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Show THE JAPANESE SLAUGHTER OUTSIDE PORT ARTHUR. - v ' r.v w & -i $ . . . (Picture taken on the spot liy a London Graphic artist.) All around Port Arthur arc mines and barbed wire obstructions which the assaulting Japanese encounter before they can reach the forts and fortified places. This illustrates a Japanese charge upon a Russian fortified position, showing how the brown men immolate themselves upon the barbed wire obstructions. The , fort was captured, but at the loss of. 4,000 men. The nearer the Japanese approach the inner circle of.f orts, the more desperate the fighting and the greater the slaughter. Up to the present the assaults on the Russian fortifications have cost the Japanese army a loss of about 00,000 in killed and wounded, something some-thing unparalleled in the annals of desnerate warfare. . . ' Russian advices received at Chcfoo Thursday say that the Japanese assaults on Port Arthur August 21 and August 22 were reyulscd with tremendous losses. It is added that the attempt of the Japanese to capture Fort No. 1 cost them 10,000" ni'en, and that" their attack on Fort Etzshan resulted in their losing 0,000 men killed or wounded. Port Dalny is said to be filled with wounded men. i |