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According to Reuter's telegram, "the remainder of the men, who

were to form a landing party, and were left without officers, obstinately refused to surrender or to go on board a Russian cruiser. Furthermore, they offered armed resistance to the Russians. In the end they were sent to the bottom with the transport." Renter also states that on April 25th, at 8 o'clock in the evening, the Russians sank at sea the Japanese steamer 'Nakamura Maru,' about 220 tons, whose crew had been placed in safety. Later telegrams add that two hundred men went down in the Kinshiu Mara.' The Russian Admiralty, we are told, "holds that the Russian com- mander had no alternative but to sink the ship, as he could not spare a prize crew or hamper the movements of his swift squadron by the addition of a slower steamer."