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Show PARIS RUMOR THAT 4000 JAPS LOSE LIVES IS NOT CONFIRMED; WAR NEWS s BTJXLETTir. . PARIS, April 27. The St, Petersburg Peters-burg correspondent of the Matin says: "I learn from a sure source that the Vladivostok squadron yesterday yes-terday sank four Japanese transports which were convoying 4000 man." ' BuiXEnn-. LONDON, April 27. A special from Kobe, Japan, says several vessels, believed be-lieved to'ibe Russians, were again sighted off Wonsan (Oensan), Korea, today. , BULLETIN. ST. PETERSBURG, April 27, 6:27 p. m. The Admiralty had no confirmation confir-mation of a current report that Wonsan Won-san (Oensan), Xorea, had been bombarded. ST. PETERSBURG!. April 27, 6:29 p. m. The general staff believes that one of the Japanese columns which attempted at-tempted to cross the Talu river at Turnchen sustained severe losses, owing ow-ing to unexpected shelling by a Russian Rus-sian battery, from the opposite bank which. destroyed the Japanese pontoons. The Japanese, the general staff says, tried to. cross the river at six or seven different points' and succeeded only at one point. The staff has no further news. ALLEGED REVERSES OF JAPAN" ON YALU RIVER, STOrULATES MARKET. ST. PETERSBURG, April 27. J:U p. m. The crossing of the Talu river by the Japanese forces did not Impress the Russians in view of the ensuing reverses. re-verses. These reports caused an all-around all-around rise in prices on the bourse, but, so far, there has been no confirmation of them officially. |