Show FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR besieged city seems to be in the grasp of the japanese after three days of continuous bom bar Da dment of port arthur which caused extensive destruction to the and forts in the west center of tho the russian line of de bense and also to tort fort the right wing of the japanese Ta u army as faulted on sunday afternoon according to a dispatch from dalny dainy having carried these approaches approach eq to that height the assailants themselves andr the glacis 4 of the forts torts in the evening the left wins wing del delivered hered an assault on kerwan fight tight ing its way to tha lower parapet there tha the japanese held their ground stubbornly in the face of counter attacks ha having ing been reinforced lein forced during the night the russi rubson in charged down upon n the Ta japanese aud desperate hanato hand to hand t ensued tn japanese beat lack tha the enemy and le tie strayed two coraren red positions in tho the front trout moat A japanese Ta sub lieutenant with thirty volunteers thou then succeeded in making his way to the rear of the fort there he engaged in a personal con filet with a russian officer and I 1 billed him having discovered two more rno o def defenses enss in the tear moat the suf sur lieutenant withdrew his force with a I 1 loss oss of two men later in the night the advanced position of the japanese was taken and retaken dilce the besiegers succeed ed in holding the approaches and con r trusting truc ting trenches connecting with the ardys front parallel at dawn numbers of dead were visible on the elopes slopes fort P north of the new and old batteries in the left center of the line of the defense was captured b the severe fighting of the night these operations have successfully driven an effective wedge into the rus elan stan center severe explosions and extensive fros have occulted in the fortieS tor tiesa 3 within the last few d ay iy the total casualties of the japanese in n the late attacks were 1100 over were killed up to october 29 tho the spirit of th h men Is the firing of all the guns Is wonderfully effective |