Show skirmishes ON THE russians repulse japanese according to russian reports dispatches from st petersburg bay say that general kuropatkin in a report to emperor nicholas says no fighting was reported on an reb auary 4 at present activity is con fined to operations by our volunteers which harass the enemy there Is ar tillery firing on both sides and a hasty strengthening of positions by both the russians and japanese general kuropatkin on friday re ported the repulse of the japanese ad vance guard on the left flank toward and chamsan with slight losses the japanese leaving fifty dead on the field according to general ku kuropatkin ro a last reports which indicate the wound ing of a third russian general de bobowski mo bowski the operations at Sand lapu and the fighting at have been momentarily suspended |