19th September.
We know a little more fully the particulate of the loss of Admiral Page's flagship: the. Mikasa, from offic: al repmt published in: the "Nagas: ki Press" and reproduced in our columns yesterday, while still lat-r news reached us subsequently, This splendid battle-hyp which has done such good service for Jupan in the last eighteen months arrived at. Saseho harbour on the morsing of Sunday, he 10th instant, with Admiral ego on teard, Hull the crew were given shore leave, and it is evid rib that Admiral Togo and a large number of the officers had also yone'on', chore, All went well during the day, but ab twelve minutes nf er midnight (we take thes+ dotal's from the pin Chronic'e"), smoke was found coming out in dense masses in the. neighbourhood of the main bridge. Every effort was made at once to gob at the seat of the fire and d-tachments were sent from the other vessels in the harbour, und from the Saxeho Hirbour Department, but the thick smoke which filled the main and "tween decks made it very difficult 10 vet near the fire. At 1.37 a.m, on Monday a portion of the afer magazine exploded, blowing a big hole in the port side of the ship, and she sank in shallow water. with her upp works above the water, Her yuns are being removed, and operations are going on to refloat her, when the cause of the fire will doubtless be ascertained; but the mo-t probably theory is that it was due to the electric wires, a large number of which are concentrated where the fire is believed to have begun, Tue first telegram put the casnaltes at 599, bus this includes killed, wound-d, nnd missing, so that the ess of life was not quite so serious us we at first imagined, We take the following table of the casualty-s from the "Japan Times" of the 12cb instant:—
Vessel. missing. Wounded.
Killed and.
6 officers 11 officers. Mikasa.. sub-officer sub-officers 25 men 193 men Shikishima 9 mev 9 cub-officers 1 officer
23 men
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.