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Show Russian Reverse. London, June 2J. A dispatch to the Dally Mall under date of June 21 from New Clrvvang sa)s: While a Russian forco of 8,000 un- t " der General Kondradovltclr was tra- ' versing Wafungko ravine, nine miles southeast of Kalchou, .lune li, It was surprised by concealed Japaneso artillery. artil-lery. Tho Russians lost heavily, their . casualties being 1,-00 in number. General Kondrndovltch extricated his men and led them In good order to an entrenched position. Vigtoiua, June 22. Ottorr Von Gottberg, an eminent military critic and war correspondent of the Lokal Anelger, Berlin, who arrived today, s.i)s that Japan will be disastrously defeated In the present war and that there Is no hope for that country against Russia. Nmv Yoick, June 22. A determined determin-ed clTort to ascertain as nearly as possible pos-sible the number of persons who took passage on the excursion steamer General Gen-eral Slocum when she started oir her Ill-fated trip up the sound, one week ago today, has been begun under the direction of the police department. Oire hundred patrolmen have been detailed de-tailed to visit tho homes of every person per-son whose name has been hr any way mentioned In connection with the disaster. dis-aster. These oMIccrs will make up a list of names of persons who went on the excursion from their several districts, dis-tricts, with their Individual fates. From these lists a final report, em-bod) em-bod) Ing all the names, will be prepared. prepar-ed. The list of known dead, which had reached 84(1 up to two o'clock this morning, steadily increased since that hour. Hcfoic daylight twelve more bodies had been taken from the river and ncaily every succeeding hour added add-ed to tho total. |