The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-09-09
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/ CHETOO. Aug 800. p. m.-The Pur
Arthur "Noyokral.' boo ita issue %
/ August goth, speaking Of the incident
/ of the Siege occurring between Angus
/ 22 and August g. makes no mention o
I any general assault during that period
] but records several desperate attacks
[ on the Russian positions.
/ The Russian Consul 81 Chefoo says
| the "Nuvokrai" relates only facts, but
colors them with the intention of in.
spiriting the garrison and inspiring the
I troops to the emulation Of heroic deeds
Following a grand three days assault
on the defenses of Port Arthur the Jap.
anese rested during the daytime OF
August %. At eleven o'clock that night
they concentrated strong force to at
tack the Zaredoutni fort, which is a
strong position on the Russian right
flank. The japanese made clever use OF
the available cover creeping forward In
Indian fashion for one hour in spite OF
the Russian rifle fire. Midnight found
them properly formed within striking
distance of the fortifications. They
then made a powerful rush, but were
moved down in all but one quarter.
Here a body of Japanese succeeded In
entering the fort over the dead bodies
of their comrades, but nearly all were
bayoneted inside the fort.
The remnant retreated, losing severe
ly as they fed. After repulsing the
enemy the Russian troops cheered.
The Japanese searchights showed
ghastly heaps of dead, like magician
tern pictures.
The japanese soon We're reinforced
and recommended the attack furiously,
but again they We're repulsed. The
"Novokral' soberly asserts that the
japanese troops were forced forward by
their own shrapnel fire. the guns being
placed behind them to prevent a re-
treat.
A third attempt to capture the posi-
ton also failed, and anticipating a
fourth attack the Russians We're rein
forced, but this fourth attack was not
made.
The Zaredvoutni fortification present.
ed to the japanese a high stone wall
of Chinese construction, and the fact
that one detachment succeeded in seal
ing 1t is accounted marvellous.
Daylight found the belligerents in
that quarter engaged in an artillery
duel. General Gorbatowsky personally
directed the Russian fire, although he
had been six days and six nights with
out sleep. The fort suffered consid-
erably from the japanese artillery and
General Gorbatowsky ordered the garri-
son into undamaged trenches.
The next glimpse the Russians had
of the japanese was at ten o'clock on
the morning of August "a, when a
mountain battery on mules was seen in
motion. The Russians opened fire on
this battery and dispersed it. At noon
of the oath two Japanese columns We're
observed, one behind Sugarhead Hill
and the other near the railroad bridge,
but they retired when the Russian ar
tillery open on them.
At o'clock in the afternoon of the
cath the Japanese began a heavy bonn
bardment of the Russian position with
their one hundred and twenty millime-
ter guns, and at the same time Jap
anese column of infantry and cavalry
at Palichuang. At 6 o'clock
that afternoon the Japanese furiously
attacked the entire northeastern front
of the Russian defenses, but they We're
to retire with considerable
loss.
The foregoing is an account of the