7th June, Tue above is the title of a two-page illustrated article in the Sun-y "San Francisco. Examiner" of the Ist of May. From the world at large and from their own very enterprising journals the Japanese have succeeded in concealing the fact that Admiral Togo's attacks on Port Arthur had the assistance of submarine torpedo-boats, But no secret can long remain so to the "San Francisco Examiner." It alone knows that Admiral Makaroff's splendid flagship, the Petropavlovsk, was destroyed by "the new and irresistible weapon of naval warfare which takes the modern fleets of ironclads worthless," and it tells us, in the article before us, " How Russia's Finest Sea Fighter, the $5,000,000 (gold) Ironclad Petropavlovsk, was Smashed into Scrap Iron in 2} Minutes by an Unseen, Unsuspected Japanese Torpedo Boat Hiding 30 Feet Underneath the Water." The pictures include a longitudinal section, 30 inches in actual length, of the battleship herself; an external view and a longitudinal section of the submarine that destroyed her; a longitudinal section of "the new submarine har-hour defence boat Protector, jusy built for Uncle Sam and an inside view of a submarine boat, showing switchboard, gauges, and valves. Profound respect must be felt for the naval officer who can manipulate this mass of machinery, and at the same time keep a look-out and direct his mysterious craft in safety.
"The destruction of the Russian battleship Petropavlovsk," snys the "Examiner," "on the morning of Wednesday, April 18th, has ' no parallel in the naval history of the world, it is unique. It marks the coming of a new and terrible epoch in naval warfare. It means the retirement and abandonment of all the great modern fleets of expensive fighting ships."—This strikes us as premature—* A submarine torpedo-boat struck the blow that sank the Russian flagship. Unseen, unsuspected, the Japanese water rat crept up under the ironclad and stabbed it in its vitals.'—Rather a confusion of metaphors—" In $wo and one-half minutes, a $5,000,000 armoured vessel, the most powerful sea-fighter in the Czars navy"—perhaps a pardonable exaggeration—"lay in scrap-iron at, the bottom of the sea,
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