Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-01 | Page 1 | Two Hundred Shots Fired

'Projectiles Rain Upon Settlement. Three Cruisers and .Nine Torpsdo Boats Participate in Bombardment. Fighting Machines Wcro a Part of 1 the Russian "Vladivostok Squadron. TOKIO, June 30. Tho Russian Vladivostok squadron, accompanied' accompa-nied' by torpedo boata, appeared off Gensan. on tho oast coast of Korea, today. Torpedo boats entered Gensan harbor at 5:30 In the morning, shelled the settlement and sunk a small Btcamer and a fmall schooner. The torpedo boats loft the harbor at 7:20. A total of 200 shells was fired Into the settlement, but no serious damage resulted. re-sulted. The Russian vosselB which took part ln the bombardment were the cruleera Rossla, Gromobol and Rurlk, and nine torpedo boats. Later reports show the vessels, when they left Gensan, oteamed to the north. They were seen, however, to return from this direction. They were lost sight of at 8:30 ln the morning.