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Show PORT CLOSED BY JAPANESf FOREIGN VESSELS ARC NOT ALLOWED AL-LOWED AT PORT ARTHUR. Drltlth Vessel With Hospital 8toret and Surgeons Is Turned Back, aa Japanese Expect to Care for Russian Rus-sian Wounded Themselves. Tho Ilrltlsh cruiser Andromeda, which sailed from Wclhalwel on Wednesday for Port Arthur with hospital hos-pital stores and surgeons to assist the sick and wounded, returned Thursday, not having been allowed to make a landing at Port Arthur Tho cruiser proceeded lo a small bay ten miles north of Port Arthur, where sho met with some Japanese Tho latter refuted re-futed all assistance or stores of any kind and declined to allow the shlp'a officers to approach closer, the reason given being thn preaenco of unlocated mines A Chefoo dispatch says: Sympathy for the sick and wounded Russians at Port Arthur Is widespread, wide-spread, but an Idea to caro for them at Chefoo, Tlo Tsln, Shanghai, Welhal wcl and Tslngtau bos led to an Inquiry which developed the fact that tho com blned facilities of the places named are equal to harboring only a vory small percentago of them Borne tlmo ago Russian residents of Chefoo collected a fund In anticipation ot thla emergency, but at a meeting today ot tho Ilrltlsh and Japaneso con aula and tho local health omcer tho fact waa developed that thn present conditions ot Cbcfoo are equal to car-Ing car-Ing for only sUty The conditions nt Shanghai and Tien Tain aro proportionately propor-tionately Inndequato Tho general opinion here Is that tho great mats of tho alck and wounded will bo compelled to remain nt lort Arthur until they are sufflclently con valescent lo return to Russia Tho refusal of tho Japaneso to accept ac-cept tho aid tendered by tho Ilrltlsh cruiser Andromeda was an error born at their destro to show to tbo world that Japaneso humanltarlanlsm was fully equal to tho occasion Tba statement In tho censored dispatches dis-patches from correspondenta with leneral Nogl'a army that tho Japaneso tost only CO 000 men In taking the fort-less fort-less Is declared to be absurd by Itus-ilan Itus-ilan naval offlccrs here. Their lowest astlmato, they say. Is based both on personal observation and on stories told by prisoners that tho Japanese lost 80,000. |