The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-29
.UsSIANS COMPELLED TO
 ABANDON SIX CAIN ON
IGHTING NEAR LAO FANG Ex-
 TRE1IELY DESPERATE.

Dnsidera5se Number of Jap Rifles \ and Other Equipment Captured Russian OficiaI Report Says They Fought Like Fanatics and That Their 4 Losses Must Have Been Great-Rus- sians Also Suffer severeIy-Lose Over 1,500 on One Front. St. Petersburg, Aug. 2S.-The general H .aff has received the following tele- ram from Lieutenant General sakhar- z if, dated August 27: z Our advance guards and advanced S roops on the southern front yesterday & stired slowly towards the fortified po- # ltion at Anshanshan. E Rifle fire was general along the
 < Ehole front.
 The Japanese artillery cannonaded ur positions at different points. "Our guns poured a heavy fire into ' he columns of the Japanese as they 'S dyi need and into their works and en- raa hments and eventually compelling # hem to move their vast camp from aI aina to the village of Baissaize. At 6 o'clock in the evening there was luIl in the firing.
 The hottest fighting occurred on our Fit flank on the south front where UT losses amounted to 200. During the night our advance guard etired to the principal position. Five divisions of the enemy took the ffensive against our south front. Our troops repelled toward the &outheast all attacks of the Japanese irected against their front while our roops on the right flank, taking the of ensive towards evening drove the Jap nese back on TounsinDu. "Our losses on the southeast front $yere about 400.
 "Our detachment on the east yester- iderable forces of the enemy. "On the right flank our infantry Though unsupported by artillery and { Though the Japanese were at all points Superior numerically, firmly and cour- &geously repulsed the attacks begun Sluring the night by the enemy on the F dvanced positions of Tsegow and An kbing, This affair culminated in sharp fighting and some of our regi- Nnental officers received sword, bayo- fiet and revolver wounds. After desperate fighting on the ad- 7anced positions of Tsegow and Anping bur troops retired on the main position
 supported by artillery,
 .'The Tarnboff regiment on the left
 iank at Tsegow defended an advanced
 position from 1 o'clock in the morning
 until o'clock in the afternoon, repell- Ing all the enemy's attacks at the point
 pf the bayonet. There were four coun-
 ter attacks. The commander Of the
 Regiment, Colonel Klembousky, was
 Wounded
 i "A turning movement by the enemy hgainst the left flank of the Tsegow po- lfition and the enfflading fire of their batteries on Khaouiou heights forced Hhe Tamboff regiment to retire and the
 retreat was effected in good order. Six |guns were abandoned but they were broken and rendered useless.
 t "The Japanese attack like fanatics fand their loss must have been very lgreat.
 D "A wounded Japanese officer who was )Eaken prisoner, escaped observation af- per his wound had been dressed and
 Killed himself by dasling his head iAgainst the stones.
 q Our troops captured a considerable elunber of rifles, caps and other articles lof equipment from the Japanese. { 's0ur losses on this front have not been definitely ascertained but they ex- Feed 1,500 killed and wounded. Notwithstanding the long and des- perate fighting and the consequent ia 4igue the spirit of our troops was as lalert as ever and in the darkness of s1ight with rain falling heavily and Transforming the ground into liquid Anud they executed the necessary move anents headed by their bands, in per- Feet order.
 ''On August 27 the enemy had not as-
 5unaed any definite offensive movement
 at any point along the whole front and bur troops retired gradually to new po- ssitions.
 "At about ? o'clock in the afternoon it Twas discovered that the Japanese were
 moving on Taenpine by way of Youdi- Qoukau.''