Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-08-03

SUCCESSION Of
JAP VICTORIES
Russians Swept From Position
To Position By Irresistible
islanders
HEAVY LOSS OF
MEN AND GUNS.
Japanese Lose Big Cruiser. Car
Hears Alarming News. Alex
ieif iIastcns Back To
The Front

TOXIC. Aug. 81. The Japanese DC.
feated the Russians ii Tomu Chens,.
lsimou Chengl and drove them to-
wards Hal Cheng in d sharp fight
which began last Saturday and end.
cd Sunday The Russians left fifteen
hundred dead on the field and lost
six guns. The Russians occupied h
range Of high hills north of Tomn
Cheng which were strongly defended
with covered trenches. Tho Japan
ese seized a range OF heights TO the
southwark Saturday. They began The
attack at daylight Sunday The Rus,
slams were reinforced and assumed
the offensive at $50 IN the evening
but were repulsed with heavy loss.
The Russian artillery prevented the
Japanese from pursuing, and during
the night the Russians withdrew to-
wards Hal Cheng, The japanese
casualties were about four hundred.
Kuroki has wired that In two days
fighting at Yang Tzu Ling and Yns.
hulintzu his losses were six Officers
killed, sixteen officers wounded and
I $50 men killed and wounded.
To Parts Unknown.
ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 3.--Ac.
cording to the information received
here vessels Of the Russian volunteer
fleet have left the Red sea and it ~
believed they have gone 70 the Indian
ocean Or to Jibutil, French Somall.
land.
Considering the Question.
| WASHINGTON. Aug. 3.The state
department Is In telegraphic commun.
lication with Its agents abroad respect
| Ing Russian seizures Of American
goods, but II is not ready TO define
precisely ifs position as 70 the whole
subject Of seizure.
Tremendous Losses.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. g.
Whether general engagement Is al-
ready progressing around Lao Yang
between the forces Of Knropatkin and
the three Japanese armies which have
been moved against them from the
south and east, the decisive battle
Of the campaign Is regarded as certain
II the Japanese energeticaIly follow up
their preliminary successes Of the last
three days. AT various points fight
ing has been desperate and bloody
The Russians offering the most stub.
born resistance The losses, there.
fore. although their extent is not es.
tablished must be heavy on both
sides. Between Six and eight thous-
and men Is the estimate given OF the
Russian losses All estimates, how.
ever. are but little better than guess
work.
Lost A ship.
ROME. Aug. 3--Giornale Dltalaia
today published In an extra edition d
dispatch from Toxic announcing that
the Japanese armoured cruiser kasu
ga. formerly the Argentine warship
Rivadayia, has been sunk. The an.
nouncement caused a great sensation
here.
Chartered to British.
| KEEL. Aug 3.--Kieler Zeitune
says the German steamer Thea
sunk by the vladlyostok squadron had
Kiel for home port and was char,
tered by British firm under the ex,
press provision she should not be sent
TO blockaded ports and that she was
not 10 carry troops or contraband 81
war. The Thea was built I'll 1908 and
was OF two thousand tons burden.
cxar Alarmed.
| ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. IA cor.
respondent of the Associated Press
hears that Emperor Nicholas has re.
ceiyed telegram at Peterhoff. con
tanning alarming news.
II ii also reported that ylceroy
AlexIeff. who had gone TO IIarbin on
his way TO vladiyostot returned to
Liao Yang yesterday and conferred
with General kuropatkin regarding
z the situation.