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Show FALL OF PORT ARTHUR NOT CONFIRMED; JAPS ARE NOW MASSING TROOPS IN ! NORTH KOREA FOR EXPECTED BATTLE ST.' PETERSBERG,' March 2.-A dls-! dls-! patch from Vladivostok dated today I says that according to private reports I received there three Japanese detachments, detach-ments, of 800 men each, recently landed at Chlung Chang, Korea, about 130 miles north of Won San, with the supposed object of reaching the valley of the Tumen river and threatening Hun Chun. Manchuria, nine miles north of the Korean boundary and about eight miles west of Vladivostok. A fleet of ten Japanese warships was recently sighted ' on the horizon off I Vladivostok. They were believed- to be reserve vessels, not powerful enough to blockade Vladivostok or. endanger the Russian first-class cruisers whose base is that port. j "BULLETIN. PARIS, MARCH 2. O"0RMA- i TION REACHING HERE FROM OFFICIAL OF-FICIAL SOURCES CHOWS THE JAPANESE CONCENTRATION OF TROOPS IS GOING ON EXTENSIVELY EXTEN-SIVELY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF PING YANY, KOREA. LARGE FORCES ARE DEBARKING FROM TRANSPORTS AT NEARBY PORTS, FROM WHICH IT IS ASSUMED THAT AN EXTENSIVE LAND ENGAGEMENT EN-GAGEMENT IS IMMINENT - nr NORTHERN' KOREA. . ST. ' PETERSBURG, March 2. According Ac-cording to a special . dispatch from Port Arthur twenty Chinese have been arrested there for signalling to the Japanese Jap-anese ships from the shore with flashlights flash-lights and lanterns. A warning has been Issued that similar offender will hereafter be treated as spies and shot. Although it is denied that the present plans of the Admlrallty contemplate the dispatch of either the Black Sea or Baltic Bal-tic fleets to the' Far East. It is beyond question that both are being prepared with the greatest haste to meet any. emergency. Geh. Altvater, the artillery artil-lery specialist, and Admiral Verkhosky have been Inspecting the ships and P of th Black Sea fleet and 'work ' vv-ouUnuea oa rge S.) Fall of Port Arthur. ' - (Continued . from Page. 1.) ' on the warships) Is being pushed night and day. The battleship Borodino and Orel and the transport Kamtchatka are nearlng completion at the Admiralty dock yards here. In the dead of night the icebound ice-bound Neva Is like an Arctic landscape lighted for half a mile by the flare of biasing - stacks, the silence broken by the din of drumming hammers. The battleship Borodino must be taken ta-ken to Kronetadt to receive her armor, and it I reported that the ice-breaker Ermak will be brought from Reval to cut a channel to the arsenal there. The battleship Alexander II L at Kronstadt is ready, and the Russian fleet, recently at Jlbutil. French Somallland. is returning re-turning so that when spring opens Russia Rus-sia will have an imposing naval array in the Baltic About 800 volunteer workmen have left here to work at the dockyards at Port Arthur and Vladivostok. v |