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STILL SMELLING
BESIEGED CITY
JAPs KEEP UP STEADY bonn
BARDMENT AT PORT ARTHUR.
MUCH DAMAGE is REPORTED
Japanese Losses Since Beginning Of
the Siege Said to Be 10000
Rival Armies Still Resting
at Shakhe River.

st. Petersburg, Oct. %. News
from Port Arthur brought to Che
foo by junk which left there Oc-
tober 10 says fierce bombardment
which began October 16 was still pro-
crossing without interruption. Many
buildings had been damaged and ships
In the harbor had also been hit by the
shells, but the character and extent Of
the damages are not stated. The jap
anese main forces are now posted at
Liudziatung. They have placed guns OF
large caliber on Iunjida mountain. The
Russians continue making sorties sue
cessfully and inflicting heavy losses on
the besiegers, whose losses since the
commencement Of the siege are said to
have been $4,000
Still Inactive.
st. Petersburg, Oct. 22-The rival
armies of Russia and Japan entrenched
short distance from each other south
of the Shakhe river are forced to con-
tinued inactivity until the fine weather
now prevailing dries the sodden ground
and the tired warriors are sufficiently
rested to resume operations. A dispatch
from Mukden reports that the Russians
on Friday confined themselves to bonn
bardment of Shakhe station and the adj
joining village of Lamatung, the jap
anese feebly responding. This news
clears up an interesting point, and shows
that Shakhe station is not held by the
Russians. Russian correspondents re-
port that some regiments of the Fifth
Siberian corps have been engaged in
slight skirmishes on the advance line
the past few days. The fact that the
First and Fifth Siberian were the only
corps hitherto unmentioned in reports
OF the fighting on October 10 shows that
to the trenches, giving other much tried
corps thorough rest. Meanwhile the
Cossacks are raiding the Japanese lines.
The first detachment of the Eighth
corps has reached Hardin and the re-
mainder Is expected to reach that place
within three weeks. Meanwhile three
Polish rifle brigades are beginning to
start for the front 1t is expected that
this will provide 10000 troops. BY the
time this force is started for the far east
the Sixteenth corps, stationed at Vitebik,
OF the Second corps at Grodno, will be
ready to start.
Entire Force Wounded.
Mukden, Oct. %. = Every man Of the
200 Cossacks commanded by Capt Tour
genieff, who on Tuesday night recon-
noitered the Japanese, left southwest
ward, and who, near Sandopu, unex-
pectedly encountered a good-sized Jap
anese force with machine guns, was
wounded, and every horse, except Capt.
Tourgenieff's. was hit by the bullets
from the Japanese machine guns.
Tourgenieff, though MORALLY wounded,
carried OF one man behind his saddle,
while others managed to creep back to
camp. But, as already cabled, not one
man was killed on the field. There is
the greatest fear on the part of the Rus
sian wounded Of falling into the hands
Of the Japanese, the Russians being
convinced that they torture their pris-
oners.
The weather and the condition Of the
roads have made extensive operations
impossible, but the roads are now dry
ing hard, which forecasts events in the
near future. The war correspondents
in the field are kept in the dark and it is
difficult to say when and how this
dreadful slaughter will end.