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Show . BIG SHIPS BLOWN UP Japs Sinking .Russian Fleet Rapidly. Big Guns From Metre 1 ; . Hill Doing It. Toklo, Dec. 8. (il p. m.) -The following follow-ing leport fiom tlic commander of the naval land battery In front of l'ort RpL Aitliur was received at 2 o'clock this bup afternoon: Vj ' "The battleship Pobleda's middle funnel Is soiiousl) damaged. The vcssell Is listing aft and is submerged to the stein walk. "The battleship Peicsv let's uppcrdeck Is submerged. "The battleship Hetvian Is listing to sturboaid and her upper deck Is nearly submerged. "The ' protected cruiser 1'allada which is lying between the Rctvfran and the mlncshlp Amur, cannot be distinctly seen, but tlieie seems to be a slight sinking astcin. The actual extent of the damage sustained bv her is not jet known. CltUISICIlllAAN HUllMN'U "Tlie armored cuiiser Hayan Is now buinlmr to licr fore deck. "The battleship Sobastopol appears to be lying in the east haibor along 'side the gieatcianc, but only thctops oflier masts aic vjslble. A liill completely com-pletely hides her hull. "The principal alms taken b the naaland mllltaiy guns todaj are at the 1'allada, H.iyau and Sebastopol," A long list of decoiatlons and pio- motions or naval ottlceis at Port Ar- J2-I tliur, signed Oct. -4 and published at pjjir , St. Petcisburg 'ov. 2, sliowed that f the waishipsat Poit Aitliur on the ' former date Included the battleships Rctvlan, Poblcda, Pcrcsvlct, Poltava and Sevastopol, the aunored ciulser Haj an, the protected ciulser Pallada, gunboats Vsadnik, Gillak and liobr, the tiansDort Amur (since described as a mlneshlp), the transport Angara (since referred to as hospital ship), and the torpedo loat destiojcrs Stiolnl, Sllnl, Smely, Seidltl, lioikl, l!esliuml, Stoiosevoi, Ratslastchl and Rastoiopnj. s FATKIH TIIK WAItsIIIP. Of the destrojeis, the Rastoiopny was blown upatChefoo by her crew, liainggone theie with dispatches foi for St. Petorsbuig. Of the other f named ships, as the result of the Japanese bombardment fiom -0.1 Metre hill, the Poltava has been sunk; the liclvian is listening to starboard . and upper deck Is neailj submerged; the Peicsvlet, according to the rc-poitofthe rc-poitofthe commander of the naval land batteiy received at Toklo at 2X0 Thursday afternoon, has certainly been sunk; the Pallada is beginning 1 to list to doi t and is still undei going a SSI A vigoious bombauhncnt; the Poblcda, mjflh accoidlng to the latest olllclal Japan- r Y cse advices, is scriouslj damaged, list ing aft and beglng submciged to the stern walk, and the Hayan Is aground and binning. Thus two of the tlvfe battleships have been sunk, two have been seriously seri-ously damaged and aic in dangei of , meeting the fate of tlio Poltava and $f the Pciesvlet and the fifth, the Sevas topol, seems to be somewhat out of the Japanese- lange, piotcctcd by a hill, above which only the tops of her masts can be seen by the Japanese gunneis. Of the cruisers, the Ravan seems to have been altogether disabled, dis-abled, while the Pallada is listing and is a special object of tlio Japanese liie. FllHHUTUL CAItNAUK. Headquarters of the Third Japanese Japan-ese army befoie Poit Arthur, via Fusan, Dec. 8. The correspondent of tlio Associated Piess Islted 'Jon-Metro 'hill, the scene of the awful six days' light which ended with Its capture by tlio Japanese. The advance woik and the cicstof the hill wore torn away, the slopes of jyi the hills weio coveted with debtls,and J3B the trenches weie smashed and tilled with soli. In a single section of the trenches 100 yards long over 200 Russians dead or wounded wero seen. They hail been i! horribly mangled with dynamlto gre- nadcr. |