The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-10

There was no answering fire from them until the first Japanese line was within few hundred yards of the river bank.
 Then sharp volleys burst almost simul- taneously from several trenches and the attacking Japanese found themselves
 under heavy and continuous fire at easy
 range from covered positions high above
 them. They lay behind the sand hillocks replying bravely and hotly to the fire
 while their own batteries pumped over their heads. The Japanese officers sat
 on their horses or walked along the lines.
 They were in no way sheltered aor pro-
 tected.
 A few stretcher bearers coming hack
 to the field hospital indicated that men
 were being wounded
 The Russian smokeless powder was ex- cellent. It made 1t impossible for the Japanese to discover the exact position
 or their enemy or to estimate their num-
 bers.
 Soon after o'clock the Russian fire was largely sflenced by the combined arr ttllery and infantry attack of the Jana rese and parties of the enemy,s troo,,s could be seen hurrying upward over the mountain roads In retreat Two regi- ments Of Japanese troops. one directly opposite Wtu and another near a village on the west ran to the river, stoppir E U fire now and then as they progressed anu giving shrill cheers as they hurried forward. which echoed clear over the riatn. The formation was closer tha, that kept by British or American troops and 1t looked as though their losses must be great
 They forded the river. ran across the sands and climbed up the steep rocky hl.lsides Ike swarm of ants, their rcd and yellow cap bands gieaming in the sun, One Japanese soldier in one of these regiments carried something white with him. This was seen and it caused shout to go up that the Russians had surrendered. But on reaching the top of the first Russian trench hundred yards up the hillside this man shook out a Japanese flag and waved it to and fro.
 storming party on the west side of tho advance mounted a hill commanding the Russian retreat Just as the men were punched thickly on the crest of the hill. two Japanese shells burst among them. They had fallen short. When the smoke had cleared away a dozen bodies could be seen lying where the shells had exploded and the remainder of the storm ing party were clambering down the hill to escape this unexpected fire from their rear.
 The sound of rife firing soon passed on over the hills as the Japanese pursued the retreating enemy. One column of weary soldiers who had been almost two days without rest was trudging down the river toward Antung where the Japa- nese gunboats were shelling the Russian works.
 At o'clock a solitary soldier, climbing ahead of his comrades. unfuried a huge Japanese flag on the face of the topmost Russian fort on a ridge a thousand feet sboye the plain. He marched back and forth along the parapets waving the ban ner. and then for the first time the Japa- nese on the walls of Wiju broke the im- passive silence with which they had watched the battle and shouted "Banzai!" Already foot soldiers. batteries and pack trains were streaming into the island by every ,road and tonight the entire Japa- aese army will be In Manchuria.
 Official estimates of the Japanese cas- naities are not given. out, but the cor respondent saw 300 Japanese and 70 Rus slams wounded in one field hospital.