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Show TRICKY JAPS CAPTURE RUSSIAN TORPEDO BOAtTJ Used Flusilan Code ef Signals to Lure Four of the Czar's Destroyers to Their Undoing. Tho Nagasaki correspondent of tho London Dally Telegraph, cabling under un-der dato of February 22nd, reports that tho Japanoso squadron has captured cap-tured four Itusslan torpedo boats at Port Arthur by using Itusslan signals. This dispatch appears to confirm reports re-ports from various Quarters ot a fresh attack on Port Arthur by tho Japanese. Jap-anese. Tho report reached Nagasaki from Chcfoo, nnd It adds that tho Itusslan crows of tho four torpedo boats havo been transferred. No other news of this attack hm been received In London, hut the Cho-foo Cho-foo correspondent of tho Morning Post, In a dispatch dated February S2nd, says the statement Is current thcro (hat tho Japanoso torpcJo boat destroyers In tho attack on Port Arthur Ar-thur on February 14th sunk or damaged dam-aged two Itusslan battleships, In addition addi-tion to tho torpedo boats already reported. re-ported. It Is possible, therefore, that tho report re-port of the Telegraph's Nagasaki correspondent cor-respondent also refers to tha earlier attack. Vlcoroy Alexloft's retirement to Harbin Is now nn accomplished fact, nnd n correspondent of tho Associated PresH cables that Port Arthur Is now strictly n naval stronghold nnd tho forts nro being manned by naval gunners. gun-ners. Only twenty foreigners nro now nt Port Arthur, ond they aro traders disposing dis-posing of their merchandise. Somo of them nro under suspicion, nnd thcro Is likelihood of their being arrested. Thcro aro many complaints of unwarranted un-warranted arrests, uncxplalnod oxput- rmZP Q S. Sanshun. liaitee Promontory $ I ",","E,,a,,sawtwsissjisBHsssjissjDBrz"erMsJ PORTAWTHUR IMtHV AND ENVIUONS "M Use of 'Panama Canal 'Bothsrs' the' Powers. At a session of tbo Hungarian delegation dele-gation nn Interpellation was mado by Count Emmerich Szcchonyl, who asked whether tho ministry of foreign affairs did not consider It posslblo and oven nccossnry to Join with other powors In taking International action regarding the futuro uso ot tho Pan- Alarming Rumors From Balkans. Tolegrama from Vienna and Ba-j lonlca published In London, give alarming but unconfirmed details of preparations pointing to a war bo-twoon bo-twoon Turkoy jid Bulgaria. Tho Sofia correspondent of tho Dally Mall telo-graps telo-graps that tho Bulgarian government has doclarcd a stato ot slcgo over a zono nineteen miles wldo, extending along tho frontlor from Kustcndll to tho niack son, with a view ot preventing prevent-ing tbo Incursions of armed bands. A Russian Trotting Soup Ksttle foi Field Use, Korea Cannot Exhibit Korea has withdrawn from participation partici-pation In tbs Louisiana Purchasa exposition ex-position and has offlclally notlflod tho management of tha exposition to that effect Official notification was received re-ceived on February 11. At tho administration ad-ministration building It was assumod that tho i-ctlon of tho two contending nations, Itusala and Japan, In making Korea tbo thontro of land operations n b0. present war Is largoly rpspon-Bible rpspon-Bible for Korea's decision to abandon an exhibit Typical Japanese Infantryman. slon and defamation ot character by tho Tort Arthur pollco. Tho report that largo bodies ot Cossack Cos-sack and other troops aro occupying Nowchwang and Hstn Ming Tin aro unfounded. A dispatch to tho Dally Mall from Hongkong says n British squadron Is concentrating thcro nnd that n corresponding corre-sponding French concentration of warships Is occurring nt Sagon, Indochina. Indo-china. This Is supposedly a result of tho Anglo-French understanding. According to tho Nagnsakl correspondent corre-spondent of tho Dally Telegraph, tha American squadron, tho vcssols of which nro variously reported at Cho-foo Cho-foo and Shanghai, Is going to mnko s demonstration at tho mouth of tin Ynlu rlvor. 'ama canal' In order1 to. secure enfial treatment of foreign vessels In tlmo of peace and war. Minister Muollcr, on behalf ot thd Count Ooouchlwskl, Austro-Hungnrlan minister of foreign affairs, answered tho Interpellation by saying that It this question becamo an actual ono tho lnltlatlvo In tho mat-tor mat-tor would havo to bo tnkon by powers moro directly Interested. ST. PETERSOURO TO PORT ARTHUR C.OOO MLE3. I Read Washington's Farewell Address. I Whllo tbo senato did not desist from Its labors Monday, the day was pot allowed to pass without observance. observ-ance. In his opening prnycr Cbnp-laln Cbnp-laln Halo referred to tho cxamplo set by Washington nnd bis compatriots, Prayer was followed by tho reading ot Washington's farewell address by Mr. Hoyburn. The gall.rlos wero Jilted with visitors. Tho Bacon lutlon on tho Panama canal question was thon taken up. |