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Show THRILLING ENCOUNTER ON BOARD RUSSIAN VESSEL Japanese Seaman Boards Destroyer and Personally . , Overcomes Russian Officer. ST. PETERSBURG, March 15. The report from New Chwang that four Bossian steamers have been gunk at the entrance to Port Arthur, after the removal of the battleship Betvizan, Is authoritatively denied here. - The Associated Press la assured that with the exception of the dispatch of yesterday from-Gen. Zilinsky, no official offi-cial telegrams containing news of fighting have been received In the last forty-eight hours. Several telegrams relating to the movements of troops have arrived, "but as these were only of strategic Importance, their consents con-sents will not be made public TOKIO, March 15. The steamer bearing bear-ing ten wounded and the bodies of nine of the seamen who were killed in the Port Arthur fight of the 10th Inst, hae gun carriages to the naval brigad headquarters. JAP CAVALRY PATROL PALLS INTO AMBUSH MADS BT BUSSIAJTS. ST. PETERSBURG, March 16. Gen. ZU l'.nsky telegraphs as follows under Sunday's Sun-day's date: "On March 7th our patrol discovered foul of the enemy's posts on the Chong Chen-ganln Chen-ganln river, and a troop of cavalry, acting as scouts, near Fatetchen, northwest of Anju. "A Japanese cavalry patrol fell Into an ambuscade prepared by our patrol and were dispersed, losing one killed. Th Japanese left behind them a quantity ol gun cotton and some swords and blanket 'The population of Manchuria is quiet. "On the night of March 11th the enemy's en-emy's ships explored Helena bay and tht shore opposite Senutchlne with searchlights. search-lights. 'According to Information, which has been verified, the Japanese have not mad any attacks north of Gensan. "The population along the Tumen rivet la favorable to us." reached Saaebo. The wounded and dead were chiefly participants in the battle between the Japanese and Russian torpedo-boat destroyers. de-stroyers. The survivors unite in praising the desperately heroic attack on the Russians Rus-sians and tell a story of a personal encounter en-counter between a Japanese sailor and the captain of the Russian ' destroyer Steregustchi. XUROFATKHJ' DECLARES KOREA SHALL BE MADS PROVINCE OP RUSSIA. PARIS. March 16. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris says: In the course of his conversations In the train while traveling from Moscow, according ac-cording to this correspondent. Gen. Ku-ropatkln Ku-ropatkln repeated his desire that pe'aee should be signed onlyih Toklo. The General Gen-eral said that France, Germany and Austria Aus-tria have agreed with Russia to prevent Great Britain Intervening with another Berlin treaty, adding: "We will never permit Great Britain te Interfere for the purpose of depriving us of the fruits of a dearly-bought victory. Korea shall be Russian' When the Japanese dosed on the Russians the sailor sprang aboard the enemy's vessel and met her commander command-er emerging from the cabin. Sailor and captain sprang at one another, but the seaman was the quicker of the two and felled the Russian officer by striking him on the head with a cutlass. The Russian endeavored to rise, but the -Japanese sailor kicked him overboard over-board and he drowned. The Japanese say there were twenty-two twenty-two dead on the two Russian destroyers. destroy-ers. The report of the death of Engineer Engi-neer Mlnamlswa was premature. He is very low. The Japanese dead were landed at Sasebo and received with full military honors. They were borne on |