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Show . . . . '' . . ' : - ; -:v; :--. , . v ' . '" ; ; r' ' .' J . 4. 4 4. . . 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. -f 4- -f -f -f;"-f -f 4 -f 4- 4- VV RUSSIAN TORPEDO BOATS GIVE BATTLE TO JAPANESE FLEET; EACH SIDE LOSES ONE VESSEL; FATE OF CREWS UNKNOWN S ATTACKED JAPS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. I . m ' ST. PETERSBURG, March 11. (7:10 p. m.) The'Russian torpedo boat flotilla left Port Arthur at broad daylight this morning and attacked the Japanese fleet. One Japanese torpedo boat was sunk and one Russian torpedo boat destroyer, the Bezposhtchodni, was sunk. The fate of the latter's crew is not known. ' BULLETIN BY PACIFIC- CABLE. TIEN TSIN, MARCH 11. ONE FIELD BATTERY . HAS BEEN INSTALLED IN-STALLED IN THE FORT AT NEW-CHWANQ, NEW-CHWANQ, AND ALSO ONE COMPANY COM-PANY OI INFANTRY, WHILE PREPARATIONS ARE BEING MADE TO MOUNT SEEGE GUNS. BULLETIN BY PACIFIC CABLE. TIEN TSIN, MARCH 11. A CHINESE CHI-NESE REFUGEE FROM HSU YIEN INSISTS THAT HE HAS SEEN RUSSIANS RETREATING FROM THE YALTJ RIVER AND DESTROYING DESTROY-ING VILLAGES EN ROUTE. COAL SOAKED WITH KEROSENE TO PREVENT CAPTURE BY JAPS TOKIO. March ll.-The WJJu-Seoul railway rail-way concession was signed yesterday by the Japanese and Korean authorities. The Russians are engaged in building defenses at Wiju, which will co-operate with the fortifications already constructed construct-ed on the left bank of the Talu. It Is reported that the Russians have 13.000 tons of coal at Wiju which they keep drenched with kerosene In readiness to burn should the Japanese land ther TOGO IS WORRYING PORT ARTHUR FLEET; RUSSIANS GUESSING ST. PETERSBURG. March 11. (2:45 p. m. Up to this hour no further news is obtainable of the bombardment of Port Arthur, which was progressing, according to the latest advices, at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. Whatever later information, if any, the Emperor may have it not known. . Military and naval circles are mystified mysti-fied at the purpoee of the appearance of Japanese torpedo boats during the previous night, as it was not accompanied accom-panied by a serious attempt upon the Russian ships. , The bombardment of the fleet from a position off the Liao Tfhln? promontory, which is five to six miles from Golden Hill, at the entrance- of the- harbor, is . (Continued oa Pags J Russian Torpedo Boats. (Continued from page 1.) believed) to indicate that the Japanese were afraid to risk a formal attack under un-der the guns of the land batteries. It is considered doubtful whether any of the guns of the Russian batteries command com-mand the location from which the Japanese Japa-nese were firing. It is pointed out that dropping shells into the harbor and town even in fun is accompanied by danger, and this haphazard hap-hazard work is explicable perhaps only on the theory that It was meant as a diversion to cover more serious operations opera-tions elsewhere. Still, some of the experts here declare their belief that the only object of the Japanese was to keep the garrison and fleet worried. UNCLE SAM HAS NEED OF JAPAN AS FRIEND, SAYS GERMAN WRITER BERLIN. March 11. William Grueno, editor of Die Grensboten of Lelpslc, in analysing the play of International interests inter-ests in the Far East, says the late Field Marshal Von Waldersee, after his return from China, often talked with Ms close friends on the certainty that the United States would have a leading role there. His solicitude for the future Interest of Germany was also connected with the United States' position in Far Eastern affairs. af-fairs. Herr Grueno does not ssy where Von Waldersee's utterances leave off and the editor's begin, but the article continues: "The United States' attitude toward Japan is understandable because of her commercial relations with Japan and 'Manchuria, and by reason of her aspiration aspira-tion to the hegemony of the Pacinc. If the United States should maintain her claims to predominance in the Pacinc, she must reckon with Japan either il l friend or an enemy. For the moment the United 8tates' Interests require friendly -relation with Japan, taking Into consideration consider-ation the limited American navy and the British-Japanese alliance. For ths time this allowance will check American hegemony on the Asiatic side of the Pacinc Pa-cinc " The editor regards an Amexlcan-Britlsh-Japanese alliance a possibility. |