Show ALLEGED PLANS OF KUROPATKIN t Russian Forces to Be Divided Into Three Armies 4 I JAPS EXPECTED TO ATTACK j BLOW f TIME COMBS S St t I London March Dail DaiLy Telegraph publishes a dispatch from its Tokio correspondent under yester yesterdays yesterdays days date which says On the night of 22 the anese fleet renewed the attempt to bottle up Port Arthur Sixteen war warships warships ships vIi merchant steam steamers ers to the tho mouth of the harbor and under cover of the bombardment the steamers ran in and wore sunk in de desired desired sired positions Three th usand Jap JapanEse anse anEse officers and blue jackets vot vol volunteered for this duty An official re report re report port is this evening 0 r arch 24 p m in Sr 0 When General Kurop hn reaches Mukden It ft ia understood that tb the tore forces at the t est qt war var wilL he be divided into three armies ln n on the Including In the Ufe port Arthur garrison carr on ider l military at Port Pott Arthur a central arm army u General and a northern army Baron tak An Any Idea that thet arrival wilt Will b bs by aggressive ta U 15 In the highest militAry cir clr If where attention Is caned clIed to t thO ral report reported n HI patience p We can afford to walt wait or the e ran MiR Is II the th General Kur Tie expects to force the Jap to him on grounds of hIs wn There will be no for tor ward movement Into KO Korea R On the contrary the Russians at the Yalu are screening their concentration to tot t the lie ef ward and they probably wilt J in force Coref her har rassing end and them liS as much u as uJ asI J I Ib until tM the proper time to un over oer the arm army Will Be Forced Forward Th landI Of bf f Ol in K Korea It I to the Ilk mR or Of the The bIg gr thE army there the they will be eon con that only Korea Ia filled with the th Japanese by pres presSure ure or of and d clamor mo of nubile opinion J a pan will be drIven rhen forward Into the arms ot of the Nothing but a change ot of plan lit III the f campaign as developed up to date 4 will the Russians to t depart from their determination to play a eon i lent waiting game me persuaded that all t vanta e or oC l euch a policy on their sUie The It also J op a art at the present situation at Llao Tbt tor o on the pe peninsula have been be n reinforced l to an ex eC extent tent which wm will render a e land landIng landing Ing there difficult Jr It not Und thE garrison on Rt at Port Arthur hat ha been provisioned to withstand Il a siege So Sotar tar far as the t Is concerned ute tHe preparations there may now be regard regarded ed Cd as complete OPEN TO GRA GRAVE VB DOUBT DOUDT London Story of Port Fort Arthur Being Bottled Not Confirmed London March Dally Daily Tele circumstantial r port from Its correspondent that the Japanese edI 1 r o oth Iii bottling up Port A Arthut on th the night or of March Is not from any other quarter The special dis to the morning papers an flounce no Dt new developments In the sit lion throw a few side aide lights ort oil tho th o The Standards lien correspondent d S that a orI lt Alexieff r renewed ct his 77 d ia for the withdrawal 1 of eli Chi 71 officials nd d from Man hurla churla on the round that otherwise o 0 It would be ImpOssible ble to conduct the war Ir perly The Daily aU give from Japanese sources some details of I h of C Port Arthur u which I were gathered during a visit of oC a Chi Chint ups nt junk there It III 15 that a am am m hul hd hn n the th ft t t p t r vp wit with 11 mines o and 10 o lUI as tu endanger both gus I Ian sian and vessels The duD din dintel tel Russian warship reports R say wr wire with such haste that it is d dangerous ng u for them to leave their anchor Kg IU Eight and rs and ten torpedo boat destroyers are now how un and often otten leave leeve the harbor but nr go far from forts fort Japanese n naJ officers praise e the quality or of the torpedo boat de destroyers which they confes fI have done doa excellent t work but thy Y declare that the Russian Ru alan shel shells sr ar 1 fn d and fall to d d tX ex exI I pt shen hEn they strike dl direct t upon armor p rid nd that their heir t charge ot of gun cotton lire are to cause AUse erous damage The Dally Daily Mails eerie saya that the th e are am se engaging Chinese to act as an Jr ir irregular regular ular corps HEB BEB NAVY VY Russia Said to Rave Bave Bought Two Ger German man maD Liners H March Mareb A private dIs dIspatch patch ath received here IMre saYs saYa the American company has ball sold t hI he steamer Fuerst to Russia and that the for lor the sale Ie ot of the I h steamer Kaiser Kahler h y announced are no noW comPleted Th The J aU reports 0 of it sale ale ot of German Grman liners to Russia It Itys JY ys that nt saJe saim are reported Iril and all such stories are equally Among the OM men b thE oer Are th the I mark th the Columbia tM the Labs Lahn tho th r tv anti and th the I Kaiser l Marb spite or of the Jo Je 1 id or Of the Ule Hamburg or of all n or of the sale ale of lIne lInen to toJ J the or of t h Ift that the Fiirst and the Kaiser have sold to that Komm t anI that th ih crews crew hAve bet been n engaged lan March St Petersburg nt of the elf 6 Parts says san H t is j that Ute the n aD laa bought the North Lloyd steamer KalO r Wilhelm del Grease Gro ae No Japa Vessels Hit During Last 4 Tokio March Admiral To Toro ro gns report or of tM the fifth attack on Port Arthur on March larch 22 reached Tokio to and iM Ii as a follows The combined tet acted according to tn thE thc plan arranged I Two flotillas of oC were out ilic Port Arthur as a instructed from th the night of t the until the Ule morn Ins ng or of thE Although durIng durl g this 0 tIme our destroyers were under th tle fire firer c r f the enemy they sustained no dam dais age Th main mai n fleet arrived oft off Port Arthur at S k on the morning t tElu Elu r I a part l of the fleet tn tnt n l Continued on Page t I ALLEGED PLANS OF Continued from Page e I 1 Ithe the direction ot of Pigeon bay and ordered I the battleships Fuji and to tomake make malie an IndIrect bombardment against the Inn inner r si eWe e ot of the port During the bombardment the s slips IDS grad uaIl came out of th harbor and nt at the time wh when n the Indirect bombard bombardment ment stopped Which was as 2 the number ot of Russian ships was five battleships tour four cruisers a and d destroyers We Ve belIeved the was tryIng by makIng a move movement movement ment ot of their fleet to draw us its near the forts forte The ships us In indirectly directly l d many ot of their shots shot f fell U near the battleship Fuji but our ships sustained no damage damase About 3 our vessels Withdrew off the port |