Moscow, July 16.
Preparatory to Soviet Navy Day on July 24, the Government has completed restoration of a monument erected in honour of a Czarist warship shortly after the Russo-Japanese war.
The memorial commemorated the heroic deeds of the officers, and crew of the Steregouschtchy. The destroyer was surprised off Port Arthur by four Japanese destroyers at the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese conflict. It put up a brave fight, but its engines were shot to pieces and the captain and practically every man on board were killed. Only two sailors remained alive though wounded.
The Japanese believed the ship was manned only by the dead, and prepared to take the Russian warship in tow to a Nipponese port. The two surviving sailors, gallant to the last, went down into the holds and opened the sea-cocks to flood the ship and sink with her, avoiding Japanese capture—Havas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.