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Show Great Army to Attack Port Arthur One Hundred Thousand Brown Men to Hurl Themselves on tho City. CIIEFOO, June 16. From aeliable source It fs learned that the Japanese Ja-panese had C0.0OO men on the Llao Tung peninsula ten days ago. It is believed that It is their Intention to use 100.000 men in the attuck on Port Arthur. Possibly it will be a fortnight before they are ready to make the expected ex-pected attack. A Chinese who was employed in Hie machine shops nt Port Arthur is authority au-thority for the statement that the repairs re-pairs to the Russian warships only consisted of placing sheets of steel over the damaged parts. There was no attempt at-tempt made to replace the damaged ribs. He also confirms previous Chinese Chi-nese reports to the effect that of the fleet of battleships and cruisers only five are capable of fighting. According to the best Information these vessels are thc battleships Poltava, Pol-tava, Sevastopol and the cruisers 33a-yan, 33a-yan, Askold and Novlk. Some contend that the battleship Peresviet and thc cruiser Diana are not damaged. The Chinese machinist says thc machinery ma-chinery of a large vessel, thc name of which is unknown to him, was recently wrecked by a shell. |