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Show The fighting at the upper end of Lino Tung peninsula appears from tho reports re-ports to have been decidedly in favor of tbc Japanese, although details arc meager. But it Is evident that Gen. Kuropatkln detached a considerable force to make a demonstration for the relief of Port Arthur, and that this force was caught in Hank and badly routed, as it was practically sure to be unless It could move unmolested, for the Japanese were in the superior strategic position chosen for precisely this contingency. It looks as though the Japanese mlgbl-even push their advantage advan-tage Into a general attack upon Kuro-patkin, Kuro-patkin, and that the force he has dispatched dis-patched southward Is In imminent danger dan-ger of annihilation. |