"The full particulars regarding the injury to our ships are not yet in hand, but as far as I could ascertain none was seriously injured, all being still engaged in operations. The whole casualties are not yet ascertained. Casualties of first division are a little over four hundred. Prince Yorhito is in excellent health; Admiral Misu slightly wounded, May 27. "Fifth report, received the afternoon of May 30: "Loss of _Osliabia_, _Navarin_, confirmed. _Sissoi-Veliki_ also definitely reported to have sunk on the morning of May 28. "Official statement of Russian losses so far as ascertained: Following six battleships sunk: _Prince Suvaroff_, _Imperator_, _Alexander III_, _Borodino_, _Osliabia_, _Sissoi-Valiki_ and _Navarin_. "Following five cruisers sunk: _Admiral Nachimoff_, _Dimitri Donskoi_, _Vladimir_, _Monomach_, _Svietlana_ and _Zemtchug_. "Coast defence ship _Admiral Ushakoff_ sunk. "Two special service ships, _Kamchatka_ and three destroyers also sunk. "Two battleships, _Orel_ and _Imperator_, _Nicolai I_; two coast defence ships, _General Admiral Apraxine_ and _Admiral Senyanvin_, and one destroyer, _Biedovoy_, captured. "Thus Russians lost altogether twenty-two ships, the aggregate tonnage whereof amounting to 153,411 tons, besides cruiser _Almaz_, suspected to have sunk. "Later reports from the different divisions of the fleet engaged in the naval battle of May 27 show as follows: [Sidenote: Havoc Among Battleships] "The Russian battleship _Oslabya_ was heavily damaged in the early part of the fight on Saturday, going down at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. "The first Russian vessel sunk was the battleship _Sissoi Veliky_. "The armored cruisers _Admiral Nakhimoff_ and _Vladimir Monomach_, after being in the general engagement during the daytime, were still further damaged by torpedoes during attacks by night, and were eventually completely disabled. They drifted into the vicinity of Tsu Islands, where they were discovered on Sunday morning, May 28, by the auxiliary cruisers _Shilano_, _Yawata_, _Tainan_ and _Sado_, which were about to capture them, but they all sank. "The crews of our auxiliary cruisers rescued 915 of the crew of the sunken Russian ships. "The battleship _Navarin_ was torpedoed four times after sundown on Saturday, May 27, and sunk. The survivors of the Navarin's crew confirm the story of her destruction. "The cruisers _Niitaka_ and _Otawa_ discovered the Russian cruiser _Svietlana_ at 9 o'clock on Sunday morning in the vicinity of Chappyan Bay and immediately attacked and sunk her. The commander of the _Niitaka_ reports the fact. "It is suspected that the Russian cruisers _Almaz_ and _Aurora_ were sunk by torpedoes on the night of May 27. "The former report includes the statement that the Russian cruiser _Jemtchug_ was sunk, but as yet this remains unconfirmed, and the cruiser's name has been excluded from the revised list of Russian vessels destroyed.