h Me are MUle little Continued on Page 2 TAKEN JAKEN CAPTIVE BY JAPANESE J Continued from 1 I 4 wi PrInce is in hi d Health Admiral Miss slightly May l i Sixth Report SIxth report received Oft on the of 38 I Loss of and etl ed also alfio definitely reported I to have sunk on the morning of May K I statement 0 of the Bosnian Io losses fes I Iso so fur far as an ix X bat sunk Prince r Impera ir wr Alexander I III Borodino od i s Slit and I five cruisers sunk I Vladimir and Jenit chu st defense ship Admiral stink Two special Ial s service ships nail three destroyers also Mt Mink Jt Two Orel and I two coast def defense nse skips lien en oral eral Admiral and Aral See ft and one OM destroyer TIntS RussIans lost altogether twenty two so shine the g tonnage whereof f amounting to toisa tOftS the eMUS cram or 61 AI z suspected ted to have bone |