The following official telegram has been received from Tokio by the Japanese Consul-General here According to the report from the flotilla of destroyer, the prisoners who were taken from the Steregustchi and picked up from the sea consist of one torpedo operator and three stokers, two of whom are wounded. All the others, except those who were killed in the fighting, seem to have jumped into the sea, The effort to save the enemy from drowning was given up owing to the fire from the forts und the approach of the Novik. The wounded are being medically attended and their prospects are very favourable, their condition being easier."
Tokio, 15th March, The rumour of the death of chief engin er Minamizawa 1s unfounded.
A steamer with nine Japanese killed and ten wounded has arrived at Seseho.
It has transpired that while the Russian and Japanese destroyers were at close quarters on the 10th, one Japanese bluejacket jumped into the Steregustchi, and found the Russian captain just getting out of his cabin. Hecut the captain's head off, with his cutlass when the captain attempted to rise up, and kicked it overboard.
The Steregustchi and another destroyer, when surrounded by four Japanese destroyers, fought gallantly, and endeavoured vainly to open a way of escape.
The remains of over twenty Russians were then recognised, the enemy's vessels swarming with men like bechives—Our own correspondent.
London vii Bombay, 15th March, The sinking of a Japanese destroyer and the damage to the Taka-sago on the 10th instant are officially denied from Tokio. The damaged destroyers will be repaired in a week, and it is not necessary for them to lock.
The rumours of the evacuation of Port Arthur have proved baseless.
The attack on Port Arthur on the 10th ended with a bombardment of the port by the battleships, which fired 120 shots from their twelve-inch guns over the promontory ata target which they could not see, the cutisers at sea directing their aim by signals.
The Japinese had previously destroyed the Russian signal station and mines doped: on the island of Sanshan off Talienwan Bay.—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.