The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1905. SAILORS MUTINY DURING BATTLE AND THROW OFFICERS INTO SEA D ' NEN HOIST WHITE FLAG ON WARSHIP Wi l Version of Surrender of Ne-| bogatofi’s Division Comes| From a Trustworthy| Source in St. Petersburg! | } | ET! CREWS TROUBLESOME FROM THE OUTS ! Eight Men Hanged for In-| subordination During the| Stay of the Reinforcing! Squadron in the Red Se;li | E SRR Epeciyl Dispetch to The Call LONDON, Jione 2—The Times St | Petersburg correspondent says details communicated to him from a trust- worthy source leave little room to | doubt that Admiral Nebogatofi’s sallors | mutinied and threw the admiral and many officers overboard, or, gccording to another versiem, bound them in the cabins and holsted a white flag. Eight | men of Nebogstoff's squudrom were | hanged for mutiny while he was still in the Red Sea. F R WOUNDED THROWN OVERBOARD. AwTul Barbarism on the Rus- Battleship Orel Story of sian has’ been | p Orel to r will vis- st in ¢ * wounded on the Orel It is_said that at the opening of the | battle 300 men were killed or wounded | wounded exercised so harmful an effect | that it was decided to throw the mor- | tally wounded into the sea. One Bun- dred and forty, it is said, were thrown overboard. Those slightly wounded and that the groans and shrieks of uel ] were then fastened to the mast to pre- vent their interference with the fighting hip. of the ossible to obtain any con- of this story, but later re- he crew of the Orel desperaté bravery previous to their 1 of the .vessel is v of her guns-aré | and dismounted. PR 5 LITTLE HOPE FOR ROJESTVENSKY. Russien Commander-in-Chief May Bie in Sasebo Hospital ABAKI, June 1—A report here to the effect that little s ained for the reguvery of 1 Rojestvensky, who is now in a at Basebo Admiral Rojest- s consist of a wound on t ‘outer fracture ds, besides Inter- Russian prisoners have Three damaged Russlan Is b drifted ashore in the Pro- vince of Nagato. S v MIKADO GETS ALL THE CREDIT. Togo Attributes Victory to the Virtme of His Sovereign. TOKIO, June I:—Admiral Toj .perial rescyip ; miral and his sailors, preciation and says. | ined a success. beyond is -dize to ihe brilliant Majesty and to the pro- | spirits of your imperial nd not to the.action of any €. be faithful and answer to S Cruiser Jemtchug Sunk. | ne 2, 10° a. m.—The re- the Russian cruiser of the recent fiaval bgttle in has been confirmed Jemtchug EARTHQUAKE CAUSES BIG LOSS OF LIFE . Montenegro, June 1.— s an earthquake this morning Montenegro. A number of lgpsed and one person was d and several wére injured. The earthquake caused great damage ®t Scutari, Albania, where about 500 houses collapsed and 200 persons were Filied or injured. | board _early | bette PO LIFTS AND FLEET 1S DOOMED caionie ¥ P Admiral Rojestvensky Holds Sudden Change in Weath- er Responsible for the Failure- of His Plans MURKY ATMOSPHERE CLEARS T0O QUICKLY Atiempt to Pass Straits of Korea Under Its Cover| Leads Russian Warships Into Trap Set by Togof TOKIO, June 1—A telegram from Sase- bo says that Admiral Rojestvensky has stated that he hoped to clear Tsu Island in & fog, but a sudden southwestern gale cleared the fog and revealed the pres- | ente of his fleet. The Japanese losses in the battle of the Sea of Japan were 113 officers and men killed and 424 officers and men wounded. The compleyhn of the revised list shows that the losses were under the original estimates. The flagship Mikasa was the heaviest loser, losing. sixty-three killed and wounded. The casualties among the destroyers and | torpedo boats were only eighty-seven. Commander Togo was wounded on the Adzuma. iral Togo's victory was celebrated ay. The entire city was dec- with flags and bunting. Literary ses and sports were held in Hibiya | Park, Mayor’Ozaki presiding. Thousands of persons filled the park and lustily cheered. The naval staff occupied prom- seats on the platform. Various or- s and guilds paraded the the processions all converging at biya Park. B gl Ben . SHIPS DECK A SHAMBLES. Togo's Projectiles Do Terrible Execu- tion om the Borodimo. LONDON, June 2.