THE WAR. HOW POET ARTHUR WAS “BOTTLED.”

Manawatu Herald, 12 May 1904, Page 2

THE WAR.

HOW POET ARTHUR WAS “BOTTLED.”

An official report states that the casualties in the blocking of Port Arthur were one officer and five men killed, and five officers and fifteen men wounded. Fourteen officers and seventy-four men are missing. In face of an incessant fire poured into the channel, Lieut. Sosa, commanding the steamer Emikawa Maru, rammed his way through the boom and reached the centre of the inner entrance where he anchored and blew up his ship. The Russian gun fire and the mines helped to sink others.

The Totomi Maru collided with the boom and sank athwart the passage, blocking nearly half of it. As the Yedo Maru was anchoring at the entrance of the channel, Cora mander Takayanagi was shot, SubLieutenant Ngatu assumed command and sank the ship. General Kuroki’s supplementary reports increase the Russian casualties of the Yalu fighting. The Japanese buried fourteen hundred Russians, and have five hundred Russian wounded in the field hospitals, Over three hundred prisoners also reached Matsuyama. RUSSIAN VERSION OP THE YALU BATTLE. General Sassulitch’s detailed report regarding the Battle of the Yalu, reached the Czar on Sunday. It states that the ninth and tenth rifle regiments and a battalion of the 24th, constituting the right flank, likewise a portion of the general reserve, took an insignificant part in the fighting on May Ist, and, as a result, the ninth regiment and the battalion of the 24th came off scathless, while the tenth lost six men in covering the retreat. The Czar is terribly pained at the details of the defeat. THE JAPANESE CASUALTIES ON THE YALU. Five Japanese officers were killed and 25 wounded, and 180 men killed and 690 wounded during the recent fighting on the Yalu. DISSATISFACTION IN RUSSIA. The Chinese report that Admira Alexieff was slightly wounded before leaving Port Arthur. The newspaper Berliner-Ahden-post, declares that the residents of St. Petersburg have lost all confidence in the conduct of the war. The rapidity of General Oko’s operations has amazed Continental military experts, RUSSIA’S BALTIC FLEET. Russia has abandoned her intention of sending the Baltic fleet to the Par East. An army of 45,000 reinforcements leaves Moscow for the Par East within the month.