Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-08-31
ATTACKS LIAOYANG.
General Kuropatkin Gives
Battle With 100, 900 Men.
HOLDS FATE OF RUSSIAN ARMS.
The Japanese Opened with a Rain
of shrapnel Which Swept III
Entire Russian Front-Mukden =
Reports a Japanese RepuIse.

LONDON. Aug. 31.-Advices from
Tokyo say that with 100000 men. Gen
erals Kuroki, Oku and Nodzu are
pressing their attack on Liaoyang,
where General Kuropatkin is strongly
fortified with an army of 10000 men.
The battle thai has developed and
still continues is the greatest of the
war, and upon its result practically
depends the fate of the Russian arms.
The fortunes of war are still in
decided, but the latest reports declare
that the initial %onslaughts of the
legions of Japan We're beaten back.
Every attempt to turn the Russian
flank was repulsed, it is said, and the
loss is reported to be extremely heavy
on both sides.
At Port Arthur desperate assaults
have been made upon the fortress,
Japanese delivering five successive at
tacks, In each of which the men were
hurled back, though they twice pene-
trated the Notifications and were i'm
paled ON Russian bayonets.
u At 8 O'Clock in the morning the
mikado's troops, moved by the knowl-
edge that 1t was the anniversary Of
the mikado's birth, opened their as
sault with a rain of shrapnel which
swept the entire Russian front. Under
cover of the heaviest kind of cannon
aiding, so fierce that the hills appeared
ablaze and the individual detonations
6f the guns could not be distinguished.
the infantry advanced.
In four hours they were close upon
the Russian line. On the west it was
reported that the Russian cavalry had
checked the forward movement, but on
the south, where the fighting was
fiercest, they came into, hand to hand
conflict with the Russians, and bayonet
charges resulted. The Russian losses
have been heavy.
From an early hour the wounded
have been pouring in a steady stream
into the city.
1t is estimated that more than half
a million men are engaged in the
battle.
A late dispatch from Liaoyang says
that Il Russian correspondent has sup
piled the following:
"The historical moment has arrived,
and the battle OF Liaoyang is In prog
ress.
ut was not @ o'clock in the morning
xpbauf ha f,.ot MIN ~ 6rad hut soon
afterward hundreds of cannon We're
laundering along u southern and
eastern fronts. g.
'The center of our position is locat-
ed near the famous tower of Liaoyang,
about seven miles to the southeast.
The fighting there is of the most des-
peratc character.
1--WE are asking ourselves il the tide
of battle is going to swamp the city
will 1t be destroyed by the Japanese?'
A dispatch from Mukdcn says that
in the stubbornly fought battle which
has been in progress near Liaoyang
all attempts of The Japanese to turn
the Russian flank have been repulsed.
1t Is said at Mukden that the Japa-
nese lost over ten guns, but details
had not yet been received.
The Japanese have 1900 guns near
Liaoyang.
Through mists and haze all three
Of the japanese columns moved for
ward. The Russians resisted this adj
vance vigorously, and it was nightfall
before the Japanese were in possession
of the long ridge of Hungshaling. The
most fierce engagements occurred at
Hungshaling and Kungchangllng.
The moonlight revealed the japanese
troops as they advanced. The Russian
defenders of these positions, besides
opening a fierce rife fire on the en-
envy, rolled powders down the hillside
upon the climbing japanese soldiers.
The Japanese reserved their fire and
climbed steadily upward, finally reach
ing the summit and driving the Rus
slams out.
The main force retreated toward
Liaoyang. The Japanese casualties in
this fighting number about 1000.
The Japanese army which operated
against Anshanshan has advanced
along the Haicheng-Liaoyang road,
clearing away small forces of Rus
slams. The Japanese line is extended
from Shanghihichiatzo to the west of
Sumati. The Japanese pursued the en-
envy and overlook them east Of the
road in the n~eighborhood of Tiaochun-
tai, Tashihtao and Pakuakou and at
tackled vigorously. The column of
infantry and artillery, which pursued
the Russians on the west side of the
Haicheng-Liaoyang road, overlook the
main body of the enemy as it was re
to the northwest and drove IL
also toward North Shaho.
In these engagements the Japanese
captured eight guns and a number OF
ammunition aud commissary wagons.
A Chefu report says: "All is quiet on
the eastern front Of Port Arthur's for
tifcations. The guns on Quail hill and
the shore batteries successfully bonn
barded the enemy on the western front.
The Japanese have occupied the quar-