Show DROWNED themselves RATHER THAN SURRENDER japanese fight last and choose shrouds in vitery grave rather than captivity A tokio dispatch says seventy three japanese either kl led them selves or were drowned on the trans po t maru which was sunk by A torpedo from the russian cruiser rossia at midnight of april while off bensan korea while the maru was sink ing the soldiers on board rushed up on deat and fired volleys from their rifles into the ressia and several of them committed suicide three small boats floated tree tho wreckage of the transport and were the means of saving forty five soldiers and nine of the passengers and crew two army captains and three lieutenants were among the drowned some of the survivors made the land in the boats and were brought into bensan it is not known here how many men the russians took from the transport or rescued after she was sinking it is possible that more survivors will bo found as one of the kinship maru a boats la still missing |