Show REPORT or i affairs that have taken place along the front of opposing Forces Nothing new concerning manchurian situation no information bearing on the military situation in manchuria is contained in dispatches either from boklo or st petersburg from boklo comes an official report of skirmish affairs that have taken place along the extended front of the armies but none of them was of an important character tokio also reports that four russian warships were damaged by the alre of the japanese land batteries during recent fighting at port arthur one of the vessels being corn plemely destroyed the russian admiralty continues without news of the reported sea fight off port arthur general hasegawa Haz egawa goes to korea to assume command of the japanese forces there it is probable that his appointment foreshadows fore shadows a move to expel the cossacks now operating in northwestern korea it Is reported from vladivostok that general kuropatkin has been ill and unable to personally command his army since the battle of liao yang the report however lacks confirmation WAS A MASS OF DEATH AND destruction r st petersburg oct 7 mall letters describing incidents at the battle of llao yang are beginning to reach the newspapers here an eyewitness eye witness who was present in the town during the fearful bombardment of august 30 and august 31 compares the to a seething caldron veterans of the turkish war declaring that nothing approaching tho intensity 0 shell alre had been expert at plevna the hollow in which llao yang is situated is described as being an awful mass of death and destruction st some of the japanese guns posted in the chinese corn paid particular attention to a russian captive balloon firing in the hope of puncturing it the soldiers attached to the rope of the balloon were compelled beveral times to hurriedly drag it away but the balloon was never even touched major general Kash who TV as on a hill near told a correspondent that the japanese gunners tried vainly for a whole day to locate a russian battery posted in the corn near the hill THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A BATTLE st petersburg oct 7 a m the only reference to the reported sea tight off port arthur is contained in a delayed special dispatch from che foo which says that on the night of october ath the bound of firing was heard in the direction of port arthur and that searchlights were seen to working in that vicinity it Is thought there may have been a battle but no confirmation of the report of one ha 3 been received the dispatch further states that in spite of the tightening of the japanese blockade junks are still arriving from the fortress bearing refugees who say that all the attacks of abo japanese have been repulsed and that it will be necessary to institute a long siege and a complete blockade in order to reduce the fortress the blockade according to the refugees is not completely effective junks continually arriving with food supplies and iruni bruni alons for the garrison the japanese have instituted a close patrol over the entire yellow sea stopping every vessel sighted the captain of the british steamer chanan which was stopped by a japanese cruiser while on her way to che foo from taku but was allowed to proceed after her cargo had beau examined has made protest against the way he was boarded and searched on the high seas |