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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7838, 2 June 1905, Page 2

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JAPANESE COOLNESS, DEMORALISED UNITSi IUSK NOTHING, LOSE NOTHING. (Received June 2, 0.20 aM.) LONDON. June 1. Th' Daily Telegraph')* ec'jvuht of tho battle continues : ' Tjia tactics of Admiral Hozhdextw&Kßy'a fleet displayed hesitation', the forerunner of Utter, confusion. I"ho .Japanese knew in•stantly %hat the tnoiny was beaten. Their concentration of fiiv became Infernal, every gun being trained upon the ltussianH, who were caught la a eul dc Nae. Long lines of untoke floutod acrowi the water, Intcraperued by flauhes. By two o'clock the bombardment wus at its zenith; can- • noimdim? marked every (second. Htu ItushianH udvunqod toward* Vladivostok, und the Jnpaoenc ahead also advanced. HhoU /roui the north «we answerod by fchot# to the ho*i lh', ii nd from <the e«H aM went «Iko. '1 he doomed enemy waa battered from all hides. Ret ween three ami five o'clock a emitter of the Nakhjiniof! clhks, the Kamachatka, foundered. I'te.iui'Hlj' the upper work* of wood and iron were in Hpllntcts.

"The fleet became disordered, and proceeded in a /ijrzag course. Some of the vessels steamed caat, others west. Then the Japanese, with a judgment amounting almost to Innpiraiion, advanced to closer quarters. The Russian «hi]>», under a Ore all the more terrible by the shortened range, no longer eMftud B8 a fleet, but as severed uncoordlnatednnd demoralised units, and] pressed toward* the J-agoto province. The fight lasted till seven. The atmosphere being obscured, Togo risked nothing and lest nothing. The Russian* then attempted to steer north-west. Heavy fighting continued until sunset, whentha wind subsided, and the aea became smooth and transparent, /