Show I UYER L W TO Strength of Port Arthur Will WUl Now few he be JUt to the Tnt st P Petersburg May 2 3 p m in There is no attempt here to disguise e ethe the fact that the Uc forcing of the neck DeCk of Kwan Twig Tung peninsula pro propel proper per pel puts a practical end to resistance to Ue the enemy until he reaches th the ac act t tiit l arou d Port Arthur Although tL ece are many strong poet In the more than mUes ma before the perimeter of the fort fortIs rem Is reached the authorities admit tile tIe lans can offer little resist t apes and now retire within the fort fortress and undertake to defend themselves against a siege t ge Neither the nor the general staff las WI Any direct information Like the out aide world the admiralty and general ral star are lUe dependent entirely upon the enemy for news Native reports which may be of some value are however expected shortly Not hIll FoUy 4 W there i no flO disposition to ques queston Zion ton Uie h main facts fada sent out om laUy front fron some ome r reports front Japanese sources are being re no wIth The impo of the advance positionS around Kin Eta Chou In Ue the face of over odds has hae nil along been ad bUt on em account ot oL the charac ten ter of the po position as well as Its ita de the general Beneral staff cannot but be hive t that t the defense must have bave been heroic berok and that the positions were only taken by a cur and at a coot coet low I is levere devere TIle The earlier newt was re received In a calm osini spirit by both the public and the newspapers pers but if the latest reports that the e captured fifty guna ire it Is sure that the effect wm will be mu much h deeper and Is t to tobe be considered a severe seere blow Until that tat the UIe report arrived the wu was that Ute the Russians had resisted to the I unit of human endurance and had re retIred re retired tIred in hi good order but It if this number I of pus guns was tak taken n it put a dif different ferent complexion upon though it is here teat it II the Japan em fleet landl at San Ian em U IA Phu and an and got Bot In the rear ot of the Ian post the abandonment f the guns might have become sar This view however will diminish I the extent of the e I |