The Bourbon news., 1904-06-10
JAPS' ADVANCE GUARD.
1t Has Been Withdrawn From
VafangOw.
Samsonoff's Cossacks Attacked the ia.
panese in the Valley of Putaian-
tum and After a Stubborn Re-
sistance Were Driven Out.

London, June 9.-The Exchange Tel
! egraph Co. reports well-authenticate ted
rumOrs from Liao Yang of the fall Of
Port Arthur According to this report
the Japanese lost 1000 men in killed
and wounded The Russian loss can
not be ascertained
LiaO Yang, June 8-The Japanese
have drawn in their advance guards
from Vafangow They blew up part Of
the railway and the telegraph station
on the night of June 8. The damage
was soon repaired
SamsOnof's Cossacks are harrassing
the japanese towards Port Arthur
! Cossacks searching the hills occasion
ally catch detached parties unawares.
In the clothing of Japanese officer of
! the Fourteenth regiment who was kill
ed important documents were found
I showing that the Japanese had lost
heavily in the fighting May go Many
of the Japanese killed wore tattered
Chinese clothes such as spies use.
Samsonoff's fight with the japanese
June in the valley of Putsientun took
place in AN immense amphitheater in
the hills. Samsonoff threw forward
skirmishers to feel out the japanese
position. The COssacks and dragons
crept forward examining the steep hill
sides, deep ravines and dry water
courses likely to protect japanese am
buscades.
Finally the Japanese fire on the crest
of the hills located them and the as
sailants swarmed up almost inaccessi-
bic cliffs. The japanese first kept in
the shelter of the rocks but the Rus
sian fire scOrched them out and they
| fitted shadOw-like across the rocks as
the Cossacks continued to advance
while the dragons cleared the valleys
leading from the amphitheater. The
japanese cavalry retreated, unwilling
to risk collision at close quarters.
The Russians line encircled one
great hill on which was the principal
Japanese position and like a living
ribbon, crept toward the summit Col.
Sereda led the advance until he fell
wounded half way up the cliffs. The
NO214I1icI1Q QCNOiNSu UDOu l116u(. OQl.
Chicsville, who continued the forward
movement, clearing the japanese from
the heights
In the meantime q Russian battery
placed an accurate shrapnel fire among
the hilI tops, fastening the Japanese
retreat Two Japanese sharpshooters
on the summit of hill seriously an
nOyed the Russians at a critical period
of the advance An officer of TeriIes-
ld's company scaled the rocks in the
face of almost certain death and killed
both the Japanese returning un-
harmed
Besides Col. Sereda, II Russians
were wounded in the days encounter.
The japanese losses owing to the ac-
curacy of the Russian artillery fire
seemed heavy
Che Foo, June 9.-The Chinese, both
merchants and coolies, are leaving
Port Arthur WITH the permission of the
Russian authorities. Fifty junks,
which left Port Arthur Tuesday with
Chinese passengers, are now arriving
here. The reports of the latest arTiV-
ais vary in minor details but agree
in a general statement that battle
has been raging for four days within
ten miles of Port Arthur All the Rus
sian soldiers have, it is said, left Port
Arthur for the front and only three
large ships and a number of small
ones remain in the harbOr.
They further report that all the forts
at Port Arthur have been more or less
damaged by recent bOmbardments and
that a large number of mines recently
laid in the entrance to the harbOr were
exploded during a thunder storm.
st. Petersburg, June 9.-News from
Port Arthur, the Liao Tung peninsula
and the Yalu river is cut off from Rus
sian sources by the Japanese who are
between the Russians and the terri
tory mentioned. 1t is officially assert
ed that the cables connecting Japan
with China are not working, which
would prevent Toxic also having
knowledge of events in that section Of
Manchuria The interruption" of the
cable work, however, is more likely to
be official" and due to a censorship
at Toxic.