The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-09

Berlin, Sept. IA dispatch from
Lao Yang to the I.okal Anzeiger says:
What appears to be the deciding
battle began at 4 a. m. Since then the
artillery has been laundering and the
rifle fire has been rolling necessarily.
''I'he encircling heights resemble fire
emitting mountains. The Japanese be-
gan their attack east of Lao Yang
along the TaitSe river, but We're re-
pulsed.
1.-The firing is now especially heavy
on the south and southwest Of Lao
Yang. One can no longer distinguish
the Individual detonatiOnS. The Rus
sian army is full of confidence. The to-
tai strength of the combatants engaged
is estimated at over SOC. 900 men. The
battle probably will continue for sew
eral days"
Lao Yang. Sept. 1.-The battle is
growing in intensity The Japanese fire
is chiefly directed on the Russian
southern contingent. The Japanese adj
vance is being pressed with such vigor
that it has developed into hand to
hand fighting, the Twenty-third regl-
ment repelling an attack at the point
Of the bayonet. One Japanese battery
was dismanted.
Wounded men have been pouring into
Lao Yang since s this morning, mostly
hurt by shrapnel shells, but some by
rifle bullets. The heights Of Haetung.
near The railroad, have been showered
with projectiles
st. Petersburg, Sept General
Sal1haroff reports that a large Japa-
nese force is advancing northward
along the Taitse river valley, west Of
the railroad.
The latest reports received by the
war office indicate the battle at Lilac
Yang will probably extend for several
days. The Japanese are directing their
energies to bombarding segments OF
the circle of defensive positions occu-
pied by the Russians. The latter al
ready have suffered severely from the
hill Of shells.
Sakharoff reports that the japanese
shrapnel fire inflicted considerable
losses on the Russian troops. Lleuten.
ant Colonel Pokatiloff, commanding 8
battery of the Sixth east Siberian bri
gade, was killed.
st. Petersburg, Sept. 1.-The lone
expected battle at Lao Yang has be
gun and the two armies are now fight
ing what probably will prove to be the
decisive battle of the campaign. The
Japanese armies are attacking Gen
eral Kuropatkin's forces upon hi:
chosen grounds, and his friends and ad
mirers here are confident that having
accepted a general engagement. he vii
defeat the Japanese.
In a brief telegram received thi
morning General I<uropatkin says thu
general advance of the Japanese began
at noon yesterday. the Russian out
posts falling back upon the main line
The heaviest fighting was taking plac'
when the dispatch was sent. from ;
point ten miles southwest of Lao Yang
where the Japanese seem to be con
centrating for their main blow. TIL
Russians suffered principally from tn
shrapnel fire of the Japanese artillery.
The Japanese selected the mikado'
birthday for the decisive battle. ant
it will not be surprising if today is ais
signalized by Il grand assault on Por
Arthur.
The Russian forces are disposed a
Lao Yans to meet the onslaught o
three Japanese armies numbering owe
100000 men. The telegram from Kuro
Z patkin which gives this information
together with details of the retiremen
of the Russian troops upon Lao Yang
has not been given out for strategi
reasons. The Japanese forces are con