The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-30
BATTLE OF NANSHAM.
AII Risked on Assault When Ammu- milton Ran Low.

fAA NAsheu on Assault When Ammu- milton Ran Low.
 < Tolzio. May 29.-6 p. m.-The details f the fighting at Kin Chou emphasize sSle heroic tenacity of the Japanese in Aeir conduct at Nanshan hill. Mine successive times the Japanese harged the fortified heights in the face & storm of death-dealing missiles. ald in their last effort they carried the #rts and trenches only after bayonet snflct with the Russians, who made a fsperate despairing struggle to beat 4e oE-coniing hordes.
 line final assault of the Japanese, in E1ich they at last succeeded in taking ssession. was marked by the most sperate hand-to-hand fight encounter at has thus far characterized the war. The Japanese left, throughout the en- Ae action until night was exposed to enfilading fire from the Russian in Eltrys a gun boat on Talienwan bay n four nine-centimeters guns posted Tatengchen.
 At critical moment the ammunition the artillery ran low and it was eioeo to cast the remaining ammuni- into one final desperate assault. fortunately, however, at the moment E decision was reached, the Japanese adron in Kin Chou Bay, which had sed bombarding when the infantry first moved forward, suddenly re- bed the shelling of Nanshan hill. heni 1t was that the issues of the day e determined-at a moment when outcome was futtering between resss and defeat for Japan-and an ost certain repulse was converted victory so complete that the forces fze czar were swept into confusion disorderly retreat. With all the anese guns centering their fire upon Nanshan forts and trenches, the 1anese infantry sprang over the fes of their comrades who had sac led their lives in the previous fruit charges. The entire line rushed yard toward the Russian left, where fire of the Japanese squadron had red most deadly and which was the to weaken under the death-deal-
 
 the first breach was made in the an wall that all day had been an ncible barrier to the impetuous as- ts of the brown men,
 was the Fourth division of the za men that stormed the Russian It had once been said that Osaka were not brave. It will never be again.
 e First division of Tokio, which the center and the Third division Fagoya, occupying the left and h had been exposed all day to the ian fire against the front flank, followed the example of the Osaka and rushed forward, and the bat ecame transformed from an artil- dued into one of personal conflict, the bayonet as the instrument of are.
 every parapet the resistless, l-dealing Japanese surged forward creasing numbers, and, hustling russians from their intrenchments, over the hill. At 7:3O o'clock, as un was sinking beneath the hori- the flag of the Land of the Rising foated above the blood-sodden han hill, while the shouts of gail" swelled from hill to hill and hoed from squadron to fort.
 Japanese paid for their victory % killed and wounded. To the ans the humiliation of defeat Intensified by the loss of sixty-eight In and ten machine guns while dead in the forts and trenches FOG men. the victims of the accu- pf Japanese long distance marks D and of close range fighting.
 sral Oku, in command of the Jap
 began his aggressive movement
 Russian position at midnight on zsGay. He assigned the fourth di-
 to the right with instructions to
 alnurI Kin Chou and move
 He gave the first division the
 and the left was allotted to the 7ivl. ion. During the night ter thunder storm, accompanied by " rain, broke over the advancing and impeded the movements of en. It had been planned to be-