The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-09-30
1000
MenSaidtOHave
Been Lost
By Japs in Their Port
Arthur Attack.
|CHINESE SHOT
]WhileC eCarryingA Away
Russian Dead.
Hundreds of laps Blown tC
Pieces by Explosion of
i Mines.

Che Foo, Sept. 29.-Russians resid-
ing here claim to have received infor-
nation that the Japanese losses in the
last assault on Port Arthur, which be-
gun September 10, were 1000.
A Chinese who left the fortress on
September 26 says that the Russian
losses were between 500 and 600.
This Chinaman says that the Japa-
nese were unable to remain in the
three supplementary forts which they
afternoon of September 26, after en-
during several days of tremendous
firing from the inner forts
He adds that the Russians attempt
ed to bury the dead on both sides at
night, because the decomposing bodies
seriously menace the health OF the
garrison The Russians allege that II
is the deliberate policy of the Japa-
nese to undermine the health of the
Russian troops by means of the odors
from the decomposing bodies and that
for this reason they fire on the burial
parties
One Chinese who was a member of
a burial party says that the japanese
fired when he and other, Chinese at
tempted to bury the dead He adds
that when the wind carries the odors
toward the Japanese the latter retire.
Chinese say that the most severe at
tacks were made on the supplement
tary forts of the Itz and Anshu noun
tain forts. The Russians had under
mined the ground and several hundred
Japanese were blown up on Septem-
Der %. Reports received from the
Miaotao Islands mention terrific re-
port which shook the houses there on
that date
The Russian ships took part in the
battle. From 80 to so shells fell daily
in the Chinese new town. One shell
tore the rudder from a torpedo boat
destroyer.
The Russians are now building q
new fort on Liaoti promontory.
London, Sept. pa dispatch from
vladivostok says that according to re-
ports from Port Arthur two japanese
torpedo boats and a Japanese steamer
have been sunk by mines near Port
Arthur during the last few days A
Japanese cruiser was badly damaged
Paris, Sept. 29.-A dispatch from
Toulon says: The Russian govern
ment has negotiated for the construc-
ton of IL torpedo boat destroyers OF
the latest model. Work will shortly
be begun on four of them at the ship
yards in Normandy, four at the ship
Yards at Havre and three at the ship
| wards at La Seyne. Fifteen month!
| are required for their construction
Other important orders are anticipat
ed, the present negotiations including
four cruisers.
ST. Petersburg, Sept. 29.-Move
ments at the front, so far as disclosed
by the meagre dispatches received
here, are confined almost to continu
Gus outpost skirmishes by means o
which Gen. Kuropatkin is keeping il
| close touch with the japanese alonl
the whole of their front Field Mar
shall Oyama's advance appears to b.
extremely deliberate. There are NJ
| indications as yet that he has begul
| to overlap Russian positions.
| The superiority of the Russian cav
airy is beginning to be apparent The.
have had the best of 1t in a number o
| minor encounters
Reinforcements are rapidly arrivin
| at Mukden and convalescents are al
/ ready returning to duty.