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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1907 Excerpt:... THIRD ATTEMPT TO BLOCK PORT ARTHUR. About 2 a. m. on May 3 the Japanese made a third attempt to block the entrance to Port Arthur. The vessels actually sunk consisted of the Tatomi Maru (1,953 tons), Sagami Maru (1,926 tons), Mikawa Maru (1,967 tons), Sakaru Maru (2,$7 8 tons), Odaru Maru(2,547 tons), Asagao Maru(2,4:Q4: tons) Aikoku Maru (1,781 tons), and Yedo Maru (1,724 tons). Four other vessels, the Fusan Maru, Nagato Maru, Shibata Maru, and Kokura Maru were also to be sunk, but received the signal of recall during the night after the fleet was scattered by storm and did not proceed to the entrance. The convoy of the blocking vessels, under Commander Mineo Hayashi, consisted of the gunboat Akagi (Commander Hideshin Fujimoto), gunboat Chokai (Commander Danjiro Iwamura), the second destroyer flotilla (Commander Ichiro Ishida), the third destroyer flotilla (Commander Mitsukane Tsuchiya), the fourth destroyer flotilla (Commander Gunkichi Nagai), the fifth destroyer flotilla (Commander Ganjiro Mane), the ninth torpedo-boat flotilla (Lieutenant-Commander Michisuke Olaki), and the fourteenth torpedo-boat flotilla minus the Kasasagi and Manazuru and plus torpedo boats Nos. 87 and 70 (Commander Yoshimaru Sakurai). Of the eight steamers, five,the Mikawa, Tatomi, Yedo, Odaru, and Sagami, reached the entrance, the Mikawa penetrating beyond the boom that had been stretched. The Asagao was sunk near the shore of Golden Hill; the Sakaru and Aikoku sank before reaching the entrance. The latter three were probably sunk by Russian mines, torpedoes, and fire, while the first five were probably sunk by their own crews as well as from injuries inflicted by the Russians. Of the crews of these steamers the Japanese reported 5 killed, 88 missing, and 23 wounded, while 41 were...