Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-06-11 | Page 13 | Stick to Their Story

STICK TO THEIR STORY. Bodri Officers Insist That Japs Lost Two Battleships. ST. PETERSBURG, June 10 A long dispatch from Rear-Admiral Rltzen-steln Rltzen-steln to the Minister of Marine, dated Shanghai, June 6. gives the official report re-port of the torpedo-boat destroyer Bodri, Bo-dri, which recently arrived there In tow of a merchant steamer, but adds little to the knowledge about the battle of the Sea of Japan. The Bodrl, after taking off seventy-nine seventy-nine officers and men from the torpedo-boat torpedo-boat destroyer Elestlaschy. which was sinking, tried to catch up with Rear-Admlral Rear-Admlral Enqulst's squadron, eut ran out of fuel and lay helpless until picked up by the steamer Koncllng and towed to Shanghai. The officers of the Hodrl and the rescued men on board of her reiterate that the Japanese lost two battleships, one of which was of th Mlkasa and the other of the Shlklshlma type, and one armored cruiser and three cruisers.