The following official report from Ad-! miral Togo, received by the Japanese Consul-General Into on Sunday night and kindly placed at our disposal has been briefly referred to in our columns "We attacked Port Arthur on the 10th inst., as previously arranged, with two flotillas of destroyers. Both—flotillas arrived safely outside Port Arthur at midnight and made a careful search for the enemy, but found none. i "At daylight flotilla B_ successfully laid mechanical mines here and there, working under fire from the forts.
"Meanwhile flotilla A, at 4.30 a.m.,! mot with six of the enemy's destroyers south of Liaotishan Point. A furious battle ensued, Our destroyers, the Asashiwo, the Kasuga, and the Akatsuki got so close to the Russians that the sterns of the vessels touched. The enemy's vessels were severely damaged, and some of them sot on fire. Their crows cried out in terror, and the vessels retired. Our destroyers also sustained some damage. Wo had seven petty officers killed, and our wounded were Lieutenant-Engineer Minamisawa and-eight men. The auxiliary steam pipe on the destroyer Akatsuki burst and four stokers were killed. None of our vessels, however, lost their capacity for fighting or navigation.
"As the second flotilla was leaving the entrance of Port Arthur at 7 a.m., it discovered two of the enemy's destroyers which were going back inside the harbour. Our flotilla pursued them. One of the enemy's boats escaped within the harbour, the other, the Steregustchi, was damaged and captured by the Sazanami, which attached her by a tow-line. The Steregustchi was, however, leaking very badly and in the high sea' it was found impossible to keep her attached. Four men wore, accordingly, taken off her and the Steregustebi was abandoned, and sank at 10.10 a.m. B flotilla's losses were not. serious. Two men were killed; Sub-lieutenant Shima and three petty officers were wounded.
"Before the Steregustchi sank, the cruisers Novik and Bayan were coming from the harbour towards our destroyers, but on seeing our cruisers also coming up they retired.
"Our main fleet arrived in front Port Arthur at 8 a.m, Six cruisers filed across the harbour mouth to protect our destroyers and our main fleet went near thoLiaotishan promontory. From thence, from 10 am. to 1.40 p.m. we made an indirect bombardment of the harbour mouth. The enemy's forts answered with a desultory fire, but did us no damage whatever.
"Subsequently part of our cruiser fleet went to Dalny and bombarded Sanshan Island, destroying some buildings. The cruisers Takasago and Chibaya were sent to search the western shore of the peninsula, but found no enemy.
"The Russian destroyer sunk in Pigeon Bay, in a previous engagement, was seen stranded, her masts and funnels appearing above the water. She was ascertained to be the Viushitelni.
"We ceased firing at 2 p.m. and retired.,
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