Show I RUSSIAN S I FLEET FULLY fUll r DISABLED I lt Japanese Have Hoc Mode Made It I Impossible tor lor it Il to Reinforce the Sec Second ond out Squadron WAS VIAS OBJECT OF ASSAULTS Will 1 Rely on Stoning Starving Out the Port Arthur Garrison Until It II is I Finally Captured Tokyo Toky Dec Dc 1 9 disabling tho thu SisaL at Port Arthur Juan fn Athur pre precluding pr eluding the possibility of 01 Us Its I being bl able to t reinforce the Russian second e nr tu Pu I squadron ludron the Japan havo hive nc M the time main man object Det of ot th tl lie lea des desperate e pirate against Balut tit the r ren se which they hey have hav been besim bl mulling for tor th tb the post past three month Ther Is II now 10 a 1 strong probability that thai while continuing ing II the siege they Ihy time will 1 avoid 1 II MM nt of the magnitude already attending their efforts torta and Instead ot of Hill Ill l rely rl on 01 starving out nut the garrison until It Is h finally ON O T Tokyo rOko Dec Deo De 9 8 noon The following rl rIp rt rl dated daled Dec Di S a 10 p in lit 1 has h teen laSh received from the he commander of or th he naval Ivi land ler in front of ot Port Arthur Plight night shells sheila struck hurk the lie r l today lode and Mt set her liar on lire fr Simultaneously she he began to t list to Iu pout port lowering astern She lh It ti Ii wl ud unfitted for cor or navigation During Durin the he th action n w we dIscovered th tb time gunboat Quick to th Ih time landward north of ot the battleship and bum liat her hr Eleven Iven I of or our shells were wIre effective This vowels 11 Is la also deemed to 10 be 1 disabled The rime hits hili mad iad by our naval and siege suns guns today taa total 22 2 The he ar armored armore armored mored more cruiser caught ire at 1180 1130 13 Ihl morning and th lh the fir nr was wal not nol extinguished nt at lt 11 In the Ile at af afternoon Evidently 1 th the cruiser I I ii se seriously roulf damaged The Time results reul of ot our bombardment of 01 the battleship Sevastopol the lii mine ship null transport Amur mum mul and ald the trans transports transports ports are not yet yel known The Th above m hits hl were w made mil de wih shells from froni heavy hta v guns sun Those LOe made by the th small Imal shells hell are not moan Ine In the report Another report from the same ame corn com commander cm manlier mander dated date at al 3 this Ill FrI 1 day clay Ia morning is I as a follows A time the result of our naVal gun In born bom bombardment om yesterday Thursday tIm tho was WIS hit It fl and the time Amur U 14 1 lutes fht th Amur lur is 18 sinking astern a Our cannonade I directed against th time the and nd l at the tha n narth rth ass as Iba of ot mountain loun ln resulted In M 1 41 hits te canting QUing groat great damage NO DY BY Tokyo Deo flee 0 S a p m aCon astonishment Is la here over the fact that the nu In no 10 way woy yodeled limo thu 1 of or the time Port lort Ar Arthur A Arthur thur fleet In II certain quarters quarter the opinion Is l entertained that thai the Rue Hus sinus Ihma opened the time of at the sub cub submerged merged merge vessels so 1 as 18 to lessen lell th their lr exposure to time the Ih Japanese fire epure Ir Tho Time recent f nt cessation of oC tattle mine clear clearIng cler Ing lag was vas WA taken as Ill evidence that lint the lint did not Intend to 10 make a 1 sortie Irle There was wa no 10 sign aln of life on the time Russian HUIlan ships during tIme the Ih bombardment and from this fact It I Is II concluded that the blue Jackets took look refuge on ott 01 land or that lust they are Ire engaged In the time land de fences ten With time the second Pacific squadron approaching those thOe In Tokyo cannot comprehend the failure of ot the Russians to die hard har rind and to inflict all al damage on tho the Japanese heat Itt oven at II the time cost colt COt of ot weakening the ef if effective e garrison Now Nol that time the Port Arthur Arlhur fleet t hal been disabled It Is IR deemed deeme for to I the time to overcome th time In Inferiority inferiority of time the second quad ron Ion to 10 Ogo fleet feel unless union at present unforeseen the Black ack sw sea I fleet duet III should pulls pass p the Dardanelles POUT POnT SHOUT ShORT OK OP 0 FOOD Headquarters of ot the time Japanese Third Army rIY Port Arthur Athur Dec DC S 8 via Ia l Dec Dee prisoners re report reo rePort port that lint the food fod supply of ot the time s gar r rIsen Is I Insufficient The men macmu Inel short phort rations of ot bread made of ot on mae a a a mixture nii ure of or Hour our and nud Oter grains while the time officers get gt horseflesh twloa a L week k Dysentery and typhoid th time the prisoners prisoner say 1 Iro cure ro very v prevalent Owing oner to lo lothe the time bad ball weather wether a 1 supply of at fresh frh freel vegetables cannot be bo obtained and the of tinned meat met was I finished ho a month ago agoTo Two To Hussion Russian officers captured at al To Two Hundred and Hill ll one be belonging t belongIng longing to 10 tile the lh navy and aud the other otlie othe to time the army are being treated with wih tho the greatest furt by b the Japanese staff staffIn In consideration of ot similar lar treatment accorded to the Japanese cap captured cp captured by b tho ho Russians Special ar Ir arrangements lure have been baum bel made mode to t port the to Japan This Thin IB i taken as n an of or the tha disposition 11 of both oth sides sid to end ond I d th time tiredly ferocity characterizing the time lighting for or months pant tsat during which quarter was nui I I neither asked nor given |