Show capture a fort at port arthur determined to do up the chinese they corner the goat skin market secure uniforms for their soldiers oct SO minister denby in a cable to the state department today says the chinesa forces have been defeated at caien afen cheng and hare retreated to ahe mountains lie also reports the japanese bare taken one of the chinese forts at port arthur the acen of the first engagement is just across the maln river in manchuria and it marks the first real aggressive movement by the japanese on chinese soil the japanese are f opposed to bavo formally entered apon abu carup aien with den the capital as their objective point unless they ar fully prepared to biake a winter campaign they awill be obliged to orce the firnung fiR bung as only days before th apold weather comes in the neighborhood of port arthur where the second japanese success Is reported the flinter is not so severiand severe and operations may be maintained until much later experts in washington believe that port arthur cannot be reduced by the japanese without the anso of heava diee artillery and as far as reported the japanese are not with this inasmuch as the capture of port arthur would isloe the japanese control of the golf cut off the chinese capital from communication with the sea it is believed the japanese will make a most determined effort to capture the fortress the belief that they are prepared to do alili even if it involves a loep siepe and a winter campaign Is borne by the act that the of the japanese government in this country have quietly bought up a vast store skins and practically cornered corner td ahn market these skins are commonly used in china and japan as a necessary part of the soldiers winter raiment london oct 30 A dispatch to the pall mall gazette fron ohe foo says a fleet of japanese transports protected by nineteen war ships has been seen landing on the mainland of the kwane lung peninsula north of island |