The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-21
RUSS RAISES
A RUMPUS
Accuses the Japs of Firing
on Hospital
CROWDING PORT ARTHUR
Mikado's Forces Are Gradually
Forcing Russians out Of
Defensive Positions

| LONDON. NOV. 2l.-A Chceu special
| dispatch says that General BaIashoff,
| the head of the Red Cross society at
| Port Arthur, has sent ON the torpedo
boat destroyer Rastoropny. which ar
| rived here from Port Arthur and which
was subsequently destroyed by her
| crew, personal letter charging the
japanese with Il violation of the rules
| of civilized warfare.
General Balashoff requests the pub
LEGATION of charges that the Japanese
have deliberately disregarded the OBJ
legation of the Geneva and Hague con
ventions, He says that they have
compelled the abandonment by the
Russians Of three plainly marked hos
pital ships in the harbor and that the
wounded who were aboard the half
sunken steamer Andara also had to be
removed These ships. says General
Balashon. were anchored where they
did not interfere with the Japanese
fire against the Russian warships. The
general adds: Il have noticed several
instances of a concentration Of fire on
portions of the city devoted almost ex-
clusively 10 hospitals. Other instances
of unciyilized warfare are numerous.
but | have no time to write them. |
rs'ar"olv have time to eat and sleep"
tseterai BaiashofT requests that his
letter serve as "a protest 10 the world
against the tactics of the Japanese.
4 Tokyo dispatch says that increas-
ing activity along the Shakhe river
seems to Indicate The imminence of
another great battle. The Russian
feints, evidently intended to draw
Japanese attack, are uniformly re-
pulsed Army headquarters have re-
ceived the following report from Field
Marshal Oyama:
AT dawn a detachment of the enc
my made an attack near Hsinglung-
tun. They were repulsed.
''Since then the enemy in the vicinity
of Shakhe village have indirectly bonn
barded our positions with mortars and
tieldpieces. They have effected no dam
age.
"A body of the,enemy's infantry was
discovered at Hsiamya and Hsiaoyan- |
tzu. We shelled them, and they fed in |
confusion to a neighboring village.
The enemy have burned Huangla- |
shetZu and villages TO the southeast on |
the right bank of the river Hun"
\ dispatch from the army before
Port Arthur says that during the bonn
bardment shell from Japanese ma
Ia.
near the arsenal. Operations against
all the forts are proceeding as prear-
ranged from Manchurian headquarters.
The gunners shelled a Russian infan-
try force engaged in intrenching east
Of Reiuchiangtun and also infantry in
the rear of the villages, causing them
to flee in confusion.
The Japanese after successfully min
ing have occupied counterscarp ON
Sungshu mountain.
A Chefu report says that the Japa-
lese are using peculiar missile which
ooks like a long sausage. Tile Japa-
lese throw IT into the trenches, and il
)ursts, giving of an odor so foul that
I it is not thrown out of the trenches
the soldiers faint. The
,as is not fatal In its effect
A Mukden dispatch says that the
japanese attack on Poutiloff hill has
demonstrated the efficacy of the Rus
ian defensive works. Two battalions
ngaged in the attack occupied the
rst line Of the Russian trenches but
I the second line We're caught in pits
nd entanglements and exposed to a
alling fire. A Russian bayonet attack
ompleted their Generalization.