Show i H X H 5 x OO W HH H I H H H H j How Itow the Russi Russian m Battleship B Was W S Sunk i iI 11 I i Y 7 i 1 11 3 r Japanese Torpedo Boats Made Mado a Demonstration Before AIthur at Same Sarno Time Timo Laying Minos Mines Across tho the Outer Entrance Tho Struck r One Ono and Was Destroyed Japs ps Also Sunk n a Torpedo boat Destroyer I t y Tokio April 14 5 pm A brief bricf report from Admiral Urill of Wednesdays fighting of oft off t Port Arthur reached thella department d this afternoon a tc no n It says sas Vice Vic Admiral A fleet attacked at attacked f tacked Port Arthur in In the thc morning and succeeded in l sinking pinking a battleship of the class j jand and one torpedo boat destroyer The Thc Japanese sustained no losses One Japanese was wounded A detailed report of the thc engagement is expected hourly y r N r rr r f Or Washington April 14 The Japanese minister today toda received a dispatch 1 6 s embodying ah ail an official o cial report from Admiral A regarding the this engagement off o Port Arthur yesterday a aas j jas f as follows i H I According to the thc report of the thc torpedo boat destroyer flotilla No 3 our fleet approached Port i Arthur on the thc 1311 of April and sank owl one on battleship of the enemy of the type and ami one oney oner y i y r torpedo boat destroyer d No damage to our fleet No Xo report yet from Admiral Togo 1 T T April 14 i i r am It has been learned from rout Japanese sources here that the attack on the Russian Port Arthur fleet of yesterday morning was planned and put into effect in ill the fol rol following A n j lowing manner l ly y At daylight the Japanese torpedo boats hoats made a demonstration before tlc tte port and at the same time laid mines across the outer entrance to the harbor They then thell retired and joined thc the main Jl y squadron The Thc squadron then advanced and as it drew near the Russian ships were seen coming coiling h out Y j i jI ithe I 1 The battleship struck one aile of the tile mines laid by b the Japanese torpedo boats honts and was de dc deft IC r ft r S t ro cu 1 i r y St Petersburg April 14 Rear Admiral wires from Port Arthur today tocla that the thc j owl one of the Russian torpedo boat destroyers sent out but during ebbing the thc night to reconnoiter be became became came carne separated from the rest of the fleet owing to the thc bad weather prevailing was surrounded by Japanese torpedo boat destroyers and anti was WilS sunk stink in the thc fight Five nice were ere saved Admiral A fa I adds j If I have taken command provisionally of the fleet since the thc disaster to lo the thc Dur rug fug some maneuvering of the battleship squadron squa the thc da struck against a mine amidships on Oil 1 the starboard side She Site was able to regain rc Oain port part by bv herself herscH No one on board of her was killed or j 1 wounded r j y X X f 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 j 1 1 1 11 IMN r 1 IN 1 m M W H H X H N l |