The Russian warships in Port Arthur are nearly annihilated, stubbornly testifying to the vital importance of the capture of the 203-metre fort. The Japanese papers exhaust the vocabulary in eulogising the recent successes in Port Arthur. The question as to the disposition which the Russians would make of their Port Arthur fleet in the event of the imminent fall of the stronghold is being summarily settled for them, instead of by them. Seldom has there been a more dramatic war than that now being waged, and by all odds its chief dramatic features have been centred at Port Arthur, says a Yokohama paper, and at this writing, out of the the Sebastopol alone was surviving the Japanese fire, and she hardly found the shelter off Mantoushan, The loss of the warships is tantamount to the fall of the fortress itself, and it will be interesting to see what effect the tidings of the destruction now being wrought will have upon the progress of the Bultic Squadron.
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