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Show 1 THREE RUSSIAN SHIPS ARE CRIPPLED BY JAPANESE. A dlfpateh to Ihe Uuulon Dally Telctrnph from Vlnkow, dnlol Fea-r-'ary 13. aay' Ftlt-.n Jnpane.e wnrnhi I furl, nusly iMiiubar.b d Port Arthui from 10 until iJ o'clock thla morning. T6 Hun-Ian criii.ern Novlk, Ankold and lla) in, aci omp illied by four toniHo hoi'H, nteamed out to met the attack at-tack They were, however, forced tu retire. The Akol.l wnn In a rlnk-Ing rlnk-Ing cudltloti. Tin- Novlk waa badly il-ini-::.-1, and a torpedo hunt aunlt. Iho 1(ii-;..m l.itllr !:lp It-ivlran waa ag.iln dimai-'d The Japanese Willi-drew Willi-drew In i'..i.d order. Tho pan e In Hie war operations n t'io far n-l hnn been broken by another an-other .I n m. -e attack on Port Arthur, Ar-thur, o! wlili ll only the fnrrgolni: brief account In y.l to hand. Thla remrt, however, nhown a rendition of the now familiar tncllcn of Jnpnn, and It la presumed that thla attack wan made In bad weather, previous tolfr grnphlo advices bnvlng reorted a ncvorH galo raging at Port Arthur. As tiBtial, Ihe Jnpanene did not remain long ennunh off the hnrnor to enable Ihn Ruiiiiom at the fort to get Ih-lr rnnge. Again the Ihreo crulaera, the Bayim. tho Ankold and Novlk came out to meet thn aitack, and thla eug gita that either they were the only erfeellvn ships t,Pr() r ,,, ,ri!,,r imltlonhip, Prii unililn to get mil. |