Show ADMIT WRECK OF FLEET japanese reports of sinking of ve eels by russians while declining to give details the admiralty admits that russian advices from port arthur sent by general stoessel substantially confirmed the japanese advices of the partial wreck ing of the russian ships in the harbor and the censor has been instructed to permit the publication of the die patches it Is said that several of the larger ships and a respectable number of torpedo boat destroyers are still seaworthy tea worthy but they are not being considered as a factor in the coming fight between admiral bogos und the russian second pacific squad ron the whole series of misfortune which has attended the port arthue squadron is a bitter chapter in rus elan naval annals but since the arrival of the latest advices there haa been less disposition to criticism criticise critic ise rear admiral s failure to make a sor tie general stoessel having decided that further defense of the fortress would be impossible it the guns of the warships and the sailors landed were embarked re |