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Show JAPTRANSPORTS ARE TORPEDOED RussiansCaplureShips and Sink Them. One Thousand of Those on Board Lose Lives Through Russia's Savagery, TOKIO, June 16. Tho Japanese transports nitachi and the Sado were captured by three Russian warships of the Vladivostok squadron near Ikl island. The transports trans-ports were torpedoed and sunk and over 1000 lives were lost. Three hundred and nlnety-sevensur-vivors of the Hitachi arrived at Moji and 153 survivors of the Sado have arrived ar-rived at Kokuru. They report that the transports were sunk by torpedoes. The transport Hlno encountered the Russian sciuadron twenty miles west of Shiro island Wednesday morning at 11:20 o'clock. She turned and ran, signaling sig-naling warnings to the transports Ka-nawaza Ka-nawaza and Iburl, and all three escaped. es-caped. It is said that the captured transports carried only 1400 men. |