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i A Visit to the Fortress. The correspondent of the Chicago ] Daily News, dating Nagasaki, Novem- j ber 7th, describes his arrival at the , Liaotishan lighthouse, which he reached t in a boat from the Miaotao Islands. He says he was picked up by a Russian torpedo boat, and transferred from her successively to the Peresviet and the Bayan, both of which were badly damaged and filthily dirty. Captain Vhen, of the Bayan, asked 1 news of the Baltic Fleet, and, on learning it had not yet sailed, expressed despair, while the other officers openly ' declared themselves lost. Altogether r the correspondent counted sixteen Russian fighing ships in the harbour at Port Arthur — none of them dismantled, and only the small machine guns had been sent ashore to assist the batteries. ] | After describing the booms and other i obstructions, the correspondent says:— i "I was conducted to the presence of I General Stoescel, and noticed en route t the ravage caused by tbe bombardment. » i though QO per cent of the shells fired [ a