Hooter Fuller, the "Indinapolis News" correspondent, ho left Chefoo in a junk 6th June, with the intention of making an effort to get into Port Arthur, returned here Sunday night.
Mr. Fuller states that his mission, in so far as getting into Port Arthur was concerned, was accomplished. The junkman conveying him thither, % will be "remem authorising the payment to him of a portion of the passage money, as bad been previously 'Mr. Fuller states that he landed in Louise Bay (called Louisa Bay on' the' charts): at about dawn on ith June. Getting into the bay there could be observed from the junk, on the north shore of the little inlet, ere "cruisers, four' torpedo: hosts" ahd: two torpedo boat destroyers. "At~the' moment they' were sighted, and believing them to be Japanese vessels, the junk was have to, in the hope of escaping their notice. " Fortunately, & heavy fog of the'early- morning enveloped the waters of the' bay and enabled the junkiman (3 proceed,' without discovery, to @ point close enough to shore that the passenger might be carried through the shallow water and placed' safely on: Jand.
Mr. Fuller proceeded. unkind-'a short distance, and taking. position on' a little eminence, awaited the rising of the sun to disperse the fog on the bay, so that ho might do some-reconnoitring and. get a good view of the little squadron, 'The clearing of the' fog revealed the fact that the boats' were' all flying the' Russian ting and had steam' up, and were apparently fully equipped and ready for service. 'The correspondent spent some time' in the vicinity of the' bay, and saw the four vessels mote about in the basin, He tramped about the entire day, having in the meantime communicated wit his junk and dispatched "it to Chiefoo, and took observations of the surrounding country. The shore about Louise Bay is fist, surrounded at a' short distance inland' with hills upon which are mounted rapid fire batteries, so masked that they cannot be discovered until within a hundred yards of them The location of these batteries was indicated to the traveller by the presence of some of the soldiers manning them; the latter failed, however, to discover the newspaper man, even when he approached close enough to make mire of the guns which equip the forts.
The face of the hills forming these fortifications, and this is also true of the other batteries which were observed on the tramp into Port Arthar from the northwest side, has been rendered inaccessible by being cut way in places where there has been a natural terrace, many points where the hills might be climbed having been riprapped with stone, so that they will be impassable unless pounded to pieces by a fierce artillery assault. Carefully constructed rifle pits line the footpaths and ronds leading in toward Port Arthur, details to insure effective Sire being looked after well, the pits being provided with kneeling banks for the men.
On the night of 12th June Mr. Fuller was apprehended by Russian soldiers in the immediate vicinity of these fortifications, and conducted to' a Chinese'hut behind the hills where were quartered several officers. Here he was interrogated as to his business in the place, but the inability of his questioners to speak good English baffled their efforts to got a knowledge of the designs of their prisoner.
He was taken on some distance to' the quarters of another batch of officers, and the same performance was remedied, alter which a decision was evidently arrived ab to con duct him into Port Arthur.
He was marched under guard along what ho describes as a splendidly oonstrus's} military road, into the city, and lodged in 'a prison building just off the naval basin, arriving at his assigned quarters about. 1 o'clock in the morning. He was given something to eat and placed in a toouy "Gell" which continued to be his residence for " perked of five'days.
Several officers "accompanied by "intertprobits; "visited" hin during the sniixt "day,
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