—The Tokio corre- | spondent of the Daily Express sends a stoty of the battle told by an officer of the battleship Borodino, who is now at Sasebo. The officer says: “Admiral Rojestvensky came on in the battle and directed e fighting from the Boyodino’s fiying dge. At 3 o'cléck the Japanese battle- hips Shikishima and Fujl opened every gun on us. A projectile struck the for- ward barbette, in which 1 had charge of a 12-inch gun, and this rendered us all insensible. “I groped out of the smoke-filled bar- to the deck and found there a rain of’ projectfles. Dozens were lying ead or ‘wounded at every turn. I re- urne@ to the barbette,.but was only le to fire two rounds when two pro- jectiles struck us simultaneously, king the barbette, disabling both » 12-inch guns and Killing eighteen cers apd men. re officer proceeds to.describe how odino now became a veritable , successive shells destroying eering gear and ammunition 50.that the shells had to be car-’ v hand. Admiral Rojestvensky s injured and transferred to a de- oyer and as the destroyer left she s assafied by a hail of small arm am- tion. was now 4 o'clock,” the officer continued. “The Borodino had been re- peatedly struck in the helm and was settling down with no hope of saving her. “The Japanese had hroken our battle formation and were closing in, concen- traung their fire on our fighting tops, of which crews hardly one escaped. Fire had now broken out in several places, adding horror to our situation and itwas decided to withdraw from the firing line for the purpose of repairiag our steering gear.” But we were surrounded by eéight Japanese ships and bombarded on every side. We dtill fought desperately with our after twélve-inch guns and what was left of our smaler guns and with about bdlf our complement of men. But the Borodino sank lower and lower. “Toward evening, after we had lost 400 men, we noticed two Japanese destroyers coming' toward us. We sank one with a well-directed shell. The otber launched a torpedo which missed us. All the men in the engine-rooms were driven on deck by the flames. Finally a Japanese tor- pedo fletilla bove down upon us and an explosion -caused the Borodino to turn turtle. I, with forty others, was rescued from the sea by tke Japanese armored cruiser Kasuga &nd was transferred to the shore.” NAVY YARD CELLS FOR THE RUSSIANS Czar Will Pay Uncle Sam for Care of Lena's Offenders. VALLEJO, June 1.—Permission was re- ceived at the Mare Island Navy Yard to- day from the department at Washing- ton for the transfer of a number brig of the Russian cruiser Lena to the naval prison in the navy yard This re- quest was made, by the officers” of the Lena some time ago in the interest of discipline. It is said that a dozen pris- oners, principally under confinement for desertion and offenses committed ashore while on Jeave, will be taken from the | ship to the prison. The Russlan Govern- ment will pay for their keeping. e 5 DENVER MAN IS ACCUSED OF LIBELING THE DEAD DENVER, June 1.—George-J. Kindel, a well-known manufacturer, was ar- rested to-day-on the charge of having eriminally libeled the late Henry B. Hyde, founder of the Equitable Life Assurance Soclety, by printing his pic- turc in a circular between those of two outiaws over the inscription “Kindel's Gallery of Dead Cheaters.” . Refusing to sign a personal’ recog- nizance bond, Kindel was lodged in ‘The ney George A. Stideer. JAPAN ADMITS LOSING WAR CRAFT. Six of the Mikado’s Vessels Sunk During Siege of Port Arthur. Battleship Yashima and Cruiser Taka- sago Included in the List. TOKIO, June 1.—The necessity for se- been leading, changed to the rear of the crecy no longer existing, the Navy De- |line, while the Kasuga headed the line. partment announced to-day the loss of < The éngagement now became very flerce. The Borodino was seen to be on fire. A the battleshlp Yashima at Port Arthur In ) o 5 ier the Russians headed west, and May and many other naval losses hi - | we changed our course accordingly. Five erto withheld. The list is as follows: | ships of our second division concentrated | Battleship Yashima, blown up by & sub- | thejr fire on the Borodino. Our first divi- marine mine on May 15 while engaged In | sion now began firing vigorously, pro- blockading Port Arthur harbor. | ceeding parallel with the Russian line, | Torpeco-boat destroyer Akatsuke, blown | and as we began to press against the ' up by & mine on May 1T. | head of the Russian line our third divi- | Gunboat Oshima, sunk in & collision |gion veered to the Russian rear, thus en- while co-operating with tfie army in Liao- | veloping their ships. tung Bay on May 17. “The engagement proceeded hotly. Our Destroyer Hayatori, sunk by & mine on | gecond division followed a course parallel September 3 while blockading Port Ar-' yith the northern side of the Russians, thur. % ! land this movement