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THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE. Thursday, June 1, 1905. BALTIC FLEET GOES DOWN. Japanese Victory Complete All of Russia's Best Ships Destroyed and Captured Great Loss of Life on the Russian Side A Few Japanese Killed and Many Wounded. At last the great naval battle has been fought. On Saturday the Japanese fleet met the Baltic fleet in the strait between Japan and Korea and the battle raed Saturday after noon, Sunday and Monday. Several of the fast, but weaker Russian cruisers, escaped to Vladi vostok and to Chinese ports, but the battleships and best cruisers were all destroyed and captured. The Japanese Admiral has been too busy to give detailed reports, but it is now certain that the victory was complete and no Japanese warships were lost with the possible exception of a few torpedo boats, which, in the game of war, are not seriously con sidered, owing to their comparatively small cost. The money value of the Baltic fleet was probably more than fifty million dollars. More than 8,000 Russian of ficers and sailors were killed wound ed and captured. The captured men will not amount to much, as they are no value to Russia now that the last effective division of her fleet has gone. Telegrams to the Morning Post give the following interesting late details: V"'r Washington, May 30. Additional official reports from Admiral Togo reached the Japanese legation this evening by telegraph from Tokio. They show that the main engage ment between the hostile fleets ended on the afternoon of May 28th, when the Japanese accented the surrender of the remaining vessels of the Rus sian line of battle. The battleship Souvaroff, Admiral Rojestvensky's flagship, was sunk at 5 :29 o'clock Saturday afternoon, but Rojestv en sky and about eighty officers and men escaped to the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Biedovy, which tried to escape, but was overhauled short ly off the Korean coast by a J apanese destroyer and compelled to surrender. Rojestvensky and another Russian admiral, whose name is not ffiven bv Togo, were found to be severely wounded. Togo reports that the Rus sian ships sunk or captured number ed twenty-two, including all the eight battleships of Rojestvensky's fleet. He expressed the suspicion that the cruiser Almaz, not included in the list of Russian casualties, sank also, but a Dress dispatch from Vladivos tok reports her arrival there. Two battleships, two coast defense ves sels and a destroyer were captured. While no Japanese vessels were sunk or even seriously injured, the personnel of the fleet did not escape so easily, for Togo notes that the casualties in one division alone were 400. He had not secured a complete report of the casualties when his re port was sent. The dispatch to the Jaurmese lega tion, containing" Togo's report, fol lows: " "Fifth reports from Admiral To go: The main force of our com bined fleet, upon accepting the sur render of the remaining Russian main force, near Liancourt Rocks on the afternoon of the 28th, as already reported, stopped pursuit; and while engaged in the disposition of1 the surrendered , ships discovered in a southwesterly direction the Admiral Ushakoff (coast defense ship). There upon the Iwate and the Yasrumo were immediately dispatched in pur suit and invited her a surrender, but she refused and was sunk at 6 p. m. Her crew of over three hundred men were rescued. "The' cruiser Dmitri Donskoi was also discovered in a northwesterlv direction at 5 p." m.; and was immedi ately overtaken and fired upon vior ously by our fourth division and sec ond destroyer flotilla, She was at tacked that night by the second de stroyer flotilla and the next morning was found aground on the southeast ern shore of Urleung Island off the Korean coast. Our destrover Sazan ami captured toward evening on the 27th south of Urleung Island the Russian destroyer Biedovy. upon which were found Admiral Rojest vensky and another admiral both se verely wounded, together with eighty persons, including staff officers from the flagship Kniaz Suvaroff, which sank at 2.29 p. m. on the 28th. They were all taken prisoners. Our cruiser Chitoze, while cruising northward on the morning of the 28th, found and sunk another Russian destroyer. Our cruiser Niitaka and the destroyer Neurekuma attacked at noon on the 28th a Russian destroyer, which fin ally went aground. "According to various reuorte hitherto received and statements of prisoners the result of the battle from the 27th to the 29th is as fol lows: v'.':';--V' "Sunk Kniaz Suvaroff, Alexan der III, Borodino, Dmitri Domeskoi, Admiral Nakhimoff, Vladimir, Mono mach, Jentchug. Admiral Uskakoff, one converted cruiser, two destroyers. "Captured Nicholai I, Orel, Ad miral Aprixan, Senlavin, destroyer Biedovy. "According to the prisoners, the Oslyabia sunk about 3 p. m., and the Navarin also sunk. The Almaz, May 27th, was observed in a disabled and sinking condition, but her final fate is not known. "Full particular regarding the in juries to our ships are not yet at hand, but so far as I could ascertain, none was seriously injured, all being still engaged in operations. The to tal casualties are not yet ascertained. Casualties in the first division are a little over 400. Prince Yorhito is in excellent health. Admiral Misu was slightly wounded May 27th. Sixth report from Admiral Togo: "Loss of the Oslyabia and the Na varin is confirmed. "Sissoi Veliki al so definitely reported to have sunk on the morning of the 28th. "Official statement of Russian losses so far as ascertained: "Following six battleships sunk Kniaz Suvaroq. Imperator Alexan der III., Borodino, Oslyabia, Sissoi Veliki and Navarin. "Following five cruisers sunk Ad miral Nakhimoff, Dmitri Douskoi, Vladimir, Monomach, Svietlana and Jentchug. . "Coast defense ship Admiral Usha koff sunk, two special service ships (one the Kamschatka) and three de stroyers also sunk. "Two battleships. Orel and Impera tor Nicholai I., two coast defense ships. General Admiral Apraxin and Admiral Senlavin, and one destroyer, Biedovy, captured. "Thus the Russians lost altogether twenty-two ships, with an aggregate tonnage amounting to 153,411 tons, besides the cruiser Almaz, suspected to have sunk." Russian Flagship Sunk. St. Petersburg, May 30. The re port that the Kniax Souvaroff, flag ship of the Russian fleet which was defeated by the Japanese in the straits of Korea, was sunk and that Admiral Rojestvensky was wounded and placed on board a torpedo boat destroyer, is confirmed. The where abouts of the destroyer is not known. The Kniaz Souvaroff was a first class battleship and was completed last ear. She was built at St. Peters burg, was of 13.516 tons displacement and had a SDeed of eighteen knots. Her armament consisted of four twelve inch guns, twenty three inch guns and twenty three-pounders, in addition to six smaller ranid fire funs. She had six torpedo tubes, and had a crew numbering 740 officers and men. London, Mav 30 A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Exchange Tele graph Company says it is stated that (Continued on Page 5.) SEABOARD Air Line Railwav DIRECT LINE Between Points North, East, South and Southwest. Schedule in Effect April 16, 1905. Trains leave Raleigh: NORTHBOUND. 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