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Show SEARCHLIGHT FLASH SCARES THE JAPS Togo's Fleet Makes Another Sortie in Front of Port Arthur, and Retires. LONDON. April 9. A Paris dispatch of today's date says: "From St. Petersburg come9 news that some of tho enemy's ships appeared before Port Arthur last night, but retired re-tired when discovered by .the electric searchlights." A dispatch from Peking says: "Since March 16th at least nine Japanese officials offi-cials drerwed as Chinese, with a full staff of Chinese servants, have passed north through Kupelnko, Jehoe and Ping Tsuan toward Chao-Tang, Gen. Ma's headquarters. There are about 25,000 foreign drilled troops at Chao-Tang." Chao-Tang." PARIS, April 10. The St Petersburg correspondent of tho Echo Do Paris telegraphs tele-graphs that a compotent staff officer there says that Russia Is not weakening hot-European hot-European frontier garrisons owing to tho war In tho far East and that 500,000 Russian Rus-sian troops will bo In Manchuria at tho end of May. This offlcor also asserts, tho correspondent Kiys, that since tho British Tibet expedition started the Turkestan Tur-kestan and Caucasian forces of Kussla have beeu considerably strengthened. |