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Show HORSEFLESH THEIR DIET Officials- at Port Arthur Get Meat Only Twice a .Week," HEADQUARTERS OF THE JAPANESE JAPA-NESE THIRD ARMY BEFORE PORT ARTHUR. Dec. 8. via Fusan, Dec. 9. Russian prisoners report that the food supply of the garrison Is insufficient. The men subsist on short rations of bread made of a mixture of flour and eoarser grains, while the officers get horseflesh twice a week. Dysentery and typhoid, the prisoners say, are very prevalent. Owing to the bad weather' a supply of fresh orege-tables orege-tables cannot be obtained, and the supply sup-ply of tinned meat was finished a month ago. , ' . The appearance of the prisoners goes to-substantiate. their statements. They r jr U olethal hut emaciated, |