The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
LAPS DRIVE RUSSIANS
 FROM STRONG POSITION
GEN. KURoKps ARMY GRADU-
 ALLY NEARING LAO FANG.


 In q Fight Beginnins On July IS and
 Ending the Next Day the czar's
 Forces Are Pushed Back With Loss
 of 1000 Killed and Wounded-aIika-
 dos Men Occupy Kiao Tung, North
 of Molten Pass-Fighting stubborn
 on Both Sides.
 Tokio, July 22-7 D. m.-General Ku- roki, after severe fight, occupied Kiao Tung on July 1s. The place had been fortified by the Russians, who de- tended it stoutly. In the fighting Gen. eral Kurokis troops drove the Rus sians from their strongly fortified posi- ton on the Chi River. which is north west of Molten pass and east of Anping, infiicting upon the enemy more serious losses than they sustained themselves. Tho fight begun on the eighteenth and ended on the nineteenth. The Japanese lost "A men in killed and wounded. The Russian losses are estimated at 1000.
 General Kuroki began his advance early in the morning of the eighteenth. He uncovered and followed the enemy along the Chi river. The Russians seemed to be retiring to the north ward, when suddenly two battalions with eight guns turned and attacked the Japanese advance guard vigorous Fly. At this point the Japanese suffer- ed before relief came, one company losing all its officers, At a late hour in the afternoon the Russian position was developed. They occupied an em- thence on the banks Of the Chi. This river guarded their left flank and the high precipice protected the Russians on the right.
 The only approach to their position was through narrow def1le. The fight ing continued until dark when the Jap fanese forces bivouacked. The Russians made two counter attacks. but were re- pulsed in each case.
 The Japanese renewed the attack at midnight, posting their artillery in the valley below. and on the high ground l to the south of the Russian position. The main Japanese body was assigned to attack the Russian center. a small ldetachment was sent toward the right flank and another to watch the ene- lmy's left flank After these positions thad been taken the fighting ceased for | u time, but 1t was resumed at dawn. The Russians had thirty-two guns in faction and they vigorously shelled the lJapanese. To this fire the Japanese re- lplied and the bambardment lasted for 1 four hours.
 During this time the Japanese infan- l try moved forward The hankers had succeeded in sealing the heights on the Russian right by 3 o'clock in the after- noon, at which hour the main force was ordered to storm the Russian center. I The Japanese artillery protected this movement splendidly, but the infantry met with a severe fire and lost heavily l ill gaining the heights.
 The final successful charge was deliv- Iered at 5.SO in the afternoon. The lJapanese succeeded in partially cutting off the Russian retreat and this soon became rolit The enemy went in two directions, to the northward and to the eastward. The Russian forces engaged included in addition to the artillery seven battalions of infantry and reg I iment of Cossacks. The enemy left 131 I dead and 300 rifles on the field. Prison CTS taken estimated the Russian losses lat 1000. The Japanese lost one officer and 54 men killed and1S officers and s51 men wounded.
 On July 19 Japanese forces attacked a battalion of infantry and thousand cavalry who occupied Chechiat to the northward of Shaotientszu. After four hours of fighting the Russians retired across the Taitsu river. In this en- gagement the Japanese had 1T men wounded.
 Kiaotung, referred to in the bulletin from Tokio, is probably the place re Iferred to as Kaitou, situated north oi
 Molten pass, in the Tokio advices re ceived by way of London announcing a
 Russian repulse,