As soon as the fighting during daylight on 27th May had ceased, " desperate night engagement was commenced by the destroyer and torpedo-boat flotillas. Owing to the strong wind and high sea, which had prevailed from the morning, the management of these small vessels was not a little difficult. Indeed, navi tion was so dangerous for them that, during the day time, I ordered the torpedo-boat flotilla vader my direct control to take refuge at Miura bay, Tsushima Towards the evening, the wind slackened but not the waves, and it appeared to me that the circursstances were extremely unpropitious for the carrying out of a night torpedo-best attack. However, fearing to lose this most exceptional opdanger, ventured to attack the enemy, he Fujimoto flotilla, from the north, ani ths Yashina and Kawase flotillas, from the north-eas: van of the enemy, wi finilla, from the east, and the Hirse flitills, from the south, assailed the rene of thy Bassin force. Alu. the Fakuds, Konlo, Aoyama, and Kagata flotillas prepared to attack the Russian main force aul the cruisers on is lof, 'Chuo, in the early part ug, the position was tha' the torpedo foils were eng ged'in invest ing the enemy on three sites, whic th" Russ ars were attempting to ersape, at first by laing a course ty the southwards ly making for the ok onthe enemy was commenced by the Yashima flotilla at 8.15 p.m, and all the o her flotilla then attacked from their re-pective directions. The flotillas continued the engagement until about 11 p.m., and vied with euch other in the @aring they played. he Russians also fought rheic best an constantly fired reconnoitring shells, but, being unable to withstand the nese attacks, the enemy's warships were oblige! to sejrarate from one another and endeavour to escape in various Airections, with the result that fighting of the severest kind took place, the Japanese and Russian vessels becoming several plices confusedly mingled together. It was at this time that the jan battleship Sissoi Veliky and the cruisers Admiral Nakhimoff and Mono-mach were disabled.
On our side, the torpedo-boats No. 69 of the Fukuda No. 34 vf the Aoyama flotilla, and No. 93 of the Kawata flotilla were sunk by Russian shells, while the destroyers Hurusame, Akatsuki, Tnasamia, and Yugiei, and the torpedo boats Kasasagi, No.' 68, and No. 33 were more or less damaged. The crews feom one sunken torpedo craft were mostly saved by their consorts, but still the namber of one killed and wounded was at this time by no means small. Ca the other hand, it appears from the statements made by the Rassian prisoners that the effect produced on the enemy by this night attack was great be-youd description, In fact, the prison state that the yauese torpedo craft approached the Russian vessels so closely that the Intter could not nse their guns. While this attack was in progress, the i flotilla and a few atlers were engaged in reconnoitring for the enemy in other parts of the sea, with the result that, on the morning of the 28th, at about one o'clock, the Suzuki flotilla discovered two Russian warships steaming northward at a point 27 knots north east of Kanzaki (the northern and of Toushima). The flotilla at once pursued these vessels and succeeded in sinking one of them. It appears from statements mide by the prisoners that the vessel thas sunk was the Navarin, The soarches made by the other reconnoitring flotillas proved fruitless.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.