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Show EXPECTED HAS HAPPENED. Togo Gives Battle and Practically Destroys De-stroys the Russians' Entire Fleet. Jap Fleet Suffers Also. Peace is Now Predicted by Eastern Men. Togo's and Rojestvenski's fleets came together last Saturday and Sunday Sun-day and the press reports are that tie Japaneso obtained a complete and overwhelming victory. Late advices show that RoJestNcnsky's Hect composed com-posed of all his most elective and powerful ships, was, completely shattered. shat-tered. .Accoidlng to tho latest information, infor-mation, two Russians battleships, one coast-defense armor-clad, lle cruls-ers,twospec.ial-servlc(! ships and three destioyers weie sunk, and Iheiowerc captured two battleships, two coast-defenso coast-defenso armor-clads and one special-service special-service ship. Pursues Shattered Fleet. Rojcnstvensky's llagshlp escaped badly damaged and, wltli other vessels ves-sels of his broken Meet, Is being pursued pur-sued by the victorious Japanese Rear-Admiral Nebogatolf, however, was captured, withiwoo other prisoners. prison-ers. It seems piobable that in their crippled condition other Russian vessels ves-sels wilt fall into the hands of the Japanese before they can roach Vladivostok. Vladi-vostok. Togo's Squadron Unscratched. While London rumors say that several Japanese vessels were lost. Admiral Togo oillcially reports that his squadron was not damaged. A number of Russian vessels still remain near Shangshal, but It is evident that as a lighting force the great licet, has been destroyed. Fighting Continues. No details of the battle have yet been permitted to pass the Japanese censor, but Toklo dispatches mako It clear that Admiral Togo Is pressing his advantage and harassing the Russian Rus-sian vessels, which arc attempting to lake refuge at Vladivostok, and make more complete his alieady sweeping victory. Desperate Torpedo Attacks. Some of the foreign press dispatches dispat-ches are very confusing,' but evcr-thlng evcr-thlng seems to indicate that Togo de)lered a series of despcrato torpedo attacks dining Saturday night, wltli the support of his heavy ships. The lepoited sinking of so many ships, it is believed, might also be partially due to mines sown ahead of tho advancing Russians columns. The belief Is also strengthened that Rojestvensky was loiccd in order to secure homogenlty In speed and lighting power to divide his Meet, only aslngle,dlvlslon passing the straits of Koiea, the other going around Japan. Japs Command the Sea. Naval critics In the evcnhlg papers of Berlin accept without rcscive the Associated I'rcss dispatches from Togo, and build on them the view that the war has entered on the last phase, in which the Japanese command com-mand of the sea will continue until the end. Tho battle of Saturday Is called the greatest licet action for a bundled years, or slnco Trafalgar, and is classed as being immensely greater than tho Adriatic sea light In mm or the naval battle of Santiago in 18lty. Bankers Believe End is Near. Advices received from London and other leading .continental lluunclal centers by the New York bankers were all of tho opinion that Japan's decisive victory would hasten peace. Additional news is simply the above repeated from different sources and sheds no further light on' the scope of the victory. |