Show AROUND PORT POIrI ARTHUR For nearly n a week past there have ha 0 been rumors of ot tremendous losses laue bythe by h hIhl the Ihl he Japanese around Port Arthur tho the number slain and wounded having been put at thirty thousand At first these theao tumors were the Russians themselves scarcely Inning daring to accept them hem so n Joyful were w ro they Finally they hey coma to 10 be believed hell ved because there came camo from Japan no denial of ot thorn then and silence was token to consent Now there comes from tho the headquarters staff of ot the Japanese e army an official denial of ot the reports report from St Peters Petersburg Petersburg burg that the Japanese lost thirty thousand housand rush men in n I battle near Port Tort Ar Arbur Arthur bur thur on July 10 or 11 Tho The denial dental stales tates that not tI n 1 shot was fired firM on an either day Since the tho receipt In St Petersburg of ot tho the denial of or these re ro reports ports parle skepticism as an to the tho truth of ot the tho report from Viceroy head hend has hu pervaded nil circles nl al although though hough members of or the general staff decline to accept the denial unreservedly report was based on n Information from Crom Japanese sour our sources ces es but what those sources were has hall never been divulged It has hos been ro re regarded girded right along as a strange that the tho he Information did not come coma from sources whence news ness of a vc t ic toty toly would naturally be expected Tho Thu question now arises Was IS the rumor put ut out for tor a 1 purpose No one can enn nt at this stage say If It there has hns been heen no big blK bl battle fought near neul Port lort Arthur Arthul and it ft seems that there hero has hns not everything points to one ono onon In n the near lI nr future The absence of ot any news new from there or the tho vicinity when It t Is le known that It It Is I one of ot the th great Objectives of ot tho the Japanese o makes I It ominous of ot Impending events of ot great grea Importance If It nil all signs Igns do not fa tall there thero will b be great vows front from Port Arthur Arlhur In tho the not very distant future I |