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Show LONDON, May 25. Rumor is unceasingly un-ceasingly busy with the war. but little' credence la placed in the varying statements, ln the ub-eence ub-eence of official confirmation. The Daily Mall'a correspondent at Shiinononckl, Japan, cabling under date of May 24, asserts- that active preparations prepara-tions are ia;progrei for the reduction of Port Arthur, and that the preparations prepara-tions include a 'carefully cfioscn forco of veterans forming a part of the (l third ur.cny. wVery, hea,vyr artillery-the correspondent 'Siiyn, Is being landed on the Llao Tung peninsula. Dispatches to the Dally Telegraph Dhow that on May 16 the Japanese headquarters were still at Feng Wang Chang. This, the correspondent attributes at-tributes to the- necessity for Joint action with the Japanese army, which has landed at Pltsewo. They explain that communication has not yet been established estab-lished between the two Japanese armies, but that it in expected to be ef-' fectcd within a few days. Tho dispatches say that the telegraph lino between Fens Wang Chens pind the south has been cut by Russians) disguised dis-guised as Chinese. A Russian transport lo moving from Llao Yang In the direction di-rection of Mukden, but it is not known whether this means a retirement of the army or merely tho removal of winter clothing, which Ja no longer needed. The movoments of war correspondents, the dispatches ay, are limited to a radius, of a nille and a half from Feng Wang Cheng. Tho Dally Telegraph's New Chwang correapondent declares that Gen. Kuro-patkln Kuro-patkln Is determined to cheok thcJapa-nese thcJapa-nese at Lino Yang,- where probably the grcateyt battle of the war will be fought Ho adds tho,t the Japanese land. operations against Port Arthur are meeting with little success, and 'that Lleut.-Gcn. Stoeasel and MnJ.-Gen. Fock contlmie to make well directed 1)ii t desperate sorties against the advance ad-vance of the Japanese, who are lighting with stubborn determination almost unequalled un-equalled ln history. Several hundred Japanese reinforcements nro arriving dally from Pltsewo and Polandlen, ac- ' cording' to this correspondent. The Seoul correspondent of the Dajly Telegraph says that Kin Qhou Is being besieged Ijy Iho Japanese, and its surrender sur-render ja 'momentarily expected. The Standard's Tien tt'sln corre- .spondwtt asserts that IhiV-Chincsc Gpvr ernment Is still levying heavj- military contributions from the provinces, nnd he -thinks that this accumulation of sliver sli-ver at Peking foreshadows some- foolhardy fool-hardy action by the Chinese. ItJs rumored from Brussels that the Russian Government is making great efforts to buy thirty largo steamers from Belgium and Holland to ncoom-pany ncoom-pany the Baltic fleet as colliers. Included ln a score of rumors Is ono sent by the Shanghai correspondent of the Morning Poft to the effect that tho Russians have been defeated near Yin Kau, abandoning fifty guns, and that Gen. Kuropatkln has been advised by -Viceroy AlexIcfC to. retreat to Harbin, |