The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-03
WENT FORWARD
TO MEET DEATH
Another Account of Japanese
attack Upon Kin Chou.
WHOLE RANKS MOVED DOWN
DAY SAVED BY TIMELY ACTION
OF GUNBOATs.
ONDON. June 3-The Times steam |

q ONDON, June 3-The Times steam
or HsimuH returned 20 Chefoo ON
June 2 from a cruise in Kin Chou
bay. The correspondent aboard learned
Ircm Port Arthur refugees that the
native and civilian population get only
Edch food as arrives ON lunks from
Chinese ports. on what they themselves
nave secreted- The military auth0ri-
ties requisitiOned all available food ON
halL ratious DC IS estimated that the
garrison has enough for I'VE months.
The I'VE damaged WaTships mOored
a. the Port Arthur jettie5, the Times
correspondent learns. have been de-
Huded of everything movable. Lieuteu-
amt General Stoessel retains large
number of Junks iu the rOadsted. The
OBJECT or this measure can only be con-
JecEured The correspondent says:
Battle Of Kin Chou.
Eye witnesses of the battle of Kin
Chou describe 10 ass am unprecedented
lni'itary spectacle. Forty thousand Jap
anese were masSed behind the western
spur of Mount Sampson under such
small cover as was afforded by the
twin peaks The troops were within
1000 yards OF the Russian works There
H as so little room 10 deplOv for attack
That Battali0us of Japanese trooDs were
fhe moment of attack, exposed to a
Nevitable inferno OF fire from the Rus
sian batteries. The shells pl0Wed into
their saTTied masses
Meantime battery after battery of
japanese guns went into action uuon
the Chi III ChWaug and the Kauchiayan
STATS and sustained gunb0at IRE played
upon the Russian works. Their lines
were friuged with bursting pr0jectfes
About midday the energy of the Rus
sian defenders I'm the works I'm front of
Mauchiaying village seemed exhausted
oF the guuDoat fire. Two japanese
uattaiious appeared over the saddle be-
fWeen the twin peaks and made des-
parate effort 60 carry the nearest Rus
sian works.
An Impossible Task.
cat first the struggling wallis of AIsu-
ChiayIug gave them some cover and q
moments breathing space. Then the
gallant little iufanuymcu Crept on
again up the slopes toward the Russian
position To was am impossible task /
As yet the defenders had not been suf- .
ncieutly shaken. e p avalanche of con- /
centrared fire from Infantry i'm the '
trenches, machiue guns in the Russian +
works and quick-fTiug field artillery fu +
the supporting doteuses struck the Jap
sHese- They melted away from the
---e.ttr -tlHf rAtt-Et Nethtr N-ft name or
DiuW pipe. A few who seemed TO have
charmed lives struggled oH until they
reached the wire utaUgleueHts.
"lt was iu vain Heroic effort was
wasted Within fifteen minutes these
two battaHons ceased 20 exist except F..
as a trail of mutilated bodies at the F.
foot o the Russian giaCis
Gunboats Turned the Day.
Seeing the failure of this attack. the
Eunboats and supporting artillery con-
seHtfdted the whole of their fire ur0u
the point where General Dku had de-
''rmined 90 drive home his wedge. and /.
oE evening the works were practicable
Tor an assault by a general who had
SUCH infantry as the Japanese and who
was prepared TO take the responsibility
OF such fearful losses Ii would seem
as ll the actual carrying of the works
mad been another Alma. The word
81 ss given for bsyouet attack. Then
t1e whole Japanese front surged for
NJ ard and the moral balance went over
~ the side of the japanese the Rus
slams retiring before them.
1T learn that &c was the mining shin
Amur which laid the mines that de-
stroyed the Hatsuse. ON the morning
pr the catastrophe "a japanese gunb0at
fotila cut her and her escort Off.
can learn nothing of their fate. but
suspect that they succeeded lon siiurfue
back into Port Arthur