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Show BOMBARDED BY JAPS TOWN OF VLADIVOSTOK AND FORT SHELLED. Japanese Cruisers Spend Fifty-five Minutes In a Harmless Peppering of Enemy, After Which They Withdrew. A fleet of flvo Japanese battleships battle-ships and two cruisers appeared off Vladivostok at 1:25 o'clock Saturday Sat-urday afternoon nnd bombarded tho town nnd shoro batteries for 55 minutes. min-utes. Tho fleet, npprooched from tho direction di-rection of Askold Island nt tho oast ontrnnco to Ussurl nay nnd about thirty-two miles southeast of Vladivostok. Vladi-vostok. Entering Ussurl nay tho onomy formed n lino of battle, but did not approach to a closer range than a mile nnd one-third. Thoy directed tholr flro against tho shoro batteries nnd tho town but no damage resulted ns most of their 200 lyddite shells foiled to burst. Tho Hussion batteries, commanded by Genernls Vcrnotcz nnd Artatno-noff, Artatno-noff, did not reply, awnltlng n closer approach or tho onomy. Tho Jnpaneso flro ceased nt 2:20 p. in., and tho enemy retired In tho direction or Askold island. Simultaneously Simul-taneously two torpedo boat destroyers appoarcd near Askold Island nnd two more noar Capo Mnldol. Tho Jnpnn-cso Jnpnn-cso ships wero covered with Ice. Tho attack resulted In no loss to tho Russians, but cost tho enemy 200.000 rubles ($100,000) In ammunition. Most or tho projectiles wero six nnd twelve-Inch sbolls. |