Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-03
H[RO|C ASSAULT
On RUSSIAN WORKS
o,,tt Of Kin Chou Described as
An Unprecedented Military
Spectacle
JAPANESE WERE UNDAUNTEO.
,,...,d povn, They Still Stood Their
Ground and Carried All With a
BayOnet Charge.

,..son June S.-The Times steamer
,.,nnn returned to Chefoo on June ?
i n cruise ln Sin Chou bay The
w. ..,nondent aboard learned from
W., Arthur refugees that the native
i' ciylian populad don get only such
sus as arrives ON junks from Chlnese
. ~" or what they themselves have
y ,,.,es The military authorities re-
astloned an available food, On half
,,ors II is estimated that the garrl-
,aa mas enough for five months.
rho Ave damaged warships moored at
4, Port Arthur jattios, the Times cor
,.,oondent learns have been denuded
!, everything movable. Lieut-Gen,
.,Os.ssl retains large number OF
~rss IN the roadsted. The object of
,s,s measure can only be conJectured,
nv correspondent says
arve.witnesses OF the battle OF Kin
chon describe ID as an unprecedented
untsry spectacle Forty thousand Jap
p.ess were massed behind the western
.onr Of Mount sampson under such
I'm coyer as was Afforded by the iWln
,.aes THE troops were within 1000
y.,Ss NJ tbe Russian works. There was
} y G,tle room 20 doploy for attack that
mtslons Of Japanese troops were
ssl,ysd 10 stand I'm the sen waiting for
M ,noment OF attack, exposed to a
,.rl,able inferno Of IRE from the Rus
,sn batteries. The shells plowed into
hslr SERTED masses.
Meantime battery after battery Of
Iapanese guns went into action upon
me- chi Ii Chwaug and the kauchiayan
hts and sustained gunboat fire played
unon the Russian works Their lines
were fringed with bursting projectiles.
about midday the energy Of the Rus
Nan defenders In the works In front Of
.Nauehlaying village seemed exhausted
Nv The gnnboat nre. Two Japanese
hhallons appeared over the saddle be-
tween the twin peaks and made des-
psrste effort to carry the nearest Rus
sian works.
AT first the struggling walls of Maui
thayng gave them some cover and n
moments breathing space. Then the
gallant little lnfantrymen crept on
sgsln I'D the slopes toward the Russian
position. II was an impossible task
As yet the defenders had not been suf-
fitnty shaken, An avalanche Of con
tsnlrated FIRE from Infantry IN the
trenches, machine guns In the Russian
works and Qulck-nring field artillery in
Inc supporting defenses struck the Jap
shese They melted away from the gla-
IA like solder before the flame of a
bow pipe a few who seemed TO have
CHARMED lives struggled on until they
arhed the wire entanglements.
IL was IN vain, Heroic effort was
visited Within 10 minutes these two
h,tal.ons ceased to exist except as q
tail Of mutilatcd bodies az the foot Of
10 Russian glacis.
Seeing the failure Of this attack, the
pnboats and supporting artillery con
ts1trated the whole OF their fire upon
the point whore Gen. Oku had deter
mined TO drive homo his wedge. and by
evening the works werc practicable for
an assault by general who had such
Infantry as the Japanese who was pre-
pared TO take the responsibility OF such
fearful losses, 1t would seem as II the
actual carrying OF the works had been
smother Alma The word was given for
baycnet attack Then the whole Jap
mee front surged forward and the