Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — TELLS OF PORT ARTHUR FIGHT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TELLS OF PORT ARTHUR FIGHT.

Tokio Dispatch Says Torpedo Boat* Cut Off Russian Retreat. Statements of all kinds concerning the Port Arthur fight have been published. According to the correspondent of the Paris edition of the New York Herald nt Chefu the Japanese torpedo boats succeeded in entering the outer harbor by a ruse. They used the Russian flashlight signals. This correspondent adds that three Japanese torpedo boats were sunk with great loss of life. A correspondent of the London Standard at Tokio sends in an entirely new account of the Port Arthur encounter. He

says Admiral Togo's fleet arrived Monday night and found the Russian squadron drawn up in battle formation outside the hr.rbor and under the shadow of the forts, the destroyers beiiig spread out in front over a distance of five miles. Admiral Togo decided on a night attack and opened fire at 11 o’clock. \Vhile the cannonade was hottest a number of Japanese torpedo boats crept along close in shore at the foot of the dliff and succeeded in the darkness in getting in between the Russian ships and 'the land. Here they lay unnoticed until the Russians began to give way befor the Japanese fire and sought to reenter the harbor. The’Japanese torpedo boats than opened fire at comparatively close range and sunk two battleships nml one cruiser close to the entrance of the harbor. The effect coup was to prevent the retreat of the remainder of the squadron into the harbor.

JAPANESE MILITARY CHIEFS. Gen. Kodama. Admiral Yamamoto.