Eureka Reporter | 1905-08-11 | Page 4 | Saw the Borodino Go Down

SAW THE BORODINO GO DOWN dr pars tells of terrific accuracy 0 japanese gunners dr H paris who was surgeon ot the kussian hospital ship oren at to the fleet under command 0 admiral during the na val battle of the sea of japan Is in san francisco he Is a frenchman and with many other surgeons of that nationality joined the orel at toulon as delegate from the french red cross society As an eyewitness of the battle dr paris saw the battleship borodine borodino Bo and many others of the russian fleet sink he was within a mile of the borodine borodino Bo when she began to careen and fill at this time he says in the course of an interview her guns were firing and I 1 could see that many of the great shells she alred were going skyward or into the sea beside her but every japanese shell it seemed went straight into the vitals of the borodi no then came a heavy listing of the big battleship and then the bremen dous plunge as she went down by the head with hundreds of men aboard dr paris says that admiral bolest and his officers never seemed to fear defeat at the hands of the japanese though the ships were very foul after their long cruise in tropical waters