Show MORE TROUBLE JAPANESE MAKE GENERAL ATTACK UPON PORT ARI HUR brown men have been preparing for nineteen days for assault effort being made to capture north east ma n forts iv authoritative information has been received at chefko 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 t ie northeast main forts this is the attack for which the japanese have been preparing for the past nineteen days with slight hoag of success As forecasted in these dispatches the japanese attack on port arthur is directed against the north east front the main object Is to cap ture the fortifications on mountain mountain and th intermediate torts the foregoing comes from a russian of standing whose previous informs SITUATION AT MUKDEN el ea auy uon has been correct he add that the attack at the end of august which was reported as two separate assau ts 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 four supple forts on the northeast front which they had captured from the rus plans 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 shells dally chiefly against the four japanese positions mentioned small sorties as referred to by the of port arthur la the efforts to recapture the positions have been of almost nightly occur rence and have been hunsuc during the fighting in august the attempt to capture bikwan 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 torts equally strong |