Chefoo letter reports that since the Ist instant every native junk and steamer arriving at that port from Port Arthur and Dalny is filled with native passengers, who have left those ports owing to the receipt sure information that war is imminent between Japan and Russia, It is estimated that from the Ist to the 20th instant an average of about 180 male and female refugees. a day have come to Chefoo from Port. Arthur and Dalny to escape the horrors of war. Many Japanese traders are also said to have left the Russian paris about the same time,
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