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This naval sortie resulted disastrously; not, indeed, in the total destruction of the emerging vessels, as at Santiago, but in total failure to accomplish the object sought, in the death of Admiral Wittsoeft, the wrecking of his flagship, the Czarevich, with a heavy loss of her crew (variously estimated at from 60 to 270 killed and wounded), the separation of several cruisers and smaller craft from the squadron, and the retreat to Port Arthur of the rest of the ships several, the Japanese claim, in a seriously injured condition. Just what injuries the Japanese ships suffered in this naval battle is not known; it was rumored that one cruiser was sunk, but this has not been confirmed as we write, and Admiral Togo asserts that the injuries to the ships proved capable of immediate temporary repair. The Japanese report their total of killed and wounded at 174. The Russian squadron consisted of six battle-ships, four cruisers, and eight torpedo craft; the Japanese were weaker in battle-ships (six) but much stronger in cruisers (eleven) and in torpedo craft. The sortie was made at nine o'clock in the morning, and fighting continued until the fall of night. The Russian ships tried to break a way of escape where the enemy seemed less concentrated, and in part succeeded, but Admiral Togo seems to have attacked the Russian battle-ships furiously with His his whole force of cruisers and torpedoboats, holding his big battle-ships in reserve, and paying comparatively little attention to the Russian cruisers. report claims that five Russian battleships were injured seriously, the worst hit being the Retvizan and Pobieda, both of which have been injured in former fights and repaired. It is doubtful whether conditions at Port Arthur will now admit of the injured ships being put again on a fighting basis, to say nothing of the danger to them from Japanese batteries. If Port Arthur falls, the ships will probably be destroyed by the Russians. The sore-wounded battleship Czarevich, with the dead Russian commander-in-chief on board and with scores of men dying, riddled and bloodstained, succeeded in reaching Tsinchau, a port in the German concession Kiaochau. With her were the cruiser Novik and a destroyer. The Novik next day sailed by direction of the German authorities, and, some reports say, has since been sunk. The Czarevich is to be dismantled. The cruiser Askold, also with a destroyer, reached Shanghai, far to the south, and demanded the privilege of repair. She has been ordered to depart by China. Thus with Germany and China important questions of the rights of belligerents in neutral. ports are raised. The accepted rule is that a war-vessel belonging to a belligerent must not stay in a neutral port more than twenty-four hours, nor be allowed more coal than enough to take her to her own nearest port, nor be allowed delay for repairs, except as needed to put her in a reasonably seaworthy condition. If she cannot or will not comply with these conditions, she must be disarmed and dismantled to the satisfaction of the neutral nation, and remain in the charge of that nation to the end of the war. Germany, in ordering out the Novik, showed an in |