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Show v r-; - : BULLETIN. ' ; ' - r . I PORT ARTHUR, May 3 (Noon),The Japanese squadron appeared off Port Arthur after day- 1 1 break today and engaged the for;ts and warships The fight is still proceeding. Thirty Japanese pris-' I I oners have been captured. 1 JAPS AGAIN ATTEMPT TO BLOCK HARBOR ENTRANCE; .' RUSSIANS ON TIE ALERT : - - Searchlights-Pick Up Six Hulks Sent in by Togo, Which Arc Destroyed in Time to Prevent Purpose Pur-pose of Japanese. ST. PETERSBURG, May J. 4 p. m. Vice-Admiral Togo made another desperate des-perate attempt to block the entrance to Port Arthur last night, but failed. Viceroy AlexieS reported officially that the Japanese sent eight flreshlps to block the entrance, but they ware all sunk by the Russian torpedo boars And the fire from the land batteries, leaVfhg the channel clear. The Viceroy also reported re-ported that the Russians sank two Japanese Jap-anese torpedo boats. Discovered try Searchlights. The flreshlps were discovered by the searchlights of the batteries and guard-ships, guard-ships, creeping toward Port Arthur from the east and southeast, shortly after af-ter midnight. .The torpedo boats and torpedo-boat . destroyers1 were ordered out, but none of the larger warships. Admiral Alexleff himself went on board . the coast defense Teasel OtvashnL The guardshlps at the entrance to the harbor har-bor and the forts opened a fierce fire on the flreboats, which lasted until S o'clock In the morning, when the last ftreshlp went down. Respond Hotly to Fire. The official report does not specify the exact spot where the steamers were sunk, but it is plain that the Japanese attempt to cork the entrance to Port Arthur has again failed. The steamers were armed with Hotchkiss and Maxim guns and responded hotly to the Russian Rus-sian fire. , The Russians succeeded In saving a few members of the crews of the flreshlps, flre-shlps, including two officers. RUSSIANS, SEIZED BY PANIC, FLEE TO HILLS PROM PURSUING JAPS. SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 1:30 p, m. The Russian troops fled panic-stricken when routed at Chlu-Tien-Cheng, pursued pur-sued by the Japanese cavalry and Infantry, In-fantry, over the hill country toward Feng-Wai.g-Cheng from 1:50 p. m. until un-til o'clock at night. The Russian army engaged was composed of the Third division, di-vision, the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-fourth regiments of the Sixth division divi-sion and Gen. Mlstchenko's cavalry brigade, bri-gade, supported by forty-five machine guns. The wounded, including Gen. Saasulltch and Gen. Kashtalinsky. reached Antung, whence the Russians were eventually forced to retire after twenty-flve minutes f fierce fighting. GUNS OUT OF ACTION BEFORE JAPS STARTED ACROSS YALU RIVER. 6EOUL. May 8. In the fighting between be-tween the Japanese and Russians on the Yalu, all the Russian guns posted to oppose the crossing of the river were put out of action before the actual crossing took place. For two hour, from 1 until 9 o'clock, continuous fighting fight-ing went- on, the Japanese steadily pressing forward and the Russians falling fall-ing back before the weight of men and guns opposed to them. The Japanese Infantry with a brilliant dash captured the fortified heights northwest of Klullen-Cheng and the pressure was kept up until afternoon, a portion of the Russian forces being driven toward Antung. There was furious furi-ous fighting the entire distance. "At Antung the Russians found that in addition to the force confronting them they were threatened by strong detachments on either flank. Their retreat re-treat then became so hurried that there was no time to replace the artillery i horses shot down by the Japanese sharpshooters, and twenty guns, together to-gether with a large quantity of ammunition ammu-nition and rifles and a number of officers and men, were captured. The Russians were able to carry off all their wounded. Japanese Bonds Up. -LONDON. May a-Japanese bonds were marked up li on the stock exchange to- day on the Japanese successes, while RuS- , slans were down. |