Show getting scared in st petersburg foreign reports of the fighting at port arthur are accepted in st pet kersburg very seriously if the japan ese have taken metre hill 11 as re ported commanding the whole bar bor it Is believed that the situation is critical experts on port fort arthur to po graphy assert however that it Is more likely that the Japanese have oc coupled some positions at the base of the hill and believe that owing to the concentrated fire of the covering foris torts the japanese will find the top ot of the hill untenable it if they arrive there |