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Show . . j ' JAPANESE SURVIVORS OP DARING ATTEMPT TO BLOCK FORT ARTHUR. - CHEFOO. Feb. 29. The Japanese sailors sail-ors that arrived here Saturday are from the Jinsen Maru and the Bushlu, two of the five merchant vessels with which Admiral Ad-miral Fogo attempted to block the entrance en-trance to Port Arthur on the morning of the 34th. Lieut. Saito commanded the Jinsen Jin-sen Maru and Lieut. Tarisakl the Bushlu. Each steamer was manned by thirty men, twenty-nine of whom are here. One man of Lieut. Salto'a command was killed while lowering a boat on the Jinsen Maru. Lieut. Saito stated that they got so close to the Russian battleship Ketvizan that that had they been armed with rifles they could have fired Into the crew. When It was found that the schene was a failure they dropped anchor and the crews crowded into the remaining boats. They then blew up the stesmers. A strong "wind snd the glare of the lights prevented the men from reaching the torpedo flotilla, and at daylight they were out of sight ot the fleet, having been driven In an eaaterly direction by the wind to Mi so Tao island which they reached the same evening. The boats did not land together, but the men found each other on the islands. They chartered a junk, tn which they went to Tng Chow Fou. They walked forty miles to Chefoo, going two days without food. The fate of ths crews of the other steamers steam-ers Is not known to the men here, t |