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Show FIRE OF THE JAPANESE BATTERIES SENDS THREE RUSSIAN VESSELS DOWN i . s - i Two Men-of-War and a Gunboat Gun-boat Reported Sunk; Mikado's Mika-do's Men Take a Very Important Im-portant Position. BULLETIN'. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 5, 5:45 p. m. A sensational report is current here, attributed to a high authority, that Russia. will -undertake before the international commission to prove that the Japanese Minister at The Hague actually organized an attack oh the Russian squadron, and will produce a message sent by the Minister containing: complete evidence that such was the case. BULLETIN. TOKIO, Nov. 5, 4 p. m. It is reported that the Japanese have occa- , pied Wantai hill, sunk several transports and have set fire to a baHleshlJ at Port Arthur. There is no confirmation. Wantai hill is one of the extensive ex-tensive semi-circle of forts defending Port Arthur. It is situated in about the center of the semi-circle, between the Antse mountain forts and Sung-chow Sung-chow fort, which is situated on an adjoining hilL The capture of Wantai hill, it has been pointed out in dispatches from Port Arthur, means the dividing of the eastern fortified ridge. The Japanese had previously and unsuccessfully un-successfully attacked Wantai hill, particularly during the latter part of August. BULLETIN. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 5. It is announced that the Russian Government Govern-ment has accepted the draft of the Anglo-Russian convention for the settlement set-tlement of the North sea incident. t BULLETIN. MUKDEN, Nov. 5, Via Peking. The Russian and Japanese armies are now so close together that maneuvering is almost impossible. The Japanese are confining themselves to occasional night attacks, during which they shell the villages occupied by the Russians. In these attacks they wounded several Russian officers. The Japanese already have received large reinforcements. After a week of almost spring-lik e weather, the thermometer fell twenty twen-ty degrees last night, and the first snow of the season is falling today. BULLETIN. SHANGHAI, Nov. 5. A report has reached Shanghai to the effect that the Japanese batteries sank two Russ ian men-of-war at Port Arthur on November No-vember 1, and a gunboat on November 2. TOKIO, Nov. 5. 2 p. m. Delayed advices forwarded from Port Arthur between be-tween November 2 and November 4 say that .two steamers of about 2500 tons each anchored in the west harbor were sunlc by the Japanese heavy guns November No-vember 1, and that the following day another' steamer of 3000 tons was also sunk. Two great explosions, apparently of magazines, were heard November X. On the night of November 3 the Japanese occupied a fort since called ' Ichinobe. owing to the fact that It had been bravely captured by that General.. Three field suns, two machine puns, three torpedos and many other trophies were captured. The Russians left forty dead. A vigorous bombardment with naval guns was delivered at noon November 3 against the east harbor, dot k yard and other points, as a result of which a fierce conflagration occurred near the east harbor. The fire raged from 12:15 p. m. to 4 I'clock. The same day the fire of large caliber guns was directed against "H" fort at the height of 200 yards and the northwest watch tower. . Heavy damage was caused by the bombardment on both the fort and tower. ROJESTVENSKY CLAIMS TO HAVE RECEIVED FAKE WIRELESS TELEGRAM ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 5. Four points of the Russian case, as 'presented 'pre-sented simultaneously by special dispatches dis-patches from Paris to two papers here, which bear evidence that they cami from inspired sources, are as follows: 1. Information which reached Vice-Admiral Vice-Admiral Rojqftvensky as he was leaving leav-ing , Danish waters showed that suspicious sus-picious vessels were In the North sea, navigating first under one flag and then under another. 2. The transport Kamchatka's report re-port by wireless telegraph some time before the incident occurred, that she had seen two torpedo boats (the Kam-tchatka Kam-tchatka being then thirty miles behind the squadron). 3. Later the receipt of a suspicious wireless message signed "Kamtchat-ka." "Kamtchat-ka." asking for the exact latitude and longitude of the squadron, a message which it was afterwards ascertained was never sent by the Kamtchatka. 4. Then the appearance of two torpedo tor-pedo boats alongside the squadron which could not have been Russian as all the Russian torpedo boats were then in the English channel. The squadron did not lire until the torpedo boats were seen. The fact that only seven torpedo boats are now with the squadron whereas eight left Llbeau is explained by fact that one of them brokfe before the squadron left Danish waters and was towed back to LJbau by the Russian Rus-sian Ice-breaker Ermak. The reports of British warships following fol-lowing up the various divisions of the Russian squadron are creating Intense irritation here. The Sviet says: "The shadowing of the Russian squadron by British cruisers cannot go on. This game must be stopped and the sooner the better." JAPANESE SHELLING THE RUSSIAN FORCES WITH THEIR QWN GUNS 'MUKDEN, Nov. 5, via Peking. The uninterrupted activity conspicuous between be-tween the opposing positions, that on the plain and on Gungpao hill, occupied occu-pied by the Japanese, and on Manalon hill, named after a Russian General, dally threatens a formidable outbreak. From Hungpao, the capture of which . by the Japanese was reported on October Octo-ber 12 by the corret pondent of the Associated As-sociated Press, the Japanese are now shelling the Russians with captured Russian guns and the resulting