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Show Ambusiied Japs Lose Two Eatlalions Russians Were Hiding in RaVine, and but Two of Enemy Escaped. h-r-r--r--r----t--r--r- ---r--r----r: -f Naval Fight Reported. C? T. PETERSBURG. June 12. j Rumors are in circulation -f ' here to the effect that a great na- -f vnl battle has taken place off Port Arthur, In which two Rus- sluu and four Japanese battle- -f ships were sunk. No conflrma- lion of the rumor can be ob- 4- tained. ' NrAT CHENG, Manchuria, Juno 12. A Hanking movement of tho Japanese around the Russian loft from -Jcng ' Wang Cheng, June 9, was repulsed with a loss of two whole battalions. , A large. Japanese- force moved out In the morning along the Feng Wang Cheng and Hal Cheng road. The Russians had a force strongly posted In a' ravlno thlr'.y miles southeast of Hal Cheng. Tho Japanese Ja-panese were preceded by two battalions, who wnlked Into the Russian ambuscade. Thoy received a murderous rlllo and artillery ar-tillery fire at close range and wore wiped out, only one or two escoplng. The main Japanese force tried to outflank the Russians, Rus-sians, who drov off without losing a man. Tin Japanese, closing In. found tho ravine 'acant save for their own dead. |