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Show TREMENDOUS BATTLE RAGINQ. Victory Hanging in the Balance at I Port Arthur. Tbe Qrst detailed news of the gun-ernl gun-ernl assault on Port Arthur Indicates that a tremoudotis conflict Is waging and that victory Is banging In the balance. bal-ance. Chlnose who loft Port Arthur Saturday Sat-urday and arrived at Chefoo Sunday, say that the Jnpanoae, by making dos-perato dos-perato charges, which wero re inforced by an artillery flro from Shushlyon and Louisa bny, swept from tbe north Into tho Pigeon bay territory and drove tho Russians back from the main forts. The ground being comparatively flat In this vicinity, the Japanese ware tiimblo to hold It In the face of the ItUBiiian artillery lire nnd they retired north, an eighth of a mile beyond the rono of flio. Tbo Chinese declnro that tho Jup. mese captured ono Important fort, located lo-cated on tho Itxshnn hllla, midway bo-twoon bo-twoon tho wont scaeoaet nnd tho railway, rail-way, on a lino drawn approximately from a point midway between Pigeon aud Loulha bays. |