29th March.
From a number of teleg: ams from various sources published this morning in "nother column, it is learnt that another attempt was. made before dawn on Suoday to block the entrance to the inner © harbour, The attempt: was again unsuccessful, it appears—though we are not yet in possession of Admiral Togo's report,—the blocking steamers being sunk by the forts before they reached the mouth of the channel. The fighting seems to have been confined to the destroyers, one of the Russian destroyers reporting a large number of killed and wounded, An attempt is made in the Russian telegrams to suggest that the Japanese fleet was unwilling to encounter the Russian ships when they came out at dawn but it is evident that the latter did not come outside the protection of the forts, because the Haimun reports seeing the Japanese fleet off Port Arthur after the bombardment. As we have said, it is not Admiral Togo's game to engage the forts and
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