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Show JAPS CAPTURE If I GREAT PASS I il Two Attacks lade f Before It Fell. ill I .jj , iH Brown Men Are Blockading - i ; 'H Chefoo Under an Agree- ment With China. il!; ii I Vaponeso Army Around Liatf Yang j ! ! jJ Reported to Be Decimated :j j' I by Epidemics. (!-; i ' ''') -1 ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 29. News jj.j ; received here from Mukden says that y. ! IH the Japanese have assumed the often- H 1 j ' elve and have captured Da Pass. This ) ! Is not actually confirmed, but the gen- , eral staff thinks it Is likely to be cor- , tl recL The Russians, It Is added, evacu- I I atcd the pass without serious resistance. ! I ! Where Pass Is Located, i- L 1 Da Pass, or Ta Pass, meaning great !) 1 ! pass, is situated about forty-five miles C - , j flH southeast oi Mukden and about the j ' . - j same distance northeast of Liao Yang. ' j 1 UH It Is about twenty-five miles south of i the Hun river. The Japanese attacked j', Hil Da Pass, which was occupied by the ; ifl troops of Gens. Mltchenko and Sam- J ' lil eonoff on September 24, but according .' j ) 11 to dispatches from Harbin were twice ' 1 repulsed. I'l Japs Blockading Chefoo. - ij The Japanese warships are blockad- !( , ing Chefoo. This evidently Is under an j ! ' agreement with China, in order to pre- j, I, vent the possibility of any of the ships j' ' of the Port Arthur squadron seeking I . ' refuge at Chefoo. !!'!, j Decimated by Epidemics. ;' 1 The Japanese armies around Liao i Yang are reported to be declmlnated by j IH epidemics, due to decaying corpses. The j 1 I Japanese are said to have damned the j "jl Liao river above Liao. ,Yjmg, Hooding I the country in order to protect their left Ll flank. |