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made in the breastworks of the Erh-
| lungshan Fort, the covering of which
| was also destroyed to some extent.
The covering at the gorge of the Sung
shushan Fort was also demolished at
| two places. Moreover a 15-cm. Rus
| sian gun was dismantled and another
sustained severe damage, and gun on
| the North Fort of Tungkikwanshan
was put ont of action.
From p. m. other batteries of our
| siege guns fired on the sl1irlnishers'
| trenches on the glaeis in front OF the
Sungshushan and Erhlungshan Forts,
and the trenches in the south of Hachi-
maki-yama and inflicted on the enemy
severe losses. At 5 p. m. a portion of
the Right Column charged the trench
es on Sungshushan and a portion of
| the Central Column the trenches on
| Erhlungshan and in the south of Ha-
| chimaki-yama. and occupied them
without sustaining any serious losses.
No sooner had these trenches been
occupied than the enemy concentrated
the fire from the batteries not only of
the neighbouring forts, but OF the
heights west of Tayangkeu, of the
Manteushan, Golden Hill. Paiyushan,
Laoluhtsu, and other forts, on the at
lacking force. The enemy's shots
mingled and crashed with those from
our batteries. and the scene was for
a time terrible beyond description.
But the enemy's shells inflicted no
material loss on our army. The enemy
exploded a large mine laid on the
glacis of the Erhlungshan Fort, but
the result was harmless to our troops.
ohi Of oh inc
enemy's repairing works, our force
during the night bombarded the Erh-
lungshan Fort, Tungkikwanshan Fort,
the northern fort of the same, and
Sungsnushan Fort, with our siege and
naval guns. The enemy's ships and
arsenal We're also bombarded.
The enemy at Sungshushan and Erh-
1ungshan, under cover of rifle and gun
fire attacked us several times during
the night, but was everywhere repuls-
ed.
27th-The firing from our guns of
large calibre was carried out contin-
uously, while our naval guns opened
fire on Sungshushan, Itszshan Antsz-
shan, Paiyushan. Erhlungshan, the
shipbuilding yard and warships in the
harbour.
To mention some of the principal eff
fects of our bombardment to-day, II
demolished one of the gun-carriages at
Tungkikwanshan; destroyed the in
fantrv banquette extending from the
east end to the centre in the northern
front of ErhIungshan Fort; shattered
the coverings; inflicted damages on
two light guns. and destroyed one Of
the guns in the eastern front Of the
same fort Nor was this all. Several
of our shells hit the southeastern cor
ner of the above fort, with the result
that the coverings were destroyed, as
were also two machine guns in the
vicinity.
At the Sung hushan Fort, gun
mounted at projecting corner was
dismantied: a 12-cm. Canet gun facing
the middle of our left wing was damag-
ed as were also the covered positions
and coverings
The Same night our Engineering
Corps working against the northern
fort of Tungkfkwanshan succeeded in
destroying a portion out fde the pro-
jecting corner of the fort.
The enemy INSTRUCTED the progress of
our engineering work by means Of
bombardment Especially during the
night. explosives, sorties, etc. and at
the same time endeavoured TO repair
those portions of the forts damaged by
our gun fire
2Sth.-The bombardment was con-
tinued with large calibre and other
siege guns. the result being so sat
isfactory that the effective shots from
the large calibre artillery alone num-
bered 2S5 in all. Several shots also hit
Antszshan. Itszshan, the fort on 20o-