| Show SITU SITUATION Tm AT AI P PORT RT ART UR Japanese Operations Have Not Advanced so o Far For as Supposed HILLS RECAPTURED BY ASSAULT Main Force of Besiegers Arc Ac re on the thc Average at a Distance of Twenty Miles Mies Lino 11 Yang July 27 A Russian corre correspondent core correspondent of ot the tha Associated who has Just arrived here otter after two months stay nt at Port Arthur ses es an nn Important and Interesting narrative of the shun situa situation tion ton nt at II t tho the beleaguered fortress when he hue loft lec there thore July 14 H which shows that the Japanese operations until then had hadnot hadnot hadnot not to so far as no supposed Sev Several oral eral Russian successes are Me chronicled but the thus report of ot a n Japanese reverse with the loss Ion of at 3 OCO men is definitely disposed ot of not being helnn even eon mentioned I by the tho correspondent who says pays When I put to sea leu In n a Junk the tue laud mud position on the tile Russian think flank sur sot surrounding rounding Oreen Green and Semaphore hills which the had lost had been recaptured by b assault Tho The heights of ot II which the tho Japanese defended desperately alone alono alon remained In their hands Hut But lut I T am nm convince that this position also has haB since been bee retaken The lime le very morning of ot my departure July 14 H the tho ho position was being bellI bom bonu bombarded bombarded barded by howitzers and shells wore were falling taing repeatedly into the Japa Japanese nose nese le o works causing great grel disorder To 10 sum up by the tho fighting of ot July 3 i 4 and 5 when evidently this tho tt forces were weN acting on the tha offensive tho the Russians regained on the land side the positions they thoy had linuS held hell In front of ot tho the fortress previous to the tho battle bate of Kin Chou Chau The main forces of tho h are on nn tho the average nt nl a I distance of ot 20 Ills from the th perimeter of ot the tho fort tort fortress ress real nn on the Russian right but the JaIl Jap Japanese noose anese have approached to within 12 miles on the tho Russian HU left Itt Ho So far tu as n station 14 1 miles mies from Port Arthur the railroad Is I working Over U II I unties m I of ot Japanese between nail anil tOO men are operating before Port Arthur The troop troops maintain a 1 con eon of ot skirmishing fire nr but the field or I other guns gung are usually si III lent heat The Japanese apparently are con eon dueling ducting n II slow engineering advance Often In the tho morning mornin the ills dis discover cover cor fresh freih trenches The Japanese are fre compelled to 10 abandon this work In tho thie lay day dl time as ns the Russians nu lans regularly open tire lire re on them as soon noon ax as daylight discloses the tho works The Tha activity of ot the Japanese nt nl sea sen Is I confined almost exclusively to nocturnal raids rails of ot tho the torpedo boat bOt destroyers and torpedo boats 01 tH the sowing of o mines mince and the at lit Ii tacking of guard boats i |
