The Penn's Grove record., 1904-06-10
DESPERATE VALOR OF JAPS
Their Charge at Kin-Chow an I'm
precedented Military Spectacle.
NARRATIVE OF AN EYEWITNESS

There Was SO Little Room to Deplo
That Battalions of Japanese Troop
Stood in the Sea Waiting the Momen
of Attack-An Avalanche of Concen
trated Fire.
Chefoo.-The London Times steame,
Halmun returned to Chefoo from /.
cruise in Kin-Chow Bay. The cores
pondent says:
"Eyewitnesses of the battle of Kin
Chow describe it as an unprecedent
ed military spectacle. Forty thousand
Japanese were massed behind the
western spur of Mount Sampson, IN
der such small cover as was afford.
ed by the twin peaks. The troops
were within two thousand yards of the
Russian works.
There was so little room to deploy
for attack that battalions of Japan.
csc troops were obliged to stand in the
sea waiting for the movement of at
tack, exposed to a veritable inferno of
fire from the Russian batteries. The
shells ploWed into their serried masses.
Meantime battery after battery of
japanese guns went into action upon
the Chili-ChWang and the Kauchiay-
an flats and a sustained gunboat fire
played upon the Russian works. Their
lines were fringed with bursting pro
J~ectiles. About midday the energy
OF the Russian defenders in the works
in front of Mauchiaying village
seemed exhausted by the gunboat fire.
1.-TWO Japanese battalions appeared
over the saddle between the twin
peaks and made a desperate effort to
carry the nearest Russian works. At
first the struggling walls of Mauchiay-
ing gave them some cover, and a mo-
ments breathing space. Then the gal
liant little infantrymen crept on again
up the slopes toward the Russian DO
sition. 1t was IN impossible task. AS
vet the defenders had not been suffi-
GENTLY shaken.
A avalanche of concentrated fire
from infantry in the trenches, machine
guns in the Russian works and quick
firing field artillery in the supporting
defenses struck the Japanese. They
melted away from the glacis like SOL
der before the flame of q blowpipe. A
few who seemed to have charmed lives
struggled on until they reached the
wire entanglements.
1T was in vain. Heroic effort was
wasted. Within fifteen minutes these
Two Dattallons ceased to exist except
MS a train of mutilated bodies at the
foot of the Russian glacis.
Seeing the failure of this attack.
the gunboats and supporting artillery
concentrated the whole of their fire
upon the point where General Oku
had determined to drive home his
wedge, n by evening the works were
practicable for an assault by a gener-
al who had such infantry as the jap
anese and who was prepared to take
the responsibility OF such fearful
losses.
1T would seem as if the actual car
fylng of the works had been another
Alma. The word was given for a bay-
onet attack. Then the whole japan
ese front surged forward and the
moral balance went over to the side
Df h japanese, the Russians retir-
ing before them.
Il learn that it was the mining ship
Amur which laid the mines which de-
stroyed the Hatsuso. On the morn
ing of the catastrophe a japanese gun
BOAT fotilla cut her and her escort
off. l can learn nothing of their fate,
put suspect they succeeded in Slipping
PACK into Port Arthur"
semi-ofiicial telegram from Muk-
den says the Russian losses at the
battle at Kin-Chow were thirty officers
and 800 men killed or wounded. One
report places the Japanese loss at 90
YOU. The guns abandoned by the
russians were rendered useless.