Show GUNNING CUNNING TRICK OF THE JAPANESE Army Celebrated the Fall of Port Arthur ATTACKED AT THE SAME TIME BY THE l A Ai AR TILLERY i Mukden Jan 4 The Japanese e cel cele I the Incoming ot of the new year ar aron on Jup and tle sounds of music be plainly heard Inside th the Bus Rus Russian Bussian sian lines wherever the tho positions ot of the two armies were close According to Ute the J Japanese custom many kites balloons wet were Some I of the balloons veral feet teet In I eter etel which felt feU In Ute the Russian tees I bore the Inscription In RusSIan Rulan Hap Happy py New Year Yer The Japanese trIed to combine busi business ness nesa with pleasure and while res fes were In an made upon the of Vito Vilo In front or one or of their positions The Bus Rus replied with artillery on the right und and the center and prevented the Jap Japan an se from occupying the The same night a party or of Siberian volunteers surrounded the village of which the Japanese had been using as a signal station While one column made an attack on the left three others in command of Captain rushed the rear of the village without tiring firing and caught the Japanese e unexpectedly them out Subsequently the Japanese opened a heavy fire from the neighbor lug hills which compelled the Russians to retire fro from the village They car tied off twelve seven of whom were wound wounded The Russian Rusian loss was waR nine killed lt It Is not known to what extent the Japanese suffered but judging hy by the number of rifles s aban abandoned abandoned there must have been many killed Or 01 wounded OYAMA SENT THE NEWS Informed of the Fall of Port Arthur Berlin Jan TIle Mukden correspondent in a dispatch dated Jan G 6 says Field Mar Marshal hal Oyama has sent a aletter aletter letter to General communicating cating the news of the capitulation of Port Arthur and praising the bravery of its defenders The of the news was especially confounding last Jast reports indicating a long resistance It Itis is 15 believed it will immediately affect the n on the Continuing lug ing and intense nse cannonading has been heard since dawn near and A resumption of the cannon cannonading cannonading ading tomorrow is expected Troop Trains Passing Jan troop trains are passing through on the way to reinforce the Russian army in Manchuria The news of the fall or of Port Arthur was received by the new soldiers with sadness but they express tin an undiminished determination to re retake retake take it The chief regret expressed by soldiers and officers is that they did not arrive In time to relieve the heroic garrison |