Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-07-13

mounted battery Of artillery.
On July the Russian cruiser Novik
and four gunboats went out under pro-
lection Of the guns on Golden hill and
shelled Japanese battery, which was
surrounded and captured finally by Rus-
sian infantry.
Heavy Fighting Since July q.
The fighting to the eastward of Port
Arthur had been heavy since July 4.
The japanese ships along the shore are
Smelling the Russian position in the hills
The smoke from the artillery on the nils
around Port Arthur IS seen almost con-
tinuously.
Dead and wounded are being brought
in at oil hours, and many private houses
have been turned into hospitals.
Only skirmishes. have occurred to the
northward. The main Japanese force Is
ten miles away, but japanese scouts have
been seen in the vicinity OF OF the e;n man
pass to the hills, directly back OF Port
Arthur.
On the nights of July 2, 3, and 4 the
Japanese fleet bombarded the roads from
the south of the town. The forts were
not damaged.
Two Russian Ships Missing.
No further night attacks have been
made since July 4. A Chinese mechanic
from the Port Arthur Try docks says
been missing from the Russian fleet since
the fight off Port Arthur on June %.
The battleship SevastopOl is still under
going repairs, and four torpedo boat
destroyers are in dry dock.
The Russians, on the other hand, say
that their fleet is intact and that as
matter of fact the japanese have been
the losers in the fight off Port Arthur.
The Russians assert that the japanese
have lost no less than ten torpedo boats
IN their attempts to- reach the Russian
guardShip, which was protected by the
in their effort to block the entrance to
Port Arthur.
How Channel Is Blocked.
/ The guardship anchored behind the
wrecked vessels. An entrance was opened
around the foot of Golden hill, but the
remainder of the channel was closed with
booms, making it impossible for torpe-
does to pass.
Seven hundred Russians and 100
| Chinese mechanics are still at work in
the dockyards at Port Arthur.
Some of the torpedo attacks of the
Japanese have been almost fanatical
Frequently they have made attacks
where success was impossible, and when
the torpedo boats have been sunk the
committing suicide or fighting off their
| reScuerS.
Jap Destroyers Are Busy.
New Chwang, July S.-[Delayed. In
coming ships report that eight japanese
| torpedo boat deStrOyers are sweeping the
gulf of Lao Tung in order that a search
| of neutral ships may be carried on in a
more thorough manner. The weather has
improved. and if it continues fair land
operations will be actively renewed
Moves of Jap Armies.
Washington. d. c., July 1.-THE fol-
| lowing dispatches have been received at
the Japanese legation from Toxic:
Gen. Oku reports that our Second
| occupying haichau. After successfully
dlslodging the Russians from their posi-
| tons we finally occupied Kaiping and
the neighboring heights July 8.
Cen. huroki reports that lniy 6 our
! detachment, after expelling 800 Russian
cavalry, occupied Hsenchang thirty
miles northeast of Saimachi. There Were
10 casualties on our side. July 5 we
! repulsed Russian cavalry regiment I'M
der Col. Chichinsky which came TO at
tack US near North Fenschuileng. Our
| casualties We're four killed and three
wounded"
Kuropatkin to Drop Back
st. Petersburg, July II, 3:25 p. NJ
! Gen. huropatkin, according to private adj
| vices from the front, will not make a
serious attempt to hold Ia Tche Kiao,
| above ka Chou, midway between that
! place and Hal Cheng, and where the rail.
j road connects with the branch from New
| Chwang. Developments of the japanese
| strength on the Stu Yen road seem
| to be forcing Russian concentration be-
tween Hal Cheng and Lao Yang, but
preparations seem to be making to de-
fend the former as long as possible.
Gen. Count Keller's force, which were
a little southwest of Lao Yang, have
| apparently moved farther southwark, to
stay the advance Of the Japanese direct
from the Fang Wang Cheng-Hai Cheng
! road
| The pressure on the Russian left rear
| as it withdraws continues. There is
seemingly practically nothing in the way
OF japanese occupation of New Chwang
and the completion of the japanese line
across the head Of the Lao Tung PENN
sula. The Notifications of the passes of
! the Fen Shui range and the semi-circle
eastward Of Lao Yang is reported.
Kuropatkin in Danger.
With pressure on two sides, if the
japanese have any serious intentions of
pushing home their advance in the direc-
ton of Mukden, Gen. Kuropatkin's posi-
ton would seem decidedly dangerous.
Their northern advance posts are at Tai
! Kin Sin and Siao Syr
" ieLHeI the Japanese opera IONS north
will be pressed in the face Of the rainy
! season. which is not regarded as prob
able here, the japanese seem assured Of
the command Of the mouth Of the Lin
river valley which will give them new
base with two railroads, one direct to
Mukden and the other to the Sin Min
Ting river and the imperial highroad
The Sin Min Ting. road opens vast pos
| sibilitles for thanking if an advance is
! begun at the end Of the rains
Severe fighting is not improbable north
Of Tia Tche kiao. but the belief is grow
ing that Kuropatkin does not intend TO
accept a general engagement at this time,
even if challenged.
Brilliant Charge.
Additional details of the Hoi Yam
! fight July 4 describe the Russian bay
| onet charge as being the most brilliant
incident Of the war. Japanese and Rus
slams were found dead in the trench With
their bayonets through each other S
bodies.
No further details have been made
public here Of the engagement ut Kai-
| chou. Not one of the newspapers has a