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Show SCARCITY OF NEWS. Great Battle Evidently Impending or In Progress. A London dispatch says: Tho curtain cur-tain Is drawn again upon tho view ot tho progress of tho war, probably Indicating In-dicating that Important events nro Impending or nfcot. Tho explosions henrd at Port Arthur suggest that tho Russians havo renewed their attumpts to remove obstructions In tho mouth of the harbor. All V nds of mmors nro current, few of which n-ear to havo any reliable basis. Various special corrospo. d.-r r in St Petersburg report lucre in , depression de-pression in Russia over tho piospoct of tho fall of Port Aithur and say that wild roports nro .in circulntion aa to dissensions between tho generals gener-als nnd tho highest officials over questions ques-tions of policy nnd strategy. Tho pally Mall gives great prominence to a statement "from Russian correspondent," correspond-ent," declaring thnt Russia will stnnd or fall with Port Arthur, as far as tho government's prcstlgo with tho lower classes is concerned. "Internal troubles aro inovltablo," the correspondent says, "should tho fortress fall. Count I.amsdorff displays dis-plays a strong personality, but his position po-sition Is precarious and he Is likely to bo sacrificed as a scapegoat to popular popu-lar Indignation at the way tho war has boon conducted. Although it Is said that Gencrnl Kuropntkln has lost favor at court, no chnngo la tho com-mandcrshlp com-mandcrshlp of tho army Is contemplated." |