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Show EXPLOSION OF A MINE Sinks a Russian Torpedo Tor-pedo Boat. Che Foo, Tliuisday, March 17. 4 p. in. -While cntei Ing I'oi t Aithur yes-teiday, yes-teiday, the Kith inst., the Russian torpedo boat doslrojer Skoriol struck upon an unplaced mine and was blown up. Four of the ciew weie saved. Vleeioy Alexin!! wiles a ie-poit ie-poit continuing our account of the damage done to I'oit Aithur during the bombaidmcnt of the 101 li. He sajs the stoij of a Hie theie Is "a base fabiicatlon." New Yoik, Maich 17.- Thiec Noi-weglan Noi-weglan steameis -the llrand, the Aigo, and Schestad, leleased a few- days ago by the authoiltles at Poit Aithur, hae auled at Shaugai, accoidlng ac-coidlng to a World dispatch from that city. The captains, who weie put under oath by the Russians to lcvcal nothing they .saw, lcfuseil to speak of alTalis at, Port Aithui, but the cor-lcspondenl cor-lcspondenl asserts that inenibeis of the ciews willingly told all they knew. Dining the last bombaidmcnt last Sunday the Aigo lay alongside the battleship lietvlzan In thehaibor, and one of the Noiwegians continued pie-vious pie-vious tepoits to the ellect that a .lap-nesc .lap-nesc shell fell on the Retvlzan's deck, wheie it exploded, killing l'l olllceis and men. Scarcely a lesidence in the new part of the town escaped damage. Many of the Inhabitants attempted to construct ltiilo bomb-piools. One shell fell among a ciowd of slghtsecis who gathcied at a point of vantage and were gazing out to sea at the attacking Itect. The shell killed twenty-live. Tlnee government clerks weie killed while hurrying trom the poit admiral's admir-al's oillce. A cruiser lying at anchor u cable's length from the Itctvizan. probably the Diana, was struck on the water-line water-line and set on lire. The sailors de-claie de-claie that eighty persons on Imard peilslied. The supply of lood In Poit Aithur Is .still sutllclent for the needs of the gairlson, but It is entliely under the contiol of the military authoiities who issue daily lations. The Norwegians insist that wen they left the Itusslan Meet had sailed with the view of making a dash for Vladivostok. It is possible, however, that the vessels had merely gone on another scouting expedition. '1 heie lemalucd In the haruor, beside the disabled waiships only the volunteer licet steamer Kasan, four smaller Russian merchantmen, one whaler and the Itusslan hospital ship Mongolia which had been struck by shells, killing half a dozen men. |