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ere the hills had ceased reverberating with the
thunder of the cannonade. from seven separate
quarters against the Rihlung. Kikwan and Pan
lung fortified ridges.
The attack was simultaneously developed.
without single premonitory TENT fully four
thousand troops dashed out pelnlell, with fixed
payonets, waving standards and rending the
air with shouts of ''Banzai!'
The correspondent tells in detail how the vari-
Gus Japanese attacks were checked by the big
moats and the terrible Russian fire. which rap
Idly depleted their ranks, notwithstanding
clever covering fire of Japanese artillery. and
says:
1t was most remarkable incredible, but
Iully substantiating surmises of their ability to
Withstand the fire Of the heaviest Japanese ord
nance, how the Russians, despite the previous
pombardment replied from their fortress guns
although over 1900 500-pound shells had been
AIeQ mat day, not counting thousands OF smaller
proJectiles. It is estimated that the days bonn
parchment cost the Japanese 100000, represent
ing nearly 20 per cent of the total cost since the
opening DAYS of the siege, In August. Before
haIf an hour had elapsed and after losing six
hunored men. the Japanese abandoned the at
tack against the south Kilwan fort.
by o'clock the Japanese fire had diminished
IN intensity, and the assaults ceased shortly be-
lore sunset, when fire broke out in the new town
OF Fort Arthur, and at nghtfall the Japanese
opened a shrapnJ fire on the eastern ridge to
cover the retirement of their isolated assaulters,
whose situation critical between the east
and the south Kkwan forts The total Jap
anese casualties exceeded 1000.
, Although the assaults failed in the capture of
the main objective. they absolutely unmasked
the eastern Russian positions and their strength
Ihe casualties are relatively small, for. al
though seven regiments were engaged not half
the troops issued from the parallels owing to
the attacks being skilfully manipulated and
inaly ceasing without supports being utilized.
FOR strength. the Russian position was un-
assaultable. and it would have been useless to
endanger double the force and incur double the
casualty list in the same assault.
After dusk the Russians SORTED and recoy-
cred the ground lost between the east and the
south Kikwan forts. They recovered the fort
at 10 o'clock in the evening. but General Ichi-
noye CALAMITY reStormed the hill and. despite
700 casualties, expelled the Russians by sheer
dash and courage. Indeed. his personality won
the hill for the Japanese.
After having captured the caponieres (cov-
ered, galleries) of the east Kikwan fort the Jap
anese engaged in bloody fight In the under
ground passages, slowly winning the vitas Of
the tort inch by inch. despite the bombs and
mountain guns of the Russians defending the
easements. On November the central and
front sections of the caponieres were gained.
The work however, is going on slowly, owing to
the nature of the ground, a combination of
quartz and congomerate limestone
1.-THE Daily Telegraph's Che-Foo correspond
ent gives rumors of renewed Japanese attacks
on Port Arthur, with $4,000 troops, between No
vember and November g. with 1900 casual
ties. THE Daily Telegraph" however does not
credit these rumors. because Of evidence that
the dispatch above summarized was filed on No
vember or later.
The correspondent at Toxic of 1.-The Times"
says that all accounts from Port Arthur concur
in attributing the merit for the stubborn de-
fence which is still being maintained there to
General Fock. who commands the Russian left.
Leading Toxic newspapers, the same CORE
fhat civ
the Russian second Pacific squadron to coal in
French ports is analogous to granting passage
to belligerent troops through neutral territory.