Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19
YAMADA WAS CUTOFF
Russians Enveloped Jap Col
umn, Took Fourteen Guns.
ATTACK RENEWED BY CARS TROOPS
Now Concentrating In Front of Gem
erals Kuroki and NOdxu For An
other Great Battle : kuro-
patkin In the Field.

erals kur0kt ana N0dzu For An
other Great Battle = kuro-
patkin In Field.
LONDON, Oct. 19.-A special from
Mukden says that Lone Tree hill, won
by the Russians after a desperate
struggle, has been the object of a gal
liant but unsuccessful attempt at re
capture by the Japanese. In spite of
the awful slaughter with which they
had been driven from the hill the Jap
anes returned to the charge during the
night, recognizing that the hill was
the key to the position on the south
west front. Nine regiments partici-
pated, creeping up through the dark
ness and delivering a furious assault
at dawn. But the hill had been bought
too dearly by the Russians to relin-
quish it, and the Japanese were driven
back with terrible slaughter.
A Mukden dispatch, dated this morn
Ing, says that the Russian army is adj
vancing, but rain is hindering every
thing. The rivers are bank full, and
the fords are impossible. There are no
bridges. Supplies of all sorts are de-
layed..
Cossacks have brought in captured
guns and Japanese wounded prisoners.
Russian soldiers surrounded the prison
ers and gave them bread and water
and in other ways tried to relieve their
wants. Or -it,.
News has Just been received that the
Japanese left flank has been driven
back with heavy loss and it's retreat
cut off. A Russian regiment is now be-
ing hurried to the scene in the hope OF
completing the rout.
1t is reported that General Mischt-
schenko's Cossacks, under. command of
Adjutant Gavriloff, are engaged in a
hot fight toward the southeast. A Cos
sack horse battery silenced the Japa-
nese guns and drove back several in
fantry batallions, but were unable to
capture the guns, which the Japanese
succeeded in carrying off.
Shakhe station, or what is left of 1t,
has been recaptured by the Russians,
who will shortly reopen it for railway
traffic with Mukden.
! The battlefield of Lone Tree hill pre-
sents the most awful spectacle that can
be conceived. Russian and japanese
dead are mingled in heaps in mex
tricable confusion. The ground is
strewn with broken rifles that had been
smashed in hand to hand fighting. Ev-
| erything seems to have been utilized
as weapons.
Tokyo advices say that the Russians
have fiercely assaulted General ,Oku
and attacked Generals Nodzu and Ku-
roki, but were everywhere 'repulsed
with heavy losses.
The Russians enveloped Colonel va
mada's column and captured fourteen
guns.
The Russians are now concentrating
in front of the left army under Gen
eral Kuroki and the center army under
General Nodzu. Another great battle
is expected. G
General Kuropatkin remains with
the troops, having abandoned his
headquarters at Mukden.
"A dispatch to the Japanese legation
from Tokyo, giving details of the en-
velopment of General Yamada's col
umn, says: 9ti
1.-THE column was proceeding to re-
enforce a detachment of our left army
which was attacking the enemy north
of Shakhe. 1t defeated the enemy near
Weichialoutz, captured two guns and
two ammunition wagons and. was re
turning to its original position when
suddenly 1t was enveloped by about a
division Of the enemy.
ut succeeded in breaking through
and regaining its original position
The artillery, however, was lost, with
most of the horses and men. We were
compelled to abandon nine field guns
and five mountain guns. va
1.-THE enemy in front of our central
position has been REINFORCED.
"Our casualties on Sunday last were
about 1000"
The Russians appear to hold posi-
tons in the plain along the Shakht
river, extending from the railway tt
Da pass, beginning at the mountains.
After a threatening day h e.Japanest
toward night rushed the village OF
Linchenpo, on the north bank of the
Shakhe river and west of the railway
precipitating a laundering cannonadt
and fusillade, which continued unit
midnight, the rifle fire continuing unit
dawn. The japanese now occupy the
raised temple quadrangle near Lin
chenpo.
A dispatch from Shanghai says tina
Japanese shells have sunk the Russian
cruiser Bayan in the harbor of Port
Arthur. tsf8H e3fts 4;
Boys Fatal Jump From Window.