The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-01
KURoFATKTN EXPLAINS.
Russian Retreat from senu Chen-Eaps'
Effective FIanking.

A-NA-ssSA@%eS
Effective Flanking.
ST. Petecsbnrg, june SO The follow:
ing dispatch from General Kuropatkin
to the emperor, dated June 70, was re-.
|ceived to-day:
Towards O'Clock in the morning Of
June n our troops, having disiodged
the enemy = advance guard, composed
Of cavalry and infantry occupied the
station Of Sehu Chen, but at 8 o'clock it
was discoyesed that brigade OF the
enenys infsntry was advancing In
front, while other columns were turn
ing our dettchmentss left flank. The
town of Sem Chen, which Is Surround
ed by walls was also occupied by the
Japanese. Consequently at II o'clock
our troops slowly withdrew As re-.
CARDS losses we only know as vet that
an officer 81 d ten men were wounded.
4 Al recon 4aissanee carried out on the
road from lsAa Kho Tung to Eritatan
and Khan Il, revealed the presence Of
six connpaiges OF the enenys infantry
and two ,uadrons of cavalry, and at
MayaratsaI three miles southeast Of Sia
Kho Tun, m this reconnaissance
Captain Vissilieff, Lieutenant Makar-
or and flle Cossacks were wounded.
Makaroff 71locumbed.
There Wis some skirmishing June 25,
between TIL enemy and our outposts at
|samiarlkas and Wang Isl Afang
Ching, fivs miles west OF Samiarlkau.
AT insthe morning. June 26, a de-
tachment st the enemy, nearly an in
fantry brigade, with two batteries, oc-
cupied Sastiao, firing on our van posts
occupying Black Mount, south Of Sia
Kaho Tung. Our three companies firm
ly held taeir ground until reinforced
ttAt 6 am. a battery Of Cossacks and
q nountel mountain battery took up
a position and opened fire on the front
and flank OF a japanese battery and q
dense tcolnln Of infantry which had
appeared against our left.
At 1 o'clock in the afternoon the
Japanese began to retire. pressed by
our trooIs, who had assumed the Of
fensive and pursued the enemy as far
|as Santiao. Our losses were six sol
diers killed and two officers and thirty
three men wounded.
1.-THE tattle recommended at Sia Kho
Tung at iii the morning. A Cossack
battery and mounted battery repeated
Ily pursued the enerny's $ infantry and
silenced the Japanese batteries A sec
tion Of our infantry repulsed the Jap
anese on our right, we counter attack
ling. The lighting ceased at five. a sec
I tion Of the Eleventh horse battery,
which participated In the lighting, as
tonisfSed everybody BY its gallantry IN
pushing on SO far as the Shan Hal pass
and holding it's own against eight Of
Ithe eaerny's guns until Its ammunition
was exhausted,
"a battalion and q squadron of the
Japanese vanguard, June rs, operating
north OF the stu Yen Kai Chou road,
occupied Che Liu Ang Tien, four miles
northeast Of Sia Kho Tung.
"a concentration, towards evening,
|of twerty-six Japanese battalions was
observed near the village Of Wang
TIT Pulse, on the, Stu Hal Cheng road.
From the morning Of June n the
Japanese developed frontal attack
against our troops In Ia Pass, sinlul-
tsneously turning our right with at
least a division Of infantry and three
field batteries The fight lasted until
S:40 in the evening IN view of the