The Bourbon news., 1904-09-23
ATTACKED THE FORTS.
The Japanese Were Repulsed at
Port Arthur.
They Landed Strong Reinforcements
at Oalny and May Storm the For
tress, Probably Assisted BY
Japanese War Ships.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 2l.-Interest is
again concentrated upon Port Arthur.
owing to the receipts from foreign
sources of news that general storm
ing Of the Notifications there has be-
gun. A few belated kilograms from
Gen. Stoessel, the commander at Port
Arthur, published Tuesday afternoon
recording the repulse of the Japanese
and continued attacks, strengthen con-
fidence in the ability of the defenders
to hold out despite the furious on.
slaughts being made on them The
last attack mentioned by Gen. Stoes-
| sci took place the night of September
ii and was directed against redoubt
No. 8, which protects the water sup
ply of the city. The redoubt is about
two miles beyond the line of perma-
nent forts and the attack upon this
shows that the Japanese were not then
within striking distance of the main
fortress.
! Reports from Shanghai that some Of
the defenses had fallen into the hands
of the Japanese as a result of a gen.
eral assault on September 20 are not
confirmed from Russian sources.
The kilograms brought to Che Foo
by Prince Radziwill have not yet
reached the war office. 1t is under
stood that these dispatches contain de-
tails of the landing of strong Japanese
reinforcements at Dalny, which would
tend to confirm the belief that it is
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the fortress and that the warships will
probably take part in the attack
Che Foo, Sept. 22.-Mrs. Anna Kravt-
chenko, the English wife of a Rus
sian army officer, who arrived hero
the night of September II with Lieut..
Prince Radzivil from Port Arthur, is
the first woman to run the blockade
from the Russian stronghold since the
Japanese increased their vigilance to
prevent egress from the port. Her
trip was rendered extremely perilous
/ because she came out with the prince
and his companion, Lieut. Christofor-
off, who carried messages from Lieut..
Arthur, to Gen. Kuropatkin Both
these officers were disguised and had
they been captured by the Japanese
they certainly would have been exc
cuted
In an interview Mrs Kratvtchenko
said:
eve left Port Arthur at 8 o'clock
the night of September Is. There was
good wind and the moon was bright.
We were successful in avoiding the
! danger Of the first Japanese blockad-
ing line. We came up to the second
line when the moon was under a cloud.
Searchlights we're flashing on all
sides, but our junk was not discover
ed. We suddenly discovered ourselves
near another junk with a Japanese
crew on board. They presumably
were pirates, but we outsailed them
and drew away.
AT o'clock the next morning we
saw steamer coming our direction.
She had the appearance of a cruiser
and I was terribly frightened. When
we saw the cruiser Prince Radzivil
and Lieut.. Christoforoff went below.
stretched myself out on deck and cov-
cred myself with dirty blankets. Chi
nese were lying at my feet and at
my sides and for nearly an hour al
though nearly smothered, 1 kept my
position, never uttered a more thank
full prayer than when I was informed
that the steamer we had seen was
Red Cross vessel and that her cap
tain had no intention Of overhauling
us.
THE wounded men recover quickly
from the wounds inflicted by Maxim
projectiles and by the bullets of the
Osaka rifle, but the wounds resulting
from explosive bullets are awful and
recovery is impossible.
''The old town of Port Arthur is al.
most entirely wrecked. The streets
are filed with holes made by explod-
Ing shells. The loss of life in Port
Arthur from the bombariments has
been remarkably small. Once 1 count
ed 81 Japanese shells fired at a Rus
sian battery, not one of which reached
| it's mark"
ST. Petersburg, Sept. 22.-There is
further delay in the receipt of deci-
sive news from the front. The situa-
ton at Port Arthur remains blank,
though it is felt that important devel-
| opments may be even now occurring
there. The movements in the north
are still of tentative and preparatory
character on both sides, which have
not yet chrystaliZed into definite
clash of forces at any one point. A
resumption of the Japanese advance is