The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1905, Page 1

t THE WEATHER. San Francisco for | jan Any()t —_— e VOLUME XCVII—NO. i82 SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1905. RUSSIAN FLEET DEST R her Paper Published m§an ALCAZAR—‘Tennessee's Pardner.' & % CENTRAL—“Wh; ed Her.” 1 \ CHUTES—Vaudeville. =1 COLUMBIA—“The Duke of Kill:- GRAND—"The Holy City.” P ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comic Opera. T 2 l WEBER'S MUSIC HALL — “Miss Frisky From Fresno.” e}-o Francisco THE THEATERS. - e's er. CALIFORNIA—“The Country Girl." “Why He Divorced H PRICE FIVE CENTS. ROYED TOKIO, May 29, 2:15 p. m.-==It is officially announced that'Admiral Rojest- vensky’s fleet has been practically annihilated. Twelve warships have been sunk or captured, and two transports and two destroye U rs have been sunk. o e G e TR B L e e PEN PICTURE ILLUSTRATING THE NAVAL BATTLE IN THE STRAITS OF KOREA AND THE mfixe OF THE RUSSIAN BATTLESHIF BORODINO BY THE WARSHIPS OF ADMIRAL TOGO’S VICTORIOUS FLEET. | BN TR T AN R B Y e R e R S A Y P AR N S R R At Kdany Russian Warships Are Sunk and Japanese Fleet Loses Cruiser and Small Craft While Running - Fight Continues Northward on the Sea of Japan. ROME. May 28.—Italian Government has re- ceived a dispatch from Chefu stating that the en-- gagement between the Russian and Japanese fleets was disastrous to both fleets. The losses twere frightful. Every Russian ship was damaged. TSINGTAU, May 29.—A telegram from Chinese sources says that in the naval battle in the Straits of Korea on Saturday and Sunday the Russians lost two battleships and two cruisers. This report has not been confirmed. i LONDON, May 29.—The correspondent of the Morning Post at Shanghai says that a telegram has been received there from Peking announcing that . Rojestvensky’s fleet has been defeated off the Tsu' Islands and is fleeing northward and that four Russian ships, including the battleship Borodino, have been sunk. The Tokio correspond ent of the Daily Mail says that the Russian fleet has been rsed, that several Russian ships have been bled and that the remainder are in flight, with the Japanese pursuing. 3 TRINGTAU, May 29.—There is a running na- val engagement between the Russian and Japa- nese fleets near. the island of Oki. It is reported that the whole Russian fleet is not participating, all the slower vessels having steamed around Ja- pan. The Japanese losses so far are stated to be one cruiser and -ten torpedo boats. -The Island of Oki is in the sea of Japan, about two hundred miles northeast of the Straits of Korea, where the battle between the Japanese and Russian fleets had its beginning. - * - WASHINGTON, May 28. — Japanese Minister Takahira, has received a dispatch from Tokio, say- ing in effect that the fizhting in the naval battle “thus far has been “favorable prospects to the ‘Japanese. The Minister’s dispateh is from private ceived in Washington to-day, it is believed that two of the six Russian ships reported by the American Consul at Nagasaki to have been sunk in the Korean Straits by the Japanese were the Orel-and her sister ship, the Borodino. They are battleships of 13,000 tons and are counte: the flagship Kniaz Suvaroff. The three other ves- sels reported sunk are believed to have been eruis- ers. The remaining one was a repair ship. LONDON, May 29.—The Times' Tokio correspond- ent says that telegrams from apparently. trustworthy sources show that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky ’ 3 ued on Page 4, Column L s