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Show ONLY RUMORS SO FAR. Nothing Definite Regarding Fight-ins- at Port Arthur. London, June 1. No confirmation has yet been received of the reported heavy fighting near Port Arthur, or with General KurC'patktu'-H -aiuiv ,al-s r. though the latter s nfctl rv-tertfed as hnnfobable. Rumors persist, ih u "wrt influence- at St. Petersburg -"being-actively exercised to indue General Kuropatkin tu assume the offensive hi ,-H'i end"aor ry a victory t l-tiive ' -the Russian military refutation. The- Daily Telegraph's St. i'etciabuig corresnnndent says: "A recent council of war do.-hl'-d V.vaz General Kuronatkin should risk a;i engagement. The emperor :at:li.l t!i;s judgment, even going so far to ;iu-Uirize ;iu-Uirize tht- dispatch of troops from t. i i-i German frontier to the far "ast, ihi .'the Kiourid thai, as Ct'imaay wa.-) bencvoleni. she mi.sht be trusted s.f-!y. s.f-!y. All hopes are tviiiov-d n"u" Kuropa-tkin, who will make k'S-.-; -a: efforts to save port Arthur." Against th'-s.- statt ruoiHs inw; b placed the official contradiction rem- municated to the Associated I'r t.i.'l already tabled, that Geiit ral Kiuopa:-i Kiuopa:-i kin would not move southward, f The co-respondent of '.h" Si i.'.. n I at Tokio announces, that :io:i-:.mb:'.t-j ants are quitting Geiis.ui owing to in-I in-I cursions of smalt parties ol' Rusiars I into northeastern Korea, 'file sit'ia-j sit'ia-j tion there is not .deemed -i --ioui; I one. The Morning Port's fonvsooti l. nt i'i l Vienna ieartiS that the. "''a biii in nn- Teonico at Trieste has ensa-r-il to deliver de-liver five armored cruisers to U iss:. tho first two within a year: the oDim subsequently at intervals cC ten months. |