Qnd August.
That serious fighting has been taking iplaco during the past week at Port WArthur is quite certain, and although the suppositions in regard to its fall appear to. have been premature, the end cannot now be long distiint, 'The news told by the escaping' junk-mon continues to be as contradictory as jthe imagination of these amateur war-correspondents can make it. They have, however, been bringing out letters among other things, and a whole mail was re-fe ently held up by the destroyer Hayatori. Those that wore of a purely: private character were duly. forwarded to their Jdestination. One letter, written by a soldier, contains this vivid little pon-li picture: "Every day new orders are Fissued by our General, Stossel. It is a lease of punishment for everything. After the plot? (whip) had failed to puta Istop to thieving the-General declared stealing to be a capital offence 'Three men—two artillerists and a Chinese—wero hanged for taking vodka from the officers' mess... The soldists crivid and begged for mercy, but the-China: man grinned the whole time. When Father Urmansky. was' confessing the men before hanging he told' the Chinaman that he had one chance left of escaping Hell, but the Chinaman said: 'Mo no want to go Russian' Heaven,'
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.