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Show JAPS SHELL PORT ARTHUR. I .Little Brown Men Bombard Fortress I and Town Alternately. I A telegram from Admiral Ataxies I from Port Arthur to tho emperor at J ft, St Petersburg says that from 9: IS It o'clock Sunday morning to midday the 1 Japaneso fleet In two divisions bom- I barded tho fortress and tho town alternately al-ternately from tho Llao Tshan prom-ontory, prom-ontory, firing 185 projectiles. Tho Russian squadron, Including tho battleship Pobleda, replied from tho anchorage by a plunging Are. The batteries also participated. Tho losses on land wero seven Chinese killed and five soldiers and three Chinese wounded. wound-ed. Tho Russian warships sustalnod no damage, and thoro waa no loss or life on them. Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of tho London Standard sends a rumor to the effect that Vico Admiral Togo's fleet escorted a Japanese landing of troops to the westward of the Yalu river. When 12,000 men had been landed the Russian troops, which were lying concealed, suddenly attacked them, driving them back to the ships with heavy losses In men and gun. |