completed the en- of, | prisoners that are now confined to the Gunboat Atago, sunk by striking a rock wille blockading Port Arthur on Novem- | ber 6. Cruiser Takasago, blown up by a mine while blockading Port Arthur on Decem- ber 12. Rough estimates of the Russian losses In the battle of the sea of Japan, exclu- | sive of prisoners, place them close to 1 1000 men, the majority of whom it is feared have perished. Calculating the complements of the sunken and captured ships, 10,700 men are unaccounted for. The prisoners number more than 3000. It s possible that some of the ships which escaped rescued some of their com- rades, but many bodles are coming ashore on thé islands and neighboring coasts. TOGO GIVES FURTHER DETAILS. The Navy Department has made the following ennouncement, embracing a re- ort from Admiral Togo: p"h(er reports from the different divi- sions of the flect engaged in the naval battle of May 27 show as follows: The Russian battleship Oslabya was heavily damaged in the early part of the fight on Saturday, going down at 3 o'clock In the afternoon. “The first Russian vessel sunk was the ! pattieship Stssol Veliky. b.b'l'l"(: a?mored cruisers Admiral Nakim- off and Viadimir Monomach, after béing in the general engagement during the daytime, were still further damaged by torpedoes during attacks by night, and were eventually completely disabled. They drifted into the vicinity or Tsu Islands, where they were discovered on Sunday morning (May 2§) by the auxiliary cruis- ers Shinano, Yawata, Tainan and Sado, which were about to capture them, but they all sank. “The crews of our auxillary cruisers rescued 815 of the crew of the sunken Rus- sian ships. “The battleship Navarin was torpedoed | four times after sundown on Saturday | (May 27) and sank. The survivors of the Navarin's crew confirm the story of her destruction. “The cruiser Niitaka and Otawa dis- covered the Russian cruiser Svietlana at 9 o'clock on Sunday morning (May 2) in the vicinity of Chappyan Bay, and im- mediately attacked and sank her. The commander of the Niitaka reports the fact. | “It is suspected that the Russian cruis- er Aurora was sunk by torpedoes on the night of May 27. “The former reports included the state- ment that the Russian cruiser Jemtchug was sunk, but as yet this remains un- confirmed, the cruiser’s name has been excluded from the revised list of Russian vessels destroyed. YICTORY IS COMPLETE. “With elght battleships destroyed or captured, three armored cruisers and three .coast defense ships destroyed or cap- tured, with the second-class cruisers and other vessels destroyed, the enemy’s fight- ing power is thus annihilated. “Later reports show that during the night of May 27 our torpedo hoats num- bered 34, 35 and were su by the enemy’s fire. Comrades rescued the ma- jority of their crews. Besides the above there was no damage done worth report- ing.- No warship or destroyer suffered any loss of fighting or navigating power. “‘We expected a heavy loss of life, but find that our casualties were compara- tively slight. They do not exceed 800 killed and wounded. The casualty reports will be rendered as speedily as possible, in order to reassure familles and friénds. “Nearly the whole strength of both combatants met In the battle, and the area of the fighting was very wide. The first day proved foggy, and even withgut the smoke and fumes resulting from the battle it was impossible to see five miles. Consequently during ‘the day it was im- possible to locate or observe all the ships under my command. Moreoyer the fight- ing having lasted two days, gnd the ships of my command being scatfered for the purpcse of chasing and attacking the enemy, some having received special or- ders after the battle, it is impossible to coliect and frame any detalled report cov- ering the whole battle at the same time.” OFFICERS TO BE PAROLED. 1t is understood that the Emperor in- tends to dircct that the Russlan officers captured at the naval battle of the Sea of Japan on May 27 be given terms of parole identical with those granted the tarmy officers taken at the surrender of Port Arthur. An officer of the Russian battleship Borodino. brought as a prisoner to the Maizura: navy yard, says that while Rear Admiral . Rojestvensky had raised his flag on the battleship Kniaz Souvaroff, he ‘was really on board the ‘Borodino during the action. When the Borodino was sink- ing he boarded the Bedovi, the Rus- slan destroyer, on which he was eventu- ally captured by the Japanese. ! o/ e St JAPANESE VERSION OF BATTLE. Officer of Admiral Togo’s Fleet De- scribes the Combat. . | TOKIO, June 1.