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Show From all "the dust and heat" of the dispatches from the seat of war, but one thing seems certain, and this Is that the Japanese havo the Russians at a disadvantage. Thla is the more apparent ap-parent from the Russian tone than even from the confident and business-like reports re-ports of the Jupanese officers.. Russia is apparently entirely, in. the dark about the movements of her enemy; she Is calling out the reserves In the various home dlstrlctB for service In the war, and she dare not attempt to reinforce Port Arthur, lest Kurokl come down on the Russian left flank and win a decisive deci-sive victory. The fall of Port Arthur seems to be conceded, and Russia looks on with hopeless apathy, unable to help. It Is a sorry situation to result from fmch boastful confidence ns wh3 displayed dis-played at the first. |