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Show RUSSIANS ME 203-METER HILL Kunpatkin Ms Word From in, But No Confirmation Comes From Japanese Sources. Report Says Czar's Soldiers Captured Guns Mounted by Mikado'3 Forces. ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. '22. Gon, ' Kuropatkln has tclesraphcd to tho general gen-eral staff thut he has received a report from Chinese sources to the. effect that the Russians have recaptured 203-Motcr 203-Motcr hill at Port Arthur, with tho guns mounted, by tho Japanese. Kuropatkln's dispatch, which Is dated December 21, nlso rcporta further reconnaissances re-connaissances of both tho Russians and Japanese, but pays thoy wore not productive produc-tive of Important results. The weather at tho front Is sunny and tho thermometer roglgters 11 below fah-renhelt. fah-renhelt. The "War office has not any additional Information regarding Gen. Kuropatkln's roport that the Russians havo recaptured 203-Meter hill, but the officials conaldor It certain that the Commandor-ln-chlof would not have sent the report unless It came through exceptionally reliable channels. |