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Show TREMENDOUS BATTLE RAGING. Victory Hanging In the Balance at Port Arthur. The first dotalled nows of the gen-oral gen-oral assault on Port Arthur indicates that a tremendous conflict is waging nnd that victory Is hanging In tho balance bal-ance Chlnoso who loft Port Arthur Saturday Sat-urday and arrived at Chofoo Sunday, say that tho Japanese by making des-perato des-perato charges, which wero ro-lnforcod by an artillery flro from Shushlyen and Louisa bay, swept from tho north into tho Pigeon bay territory and drove tho Hussions back from tho main forts. Tho ground being comparatively flat In this vicinity, tho Jnpaneso woro unablo to hold it in tno foco of tho Ilusslan artillery flro and thoy retired north, nn eighth of a mllo boyond tho zono of flro. Tho Chlnoso declaro that tho Japanoso Jap-anoso captured ono Important fort, lo-catod lo-catod on tho Itzshan hills, midway bo-twoon bo-twoon tho wost seacoast and tho railway, rail-way, on a lino drawn npproxlmntoly from a point midway bctwoon Pigeon and Louisa bays. |