| Show BOTH saes FIERCE engagement cattle place off port ardium in which pour japanese battleships sink accompanied to bottom by two russian vessels st petersburg june 12 rumors in circulation here to the effect that a great naval battle has taken place ol 01 port arthur in which two and four japanese battleships yere fienk london june 13 ane timea che 00 correspondent telegraphing under dat of june says 1 I have just returned from new chwang where tho japanese have established a strict blockade I 1 was twice stopped and searched there was fighting on june ath oa the coast 20 miles couth ot ew chwang Jin eee are tag for the attack on port arthur hal cheng june 11 delayed in transmission Ten Cosa acha along the railway south of hal cheng on june ath came in contact with fifty chinese bandits fifteen of the bandits were hilled or wounded and eight were captured the cossacks lost one killed bad two wounded hal cheng manchuria june M delayed in transmission A langlas lan klaS movement ot the japanese around the russians left from fens wang cheng june ath was ra pulsed with a loss of two battalions A large force moved out in the morning along the fang chang and hal cheng road aae had a foca strongly posted in a ravine thirty miles southeast of hal cheng the japanese were preceded aby battalions who walked into the ambuscade they received murderous rine and artillery fire at chloee range and were I 1 wiped out only one or two escaping ithe main japanese force which was t greatly superior au to alie russian force tried to outflank the drew off without losing a man the japan ase closing in found the ravine vacant save for their own dead london june 12 the standards correspondent at st petersburg bays he hears that a telegram from vice admiral states that on june ath he went within 30 miles of port arthur with the vladivostok fleet and there ran into a fog he found several japanese torpedo boats and two battleships which attacked him fiercely and inflicted some damage the russians returned the fire but as none of the port arthur ships appeared vice admiral returned to vladivostok where he arrived friday morning the mails correspondent at japanese headquarters telegraphing under dale of june alth says four strong japanese columns have occupied Suen chow salmatia Sal matza llao waling and shuyen Suen chow Is 85 ailles east of mukden and liao waling Is five miles northwest of shuyen |
