THE WAR.
THE JAPANESE RUSE.
WHY IT FAILED.
A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE.'
United Prens Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 18. Immediately Admiral Togo received a wireless telegram, the battkship, accompanied by the Kasuga and the Nisshin. tho recently-acquired cruisers, dashed forward at full fpeed. Unluckily, the wirtd froli.ricd, and the mist. The Russians, descrying the smoke, guessed the ruse, and headed ut full *]>eed for Port Arthur, the Japanese hotly pursuing them. It was a magnificent spectacle. . The Russians were not enticed far enough, and regained the protection of the forts before Admiral Togo was within effective range.
After the • Petropaulov.-k was struck the whole of the Russian line commenced firing indiscriminately into the water in their immediate front, in order to destroy the mines, the mist favouring them.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11872, 20 April 1904, Page 7
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