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Show MERCILESS FIRE WAS POURED ON SINKING JAP SHIP BY THE RUSSIANS VICTORIA, ; Jan. 23. The steamer Athenian, from the "Orient, brings details de-tails of the sinking of the Japanese cruiser Salyen off Port Arthur. Commander Com-mander Okuda, second In command, who survived, gave the following narrative: nar-rative: The Salyeri was struck by a mine and in two minutes listed to her starboard aide and began going down fast. Cfep- tain Tajlma remained1 on the bridge, refusing assistance and rejecting Tt-monstrances Tt-monstrances of ofOcers to take to the boats. When the vessel sank the captain cap-tain and thirteen officers, together with 140 petty officers and men, were engulfed en-gulfed in the waves. As the Salyen foundered the Russians poured a merciless mer-ciless fire on her from Loatiahan, and the rescue by Japanese warships was made difficult The work was continued contin-ued ten hours, but no trace was seen of the captain and thirty-one others. The mine having struck the Salyen below be-low the front engine-room, five men working there were instantly killed. Three escaped frem the back engine-room. engine-room. Regarding the reported loss of the Japanese' battleship Toehlma, the To-rodsu To-rodsu of Tokto reports that the battleship battle-ship was saved and has been repaired, her guns having been remounted, and 'that she was- about to rejoin the fleet. The Kobe Herald says a new vessel is about complete for the Japanese navy to replace one of those lost at Port Arthur. Three destroyers, built at Kure, were to be launched January 15. Gen. Nogi la to return to Toklo to receive re-ceive an appointment formerly held by the late Count Kawamura, in connection connec-tion with the rearing of the Prince Imperial's Im-perial's children. It Is said he seemed almost unconscious of the need of sleep during the last weeks of the siege and ''after the death of his elder son, news of which was brought him during the attack on 203-Metre hill. Gen. Nogi was found several times with his head In his hands weeping. Nogl's family is now extinct. Antfcipating the death of his eon, he had arranged that title should succeed to an only son of his younger brother, but this boy was also killed. |