The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-02
RUSSIAN FLANK TURNED
CContInued from First Paee.l

day evening 1t was in the position as
signed to It Tor the battle of Sunday.
brldge across the main stream OF
tA6 a1u Just above Win vas cOmpie-
ted at 8 o'clock Saturday night and the
second japanese division and the I'M
perial guards Immediately began cross
ing- They advanced and occupied the
nils back CT KOsan. facing the Russian
position On the right bank Of the river
Al through Saturday night, regiment
AFTER regiment Of japanese soldiers
poured across the bridge and at a late
hour Saturday night General KuroIi
teIegTaphed to the general stan of the
army:
dawn
True to his promise. General KoroIzf
at daylight. eentered all his artillery
On the Russian position between Chiu
lien Chang and Toshoko. To this fire
the Russian made reply with all their
batteries.
At o'clock in the morning the Rus
sian battery at Xohoko was sfIenced
and half an hour later General Kurokf
ordered his line, stretching for four
miles, to attack The Japanese fnfan-
try. on the word Of command. charged
across the mo, wading that stream
breast deep and began storming the
height at Is minutes past g.
At 3 o'clock they had swept the Rus
sian line back across the plateau
The Russian Account.
St Petersburg. Nay 2-The general
stan account Of the operations on the
Xaiu river today is as follows:
At o'clock Sunday morning, Jap
anese field batteries with forty-seven
ton at TurenchOn and on our troops
posted near POtietensky
The overwhelming superiority of the
japanese in artillery and the heavy
losses their fire inflicted on our troops
occupying these positions made it clear
to General Sasslitch that it vas i'm
possible to hold TurenchOn- Conse-
quently, the troops were ordered to re-
tire from Turenchon while stiu hoIdiBg
the POrietensky road.
When General SassUlitch dispatched
his telegram the Russian troops were
retiring in good order from Turenchon
and Schakhedzxy to their second posi-
ton and The battle was continuing at
Potietenslky~ and Tchin-Csu-'
Fight on the YaIu.
London. May 2.-The japanese le-
cation gave out today an official dis
patch from the admiralty at Toxic,
reporting an engagement between
japanese Warships on the XaIu and
Russian shore batteries. 1t reads as
follows:
The captain of the gunboat Maya
gunboats Maya and Vii and some tor
pedo boats assembled the Talu May 1.
bombarding the enemy.
While they were returning the
enemy's artillery suddenly attacked the
torpedo boats The latter silenced the
enemy after a severe engagement last
ing % minutes and the fiotilla all re-
turned to YongampO. There we're no
casualties
.tOur armed launches reached An
Tung the same morning and repuIsed
the enemy's infantry and artillery
after thirty minutes of sharp fighting.
Fire was seen rising from the town
and a native says that the enemy fed
from An TUng after setting fire to it
A Firm Hold I'm BLanchuria.
London. May "A dispatch to the
Central News from Seoul says that
after the japanese charge, which re-
lines at Chiucheng, the Russians fell
back in confusion The japanese the
dispatch continues, have now secured
a firm hold on the Manchurian side of
the XaIu-
New BattIeshfp Aground.
St Petersburg. May THE new
Russian battIeship OreI, to which the
finishing touches are being put, ran
aground on q sand bank in the Neva
yesterday. As difficulty is expected in
relocating her, the ice breaker Eruak
has been sent from Cronstadt to assist
the tugs in pulling her on
Russians Have Little News
St. Petersburg. May 2-4-35 P NJ
At 2.30 this afternoon the Associated
Press was informed that beyond the
fore the overwhelming superiority Of
the japanese in the YaIu river, no de-
tails have been received since the re-
port of General SassuIitch, commander
of the second Siberian army corps, yes
terday of the retirement from Kulien
Cheug to An Tung- 1t is quite possible
that the loss on both sides in the
weeks fighting may reach the figures
were not brought up to support the
Russian position at kaIien Cheug,
where the fighting was the heaviest
The Russians made a special effort TO
hold as long as possible, the heights OF
Che San on an island opposite kul1eU
Cheng, whence their guns commanded
a considerable stretch of the river to
the sOuth-but a Japanese battery on 4
hill above With dominated the position,
which the Russians eventually were
forced to reIinquish- thus losing the keF
to the river. The desperate character
of the struggle there may have been
due to the necessity for gaining time
for the withdrawal Of she Russian de-
tachmeuts above and below.
General Sassulitch was in command
of the entire force on the Yalu which
extended along a front of over 80 miles,
with reserve supports ID miles back
The whole force according to the best
information obtainabIe did not exceed
Il Gee What was the actual force en-
gagged IS not known at present though
probably it was not more than 5000
men. if it was so large No Information
has yet been received Of the reported
capture of % Russian quick firing guns
or the wounding Of General SassuIiuch
and General Kashtalinsxy-
Russians Entrenching-
Tien Tsin. May 1.-Two hundred
Russians are entrenching themselves
on the Lao river. three miles from
Sin Min Tung- employing Chinese Ia
borers Sin Min Tung is two miles
from koupaug Use, q permanent Rus
sian camp. 4 detachment Of $50 men
is patrolling the railroad lines.
Where Russia Gets Torpedo Beats
Berlin Nay 2.-Eduard Bernstein.
a member of the refchstagr begins the
publication today of a new Socialist
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