Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-07-06
A Mile FROM
PORT ARTHUR.
Japanese Have Mounted Siege
Guns on Hills Surrounding
the City.
RUSSIANS MAKE AN ATTACK
Attempt to Capture Mao Tien Pass, but
Are Repulsed and Chased
by Japs.
DISASTERS TO CARS FLEETS.

OOo1OO, July C.-S:0U p, m.-CQlueS0
Just arrived here who left Port Arthur
ON July say that only nine Of the larger
Russian warships were there then. On
June %, when the feet engaged the
japanese squadron outside Port Arthur
harbor, it consisted of eleven of the
larger ships.
armies outside of Port Arthur, according
to report, were only separated one from
the other by a mile, the Japanese advanc-
ing steadily from hill to hill, on all of
which they are placing big guns. 1t is
said they landed $50 Of these guns at
Dalny.
Toxic, July As p. m.-Delayed in
Transmission Gen. Kuroki reports
that two battalions Of Russians attacked
the japanese outposts in Mao Tien pass
at dawn on July 4, under cover Of a
dense fog. The Russians were repulsed,
but they returned and charged three
times before they were finally driven off.
The Japanese pursued them for three
miles to the westward Of Mao Tien pass.
The Russians left thirty dead and fifty
wounded on the field.
The Japanese lost fifteen killed and
thirty wounded.
Toxic, July 5.-Noon.-A detachment
of Gen. Kuroki's army has occupied
North Fen Shun Ling without meeting
with resistance. The main army ad-
ranced westward and occupied a line
extending from Mao Tien pass to Shao
Mo Tien Ling and Stimulating.
Lao Yang, July 4.-Monday-De
layed in transmission. Rain is again
falling in torrents and the thermometer
registers 20 degrees Centigrade. The
Russians lines to the east and south
are like iron barriers. The japanese are
quiet and seem to have vanished along
the Russian outposts.
Tai Tche Kiao, July 5.-Lieut. Gen.
Baron Stakelberg and the Roumanian
military attache, narrowly escaped
drowning today owing to the sudden
flooding Of the headquarters of the for
mer's army corps. They were both res
cued by soldiers who cut their way
through the tents.
Tai Tche Kiao, July 2.-Via Lao
Yang, July "A fight between Russian
torpedo boats and japanese transports
was reported off the coast this afternoon.
n 20 Wv 1nr101
the seward. An officer who came in de-
clares that from hilltop near the coast
he saw vessels engaged in fight, but
they were too far away to distinguish
them.
Toxic, July "a belated report from
Admiral Togo records a desperate and
successful torpedo attack at the entrance
of Port Arthur last Monday night, June
n, in which Russian guardship and a
RUSSIAN torpedo-boat destroyer were
sunk.
The guardship is described as having
two masts and three tunnels. She was
either a battleship or cruiser and she
was torpedoed and destroyed The tor
pedoboat destroyer was struck and then
blew up and sank.
Admiral Togo reports the loss Of one
officer and thirteen men killed and one
officer and two men wounded. He makes
no mention Of damage to his feet.
Seoul, July 5.-Vice Admiral Kamimu-
ia met the Russian Vladivostok squadron
late Friday night near Xxi island, about
sixty miles north Of Nagasaki. The Rus
sian squadron consisted of three cruisers
only, the torpedo-boat flotilla evidently
having returned to Vladivostok after the
rbombardment of Gensan on June 80
Kamimura was in superior force. He
opened fire, and the Russians replied,
but at the same time fled to the north
east, with japanese vessels in pursuit
This report is official.
No reports have been received here re-
Gently of fog at sea, and it is believed
that the pursuit continues, or that a
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