The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-23
|AMMERING AWAY AT RUSSIAN GIBRALTAR
EAVY BoMBARDlEENT oFP0RT
 ARTHUR ON SUNDAY.

panese Fleet Not Engaged-GeneraI toesseI Sends Telegram to Friend
 hat Fortress Will be His Tomb-Ac-
 ount of Recent Fighting by Russian correspondent-Japanese Losses Since 'eige Estimated at 2s.OOO.
 t. Petersburg. Aug. 22.-A dispatch m Chefoo dated August 2 says that Y ording to Chinese reports the Jap
 sse yesterday bombarded Port Ar ! IT from 6 o'clock in the morning until < clock in the afternoon, pouring in a 2 avy fire, but that the Russians suc-
 ded in silencing the Japanese bat 4 ies. The Japanese fleet was not en-
 ged having put further out to sea.
 .iao Yang, Aug. 22.-The following is Nbplied by q Russian correspondent 2 the Associated Press:
 With each additional report from #rt Arthur wonder increases both at
 persistence of the Japanese attack, #d the heroic stubbornness of the de-
 ders of the fortress. The Japanese % literally throwing away thousands # lives in the hope of shaking the <irage of the Russian troops. # Major General Fock says he is con- Vent the fortress cannot be taken, but < At if it is taken the whole Japanese will have to inmolate itself on # slopes of the Qualifications. &There were five desperate assaults Green Hills July 25, the Japanese Burning each time with apparently in
 laustible endorsements. On the
 hl assault. however. the Japanese < Ike badly, throwing away their guns, #,tridge belts and even their boots to &ilitate their flight, and leaving seven @usand dead or wounded. M Our surgeons worked heroically, irn-
 rtially aiding Japanese and Russians. %e Japanese were so touched that tearfully thanked the Russian sur #bns.
 fThe assault on Green Hills was re- &rted on July 27, and there were fre- %ent hand to hand encounters, the #ssians leaving the trenches to follow ehir enemies.
 EThe assaults of July 2S and July 29 # the Wolf Hills were not followed NJ the Japanese being too severely
 Rken. We evacuated the Wolf Hills efiy for stragetic reasons, as the hills &de the line of defence too long to Eectually withstand the furious at of the Japanese.
 : The assault of July 30 was made in
 dark of night in the hope of sur
 sing the Russians. Sixty thousand
 en were hurled against our 1S,OOO, but
 drove them back again and again
 the point of the bayonet. It was
 other Shipka pass.
 The Japanese poured in fresh battal-
 Is and the slopes. covered with the
 ad and dying, literally ran with blood.
 loud 3Oth regiment was forced from \ position but the 14th regiment came 'gp and with the bayonet again dis Eed the victors.
 s'As near as can be ascertained this ssault cost the Japanese 10000 men. eThe Japanese losses since the siege fgan have been 2s,00O men. The eb- Iysion of one mine wiped out 500 This hs an awful sight. A volcano of stones lsmembered the bodies of the soldiers bile the sky was lit up with a purple ERre and the mud walls of the Chinese |tlage were thrown down by the shock. |)ter this fight General Stoessel collect- Es 1000 Japanese rifles.
 fThe Japanese installed twenty siege |ins on the Wolf hills August s. Four Ilthese are 12-inch guns. They have not |t reached our shore batteries which |e still out of range, but they have |n1aged the dry dock and the railway Eltlion.
 E'The Japanese are mapping the town sections for the purpose of lombard 5bnt and they are assisted in this task
 Chinese engineer who recently de- ftted to them.
 ''The Japanese fire an average of 800 gells daily and they keep up their fire pth day and night"