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Show FIRE TRAP USED TO KILL MANY JAPS LONDON, Dec. 19. A special dispatch from Toklo reports that the Japanese naval na-val bombardment on Saturday sank a Russian torpedo boat at Port Arthur. According to the Daily Telegraph's Che-foo Che-foo messenger from the Japanese lines at Port Arthur, the Russians had pre-pcred pre-pcred at the fort at Panlung a moat six hundred yards long, and thirty feet wide, which they filled with wood and straw. In the course of an attack upon the fort early ln December the Japanese storming party sank into this morass, which the Russians fired with an electric fuse. The fierce conflagration lasted all night and day and hundreds of Japanese were burned to death, but the second night, the trench?s having dntd up. the Japanese Japa-nese advanced in smnll detachments protected pro-tected by large wooden shields, and engaged en-gaged In a savage bayonet fight. The Jpr-anese. the report continues, captured the position and made prisoners of 152 Russians. |