The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-07
KUROPATKTN,s REPORT.
Russian Details of Several Encounters
 in Which Japs Are worstcd.

in Which Japs Are worsted. St. Petersburg. June 6.-General Ku- Iropatkln telegraphs the emperor under
 date Of June as follows:
 Fuller reports give particulars of the affair at Wafengkau station May lSO. A detachment of Russian cavalry lconsistin gof dragons, cossaoks and
 mounted charreurs with battery on their way from Van zalen, were ih- formed that two companies of the from tier guard were engaged with the ene- In my occupying a position near the vil- llage os Yondziaitrn. A portion of our
 cavalry advanced towards Wafengkau, | while two souadrons of dragoons were sent to protect the frontier guard, and one company of charreaurs was sent to | to protect and reconnoitre on our right ifiank in the valley of Flu Chau. After accomplishing this mission the char
 reurs and company of Cossacks form
 ed the right flank of our position. i Towards l o'clock the enemy began | to debouch in considerable force from
 Lutsiatun with the object of attacking our advance line. Two companies of | Siberian Cossacks crossed the railway l in front of the cavalry and attacked a squadron of the Japansee advance guard, almost entirely destroying it in a hand to han encounter. They after wards encountered the fire of the Jap-
 enese infantry. Two squadrons of cav airy and a battery of machine guns
 hurried up and then retiring drew after | them a second squadron of Japanese cavalry. This squadron followed until lit came in contact with detachment | of charreurs, who succeeded in firing | eight volleys at 8 fixed range into the | squadron. which then fell back, having suffered considerable loss
 While retreating to the left the Jap- lanese squadron came under the fire of
 a company of the frontier guard, which | had advanced, and the squadron retir-
 ed in disorder. Our dragons came up
 at this moment, but owing to the topo- graphical conditions they could not participate as part of our front, but
 fired on the enemy from the heights
 north of Iutsiatun.
 Discovering our endeavors to turn their left, the Japanese retired on a second position. Our battery got into position and opened successful fire
 on the Japanese infantry and machina guns. Meanwhile movement of the enemy's infantry towards Iutsiatun was observed, and subsequently,, about 2 D.
 m., dense lines of infantry were soon occupying the crest of the heights, (which had been previously occupied by
 dragons. Our looses were Lieutenant lvon Meyer, seriously wounded; Lieu
 tenant Brandt, slightly; three men kill
 ed and forty-two wounded.
 l ''It appears from a report found on 1 the body of a Japanese non-commis- stoned officer that the Fourteenth Dra-
 goohs alone lost seventy men.
 | Our Cossacks were fired upon by
 Japanese infantry occupying a fortified position on the heights near the village
 of Khotsiaputse, eighteen miles from
 Feng Wang Cheng. At the outset the
 Japanese attempted to advance across
 the valley of Koaulindzypho, but were
 stopped by an accurate fire from our | field guns, which the Cossacks had suc-
 ceeded in bringing into position.
 The Cossacks dismounted, and, with /, the aid of endorsements and the fire
 of two guns, forced the Japanese to
 abandon their position and tetire under cover of their supports. The engage lment lasted from 1 P. n. until 6 P. m.',