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Show JAPS TRY TO LAND TROOPS AT KIN CHOW CHEFOO, Feb. 23. During the engagement engage-ment of Tuesday night at Port Arthur, the Japanese attempted to land at Society bay but wore repulsed. Four transports were sunk by the forts while trying to enter the channel. Tho engagement lasted nearly an hour, after which tho Japanese retired, their losses bolng four ships sunk. A Chinese steamer, the first merchantman merchant-man cleared from here for Dalny. was forced to return, having been unublo to obtain permission to enter tho port of Dalny. Tho steamer signalled for five hours, and ilnolly received a reply ordering her to depart Immediately. Her captain reports that ho sighted part of the Japanese fleet twenty-eight miles off Dalny. |