The Archive · 1904

A TORPEDO-BOAT FIGHT

We have to thank tie Consul-General for Japan for the following official telegrams received by bim yesterday Tokio, 31st July.

Admiral Togo reports: The 14th flotilla and the tenth and eleventh} gunboats which were specially attached to this flotilla, together with the torpedo picket-boats carried by the battleships Mikasa and Fuji, attacked at 3 a.m. on the 24th inst. the enemy's destroyer flotilla, which was hiding in the bay east of the Fisiensheng promontory. The torpedo picket-bouts saw three explosions,

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