The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-20
oKU WON THE VICTORY.
He Was in Command of the Japanese at Telissu Fight.

at Telissu Fight.
 Tokio. June 19--3 D. m.-General I Oku. the victor of the battle of Nan | shan Hill, on May 26, fought and won | the battie of Telissu. (vafangow, &C., cording to the Russian designation). | June 15s
 There is a strong similarity between | the two fights. At Telissu, the Jap anese had to drive the Russians from | two hills. while at Nanshan the enemy l occupied one hill. The Russian posi- I tion at Telissu was superior to that I of the Japanese and capitalized the ad- vantages of the Japanese in having a | larger force. The Russian position extended from east to west and cross ! ed the narrow valley through which I runs the Foo Chou river and the rail
 road. From their positions on the right and left in the high hills wh--.l 1 ffanked this valley, General Oku drove l the Russians down the valley. The Japanese General carried first | the enenay's right and then his left The fight at the left of his line was the most desperate of the day. The Russians held this position with des- perate determination and only fed
 when they were almost completely en- veloped. The field had been disputed all day and when the Japanese reach cd it six hundred of the enemy's dead were found there.
 General oku started from a line
 marked by Pulandiep and the Tassa
 river on June 13 His right column
 moved along the Tassa river. his main
 column along the railroad and his left column by a road leading through Wuchiatu1, Snchuankon and Tahosi. The Japanese cavalry started from Pitsewo oveNs road running through Shunzo, and the small bodies of Rus sians opposing this advance were brushed away
 The left column reached Nachialing- mon June 14. and the main. or middle Icolumn and the right column keeping in touch with each other reached a line between ChiachfAtun and Taping Kou seven and a haH miles south of Tells SUI. the same day.
 The Russian forces then held a line between Tafaneshen and Lungwang- tao. The entire Japanese lines ad- vanced and at 3 o'clock in the after noon the JapaneSN artillery opened fire, The Russia ss had 9s guns and they replied with spirit until darkness put an end to the artillery duel
 During sthe nighs of the 14th, the Japanese right column seized a hili be- tween Esongchlstune and wendchian- tung and the mtddgs column occupied Ia hill to the west of napingkou.
 When dawn nf tiss 18th broke the Ifield of. battle gs ebt -frec ry Fog. but the artniery optped early A portion of the Japanese middle column ad- vaneed to the north side of bend in the Foo Chou river. Here these men were greatly exposed to the enemys fire, but force of infantry and artillery was hurried forward and relieved them At half past g o'clock this relieving force seized a point to the west of Wengchiangtung and in cooperation with the middle column. drove the Russians from Tfangshen. The Rus sian batteries posted at Tungtanshen and Lungwantiao poured a heavy fire into these forces but in spite of this smelling the middle column and the men who were sent forward to relieve the force at the bend in the Foo Chow river, climbed the heights ahead of them and quickly mastered the situa- tion.
 In the meantime the Japanese right was firing. The Russians had been reinforced until their numbers were greater than the opposing Japanese. General Oku was twice forced to order up infantry reserves. The Russians made series of desperate counter at tacks and when the situation was most critical Japanese cavalry swung around the Russian left and struck the enemy on the f1ffank. At this time additional Russian endorsements had arrived and the Russians held their position with dogged determinG ton until their front and both Hanks were under fire They then broke and fled. The Japanese cavalry pursued the enemy for a short time, but the roughness of the country made 1t necessary soon to abandon the pursuit.
 The Japanese left succeeded in am- pushing 300 Russian infantrymen who were discovered retiring toward Wu- chiatun. They sent two companies of infantry and one battery of artillery to a hill east of Hong Chiatun and the Russians were completely trapped Many of the enemy at this point were killed or wounded.
 In his report, General Oku says the Russians began the fight with twenty five battalions of infantry. seventeen squadrons of cavalry and ninety eight guns. They were reinforced several times, but the number of reinforce ments Is not known. The Russian cas- ualties are not known with exactitude The Japanese right found and buried part of the enemy's dead Seven Rus sian officers and 300 men were taken prisoners. The Japanese casualties re- ported up to noon of June Is amounted to about 900 men, including eight of1- cers killed and fourteen wounded.
 General Oku concludes his report most tersely with these words: '"rhe success in carrying superior positions and routing the enemy was due to the influence of the Emperor"
 dispatch from Petersburg dated June IS, said the total Russian losses at the battle of Vafangow, (TeIissul were about 2,000 men including more than 55 officers. The Russian forces which took part in this fight were described as marching to the north werd and 1t was said that the Russians had 52 battalions against A Japanese battalions and that the Japanese hal great superiority in artillery. having Iaore than ECO guns.
 Another report from Liao Lung, June ls said that the Russians had sixty guns in action at Telissu. opposed to loo Japanese guns.