Show START MORE JAPANESE MAKE GENERAL AT TACK UPON PORT brown men have been preparing nin nineteen teen days for assault effort being made to capture north east main forts authoritative information has been received at chetoko of a general attack upon port arthur by the japanese forces which began before daybreak and continued until dark all indications point to an effort to capture certain of the northeast main forts this Is the attack for which the th japanese have been preparing for the past nineteen days with slight hops of success As forecasted in these dis patches the japanese attack on port pori arthur Is directed against the north east front the main object Is to cap ture the fortifications on bikwan mountain mountain and thil th intermediate forts the foregoing comes from a Russ russian lail ot of standing whose previous In forma SITUATION AT MUKDEN 0 0 ft el 0 03 E i t lion tion hp been correct lie ile adda add that the attack at the end of august which was as reported as two separate ts its really constituted a ten days battle the fighting being the heaviest during the first three days and the last our days of that period although the japanese retired au gust 31 along the greater part of their line they remained in tour four supple inen tary forts on the northeast front which they had captured from the rus plans glans these include two first forts fifty yards from mountain and two others at a somewhat greater dis tance since august 31 the japanese have bombarded very slightly while the russians have been throwing irately 1000 1060 shells dally daily chiefly against the four japanese positions mentioned small sorties as refer referred to 0 o by the Novi kral of port arthur in III he the efforts to recapture the positions have been of almost nightly occur rence and have been uniformly ansue during the fighting in august the attempt to capture klawan mountain cost the japanese an entire regiment this statement has been absolutely confirmed and indicates that the mon proportions of the task which the japanese have set themselves in attempting to capture the fortress which Is composed of many forts equally strong |