Show DROWNED themselves RATHER THAN SURRENDER japanese fight t to last and cho choose 0 tic shrouds lil in watery grave rather rathe r than captivity A toldo dispatch says seventy three japanese either cither idled id led themselves or were drowned drowne d on oil tho the transport Kins bitt was wa slink bunk by a torpedo from rom the russian cruls cruiser roasts at ai midnight of april mth white oft off bensan korea while the marii was sinking the soldiers on board rushed up on deck and tired fired volleys from their rifles into the and several of them committed suicide three small boats floated tree free from rom tho the wreckage of the transport rt and were the means ot of savin forty five soldiers and nine ot of the passengers and crew two I 1 army captains an and d three lieutenants were among tho the drowned some ot of the survivors mado made the land in the boats and were brought into it Is not known here how bow many men the russians took from the transport or rescued after she was sinking it Is possible that more survivors will b lio a found as one of the marus boats is still missing |