The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-06-02
Marched Into an Ambush al
Feng-W -Wang-Cheng.
FOUR THOUSAND KILLED
Place Was Thought to Be Deserted by
Jaas, But Thirty Thousand OF
Them Were Lying in Wait
Just the Same.
The Shan -Kai-Kwan correspondent

The Shan -KI-Kwan correspondent
of The Daily Chronicle lLondon)
sends a report received from Niu-
chwang that en- May 20, thinking that
the Japanese had retired from Feng'
Wang.Cheng, $4,000 Russians, from
Hai-Cheng and Liao-Yang, marched to-
ward Feng-Wang-Cheng. They were
surprised by 10000 japanese in the
Tatung pass. The R':ssian casualties
were 1000. Over Thousand Rus
slams surrendered. The report does no.
state the japanese losses.
Japs Take Kin-Chou.
Associated Press advices from Che
foo state that it is learned from a
reliable source that the Japanese took
Kin Chou Thursday and are now pur-
suing the enemy.
A dispatch to The Central News
Oondon) from Toxic says the Japan
ese have stormed and captured the
town OF Kin-Chou, about 80 miles
north OF Port Arthur.
After the occupation of Kin Chou,
the Russians retired in, good order
to the heights further south, which
were attacked by the full Japanese
force and carried after q stubborn
resistance.
In an earlier message, the CORE
spondent of The Central News caDled
Fhat the Japanese spies had ascer-
tanned that the Russians had thirty
guns at Kin CNou and numerous
mines and wire entanglements at all
points where japanese attack was
expected.
The correspondent VI The Central
News at Toxic cables thai the Jap
anese attacked Nan-Kwan-Ling, on the
narrowest part Of the Kwan-Tung Pc
ninsula dnesday and drove back
tho Russians by main force.
Russians Thought Town Was Safe.
A St. Petersburg special says: The
general staff is not in position to
confirm or deny the Toxic report that
the Japanese have occupied Kin Chou.
The latest official information regard
ing fighting in that vicinity was con-
veyed in General Kurcpatkin's tele-
gram, which said that the Japanese
had lost 700 on May 1S. This agrees
with information ntained in the AS
sociated Press dispatches of May rs,
General Kurcpatkin apparently accept
ing the report from the same Chinese
source.
It would be a great surprise to the
authorities in st. Petersburg IT the
report of the capture OF Kin Chou
should prove to be true. The impress
sion heretofore entertained that Kin
Chou would prove a hard nut for the
Japanese to crack, and that its reduc-
ton would need siege train and call
for careful approaches which would
OCCUPY the enemy for a long time.
The opinion Of the best authorities
is that if the japanese rushed Kin
Chou by frontal. attsek, unsupported
by heavy guns, which it is not be-
lieyed they pcssess, the capture or
the. place must have Leen erected at
= tremendous loss to :ae attackers.
Torpedo Boat Fight.
The detailed official report of Vice.
roy Alexieff Of the torpedo boat de-
stroyer fight of March 9, in which the
s:ereguechtshni was cut of and sunk
by Japanese cruisers and the fight
of the following day in which the Jap
anese torpedo bost was sunk by a
torpedo is published in st. Peters
burg. The viceroy lays stress upon
the great delicacy Of the destroyers
and torpedo boats, and the ease with
which they are disabled by a projectile
in the engine room. The whole OF
the engine. room crew Of the Vlastin-
ini was driven to the deck by the
escaping steam and the boat was say
ed only by the heroism OF the engi-
neer, who, though burned and scalded,
went below and succeeded in again