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Show I PARIS AND LONDON i VERSIONS OF BATTLE PARIS, Fob. 2L Tho Russian Embassy hero has received a communication to the effect that a Japancso squadron during the night of February Sith tried to block tho cntranco of Port Arthur harbor, at the same time attacking Russian warships thc-ro with torpedo boats and trying to sot them on fire. Tho battleship Rctvizan, supported by tho coast batteries, replied, repelled this attack, forced tho Japanese to retlro and succeeded in sinking four of their vessels. The nowa of this Russian victory was pbsted in the lobbies of tho Chamber of Deputies and caused great enthusiasm during the sitting thiB afternoon. LONDON. Feb. 21.-A dispatch to tho Central News from St. Petersburg gives another version of the reported Japaneso defeat at Port Arthur, according to which the Japanese planned to sink some barges n the strait leading from tho outer to the nncr harbor of Port Arthur, thus blocking block-ing tho exit. Tho Russian gunfire however, how-ever, sank the barges before they arrived at tho intended spot. |