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Show ' JAPS LOSE HEAVILY. ffl Russians "Worst Them in an Attack at f Port Arthur. jjl CHEFOO, . Oct. 20. A junk which left Llaotl promontory yesterday 9 was driven by a gale and arrived here IB tonight, bringing 100 coolies vho left 1 Port Arthur because they feared Injury W j from the Japanese shells. These coolies say that on October 13 II there was fierce fighting' for. several 1 hours on the slopes of Rihlung moun- rll tain between comparatively small MU forces, during- which the Japanese lost jffl 300 killed or wounded. 11 Japanese wounded say that the sol- B diers in the trenches suffer severely jfl from the cold, although the Japanese jijj' army Is now almost completely supplied fj with winter outfits. if It is said that the Port Arthur garrl- W son Is frantic for news of the opera- R tions of Gen. Kuropatkln, from whom Jfijil the defenders expect relief. ftp |