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Show DKPERATK FKIHTINfl IA0VNE8E ASSAULT INNER DE-'EN8ES DE-'EN8ES OF PORT ARTHUR. FofThres Days Brown Men Display Finatlcat Bravery, Despite Fearful Loss, Twenty Thousand Being Slain. desperate Ibr days' assault on the inner defenses, on tlic northern ! m eastern sides of Port Arthur, ha fn'M. according to advices brought i lo thee Foo by two Junks J HtiNslun. who escaped from Port A tli ii r via Pigeon bay on the night I of Inly 2'i. states that the earth treni bll under the terrific cannonading warn began at t a. m July 20, and enlcd during the night ot July 2S. srn the battlo censed. i Chinese, who has arlrved at Chee Foo on a separate Junk, confirms the Human statement that the Hiisalan kDled and wounded during the assault nanbnrcd between flvo and six thousand thou-sand The Jspanese, in their repeated as suits against the eastern forts on the hull, through barbed wire entanglements entangle-ments and over mines, displayed fa nttlral bravery. Thry were mowed down by the hall of shells ind bullets Old the exnloalon nf mines under their feet. Their losses are estimated a' tventy thousand. The Itusslnn declares thnt the Itua-stans Itua-stans held all the eastern forts lead III tn Dolden Hill, and thnt the Japanese, Jap-anese, shattered and exhausted retired ts the eastward. As related by the passengers nf the two junks, the Japanese advance, ihlch began from Kwokau before day-Break, day-Break, July 2(1. was directed against tlkwan. Klnkllun, Klnklsham ann fi htoushan forts, lying near shore. The flualaan outposts were driven sack. In the meantime Admiral Togo helled the forte at long range, but the roturn lire of the forts kept hla ihlps at a safe tllatnnce, rendering the to-opcratinn of the fleet Ineffective. On the morning of July 2T the Rus II an fleet steamed out, keeping under thi protection of the Oolden Hill guns The Russian vessels did not fire on the Japanese, and soon returned to their anchorage. The assault on the northern aide of the city occurred July 27. The Japanese Japan-ese left at Halkau advanced on the Russians at Shlnihl Ylng. but ware repulsed. re-pulsed. The junks wore wlthlu hearing distance for three days alter leaving, J but no more firing was heard. |