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Show JAPANESE HAD NERVE. Young Commander Small Ship Attempts At-tempts to Bam Fvussian Battleship. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 29. The whaling bark California, which arrived here today, was in Hakodate at the time the Vladivostok squadron ran through the Tsugaru straits. The captain reports re-ports that when Itakl San, a young Japanese in command of the Sugno, a merchant vessel of 11S tons, saw the Russian vessels, he secured two large mines filled with high-grade explosives and fastened one on either side of tho bow of the Sugno. He then put on more steam, with the Intention of ramming ram-ming one of the big Russian battleships, but his plans were frustrated by the authorities, who sent a launch and compelled him to return. |