Show this movement has proved unsuccessful another attack on etz mountain expected thursday st petersburg nov 21 4 a m the suspense engendered by the japanese attack on Pou hill continues tills tto has proved unsuccessful it aimed merely to capture a russian position but whether it was intended to mask activity at somo other point along the front has not yet developed ve loped some correspondents note what they consider significant japanese movements on the russian right and others that a japanese column Is moving 50 or 60 miles eastward but the opinion in military circles seema to bo that no great movement Is likely to transpire before the fata ot port arthur is decided at alie same timo it Is recalled here that general kuro great aggressive movement of last month was in full swing a week ago london nov SO A special dispatch from shanghai says eliat from che foo reports that tareo other russian torpedo boat destroyers left port arthur with the destroyer rasto the japanese stopped two of them and the fate 0 the third is unknown che foo nov 20 4 p m another attack on etz mountain Is expected to occur november according to chinese who left dalny today tho chinese further report that reinforcements for the japanese continue to arrive for the past ten days 1000 men have arrived dally washington nov 20 advises advices received at the i legation today state that a bombardment by tho japanese port arthur army guns caused the explosion of a russian powder magazine near the arsenal the work of the attacking force it is added is progressing as planned st petersburg nov 20 general kuropatkin telegraphs thera was no fighting the night of november 18 and chee foo nov 21 11 a m abe general attack on port arthur was resumed november 18 or november 19 according to the report of persons arriving today from dalny they say that the japanese are so secretive that it is difficult in dalny to learn the true facts even the officers detailed to work at the base do not know what their comrades at the front are doing november 16 a peculiarly heavy explosion shook every ship ny the explosion was ascribed to tho blowing of land mines or a magazine copenhagen nov 20 the vessels of the second division of the second pacific russian squadron resumed their journey northward from langland this morning tokio nov 20 6 p m A tele gram from bogos besieging force at port arthur dated november 14 reports that during the afternoon ot that day in a bombardment by naval guns a magazine near the arsenal was exploded the dispatch concluded as follows our operations against all the forts proceed as prearranged the following dispatch has been received from tho manchurian army headquarters at noon november 19 we shelled tho infantry engaged in in drenching trenching tren ching east of also a body of infantry in the rear of the village causing them to flee in confusion la other directions thero Is no change new york nov 20 hugh thompson former governor of south carolina died tonight aged 68 years in recent years he was comptroller of the new york lite insurance company |