PORT ARTHUR.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11956, 8 August 1904, Page 5

PORT ARTHUR.

ONLY ONE OUTPOST UNCAPTURED' THE BESIEGERS' STRENGTH. ' LONDON, August s ; ' . One of the Hipsang'a passeagem describes the fighting on the 26th and 28th. ; Hi» information is taken chiefly from a Port Arthur newspaper. Th* Japanese captured Green Hill and Wolfe Hill on.the north and east of th_*ity. They did not mccaed in capturing Christ Hill, which; is now the' only outpost held by the Rnarinns. It is reported that tho Japanese fired a hundred and twenty-five thousand rounds of ahrapael. True* was declared on the night of "the 28th in order to bury the dead. The main body of Russians i* nowinsid* the peiman-mt forte, constituting a fortress of 2000 guns, which command the plain which the Japanese must cross. Captain Bradley, of th* Hipaang, fired * pktofcat a torpedo boat aa she approached. When tbo Hipaang -truck the ;Ch_j*se rushed the boat* and the European* were con-polled to swim Tiefora they w-er* res-; caerL *.--■■•>.. '"■ .'.■■.'■ (Received Angus! 7th, 8.68 *.*.) ■ -'LONDON,'" Aagast 6.. ': Th* Rosriana give *s tb* reason for sinking'tbe Hipaang that they thcught ahe was Japanese a* Japanese vessel* had been flyingvtbe English flag.;*/•'" (Received August 7tb, s*jo p.m.) It is estimated thai there ar* 130,000 Japanese troops around Port Arthur. Tb* steamer Niuchwang from Niooh-' wang conveyed to Port Arthur artillery and 65,000 shells.