Show Russo s J JAPANESE r S SW W AR 8 BEGINS 1 ON I Si I Torpedo Boats oats Attack Attach Russian I Squadron n in Outer Roads at Itt Port fort Arthur THREE SHIPS WERE DAMAGED 1 Cab s lime Bale liven Cut A Great Naval Engagement ng Slay l I dc be Very Cf cry Soon I f t i fit St Petersburg l PAn P An t i dispatch received hero heio cays that Jai Jap Japanese I anese torpedo tort edo boats have attacked the Iho thoI squadron In the outer roads at ut I Port Arthur and 1111 that three nuu llIn shills were vero damaged Admiral report of the attack by bf the tho Japanese Is la ns I r most moat respectfully Inform Morn your our majesty that nt lit or about midnight cf ur Feb Joeb 89 Japanese torpedo boats bonia mudo mude n a sudden udden attack by menus means of o nines mines upon tho the squadron In the tho out Iut outer outer er roads of ot the fortress of It Port lort Arthur In which tho battleships und and Ce and Iho the cruiser were damaged d An Inspection In js being made to 10 ascertain the character nt of the your damage Details are following for r jour our Port lort Arthur Arlhur Feb l lb 9 tor tur boats bOals attacked tho Iho Russian Illusion heel tiers here during the night and three of ot the tho ships were badly damaged Thu Tho Japanese who W 10 thus shun scored the suc lIue success cess cesa of ot the war undamaged Yep a 8 Paris says MY the there ule publishing fon on high a IL report that Jut Jutt JUI JutI t have hMO I s s omo amo guzzled merchant In III Chinese waters Tho report lurk In circles a M does doe also n HP ye 1 port that tho thu Ih Japanese squadron hud had engaged ed and mid captured 1 three warships Tho The tact fact that Japan him hlll cut he the cliMB between Corca Coren Japan gives ere cre credence i deuce dence to the tho report Moat Hint there Ucro may b n a 1 sea pen fight ligh In this thin connection another dispatch front from rom Nagasaki says Japanese patience became exhausted and today Japan moved movell her he ships ship 11 nna I took l possession of ot certain dung merchant vessels Including tho the and Manchuria The rho correspondent continues lI lIT Two T other Hussion HUll vessels sols Selz eho ehod ed d and lIHI escorted to Japan i Tho The Dully J III I Telegraph e n lh I Y It supposes 1 pa s cs the tho foregoing seizures occurred nt lit but that tho the censor cen or sup pap suppressed pressed preened tho the location I In ft from Tokia a n II x tandem of ot the Dally Mull Moll says tho the 11 i ft has hu received n a 1 1 from Fusan Corea Corers declaring that Gat the tha tIring of ot guns gullS was wart Wa heard to the n of 01 Island Inland about 25 bites southwest t of C CI I at 8 j In a 1 dated Nagasaki F I tray day Feb 8 6 mind and which was Willi delayed by bythe byI I the censor a n correspondent of ot the tM Dolly Dally Telegraph that t l precipitated tho the crisis by cret Y Yi i dispatching IU a 1 few ew days ago front rom Port Arthur transports loaded with wItt a L fulli full ull ft i division of ot troop and escorted by II III n a aI nh I J I h fleet ft landing them near the th Yulu r 4 i river ther thus occupying northern Coraa i TILl lee correspondent ft Of 11 tho the I e 7 I Dully DailY Mall cables that six AI transports t are ale lamm troops at nt vari varl various 1 ous Ortes I 1 In ht Coren Corea l front from MII and Fusan Fuson on the south of lit on the tho west 1181 est Seoul Is to o be he occupied and the tho hand log ing la hi being be Ing covered by lIy n a torpedo di dl division vision The main hotly body bOl of ot tho the Japan one 10 fleet the thc correspondent concludes hue salted nailed in the direction of ot loll Arthur Ar Arthur thur The Tho Paris J correspondent of ot the Dally 1 1111 Mull Mall Mya French Franco l has luts agreed with other powers to land troops In China Chita directly hostilities begin In order to III insure neutrality of ut tho the middle ling loin limn domIn In III a I front from 1011 dated Monday 1 Feb Fels ch 8 A a 1 correspondent correo of ot the tho Dally 1 ally Telegraph soya It II Is la assured 1 that tho heel et will fight Tho long 1011 ngo decided von upon u on war and their delay Will due to lack IlIck of of ot preparation und rod II nIl uncertainty whether certain powers would Mould Intervene or not eat |