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Show LIVELY AROUND Fighting on Lend and on Water. Togo Keeps Russian Battleships Battle-ships Dodging, or Sinks Them, While Japanese Soldiers Occupy Field Positions and Harass Czar's Penned Up Warriors. TOKIO, July 3. A. belated report from Admiral Togo records' desperate des-perate and successful attack at the entrance of Port Arthur last Monday night, June 27, in which a Russian Rus-sian guardshlp and a Russian torpedo boat destroyer were sunk. The guardshlp is described as having two masts and three funnels. She was either a battleship or a first-class cruiser, and she was torpedoed and destroyed. de-stroyed. The torpedo boat destroyer was struck and then blew up and sank. Admiral Togo reports the loss of one officer and thirteen men killed and one Officer and two men wounded. He makes no mention of damage to his fleet. The Twelfth torpedo boat flotilla, under the command of Commander Yamada, delivered the attack. The Japanese vessels were revealed by the Russian searchlights and the shore forts opened a heavy fusillade on them. The Russian guardshlp was surrounded surround-ed and attacked by the Japanese who saw this vessel sink amid the huge volume of water thrown up by a heavy explosion. Following this the Russian torpedo boat destroyers at onco attacked at-tacked the Japanese vessels which responded re-sponded to tho onslaught. A Russian destroyer, while within the area lit up by tho searchlights, was seen to explode, rise, fall back Into the water siaejvuys, u.uu cmn.. The guardshlp sank near the bast of Golden Hill. The cause for tho delay by Admiral Togo In forwarding this report Is not known, but It is presumed that he was busy and did not have time to communicate' commu-nicate' with Toklo. Recent reports from Russian sources, Chefoo and elsowhere, mention continued con-tinued activity and several engagements engage-ments by land and by sea near Port Arthur from June 21 to June 30. With the exception that tho Japanese navy assisted the army in capturing some heights near Port Arthur on Juno 28. no additional details of the recent activities around the Russian stronghold strong-hold have been received here. The Chinese government Is adopting stringent measures to prevent the shipping ship-ping of contraband of war from this port. Two Russians were' arrested as they were leaving a Junk loaded with provisions for Port Arthur. |
