Show PORT ARTHUR NOW NO NOWA r A HEAP or RUINS Japan I Busy Fortifying but the 1 Place is Utterly i i Deserted I I New York In Jan Inn II A A cable to the tho Sun from London says A J German l m mei merchant chant who ha has just t returned from Port Arthur gi f gives in a n private ate lell letter r I an nn interesting description of that famous fame fam I ous stronghold lit JIu says On landing 1 I found m myself myself my my- I self In III the squalid harbor quarter charter It I was ivas deserted except for a tow jew Chin Chin- Chinese ese e f anti and Japanese le loafers The Chinese Chinese Chin Chin- ese s 's c me past great heaps of oC rub rub- rubbish rUb rUb-I bish hish and InrI debris R of deserted hou houses Pl j In the so railed European quarter r deathlike l' l silence reigned Only ten I P Europeans liv live there thIc now and of or business bus hUM iness here was ryas no truce The fhe Japanese have confined their h lr effort to the place It Jt is still a It of oC ruin especially In Inthe inthe the tho neighborhood of for forty forts 2 and anal 3 Some Inch eleven shells weighing two live hundredweight each were WI lying about In rn the lie casements one oM crimes across human lutman hu lut- man bones bodes array army boots caps cartridge cartridge cart cart- ridge eases cases ottS ott'S and various ai articles tides cart I of or military lying about in he confusion lon The he si sight hl leaves s an nn in- in in indelible I II Impression lon of nf I dreary I II utter milieu It desolation IMI I |