Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-07-19
LOST THOUSAND MEN
Kuropatkin Reports Repulss
at Molten Pass.
RUSSIANS ATTACKED IN DENSE 70,
After stubborn Fight Japanese Drov.
Cars Troops OR-Englnnd and
Germany Protest Against Sell
cures In Red Sea,


LONDON, July ia special dis.
patch from st. Petersburg says that
General Kuropatkin reports that Lieu
tenant General Count Keller lost oven
1000 in Killed or wounded in the at.
tack eli Molten pass on Sunday morn
ing.
A Tokyo report says that General
Kuroki, commanding the First army,
reports a severe engagement In the
Molten pass between Fengwangcheng
and Liaoyang early Sunday morning.
General Keller, With two divisions,
taking advantage of a dense fog to
cloak his advance, at 8 o'clock in the
morning fiercely assaulted the .Japa-
nose positions at the pass and on eli
their flank.
After a stubborn fight the Japanese
repulsed the attack md pursued the
russians nearly to Ticnsllutien.
General Kuroki adds That he is max
ing an Investigations to ascertain the
number of his casualties.
He compliments the army on its
splendid behavior In the battle.
a correspondent at General KurolSi's
headquarters has telegraphed as fol-
lows:
~ Russian fcrccls apparently about
20.0G0 strong. NIT. eyed The front. left
and right of the Japanese positions on
the western slope OF Molten pass at
. Il. m. Sunday unGer cover Of Il dense
fog. The sMlden onslaught drove in
the japanese ogti osts. but as soon as
re-c%nforcerien,s arrived the Japanese
CALAMITY advanced to the attack and
after severe fighting drove off the
Russians ANA reoccupiel the position.
The Russians retired. their retreat be-
ing well covered. The fighting las,el
until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. and
when left the scene desultory firing
was still proceeding
1t Is reported here that the Japanese
right wing il making a rapid move
ment to the southward. 1t Is not clear
on which points the Japanese are con-
centrnting.
Vigorous action by Great Britain
and PERHAPS Ivy Germany is expect
ed to follow the reports Of Turkeys
violation of neutrality and the Paris
treaty in allowing RussinD armed YES
sells to pass the Dardanelles. The stu
alton is today occupying the closest
attention of Official and diplomatic
circles.
The passage of the volunteer cruls-
ers Smolensk and st. Petersburg
through the Dardanelles, some days
ago. aroused much criticism. and this
has now been changed to-open condem-
nation OF Turkeys course by the report
that the Russian guardshlp Cherno-
noretz was permitted to pass yester-
day. England is hound by her treaty
with Japan to prevent Nsuch assist
ance to Russia. and several of the pa
pers this morning assert that strin-
gent measures will be taken to punish
the offending Turk and prevent n re-
currence.
A Berlin dispatch says that Ger
many has entered IL vigorous protest
ut the seizure of mails on the Prinz
Heinrich by the Russian volunteer
feet in the Red sea.
MI only Is tAS stsAuft piOttStCA. Dut
the right of search for contraband by
a vessel not openly classed as a part
of the russian naval force is denied.
The Prlnz Heinrich was~stopped and
detained four hours in the Red sea by
the Russian volunteer fleet steamer
Smolensk. All the mail and pack
ages. some fifty sacks, bound for
Japan We're taken OF.
The German government demands a
prasApt disavowal of the Smolensk's
ya-.:on and the return Of the captured
mail.
1t is reported that two more steamers
Of the Russian volunteer fleet, now at
Odessa. havc received confidential or
dess 10 leave for the Red sea and to
seize Brltisl vessels which are alleged
to be carrying contgaband Of war.
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