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Show SORTIE FROM FORT ARTHUR WOT LIKELY LONDON, Oct. i In connection with rumors of ar.cther projected scrtie of the Port Arthur aquadron.' a Shanghai dispatch dis-patch reports that a Russian warship was expected to arrive at Woosunc Sunday ntsht. Russians .there having chartered a tender to meet her. 1 According to a Japanese correspondent In the Morninit Pot, snerl a sally would only be a Inst extremity, and when the surrender of the uarrison rould no longer be postponed. Because the waterworks are In the hands of the beslopers and the shore water condensing apparatus had been ruined by the Japanese ahell fire, the correspondent adds, -the garrison is dependent now upon the condensers of the fleet for freph water. Shanghai dispatches to th Standard and the Daily Telegraph are to the effect that a naval battle has been fought off Port Arthur. Neither of these reports has been confirmed. The Chronicle's Liao Tung correspondent correspond-ent says there was a truce Saturday at Port Arthur to bury the dead. Russian and Japanese officers, he says, exchanged greetings, after which the bombardment continued with Its old vigor. The Standard's correspondent with the Japanese army says that progress is making ma-king with the flld railway from Antung, which will eventually Join with the line at Liao Tang. Its completion, he says, will double the Japanese lines of communication. com-munication. The Daily Telegraph's Slnmlntln correspondent, cor-respondent, telegraphing October 2, comments com-ments on the Indecision displayed in the Japanese plans. He says their scheme around Mukden has been abandoned, and that they are awaiting reinforcements from the fall of Port Arthur. There are signs .of weakness. 1 The Japanese, the correspondent adds, are pressing for the expulsion of all British and other correspondents corres-pondents from Ylnkow. |