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Show COAL STORES BURN. Fuel Supply at Port Arthur Is Destroyed. De-stroyed. TOKIO. Nov. 21. S p. m. Telegraphing today, the headquarters of tho army before be-fore Port Arthur reports: "Tho conflagration conflagra-tion In the buildings near tho arsenal, caused by our naval guns, which, aa reported re-ported yesterday, began about noon, November No-vember 22. continued until 2 o'clock on tho morning of November 23. It Is probable that the coal stores have been burned." A dispatch from tho headquarters of the Third Japaneso army before Port Arthur, Ar-thur, dated Wednesday, says Uio only permanent forts In tho possession of the Japanese are tho two Panlung forts captured cap-tured ln August. They hold tho advanco works of tho Rlhlung redoubt, called Fort Kuropatkln, an entrenched hill, miscalled P fort, Kobu hill. Sachltaklyama and Ono Hundred and Scvonly-four Meter hill. They also occupy the Cnponlcro, galleries gal-leries and moats of tho two Rlhlung forts and North Kekwnn fort. |