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Show BOMBARDING PORT ARTHUR. Fall of Shells So Incessant That Russians Rus-sians Abandon Repair "Work. CHEFOO, Nov. 0, 12:30 p. m. The Ja-pancso Ja-pancso continue to bombard Port Arthur Ar-thur and tho shells are" falling so Incessantly Inces-santly that )ho Russians have, abandoned the repair of tho works protecting the harbor. Citizen volunteors and tho police arc now reinforcing tho garrisons of the foils according to the stories of Chinese arriving ar-riving here, sixty of whom left Port Arthur Ar-thur on November 7, owing to tho high price of food. , , , , So many men were killed on both sides during the Inst assault that many bodies lay unburlcd for days, and In somo instances in-stances dogs, which had been driven from the town, assuaged their hunger by eating eat-ing tho dead. In a few cases where this was seen the horror-stricken Russian sharpshooters killed the dogs. Some months ago tho JtUHSlan authorities authori-ties ordered that nil dogs seen on the struets rfhould be shot, with tho result that half famished creatures have been roaming tho hills, becoming savage. The Chinese say that tho forts on Golden Gold-en Hill havo dono no firing for months past and it Is believed that their ammunition ammu-nition has run short. The demolition of tho Chinese now town Is almost complotcd, a thousand hQiisos having been destroyed for tho valuablo firewood they contained. The town Is constantly catching on llro, and tho majority of the warehouses and stores belonging to foreigners havo been burnt to tho ground. |