The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-07-21
They Lost Heavily in the AT.
tempted Storming of Port
Arthur on July 10.
WERE. ATTACKED WITH BAYONETS.
The MikadO's Men Retired in the Wild.
est Disorder. Chinese Estimating
Their Loss at 22,OOO.
A Correspondent Of a London Paper
Says a Naval Engagement Took
Place Friday Of Port Arthur
Result Not Given.

London. July 1S.-The morning pa.
pers have dispatches from correspond.
ents at Gen. Kuroki's headquarters
which bring the situation in the far
east up to July l6. All of the writer's
agree in saying that the situation Is
unchanged but that the armies always
are in touch that the Russians are be.
ing strongly reinforced and that 4
battle MAJ be expected any day.
London, July 16.-The Shanghai cor.
respondent of the Morning Post, ca.
bling under date of July IS. says:
"A naval engagement took place to.
day OFF Port Arthur"
St Petersburg, July ia special
dispatch from Tatchekino, dated July
ed storming of Port Arthur on July
10 and says that the Russians assum.
ed the offensive and attacked with the
bayonet.
The Japanese retired in the widest
disorder.
The Chinese estimated the japanese
losses at $4,000.
The spirit of the Japanese, the dis.
patch says, is sinking as the result Of
the Port Arthur defeat.
Cholera and dysentery are epidemic
at Feng.W WangCheng and there are
many deaths daily.
A heavy movement of Japanese is
reported east of Hai.Cheng. The Rus.
slams reconnotered almost to Kai
Chou before meeting the Japanese.
They drew the shrapnel fire of the
japanese, but having found them, the
Russians retired without loss
London, July l6.-The Toxic CORE.
spondent of the Times, in a dispatch
filed July 15, says that the st. Peters.
burg story of a Japanese repulse with
heavy casualties at Port Arthur July
10 is wholly dscredted in Toxic.
Alden, July 1S.-The North German
Lloyd steamer Prinz Heinrich, which
has arrived here from Hamburg. re.
ports that she was stopped by the Rus.
sian volunteer fleet steamer Smolensk.
and compelled to give up 81 sacks Of
letters and "a sacks and boxes OF par.
GELS, all intended for Japan.
II is reported that the Peninsular
and Oriental Co.'S steamer Malacca,
from Antwerp. for Japan, has been
seized in the Red Sea by the Russian
volunteers fleet steamer ST. Peters.
burg.
London, July 1S-A dispatch from
Alden to the Daily Mail says that the
captain of the British steamer Wal.
para reports that the Russian volun.
teer fleet steamer st. Petersburg sig.
nailed him to stop by firing across the
bows of the vessel on July Is while
20 miles of Jebel Zugar, in the Red
sea. The Russians examined the pa.
pers Of the Waipara and declared they
would hold the ship as prize.
The captain protested and was ia.
ken on board the st. Petersburg where
he gave the Russian officers a guaran.
tee that there were neither arms nor
ammunition on board the Waipara
destined for Japan. The vessel was
detained for four hours and was then
allowed to proceed.
Almost without exception the news.
papers Monday morning in editorials
or otherwise comment upon the Rus
sian volunteer fleet steamers passing
the Dardanelles and the government
is urged to- take action, especially for
the protection of British commerce in
the Red sea and neighboring waters
The Daily Telegraph. concluding an
outspoken protest written with traces
of government inspiration, says:
There is limit to complaisance
when neutral commerce under the
British flag Is molested in way to
which we have been for century and
half unused"
Special dispatches from Berlin echo
the feeling of irritation that exists in
London.
The Standards Toxic correspond
ent, cabling under date OF July II
says the Jill Shimpo in an editorial
expresses the hope that Great Britain
will see that Turkey lends Russia nc
assistance by allowing steamers OF
the volunteer feet to pass the Darda
nelles. The Jill Shmpo declares tina,
Great Britain Is bound under the terms
OF the Anglo.Japanese alliance to pre