Show T TRICKY JAPS CAPTURE RUSSIAN TORPEDO BO BOATS ATS used 1 russian code of signals to lure four of the czars destroyers to their undoing the Nag bagasal agall 1 correspondent of the london dally daily telegraph cabling un der date of rebr february uary reports that the japanese squadron has cap aured four russian torpedo boats at port arthur by using russian signals this dispatch appears to confirm re ports from various quarters of a fresh attack on port arthur by the japanese the report reached nagasaki arora chefko and it adds that the R krstan crews crows of the tour four torpedo boats hava have been transferred no other news of this attack has been received in london but the che foo too correspondent of the morning post in a dispatch dated february says the statement is current there that the japanese torpedo boat destroyers in the attack on port ar thur on february sunk or dam aged two russian battleships in add alon to the torpedo boats already reported it Is possible therefore that the report of the telegraph telegraphs s nagasaki cor respondent also refers to the earlier attack vice oy alexieff Alex leff s retirement to harbin Is now an accomplished fact and a correspondent of the associated press cables that port arthur Is now strictly a naval stronghold and the forts are being manned by naval gun ners only twenty foreigners are now at port arthur and they are traders dis posing of their merchandise some of them are under suspicion ol 01 n and there Is likelihood of their beir being 19 arr arrested e ste d there are many complaints of un warranted arrests unexplained expel use of panama canal bothers the powers at a session of the hungarian delegation an interpellation was made by count emmerich who asked whether the ministry of foreign affairs did not consider it possible and even necessary to join with other powers in taking international action regarding the future use of the pan ak typical japanese infantryman slon and defamation of character by the port arthur police the report that large bodies of cos sack and other troops are occupying New chwang and hsin ming I 1 tin are unfounded A dispatch to the dally daily mall mail from hongtong Hong kong says a british squadron Is concentrating there and that a corresponding sp french concentration of warships Is occurring at sagon indochina this is supposedly a result of the anglo french understanding according to the nagasaki correspondent spon dent of the daily telegraph the american squadron the vessels of which are variously reported at che too foo and shanghai Is going to make a demonstration at the mouth of the yalu balu river nc 71 1 aa aw 4 A Q S sandham SAY P 0 11 T an pp AND ama canal in order to secure equal treatment of foreign vessels in time of peace and war minister mueller on behalf of the count austro hungarian minister of foreign affairs answered the interpellation by saying that if this question became an actual one the initiative in the mat ter would have to be taken by powers more directly interested atric ar 11 a ai ta S J ala to zak BA I 1 J I 1 japa PK A 0 57 ro arthue WILES |