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Show THE EASTERN SITUATION Reports Very conflict- H ing and Uncertain. H Japs Have Not cap- H tured Port Arthur. M Indianapolis, June !. A special H received by the News from its slat! H war correspondent at Chee Foo sajs: jH "Clicc Foo. June 0. TI10 long con- H tcmplated attack by the Japanese H foices aiound the besieged city were reinforced by the troops which had jl gairlsoued Daluy and KlnChou. H The Russian vessels in the harbor, H with their gieat guns, aid"d the land H force in icpclllng the attack. The H lighting still goes on." H Cliecfoo, June !. -According to re- H ports brought here by Chinese arrivals H from Port Arthur, the outer forts of H that place have been very badly iH damaged by Japanese bombardments. H Many buildings in the town have also ijl been destrojed, but the inner forts ifl have sufWred but little. The reports H of the latest arrivals vary in minor dc- H tails, but agree in a general statement H that a battle has been raging for four days within ten miles of Pott Arthur. H All the Russian soldiers have, it is said, left Poit Arthur for the front, M and only three large ships and a num- M ber of small ones remain in the harbor. M The Chinese aie unable to explain M what has become of the other large M London, J line . The sudden inter- M luptiou of the cable between Korea M and Japan Is consldcicd significant of M the Imminence of Important operations M at Poit Aithur, the Japanese having M taken precautions, as usual, to cut M the only means of communication M with the outside world, and thus en- M able her naval and military forces to H vvoik witli absolute seciccj. H No attention Is paid in London to H Illinois that tlicstoiming of t lie fort- jjH less lias ahcady begun, because it is M known that at the battle of Kin Chou M Gen. Oku had exhausted his atnmuni- M lion, and an Insutlicient peiiod has jM elapsed dining which the stoics of 'M ammunition could be lcncwed and M siege guiis biought into position. M |