Arizona republican., 1904-12-10

the open. NTen went down by the hundreds. The forts were belchina smoke and bursting shells, and the rampant walls were black with as, slulters, who on reaching the erests met with an awful fire from within the forts which swept Gown line after line Of the Japanese.
 As fast as assaults were repulsed more Japanese sNarmed up, only to be nsowed down in turn. The determina- ton and fury of the Japanese assaults Were equalled by stubbornness of re- s;st1nCe of the Russians.
 On the eastern extremity of the line the Japanese made an assault in an at tempt to capture the Russian trenches sitrated midway of the slope Of east Kekwan mountain. The Japanese par alIeled some thirty yards of the Rus sian trench line and an entire regi- meut charged across. men falling by hundreds before the awful flIe of the Russiaus But still more men came on over the bodies of those who had fallen and by sheer weight of numbers they reached the tren ches which they cap tured at the point of the bayonet.
 HELL IN THE TRENCHES.
 The Russian sllrapnel fire made the eaptuy cd portion of the trenches a per
 
 fire assisted the captors to push east and west along the trench line. The assaulters succeeded in holding some eighty yards of the trench in front of parallel but their efforts to rush tie trench line east and west was a failure, owing to impossible burning pits, which filed the whole space of the trench on the northern side as we'll as 10 the fact that their progress was barred by the fire of the Russians guns, The Japanese built transverse walls acvoss the trench under the protection of their machine guns and tried to cross the pits, but they were unable to do SD.
 At six o'clock in the evening furious Russian counter attack drove the Jap anese ba-k to the parallels with great loss. At o'clock the Japanese again captured the same portion of the trench and made desperate but unsuccessful efforts to cross the pits.
 The awful struggle continued until 2 o'clock in the morning, when the Rus sians again counter attacked and re- | captUctd~ the trench, which was piled ] with dead bodies. For over thirty yards between trenches there was a veritahlS : shambles. The last attacks and counter attacks were made over bodies of the gloin
 FIVE FURIOUS ASSAULTS. 1 The first attempt 10 rush the fort on i the no: them portion of Kekwan noun tain was made at o'clock in the after l noon. when ths alssa aulters swarmed up the Chinese wall in the rear of the fort. When the Russians. saw that 1t was the intention of the Japanese to rush the fort they moved a considerable l all int. gorge to the east and rear of the fort During four 7or five furious assaults which the Japarlese made upon the I forts some Of the garrison attempted to evacuatc the fort over the rear ram- parts, but they were fired upon by the Russian force in the gorge. As a re- 1 suit Of the first assault the rampant l walls were black wath bodies. In the second assa Ut the Japanese succeeded i, in gaining a GOothold in the interior where the defenses were bomb proof with raised hnes of protected trenches
 in tre rear of the fort, where machine guns swept the front'of the fort and the 1 walls.
 ] The assaulters attacked the boms proof maze. wC.ere the fighting was hand 10 hand with bayonets and grenades- The Japanese. mounted sis mountain guns On an entrenched hill called "P" fort, immediately to the ! west, in an endelvor to silence the 1irC
 of the maxim guns but they were un-
 successful. Al z o'clock in the morn
 ing the Japanese succeeded in esta-
 blishing a trench line within the ram
 parts, whi-h they still hold The frs
 section of the maze of bomb proofi
 was smashed and piled with the bod.
 ies of the dead of both sides.
 DEFENDERS ANNIHILATED.
 The attempt to rush /the interior ot
 the fort proved a failure, but portions lof the fort we've, temporarily occupied The defenders were annihilated or were
 unable or unwilling to retire and
 fought to the last breath. In the mean