Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-13
THREW AWAY MANY LIVES.
Until Battlefield Has Been Searched
The Losses Cannot be
Ascertaincd.
ATTACK MADE DURING DARKNESS.
Building Where Jap 0utposts We're
Soon Became a Slaughter House
Fought at Close Quarters.

AT the Front with Gen. Kurokrs
Forces, July 4, via Seoul, Korea, July
l3-The brief and disastrous attempt
Of the Russians TO oyervhelm the small
japanese force which guarded the en-.
trance 10 the Mo Tleu pass was a
bloody affair The losses can not be as.
cerlained until the battlefield has been
searched The Japanese are stu driv-
ing the enemy up the valley The COR
respondent Of the Associated Press cav
enough 20 Justify the estimates that the
Russians had more than 900 men Killed
or wounded. and that the japanese cas-
ualtios win probably amount 10 60. The
Russians left SO dead IN front of and In
the trenches where the attack began.
AT this point they had an equal number
OF men severely wounded, and the Jap
anese took several prisoners and cap
tured 100 rifles The Russians were
seen carrying away two officers who
had been either killed or wounded.
Mo Tien pass opens upon funnel
shaped slope which rises for quarter
of mile from the valley. and which
is thanked by hills. Thirty-slx Japa-
nese were quartered In a Chinese house
near the bottom Of the Hill and two
companies Of japanese soldiers were In
a trench a hundred yards long. located
on the summit Of the hin. which COM
handed the approach. Two other COM
panies Of soldiers slept near this trench.
Between 3 and O'Clock in the morn
Ing I'm complete darkness and with "A
heavy fog enshrouding tho hills, two
battaliOng OF the Tenth and Twenty
fourth East Siberian regiments. toge-
Their with 100 cayalrymen, approached
the japanese position They surrounded
the pickets and the outposts IN the
house and gained a position from which
90 rush the trench Several other Rus
sian companies were so disposed that
they could attempt n Ranking move
ment on both the japanese right and
left.
When the fighting began the building
whore the Outposts We're quartered be-
came a slaughter house The Japanese.
aroused from their sleep by the enemy,
seized their swords and bayonets TO re-
sist the attack The Russians were az
such close quarters with the Japanese
that n was impossible for the latter to
use their rifles.
OCCUPATION or KAI CHOU
London, July ia dispatch to the
Japanese legation from Toxic today
announces that Gen. Oku reports that
In the fights leading TO the occupation
Of kai chou the Japanese casualties
from July5 to july Z We're four men
Killed ana ~ wounded. The casualties
Of the Japanese July s and were about
lj0 men killed or wounded
JAPANESE RIGHT ATTACKED.
Mukdcn July i2.-tDelayed IN trans
mi-siOuD--A dispatch received here
from Port Arthur says that Gen. Fock
attacked the Japanese right flank July
and drove the Japanese from their
position. The Russian cavalry adj
yaucad as far as Nan Ga pass
The japanese are landing troops nc
Siao Ping Tao. about midway between
Port Arthur and Port Dalny ON the
onst coast of the Lao Tung peninsula.
The utmost confidence is felt at Port
Arthur OF the ability OF the garrison
10 hold out
THE FIRST FIGHT
The FIRST fight In the trench and in
front of The trench was hlnd-to-hand
and the japanese who ran out TO man
the trench were but half clothed,
The hrst Russian onslaught was re-
PEELED but the Russians charged twice
again within half an hour The re-
mainder OF the Japanese regiment how
ever TO which the outpusts and the
companies at the trench belonged, re-
enforced their comrades ana began TO
drive the Russians back. AS soon as
60 was sufficiently HIGHT 20 distinguish
the enemy two hours after the begin
ming of The hight the Japanese forced
the Russians To retreat one mile down
the valley The trench and It's app
rroaches on the hillside were thlckly
covered with demo and wounded men,
Blood spatterod stones ana grass every
whore testified 60 the holiness of the
lighting,
COLLECTING THE WOUNDED
Chinese stretcher bearers. lmpassive
under dropping bullets We're collecting
the wounded and carrying them "a an
Improvlsed hospital I'M a roadside tem-
ulc. where they were laid out IN rows
under huge painted and ulastered gods.
Japanese details. with trenchng spades
were huryng the dead where they fell.
and japanese soldiers were bringing
water 90 their own and Russian wound.
ca and Implrually giving the wounded
men cigarettes.
The fring continued during the after.
noon, but gradually the sounds grew
more distant indicating that the Rus
SLAMS were stll retreating,