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Show I BITS OF WABNEWS. Japanese Torpedo Boats Attack Hussion Hus-sion Battleship, f LONDON, Dec. 12. An unofficial report from Port Arthur, according to a Tokio dispatch to tho. Dally Mall, says tho Japanese Jap-anese torpedo-boat destroyers attacked the Russian battleship Sevastopol at tho mouth of the harbor tho night of December Decem-ber I', with what result Is not known. The Dally Telegraph's correspondent before be-fore Port Arthur reports, under dato of . December 9. that there were despcrato encounters last week. The holligcrcnta, the correspondent adds, mutually recognize recog-nize tho Red Cross and collect the dead and wounded during temporary suspon-clons suspon-clons of fighting. Tho DailyVrclograph's Tien Tsln correspondent corre-spondent learns from official Japanese sources that the Japanese casualties at Port Arthur during the latter part of October wore 3000 killed and 10,000 wounded. wound-ed. Tha losses In more recent attacks, tho correspondent adds, were much heav-The heav-The same correspondent has heard that continued fighting Is proceeding south of Mukden. ' Tho correspondent at Shanghai of tho Dally Telegraph. In a dispatch dated Do-comber Do-comber 11. says that according to Poking reports the Russians havo retreated to tho south bank of the Hun river after soventy-two hours fighting, 'with hcavv losses. On tho fourth dav of the fighting, fight-ing, the correspondent saye. the Japanese Japan-ese assumed tho offensive. Tho Mukden station 13 reported to be In a wild stato of confusion. The Dally Telegraph thinks the authenticity of the foregoing reports from Chlncwo sources of heavy fighting Is very doubtful. a |