The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-06
WERE MET WITH
WITHERING FIRE
Unconhrmed Report That Force
Sent to Turn Rennekan1pf's
Flank Has Been Driven
Back-Sharp Fight
ing Around
Mukden.
fRx AsaocIated Pre.s.1

hI1JEDI5N, N December b.--'rhe night OF
December Cd, tho Japanese began heavy
artillery fire on Poutiloff Clone Tree)
] I'LL. paving tho way for an infantry at
lack. Tho RUSSIAN artillery answered
vigorously for several hours, aud then
tlackencd. And the Japancsc Imagining
the Russian fire had been silenccd, flung
themselves III, lnasses against tho trenches.
E where they werc allowed to come within
close range, and then were met Will,
,gtthering yolleys and u counter charge
with the bayonct Tho Japanese fled,
having sustained enormous losses.
5 "A Cossaclt expedition, which was sent
the night OF December I'd to capture
Il Il Japanese battery on the Russian right
finnk. was only partially successful. " IN ihe
Cossncks wiped out the Japanese sen
tries, killed tho gu1lners and got posscs- p
sion OF tho battery, but were unable TO
remove the guns, owing toathe rapid ar
G rival OF Japanese rclnforccments.s
On December 3D. Captain Gichkoons and
Corpora Companetz crawled II up5 close
to tho Japanese position. where they re-
Inained under n heavy fire all .ay, max
ing sketches of the whole position. and
returned ii, safety. ;s:S5
Japanese Fled.
An attack BY japanese on Poutiloff Fiji
on December Sd WAS probably due ntpart
10 q # wish to distract attcn-!
ton from sappcr operations on n neigh,
i boring llll near the village Of Shakhe:
but these operations were discovered and
4 5rcpulsed and tile Japanese fled.
$ Skirmishes continued The night OF No
q vembcr ;Otli Captain Aleanndror. with
81 thirty n,cn routed Il force OF fifty J apan-i
csc by surprise attack on the trenches
nhe sa1ne night volunteers under Lieu-,
tenant Vedetska surrounded and wiped
Il out q picket Of twenty-five Japanese
near Toungou. This led to q hnnd-to-
hand fight in the Japanese underground
trenches, where twenty moro japanese
wero bayonetted. The Russians lost Sc:
.verely III this fight, a. number being
4 caught in wire cntanglements. Alto
gether ten Russians were killed and four
teen wounded. u. IA
The night OF December I'd there was an
u other Russian 81 attack on Japanese
trenches, In which number OF trophies
and rifles we're secured, but at tho cost
or tho life OF STAFF Captain Alankoffski,t
ono of tho most daring OF the Russian
scouts, WHO was killed in hand-t to-hand
fighting. 81
Great Loss. Ss53S s
There Is persistent rumorf that the force
OF Japanese sent to turn General Rennen-
kanpffs flank has been rcpulsed, with
great loss. The story is not yet officially
confirmed. but details are given with
great circrmstantiality. It is stated
tina General Rennenkampff, who knew
the movement was maturing II awaited
the Japanese at tho mouth OF one OF the
captured passes. and that tho Japane Sc
turning force threw themselves unsus-
pectingly into the ambuscade where,
after the fight. the Russians collected
five hundred Japanese corpses. It is
added that there are 1000 more japanese
corpses, which it has been impossible
to collect. owing to the fire OF the Japa-
nese, This does not include the Japanese
loss in wounded The Russian loss. nc-'
cordins 10 thseaccount, was only thirty
or forty men. g9