Ke Aloha Aina, Volume X, Number 14, 2 April 1904 — VIEW OF PORT ARTHUR SHOWING THE POSITION OF THE RUSSIAN VESSELS SUBSEQUENT TO THE NIGHT ATTACK OF THE JAPANESE TORPEDO FLOTILLA AND DURING THE DAY BATTLE WITH THE JAPANESE FLEET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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VIEW OF PORT ARTHUR SHOWING THE POSITION OF THE RUSSIAN VESSELS SUBSEQUENT TO THE NIGHT ATTACK OF THE JAPANESE TORPEDO FLOTILLA AND DURING THE DAY BATTLE WITH THE JAPANESE FLEET.

The .lai>auese tn their*doaWe 'attaok on tbe ttassiaii v'essete at Vovt LUt quality of tbeir stra^ 0 .,. Fii's M tlt6ir tofpo<lo boats weiW PfriiiJtted to &e »wn In. the bope of getting the Etisslanā to eome out after tl>& ent)re Japattese fleet wouM have joined in"th.e attack. Fai!ing |B lhi% the Jftps moile tbeir torpedo attacb by jiight, Then, of runnfhg i» to put the crlpi>led EQsaians out of ('funmisaion and taklng ehaneea of bil&g iittjurted tb*- forta, they rema!ned a £&&ance of thrfee iMlea, ae they reaß*ed th.āt thelr superlor marksmanamp was a -greater elemeui in their fāw •i tbat range tljan at a iborter oae, v