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Show JAPS SUCCEED IN SEALINGPBRT ARTHUR Fleet Maimed by Brown. Men Stenmed Into Entrance in Broad ' Daylight. LONDON. May 5. The opinion opin-ion gains ground hero' the Japanese have ot last effectually blocked Port Arthur. Ar-thur. No official Japanese reports re-ports havo beon received, but tho Tokio correspondents aro very positive regarding thu mailer, uud describe Lh? determination deter-mination with which the enterprise enter-prise was undertaken. Tho Dally Telegraph's correspondent corre-spondent doclures that tho en-tranro en-tranro to Port Arthur Is "absolutely "ab-solutely scalud." and udda thut the Japanese fleet in offoctlng its purpo.su stennuMl Into thu entrance at full speed, and that the naval officers who mado tho two pluvious attempts , bogged permission to carry out tho next attack by daylight, that being easier, and thulr re-I re-I qucHt was grnntcd. "Sovdcturmlned wero they to succeed." adds the correspondent, correspond-ent, 'that thoy doolded, if necessary nec-essary to Ioso half tholr men. The number of caBonltles sustained sus-tained by the Japanese has not I yet been announced." In favor of tho supposition of Japnne.ie success iu blocking Port Arthur, It Is pointed out I that tho pnvioun attempts had left the channel so narrow" that a couplo of veiurhs mink In the fair way would proba-"bly proba-"bly suffko to seal up the cutanea, cu-tanea, while thero is a noticeable notice-able evasion nnd half-hoartcd-ness In tho Russian denials of tho enemy's success. |