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Show GUARD SHIPS FOR PORT ARTHUR HARBOR ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25. Tho battleships Retvlzan and Czarevitch will bo - temporarily employed at Port Arthur as guard ships, In which capacity capac-ity it has been decided their formidable formida-ble guns can be utilized to good advantage. advan-tage. It has been found that the necessary repairs to these ships can only be fully made In the dock at Vladlvostock, so the vessels will bo temporarily patched up and remain at Port Arthur until circumstances will permit of their being sent to Vladivostock. The rumors that the savings bank will not meet the demands of payment of deposits In consequence of tho war arc emphatically denounced by the Official Messenger. |