The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-19
TAKEN WITH COLD STEEL.
storminE of Lone Tree HiII RemanssS.s.
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StOfmtng of Lone Tree hfit MEMBERSHIPS
 in Wars Annals.
 St. Petersburg, Oct. is.-There was no lighting on the Russian left yester- day, and the Japanese operations on the extreme right evidently intended to cut the railroad below the Hun River have failed, the Japanese being unable to get beyond Sinchinpu, two miles west of the Shakhe Railroad Station. Field Marshal Oyama seems to be mass ing troops against the Russian center and the war office expects he will make a desperate effort tonight or tomorrow to retalxe the two vital poeitions.'
 The general stan believes that the storming Of Lone Tree Hill for valor and slaughter will occupy a place by itself In military annals. Kuropatkin, under whose eye the assault was made rechristened 1t Poutiloff Hill in honor of tue man who led the attack at the head of the second brigade of the East Siberian rife division, and who was subsequently, decorated on the field with the St. George Cross. The hill is a precipitous rocky height and al though the Japanese had occupied 1t only a short time, they had thrown up very strong defenses. The river run ming at It's foot increased the difiicul ty of the task. but 1t was scaled and carried successfully against the unpre- cedented opposition of a Japanese dt- vision of 14,000 men with many guns. The Russian losses were terrible.
 The fighting on the crest of the hill was altogether with cold steel The Russian officers with swords aIoft lead ing the scaling column were literally lifted in the air by the Japanese bayo- nets and the Japanese then bayonetted the first of the Russian soldiers who piled in the trenches. All the dead in the trenches were bayoneted, their weapons bearing marks of the dreadful combat.
 The Russian line. according to the war ofice still extends eastward along the Shakhe River to Uindiapu, where 1t crossed the Mukden- -Bentsiaputze road Further east the roads leading north from Bensiahu and Fushan whence there is a direct road to Tie Pass, are also strongly held, it being feared that Oyama might shift the weight to his right, thus reversing the situation at the opening of the opera tions with Kuropatkin pressing the Japanese left, in other words. duplicat- ing the strategical disposition at Liao- yang.
 While the war office holds out hope that Kuropatkln may resume the gen eraI offensive, 1t is privately admitted that the chances are against him unless there is some fortunate development, 1t being explained that his assumption of the aggressive at Shakhe and along the railroad was vital as the withdrawal of his left must be made under the shel- ter of his right.
 The dispatch of the Associated Press from Mukden filed early this morning and announcing the artillery fire con tinued unceasingly throughout last night. indicates doubtless that there would be important developments to- day. No indication was given, how ever, of the object of the firing, or which side was the agressor.
 Some of the newspapers, notably The Russ, boldly hail the Russian success at Lone Tree Hill as complete evidence that Kuropatkin will again make a gem uine advance along the whole line. printing the announcement in big head lines:
 "The Russians resumed the advance. KuropatkIn has crossed the Shakhe River. He has 2s,0oo men and 2,so0 nuna