The Archive · 1934

Cabins Storing Coal

"The cabins of the officers had been used for storing coal. In the chart} Jroom on the first bridge, charts. signal-books and other articles are strewn all about. The portrait of the Czar, in a gilt frame, has fallen own and been trampled upon. Guns Jare demolished forward. and torpedo tubes battered. Only three boats remain intact, and the lenses of all the Jsearchlights are broken. A foul smell oats up from the engine rooms. where the remains of the Killed were burned in the boiler fires before the surrender. The charred remains were piled up in the engine rooms. Jwhere could be seen skulls and other Of the thirty-six Russian war ves-Jsels that went into action, twenty-two were sunk, six captured, six were Jatterwards interned in neutral ports, to which they oscaned, and only two reached the vicinity of Vladivostok. Jand one of these, the Tzumrud was run ashore eighty versts north HViadivestok, and destroyed under the impression that she was about to fall nto the hands of the enemy, though here was apparently no around for that fear.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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