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Show I WHERE WAR RAGES iimmmHitiitiiHiiu CHEFOO, July G. Chinese Just arrived hero, who loft Port Arthur on July 2, say that only nlno of the larger Russian warships were there then. On June 23 it consisted of eleven of the larger ships. LIAO YANG, July G. Rain Is again falling In torrents, nnd tho thormomoter registered 20 degrees centigrade. The Russian lines to the cast and south arc llko Iron barriers. Tho Japancso are quiet nnd seem to havo vanished along tho Russian Rus-sian outposts. TOKIO. July 5. Gen. Kurokl reports that two battalions of Russians attacked the Japaneso outposts at Mao-Tien pass at dawn on July -1th, under cover of a dense fog. The Russians were repulsed, leaving thirty dead and fifty wounded. Japancso loss fifteen dead and thirty wounded. CHEFOO. July G. A Russian Just arrived ar-rived here, who loft Port Arthur on July 2, says that tho only damage dono to tho town during tho recent bombardments has been the destruction of two houses. There has been no loss of life. TA TCHE KIAO. July 6. Lleut-Gcn. Baron Stnkelbcrg and tho Roumanian military attache narrowly escaped drowning drown-ing today owing to the sudden flooding of the headquarters of tho former's army corps. They wero both rescued by soldiers. sol-diers. ST. PETERSBURG, July G. Tho Foreign For-eign office has no official Information bearing out the charges of mutilation against tho Japanese, and no action will bc taken In tho abSoncc of definite Information. Infor-mation. CRONSTADT, July 5. All doubts as to the safety of tho Pcrcsvlet, which, according ac-cording to report, had been torpedoed at Port Arthur, is removed by the receipt ot a telegram from tho captain of tho battleship, bat-tleship, saying tho ship and all on board wero well. VLADIVOSTOK. July 5. Koreans coming com-ing to the Russian frontier say there arc 6000 Japancso at Seoul, but by marching and counter-marching In and out of tho town they are attempting to crcato tho Impression that thoro aro 20.000 men there. The Japanese, tho Koreans add, are circulating circu-lating stories of great victories. |