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Show Russian Gunboat Destroyed. Advices from Toklo stato that a Prussian gunboat of tho Otvajnl typ struck a mlno nnd sank olf Laot promontory, tho extreme southern point of tho Kwnn Tung ponlnsula on which Port Arthur Is situated, at 8 o'clock on Thursday night. Tho Otvajnl Ot-vajnl is an armored gunboat of 1,500 tons' displacement, launched in 1891, nnd carries ono ulno-lnch gun, onq six-Inch gun and ton quick-firing guns. Sho has two torpedo tubes, has a Bpoed of llfteon knots and carrios a orow of 142 men. - f tn w." -n - |