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Show HAI CHENG CAPTURED. , 4'H Japanese Aro Victors in Another En- lil gagement. NEWCHWANG, Aug. 2. Rumors 5 'H are current in Chinese quarters that H)j' 'Gen. Oku captured Halcheng yesterday tl'l afternoon. They cannot, however, be jlliiifl verified. The battle at Halcheng raged 3P, the whole day, July 31, along the south- fi'iiH ern and eastern fronts. The Japanese jMil advanced with overwhelming forces, rMfll flanking the Russians on their right. tt!'tliiia The losses of the Russians, however, y7-H were slight. The seventeenth Siberian tnt'iifl regiment drove the Japuncse out of one fS !'H position. Srliifl Gen. Fukushlma arrived here this mjl afternoon, having marched up from HIlH Port Dalny. The Japanese here aro Xftl confident that the reported capture of H'il Halcheng by their troops is true. They say tho Russians there probably wero J jjH outflanked by Gen. Nodzu. f-h'iH Gen. Fukushlma. complying with In- biH structlons from his superiors, called 'iff.iH upon U. S. Consul General Miller today fil lM and extended to him the thanks of ths m jB $ -H IB Li' Japanese Government for his' work In I; , assisting Japanese refugees and maln- 1 mining , order at tho time of the Rus- 1(1, t-lnn evacuation of Jiicwchwang. I . A large depot of army supplies has ' been established b the Japanese at R (he old Russian railroad station. Two H, I thousand troops ar! kept on guurd I 1 there. Japanese (tronspurt mid hospl- I, y tsil ships are oxpecC-ed here hourly. I It is not yet developed what will be I ,4 In view of the war, the status of the local branch of the Ruseo-Chlnese ' bank. This bank was organized and. financed hy the Russian Government ' to further Russian interests In Man- " ehurla and the lrar East. It Is under I j the control of the Russian Government 1 and has a strong foothold In China and ' 'l Manchuria. The bank has at present ' ovor M.000,000 roubles loaned out In L ! tfowchwnng. It Is considered here thai 1 'I Japan will regard the bank as the , ' property of the Russian Government and Its assest and profits in Manchuria 1 to be legitimate spoils of war In lieu of Indemnity. The first evidence or 1 this possibility is shown by the fact that the Japanese Hag is now flying over the bank property. Up to the present lime the Japanese I puthorlt'les have refused to recognize r the French consular agent here to ; whom Russia transferred hr Interests. ( Including the bank property, because his appointment was made subsequent to the opening of hostilities. |