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Show WAR NEWS At (i o'clock jest ei day evening Salt , B Luke had lecelved nothing new from the Orient other than a Japanese H picdiction that Pcut Arthur will be ll captured within a -veck and that the war will be ended by July 1st. j jjH The last bulletin Is dated H London, Feb, 11. That another ' . battle between tho Russian and Jap- i'l anesc tlcets has been fought, making 1 l a thlid since the openlpgof hostilities, there is every reason, to believe. From u cable bulletins coming from vaiious jf pa i Us of the fur East and received in ' this city, Hcilin and St. Petersburg, ' it is evident that the engagement j H occuried jcsteiday afternoon at Port I Arthur. The absence of positive S H news and details or the battle Is ac- j H counted for by tho sti let censorship j that both the Japanese and Itusslau ) IH Governments exercise over newspaper , H dispatches. ' The first Intimation that theie had ' H been another sea fight came late this , H afternoon lu adispatch rromToklo and i IH Indicate, that the engagement was a , )H most tei rifle one. j The cablegram was fium Renter's jH Telegiam company, dated at Toklo H 7:10 p. m. jestcrday. It leads: H "An unofficial repoit Is curicnt hero H thatthe Busspiii fleet has been destoiy- H ed, four battleships and thiee ciulsers H doing sunk, and that two Japaneso H waishlps weie damaged In an engage- ' H incut yestciday off Pcit Arthur. H "The Japanese met disaster by flH getting between the Russians and the H entrance to the haiborbeforo the fight M commenced." - , H This was followed In a short time by ' H a dispatch from the St. Petersburg f H conespondent of the Renter's Tele- H gram company, saying that Mie naval Hj iieadquaitcis stalf there announces that In a fight, at Port Arthur six Jap- ' M anese ships were slightly damaged and M IIRv Japanese killed and 150 wounded. ' H Fiom HcjHii, under todaj'8 date, t AH came a dispatch saying that a cones-' , f lB pondentof the Vosshche eltungat H Yokohama k-ijs the greater number of ' H the Russian warships utl'oit Arthur H jH have aheady been disabled, and that " -l several Japanese warships have been ' 1 'JH sent home for re pah's. -. - --i-i B |