. Review of reviews and world's work. f the main defenses of the city, withinTwo miles of the inner fortifications. Plantingits heavy siege guns on this eminence, the in-vesting army was able, not only to bombard thetown itself and partially demolish the dry-dockin the harbor, but to reach the Russian vesselsthemselves by vertical fire. On August 10. thisfire had become so severe as to force the fleet from its anchorage, to take desperate chanceswith Admiral Togo outside the harbor. Atdawn, the Russian vessels (six battleships, fourcruisers, and eight or more torpedo boats anddestroyers) emerg
. Review of reviews and world's work. f the main defenses of the city, withinTwo miles of the inner fortifications. Plantingits heavy siege guns on this eminence, the in-vesting army was able, not only to bombard thetown itself and partially demolish the dry-dockin the harbor, but to reach the Russian vesselsthemselves by vertical fire. On August 10. thisfire had become so severe as to force the fleet from its anchorage, to take desperate chanceswith Admiral Togo outside the harbor. Atdawn, the Russian vessels (six battleships, fourcruisers, and eight or more torpedo boats anddestroyers) emerged, and attempted to breakthrough the Japanese cordon to escape or tojoin the Vladivostok squadron. With seven bat-tleships, eleven cruisers, and thirty smaller war-craft, Admiral Togo received the a forty minutes encounter, the latter, benton flight, not fight, had succeeded in penetratingthe Japanese line, had escaped the mines laidfor them, and were dashing for Admiral Togo pursued, and at five oclock. LIEUTENANT-GEIERAL NOGI, WHO IS BESIEGING PORTARTHUR. in the evening overtook the fugitives. In athree hours battle, during which the firing wasnever at a less range than 3,800 yards,—andoften at a much greater one,—the Russian fleetwas scattered or disabled. The Japanese losseswere not heavy comparatively. Admiral Togoreported 100 killed, altogether, and 29 wounded,most of them on his flagship, the Mikasa, whichhad borne the brunt of the fighting. Five Russian ships returned to theRussian harbor of Port Arthur, and severalDefeat. s^ght refuge in neutral Chinese andGerman ports. The Czarevitch, one of the finestRussian battleships (which was injured in thefirst attack on Port Arthur, in February), suf-fered terribly. More than three hundred of her 278 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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