The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-11-25
HEAVY RISKS
JAPANESE STAKED THE WHOLE
GAME ON PORT ARTHUR
Facing the Certainty of Unlimited En-
couraSement To the Chiues. aud
the Stayiny OF OF Their Own War
Loan, They Hustle Up 10 the
Wsrks-Chipese in Box.

WASHINGTON. Noy. 4-coafirmstiono OF
the report ei the eapsuse of Por, Artaur
cam almost simultaneously 10 the state
and navy 5eptr msnts. 70 he former ron
In'trd States VI ulster ID Iby, At Pskia,
aud o the la ter from Admiral Csrp-atsr,
on board tae UuiIed States sL!p Btlli.
more at Che Foo. the admired st the same
',he not'y.nS the navy department that
tue ha uno'e WAS about 10 sail imms..i-
ateiy Tor Port Arthur. wnere she douoslesS
has arrived by this time.
IL cannSt DC sail tart the fall o Port
Arthus Was unexpected At the state de-
partmenl, alt housh tie officials bad ,uo-
posed II Would Certainly have withsro al /.
p.otrac;ed -ie-e, particularly in view o,
the fact t5at tue japanese. ss known. hsd
no heavy siege guns sud were obliged t.
rely on hghL held artillery.
IL Is the opIniOn ot military experts
that Japaa's attack on Port Arthur WAS
most perilous venture on their p,rL They
could nos af ,rd TO sustain aay consider
shle defeat. tor the result woa "a have b-ea
Ia the urst place To Ge rraine The Chtuess
10 pursue he " aud ia the sec Dad plscs
To r~tard tHe Japanese gosernm Ia its
etor; TO nost a new war loan BG 5y
49, - ~ w 4 ~ AElN4E llG cAANNCNS Ol
the lsttsr IS now assured
As TO the effect Ot thIS last campaign os
the war there Is tus one opiulou s-rr,
aud tdat the speedy Te.toratlau
OF peace - almost certain IL
Is true that Chiua still possess
the spie udid iortifc ,tious At Wei uti Wei.
S'ld 10 br ss strong. OF even stronger tnaa
Port Arthur. aud that th- shore dvf-ucrs
there are str-ng heued by the pr.ssnc q
the ChIues- Il ct. Bat with Port Arthur
as base, the Japanese now have the
practical eOutgo! OF the Cult cf T., Cai Ii
aud thev can etfectua!,y steal up the water
approaches TO Tieu Tsin and r. 6in. ths
capital. without being nader the necessity
OF attacking the rmldabls raku turts At
the mou n OF tue river.
Moreover, with tue Chinese fieet practl-
caliy bottled up a. Wei Hal Wei. the
J'pHnrss are IN position to detach a por-
ton OF their own navy To attack other Chi
uese coast cities aud work enormous dam
age 50 II would seem TO be nisturss for
the Chinese 70 p-rsist IN the war, rvsIizlng
that for every DAYS delay they mus, add
To the great inirmnity wbicn they will bs
Obliged L pay 70 japan. aud Il i believed
here that very soon the Chiur-e viii sue
for peace. through the mediation. directly
or Indirectly. or the United states miuister
at okio.
The japanese attack upon Port Arthur
was dIrTcJed against several forts IN the
rear OF Port Arthur. Tie first army all
vanced trum the right side aud the kd.
msmmot q brigade advanced from the lefJ,
wuile The heavy artili-ry was concentrated
In the center Ia Older ~ bombsrd the
castle.
The first army captured a fort on the
west sids al o'clock IA the mSruin< aot
entered Port Arthur at O'Clock iu the ~
teruoon. The NsgonseB fort was esp
tured e O'Clock ia the afternoon. Ths
humsmn ,tO brigade took the westward
forts at Ia o'clock. The dShtioz was coa-
tilued through the night aud uutil tue
next moruiug, when all the coast forts
were in tue possession of TIA, japanese.
The JHptue4s losses Were brtVy, tut IL 10
thought the Caine-- lot 21OD1
LONDON. N0v. 48-fh- Jnpaur-e, says
Snaug sal al -Dstca. csptlrcd 10 900 tons ot
coal aud 2 GO OJ0 tsels worth OF ammaui-
uon at Port Arthur.