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Show CHEFOO CLAIMS 20,000 7T JAP LIVES SACRIFICED . . . cruiser Pallada and ten or more torpedo-boat destroyers and four gunboats be surrendered to the Japanese. Lieut.-Gn. Stpessei Is alleged to have received the terms with a burt of wonderful profanity, his habitual taciturnity deserting him. He strode, the floor until he became calmer and then remarked, that if the Japanese proposition was a Joke It was In bad taste. . . . CHEFOO. Aug. 19. A battle of huge proportions raged around Port Arthur August . 14 and V. nd jl1 was resumed re-sumed August 17. The Japanese, It Is reported, sacrificed 20,000 more men, but gained Important advantages in the matter of position. The above news was brought here on Junks, one of which, having on board three Russians, concealed In the baggage- of Chinese to escape the Japanese, left Port Arthur last night, and was blown rapidly to Chefoo by a gale. The main force of the attack was directed against the left wing and resulted re-sulted Jn the capture of Pigeon bay positions po-sitions and some of the forts at Llao Ticihan, At . Palunchans the Japanese hastily mounted guns -which did excellent . service in aiding the storming of the right wing, where the Japanese are said to have captured two forU of minor value, mourning eight four-Inch guns, two (lege guns and si? quick-firing gn I Th position that the Japanese occupy j on Llao Tieshang peninsula is not clear, but numerous Chinese sources aver that the Japanese have been seen in force In that section. Apparently a cruising at tack originating in Louisa bay swept through the Pigeon bay positions into the peninsula, Ip the doing of which a majority of the lives of the expedition were sacrificed. On the night of the 15th the battle! lulled somewhat ' when the Japanese sent the terms of turrender' to Lieut.-, Gen. Stoessel. The terms provided t ha the garrison should march out with the honors of war and Join Gen. Kuropat . kin; that ail civilians be brought to a Place designated by the Japanese Admiral Ad-miral i thafcthe Russian warships in the harbor, numbering seven, namely, the battleships RetyUan. Sevastopol, Po-bleda, Po-bleda, peresvlet, Poltava and the ar-mored ar-mored cruiser Bayan. the protected i e- |