feeling among the Russians Indicates that this spot, which Is the most prominent along the entire line, will doubtless . Initiate the coming battle. Occasional casualties are r ported at Pienchlapu on account of its errsed position, as the apex of a wedre used against the Japanese right. At the Shahopu station Is a water tank whic h the Japanese are using as a, watch tower, from which the Russian artillery tas failed, after an attempt lusting more than a fortnight, fort-night, to dislodge the enemy on account of it being such a small target. The ! Japanese stiil possess an elevated temple tem-ple in the c,uaranKl west of Llnshen-pu, Llnshen-pu, while the combatants occupy separate sepa-rate parts of the same village. The advantage of position appears ' (Continued on paga 10.) RUSSIAN REPORTS ARE THAT FORT ARTHUR ASSAULT WAS NOT A SUCCESS ST. PETERSBURG.. Nov. 5." 2 :40 a. m. Great relief is felt in view of reports tadi-catin tadi-catin that the Japanese assaults on Port Arthur have been unsuccessful. A direct report from the Russian Consul at Che-foo Che-foo says he has received information from Chinese sources that the Japanese finally relinquished the attempt on November J, the Mikado's birthday, after losing enor- "'The Consul says the carnage was awful. The bombardment continued six days without intermission. The Japanese breached and took fort No. 3, but. according accord-ing to the Chinese, were forced to abandon aban-don It. owing to the concentrated hre from the supporting fortifications. No con-firnvitlon con-firnvitlon has been received here of the report that Gen. Stoeesel was wounded. Among high officers, at the ar office, where the true conditions Inside the ft rtress of Port Arthur are known. Gen. Strensel s abllitv to hold out against the efforts tho Japanese concentrated on it during the last ten days is regarded as marvelous, but no confidence in the ultimate ulti-mate result i entertained. Officers have been prepared to hear that the fortress had fallen. Fire of the Japanese. (Continued from page 1.) slightly In favor of the Japanese along the entire line. TELLS GRAPHIC STORY OF THE HORROR OF THE PORT AR1HUR SIEGE LONDON, Nov. 5.-The Daily Mail's Chefoo correspondent has obtained a letter let-ter from a Russian in Port Arthur, dated October 27, in which the writer declares that it would need the pen of Zola or the brush of Verestchagin to picture the awfulness of the siege. The letters says: "The uncanny part of it all Is that men me;t death in utter silence. One see's the fiercest of fights, but hears no one. One moonlight niifht at Etz mountain I watched an assault of a ghostly mass of moving figures, through which continual lanes were made by our guns, admitting glimpses of scenes behind. These gaps were closed up as if by magic, and the masses surged onward, while our men, forsaking the trenches, sought the relief of the forts. "On they came until, when they weii close up o us. the mines exploded and the earth opened. Bodies were hurled high In the air and then sank axain to eartli. Hands clutched rifles and in the moonlight moon-light the bivonets looked like fireworks shooting upward and descending: point downward into the bodies of men. I dream of the sight even now. "All the Inventions of military genius are not able to daunt the Japanese, who fight with Titanic energy. Our soldiers are gladiators and great-hearted heroes. The last sortie of the fleet failed herause of inability to repair vessels previously damaged. "We have not a single bottle of anaesthetics anaes-thetics left. Just think what aony the wounded must endure. The food Is of the coarsest and even that Is becoming scarce, while disease Is rife and sanitary-conditions sanitary-conditions are deplorable. It is impossible impossi-ble to repair tho ships with our scant resources, but we are all determined to hold out. come what will, in the hope of relief. For every man we lose our foes bemoan the loss of a hundred." CHINESE ARE FORCED TO LEAVE VLADIVOSTOK; IS WELL GARRISONED CHEFOO, Now 5, 8:43 p. m. The Norwegian steamer Tungus arrived here this evening, five days from Vladivostok, carrying seven hundred Chinese refugees who were unable to live at Vladivostok any longer owing to the high prices of food, etc.. due to the war. A terrific gale makes the landing of the refugees impossible today, but one Chinaman suceeded in reaching the shore. He said the fortifications at Vladivostok are Increasing in number and strength and that the fortress Is strongly garrisoned, but the Russians do not expect an attack on the part of the Japanese and have no Intention of invading Korea this winter. JAPANESE CHARGE RUSSIANS WITH THE MISUSE OF RED CROSS TOKIO. Nov. 5.-8 p. m. A statement issued from imperial headquarters tonight to-night charges the !lu.sian defending Port Arthur with the miFUfe of H. 1 Cross badges and with the maltreatment or killing of Japanese wounded. It is charged that the ltu."siam fnt armed men wearing Red Cross badges into the Japanese lines ostensibly for the purpose of seeking their wounded but really with the object of reconr.oi-tering reconr.oi-tering the Japanese portion?, and that for this reason the Japanese decided to consent to short armistices in order that the wounded might be succored and the dead burled. The statement instances the case of a Japanese hospital orderly who was wounded and left on the field, where the Russians stripped him of his badge and killed him. , A wounded Japanese private who wa. left on the field during the earlier charge on the eastern group of forts of Keekwan mountain and who lay there for six days, simulating death when the Russians were near, reports that the Russian bayoneted and shot the wounded comrades1 near him. and that they struck and robbed him. |