| Show v J JAPANS r FLEET OFF ff P PORT RT ARTHUR ARTHURA T TA A General Naval 1 Engagement is Expected to U Take Place Al AI Almost 1 most Any Au Hour HAS AS BEEN SEIZED Reported Capture of oC Three Thousand Russian Troops Not ot Confirmed Consolation Rumors Humors Jam fleet IK Is still ort oil Port Arthur antI and l of ot a II general engagement are arc hourly expected The Tho success of ot Japan on the ca eca would carry enormous advantage and anti practically the lie On paper r tho th fleets arc are almost amo equal although the tho aro are that their per personnel Is I superior They cay pa I that thai a n drawn battle would be leally really a n I Japa Japanese nee nese victory Ictor on account of ot lIu lack of ot facilities to duck dock and am repair her luRer craft Japan II Sunday anti and dl hell a heavy henvy force Lorce there She he fortify tho port and establish n ii 1 I naval anti and military base hae Is 19 nn ita exceedingly Important point as It I controls the Korean channel Is an ban La n 1 for tor future operations A from Once Thea hee Foo says that upon the tIm Ih withdrawal tr the from rom St HI Petersburg the tho Japa Jn l fleet anti ond transports nt at once onre pro eekt to After Atter being oc occupied led the fleet willed sailed for tor Port lort Arthur Arlhur The rest re t of ot the tho Japanese ships aro nN northern Japan fearing that ought might land a force torce from tram and for tor the further purpose of 1 preventing four tour cruisers era erN from Joining the Russian Hus fleet at Port Ar M Arthur Arthur thur Other Japanese war vessels ls are elm aim aiming elmIng ing to Intercept Hussion HII coming fn m I TED OK ai London Pel reb F b 10 A meager menger and un unconfirmed confirmed atch from stating that three of at the Husdon fleet carrying c about 2009 2 OO u troops ll had been captured by the tha Japa lapa nee nue ort oft tho the coast cable atte grauu giving additional details of ot the tho thesa sen sa of Monday comprised the active var nI news newil ewa received up to a 1 Into lahi hour this afternoon Humors of ot bat bal tics tiet both on lani and sea ea to tok keep k excitement nt at nt fever tee heat In St tH t Jurg anil am throughout the empire lre of ot tilt the th czar nil all the tho country countr IB III paid to 10 be b aflame with patriotism m anil avery Muscovite from etui end to end ond nt of ot the possessions Is Hald to bo and nud ger to W enter ent r the th ranks of oC the II army In the diy dlLY the tho czar affixed l lila liln to u I formal declaration of ot 3 War var In nn Au attempt t to offset tho the effect of ot tho th naval reverses nt at Port Arthur nud some dt of tile the newspapers ra extras claiming a n tu vic victory yb vl I tory nt at Port lort Arthur Three Japanese warships anti and four torpedo boats boat read Hit th III are reported to have been crippled One Ono report says the Japanese Jn battleship was VaN sunk The people are MC demonstrating There is S no flO confirmation of ot tho the report This IVell n a demand was wall mull mud upon tho the editors for tor the source of if their information They replied It camo from the Ir h Thello reports wro vero received every everywhere where with manifestations of ot Joy jO but bUI nothing confirming them has hns como come from coin The Lh only additional evidence tho the vice toy has sent IH Ia the names of at bite tho wound d II i whom hom were Col 01 of or tho the artillery corps orp who was as 1111 on board the transport I and n a midshipman on board tho the battleship lo lOl The following story of at the engage engolf ment meat at nt was WOR received by b thu th Japanese minister today It Is 19 under date data of oC and rends The flie admiral on arriving nt at Korea sent In word to the two cruise crul and Kor ICor letz giving ug them a 1 thue limit In i a which w h to leave Shortly afterward tho the lIus slang elana came out cut anti and attacked a 11 Japanese torpedo boat which replied with a 1 tot to ineffectively A general exchange of ot shots shota then thell fo fol followed 01 lowed After Atler n a 1 hot hOI fire Ore the tho returned to and anti sank at the bottom of ot tho he harbor It In Is not nol yet yel known whether their sinking was wn Ills due to jo the Japanese fire Oro or orto orto orto to the own action but It Is to bo he due IllIe to tho the former Cornier The Tho of ot both Russian vessels sought on n a French warship nt at Ch 10 o There Th re were Wel no plo casualties among tho the Japanese and their vessels IUS aus tamed no damage According to 10 o the lie officIal r re cc by b llama only four battalions of ot Japanese troops have up 1111 to the present been landed at III po Ito J Korea A at dispatch from Crom tool says MS private telegrams received there thero re report port ort the complete completo rout of ot the tho Japanese by b the he on the river riser These Theo also II o claim that Chem Korea has baa been occupied by Ii Hus lIus Inn dan soldiers and 1111 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