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Show 101 OF DALHY I GOINSJO RUIN Japanese Have No Use for Houses With Modern Conveniences. NEW CITY OF ORIENTAL ASPECT SPRINGING UP Late Arrival Declares That at Newchwang Boycott Is Over. Portland. r .inn i -According to Wheeler Bammons, who nrrived on the British steamer Tottenham from th" orient, ori-ent, tine COmmodioUS residences, modern in every respect, fitted with heat and other up-to-date corn enlences, are be-ging be-ging for leimnts st Dalnj the Japanese no I taking kindlj to European buildings Old Town Going to Ruin. The old Russian town is rapidly going to ruin while .1 new town of Oriental aspect springing up. Mr Sammons, who has been in Manchuria for about a confirms previous reports concerning concern-ing the damage done Port Arthur He .i.'.l. Ihmii;h. th:it In w:is told by .1 .I.ip- anese officer ih.-a had 208-Metei hill been fortified the port of Port Arthur would have been Impregnable Japs Wore Astonished. According to this officer, the Japnneso v 1 n astonished 'it the absence of fortifications fortifi-cations as the) had been given to under-Btand under-Btand ibiit the hill had been heavily fortl-Bed fortl-Bed with most modern armament. Mr. Summons says that at Newchwang the hojrott Is practically over and thb Chinese are buying American piece goods from Shanghai. Says Boycott Is Over. At one lime, he continued, the boycott was er effective. Circulars were distributed dis-tributed tilling Ibe Chinese not to buy American goods because the Americans Insult the hlgln r class of Chinese who entered en-tered this country. Latterly this feeling has been dissipated, and there Is a friendly friend-ly feeling between the Chinese officials and the American Conaul-General, a manifestation of ihis being a banquet tendered ten-dered to the Consul juyt before Mr. Sam-mons Sam-mons left t he trlcni |