—A Japanese officer who ’hu returned from Sasebo in giving an account of the naval battle says that | when the Japanese fleet advanced Ad- miral Togo signaled as follows from-the flagship Mikasa: :I!Icar. " el - kept lose touch with the preceding two divi- slons. With the Japanese ships proceed- ing in this order it was 2:13 o'clock when the Russians opened fire. The first two shots fell short of our , and it was some minutes later before we commenced firing. Then velopment. The Russian ships were seen trying to break through, and our de- stroyer flotilla intercepted their new | course.. This state of envelopment con- | tinued until the following day, with the ships at varying distances. Thus, in- | closed on all sides, the Russians were helpless and powerless to escape the cir- cle. “Previous instructions had been given | the destroyers and tropedo-boats to at- | tack thie Russian ships. Following in- structions, the fifth destroyer flotilla ad- | vanced against 2 Russian ship, upon | which the second division had been con- icentntfln‘ its fire, signaling: { *“‘We are going to give the last thrust at them.” “The Russian ship continued to fight |and, seeing the approaching torpedo | boats, directed its fire on them. Un- | daunted, our destroyers pressed forward, the Chitose meantime continuing its fire. The torpedo flotilfa arrived within 200 meters of the Russian ship and the Shir- anus fired the first shot. Two other tor- pedo boats fired one each. The Shiranus received two shells, but the other boats were not damaged. The Russian ship was sunk. “Sundown saw the battle raging furi- ously. Our shells were evidently telling | on the Russians, who showed signs of | confusion. Our fifth torpedo flotilla, after | destroying the Borodino, followed in the | wake of our second division, the signal reading: “* ‘Something like a Russian submarine has been sighted. Attack it.’ “The flotilla followed and located the | object, which proved to be a sinking ship | with its overturned bottom showing. | Thirty survivors clung to the wreck, cry- | ing for assistance. | “Firing ceased with the approach of darkness. According to orders previously | glven for a torpedo attack, after dark, | all the destroyer flotilla, dividing into two | squadrons, proceeded to attack the Rus- sians during the whole night. The Rus- sians frustrated the first and second at- tacks with searchlighls. A third attempt was carefully made and the Yugiri sank a ship cf the Borodino type and also hit others. During the night the Russians continued to move and we preserved our enveloping movement some distance from the Russian position. The Russian ships headed northeast after daybreak, hoping to reach Viadivostok. Our ships always kept ahead of the Russians. The battle was resumed at 9 o'clock on Sunday morning, twelve miles east of Chyupyon Bay, and lasted all day. Here the Rus- sians suffered their heaviest losses. “They seemed quite unprepared to re- | pel night attacks. During our first night attack the Russians showed nine search- lights and frustrated the attacks, but clearly gave us the location of the fleet which brought success later.” S T PRISONERS RETAKE PRIZE. Japanese Overcome Russian Crew of a Captured Steamship. NAGASAKI, June 1.—Russian torpedo boats from Vladivostok captured the Japanese steamship Daishen, of 700 tons, off the Island of Hokkaido, and placed a prize crew of thirteen men on board to take the vessel to port. By mistake they took the course to Gen san, meeting a Japanese transport on the way. The latter, seeing the Rus- sian flag flying on the Daishen, intended to try to recapture her, but the Japa- nese on board, seeing their friends, themselves attacked the prize crew and recaptured the vessel. They reached Gensan with their Russian captives, who have now arrived at Sasebo, DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. $1000 REWARD Is offered as a guarantes that neither Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription XOR Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery wnulnsAtlcohol. OD{;Tflfi ‘m' l;l hu-aw drug. * Any one pu ng 8 ments cougern their ingredients will bo prosecuted. Plerce’ Remedics are compounds- of principles, scientifically extracted from native roots that cure the discases for which they are recommended. 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