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Show FIND IT A HARD TASK. Capture of Port Arthur May De Delayed De-layed for Some Time. Passengers who arrived nt Chrfoo on Frlda (mm (he Kwnngtutig peninsula penin-sula confirm the truthfulness ot the offlclal Japaneso r ports of the sinking of various Husslan ships recently at Port Arthur liny say thu Japaneso would have been nblo to accomplish this In tho nst two months but apparently ap-parently prt ferred to use their guns against tho Russian military forco It Is believed tho destruction ot tho Husslan ships Indicates that thu Japaneso Jap-aneso hate abandoned tha hopo ot capturing tha fortress Tho Japaneso lost tbrio torpedo boast within tho put month by mines, tho last ono sinking during tho night attack of December 14lh on the Husslan Hus-slan battleship Sevastopol. |