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Show RUMORS OF HEAVY LOSSES. Japanese Reported to Have Lost 15,000 Men and Russians 3,000. According to reports which havo reached tho Russian headquarters at Llao Yang from Chlncso sow-cos, tho Japaneso havo mndc n land attack on Port Arthur, but have been repulsed with heavy loss. Tho t truth of tho roport Is questioned in St. Petersburg. Peters-burg. It la rcpurted thnt Foreign Minister Minis-ter Lnmsdorff hns received a mos-t.gb mos-t.gb lVom tho Russinn consul at Chcfoo, saying that tho Japaneso havo mndo n land nttack on Port Arthur Ar-thur nnd thnt In doing so thoy lost 16,000 mon klllod or wounded. Tho Russian loss Is placed at 3,000 men. Tho ultlmnto outcomo of tho fighting is not stated. Tho St. Petersburg concspondent of tho Paris Matin says: It Is persistently per-sistently rumored that tho Vladivostok Vladivos-tok squadron has captured threo cruisers bought by Japan from Chile |