Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1904 — JAPAN SCORES IN FIRST ATTACK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JAPAN SCORES IN FIRST ATTACK

Her Torpedo Boats Get to Work at Night with Effect. A , -. . * '■ X }• . . . * %•<, . _, v ., „ ** ~■» ~« ... • »•>(*'. _v -*•* * : THREE WARSHIPS ARE DISABLED By the Audacious Tactics of the Mikado's Sailors. JAPS FIRE ON THE FORTS Little Damage Done Port Arthur Harbor Blocked by Disabled Warships—Hay Writes an Identical Note..

London, Feb. 11.—The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Mail says an important bridge on the Manchurian railroad has been blown up and thirty men have been killed. London, Feb. 11.—S|>ocial despatches from Tokio this morning announce the arrival of Japanese tToops at Seoul. San Francisco, Feb. It.—A cablegram to the Associated Press from Nagasaki states that the Russian Cruiser Variag, which was reported to have been sunk at Chemul|H> by the Japanese fleet, was captured, and lias arrived at Sasebo. The despatch also states that in addition to the Russian vessels damaged in the torpedo attack at Port Arthur seven other vessels were captured. It is also reported at Nagasaki that Generdl Kuropatkin has arrived at Harbin to take command of the Russian land forces. St. Petersburg, Feb. 10. 1 a. m.— The following official bulletin tins just been issued in the form of a telegram from Viceroy Alexieff's chief of sfhff, dated Feb. 0: “lty order of the viceroy I beg to report that this day at about II o’clock in the morning a Japanese squadron consisting of about fifteen battleships and cruisers approached

Port Arttiur and opened fire. The enemy was received with a cannonade front tbe shore batteries and the guns of our squadron, which also participated iii the engagement. * Report* the Kiifwian Ijwimhi. “At about midday the Japanese squadron ceased its fire and left, pro eeeding south. Our losses in the th«t were two officers wounded, nine men killed and forty-one men wounded. On the shore batteries one man was killed and three were wounded. The battleship Poltava and the cruiser Novik each had a hole knocked in her side below the water liDe. The forts were slightly damaged. "Major General Flug.” JAP CREEPS VP IN THE NIGHT

VICEROY ALEXEIEFF.