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Show ST. PETERSBURG HAS NO FURTHER, NTSWS ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2G. 0:-15 P. m.) No further details are available today of tho unsuccessful attempt of the Japanese to bottle up the Russian fleet at Port Arthur by sinking big merchantmen at the mouth of the harbor. The brief details contained In the official dispatch indicated that the coup was planned, according to the utnial Japanese tactics, to take place during the night; that It was desperately pushed, and backed by oight torpedo boats, which continued fighting until daylight, but fallel completely. Great praise Is given to the Russian battleship Retvlzan, which lay outside the harbor entrance, for her gallant work In beating off "the enemy. Her part in thti action Bhows that the reports re-ports of the Injuries which she is said to have sustained In the nttack February Febru-ary Sth were grossly exaggerated. The official dispatches do not make clear the exact number of ships sent in for the purpose of blockading the throat of the harbor, or whether the tour vessels destroyed .were beached by - - T I T T T TTTT7TTTTTTTT the fire from the short batteries or by tho fire of the Retvlzan. Consequently also tho unknown additional addi-tional details are expected from Viceroy Vice-roy Alcxicff in the course of the day. As he Is at Mukden, the report of the commander at Port Arthur first goes to him, and thence is forwarded to tho Czar. The report that after daylight floating float-ing torpedoes were seen in the roadstead road-stead causes anxiety. According to the latest advices the Japanese fleet yesterday was still visible vis-ible on the horizon. The news of the Japanese repulse was received here with great rejoicing, and was looked upon as partially wiping out the score against the enemy. The official bulletins were given out too lato for editorial comment, but the news of the initial success of the Russian Rus-sian arms was prominently displayed. Not one of the newspapers here has yet received special dispatches giving the news of the Japanese repulse. |