Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-03 | Page 11 | Contrivances Used to Annoy Alexieff

CONTRIVANCES USED TO ANNOY ALEXIEFF PORT ARTHUR, May 2. Details of tho demonstration off Port Arthur April 27 dlflcloss the ingenuity of tho Japanese. Their squadron set alloat a string of connected con-nected rafts carrying burning matter. About 1:40 o'clock In tho morning, when Ave miles off shore tho. combustibles were fired, tho wind and waves bringing the burning floata toward tho harbor. Under cover of this screen of llro eight Japanese torpedo boats, towing a launch filled with mines, slipped around to a Fpot near where the Petropavlovsk was sunk, but they were detected by Russian searchlights, search-lights, whfn the batteries opened llro and drove them off, but not before tho mines had been sown. Tho mines haw slnco been destroyed. Tho Japanese, knowing that the Russians would Intercept wireless messages, tried a neat trick to decolvo and worry Vlcoroy Alexloff. For several nights In succession thoy sent by wireless wire-less telegraphy orders to prepare for a landing, to sond In fire ships, to attack with submarine boats, etc.