Show JAP JAPANESE CAPTURE fORTI I It is One of the Chain ol ot Forts Constitutes the Port Arthur Defenses HAS A COMMANDING POSITION It Is li I Only O IY Second In lit Importance to tl The Tile One Otic Situated Shunted on Golden PORT ARTHUR ITSELF IS DOOMED BOOMED Such Stick Is the Popular ar Feeling In St lId lct Losses of Give Sonic Some London Aug III tt p Evening News NewA thin his afternoon published a II dispatch from cola under date that hut the tIle captured It H chain chitin fort Cort 0 or of tB the i oll tAr tArthur Ar Arthur Arthur thur defense yesterday after u it tin hit its attack Tho TIme Now Nott dispatch train from In is simply a of lie tho an nit announcement of or thu ot or 11 01 U m mu 0 as 1111 ii a u II chain lii fort fort According to the he ahle n a hits hie maps s of or Poll Pori fot t Arthur It U I Is I s almost itt mites t In lit the center of ot the chain of or foils of a which it forms orate Otis one Oll defending Pott Iott Arthur from rain which it IH Is only about a amile I mile a I half hI It distant It occupies u lL commanding position and U itt only wily second Itt in importance to 10 0 the Gold Golden en elm lull hill tort fort It was ns announced from Mum Mon day that tho the Japanese o had swept tho lie Russians train from remit Pigeon bay lilt and amid hud hul captured the Ihl northernmost at fort Corl of or hue thu line hilme of or Inner hillier defenses though thought fort fori about u it mile northeast ot or Kt m fort rort might also bo ho classed as lIa the lie northernmost fort tort of the tIme western line hifle of oC inner defenses at al Arthur POUT 18 IS DOOMED St Petersburg Aug ug 28 U 2 12 1235 35 pm lint Despite the popular feeling that lint Port Ai thill Is doomed the lie success with which iou Uen has beep been beating off or lie thu Japanese assaults n aults amid th the lie heavy heu unstained by 11 the be besiegers orrel encourage encouragement ment to 0 the tile war office Then 1 III Ii a n limit beyond bey om I which troops cannot go no matt r I how holl gallant said un till of or the lie general stuff tIit his till of the arny before Petit IH lit u estImate of oC the ell lathes up UI to tg date It If tho lie storming which wo WI under sUnd IB Iti now no to gIve Khe them n 0 foothold In the lie ring of o de tie defenses tM tiC will 11 he le compelled by hy sheer to tit it stop stall anti and recuperate orate erate lille awaiting additional lI auth I personally together with chili some SOlOS of lit my may In colleagues 1011 Ill belIeve they the will the he Idea of or u a general nl ana settle down to regular 11 operations llon Starving out the tIme gun gar 1011 lii III less leKS brilliant but It is IN an us effective n u way Ia Ca of ot reducing II a fortress The Th Japanese ot c In III rushing mat matters tore hunts has been to release rei a tI I section of or the thc lie southern army and en enable enable able It to 10 with the tho In lii The naval critic of or the t I expresseS the tho opinion that the lott 1011 Arthur Arlhur would commit un tin urt of oC folly If It It Il went vent out mit now no Ho lie adds adlla Although II a portion of or Ad III I Ouk 8 ships shirl are Ir In lb I lighting tim In imi Including eludIng at 11 least the anti It would be tu to tolie u lie to 10 attempt to break reak 1 through Ad All strong lines Illes The fhe squad squadron ron would be lost 1091 without profit to Port Arthur A would do clo bet better better ter cv to t dismantle hula his hi guns guna anti tend tho the nun nien ashore lI holl This lithe hlll would reinforce Gen Ion to the he e tent of neatly neaily seven heavy henvy and nit WO oO light guns glints anti and men Then Chell If it the worst comes the tho ships could be stimuli A Journal while paying a 1 tribute to the tIle heroic h lol defenders of ot Port Arthur Arlhur tines does not nol withhold pral a tot for the valor alor of or the lie Jap Japanese anese besiegers It If says NII Neither Neithel a malt loin of ot ran non shunts shots walls wall of ot nor luor earth strewn with pu lU corpses COlp pK win namu arrest their born t There ate are u It numb r of lit veiled 1 In lima lon In buIlt both Ito tho dispatches from Lito 1180 Vane and a lid at al headquarters that Oen leti is 18 H M Ion In It Gell len to pre plO eitt the lie th dispatch of oC reinforcements to aid sit the of ot Port The Noo Vr mya that lint Ihl ha question ot of Chinas attitude Is ver very WI se sel e erious rious l and nd i i that the tho ate arc Ill quite of ot tiiu nau adding How lieu otherwise could 1 war 1111 chips eat enter r o Ports at lit will Tho Thin Idea that the tue States Is II i gain to 10 Hi th time neutrality of or O China Is la nn mitt Illusion The ThA American boat pursuit 1111 sill I of It huts tho torpedo boat 1011 tInts out to hava u been hi II n a mere mell |