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Show I TFICKY JAPS CAPTURE RUSSIAN TORPEDO UOATS Used Russian Coda of Signals to Lure Four of the Crar'e Oestroyera to Their Undoing. The Nagasaki correspondent of the !.ondnn Pally Telegraph, cabling nn-der nn-der date of February J:nd. reporta that the Japanese anustron haa captured cap-tured four Rurslnn toraedo boats at port Arthur by using Rosslan algnala Thla dispatch nppcara lo confirm rn porta from varlooa quartern of a fresh attack on Port Arthur ay the Japanese. Jap-anese. The report reached Tfngaaskl from Chefoo, and It adila that the Russian crewa of the four torpedo boats have been transferred. No other news of thla attack haa been received In 1-ondnn, but the Chefoo Che-foo correspondent of the Morning Post, In a dispatch dated February J?nd. aaya the statement la current there that the Japanese torpelo boat destroyers In the attach on Port Ar thur on February 14th sunk or damaged dam-aged two Russian battleshlpe. In addition addi-tion to the torpedo boata already reported. re-ported. It la possible, therefore, that the report re-port of the Telegraph'! Nagaaakl correspondent cor-respondent also refer to tha earlier attack. Vlcevoy Aleileff'a retirement to Harbin la now an accomplished fact, and a correspondent of the Associated Presa cable that Port Arthur la now atrlctly a naval stronghold and th forte 4re being manned by naval gunners. gun-ners. Only twenty foreigner! are now at Port Arthur, and they am trader die-posing die-posing of their merchandise. , Rome of them are under suspicion, and tbor ' la likelihood of their belig arrested. I There are many comlalnta of unwarranted un-warranted arrests, tineijlnlncj egpul- Typical Japanaae Infantryman. I " alon and defamation of character by th Port Arthur police. Th report that large bodle of Coa-aack Coa-aack and other troop are occupying Newchwanf and Hsln Ming Tin ara unfounded. A dispatch to the Dally Mall from Hongkong aaya a British squadron I concentrating thore and that a corr-apondlng corr-apondlng French concentration of warships I occurring at Sagon, Indo-Chlna. Indo-Chlna. Tbla la supposedly a reault of th Anglo-French understanding. According to the Nagasaki correspondent corre-spondent of the Dally Telegraph, the American squadron, the vessela of which are variously ropurtod at Che foo and Rhnnghal, la going to make a demonstration at th mouth of th Yalu river. |