Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-05-04
WIN A BLOODY VICTORY.
japanese Put Russian Forces to
Rout by Daring Charge.
ANTUNG IS EVACUATED
Chiu Tien Cheng Falls Before Attack and
Twenty-eight Cannons Taken
Cross Yalu River.

Japanese casualties Ioo
Russian towns taken. ....... q
Russian guns captured ..... ~
Russian officers captured.... 20
Russian forces engaged. ..... 10000
Japanese forces engaged. =. Not known
Days of steady fighting. 80. 5
Toxic. May 2 III a. m.).-The Rus
slams were forced to abandon Antung
Sunday. They burned the town and re-
treated to Feng Huan Cheng. The Japa-
nese now control the estuary of the 1alu.
Toxic, May 2 G a. m.).-The japanese
losses OIL the Yalu Sunday were about
| 700 killed and wounded. The Russians
lost more than 800 men. The japanese
captured twenty eight quick-fring guns,
twenty officers and many men. The Rus
slams made two stands.
London, May "A dispatch to the
the japanese charge, which resulted in
the occupation of the Russian lines at
Chiu Tien Cheng, the Russians fell back
in confusion. The japanese, the dis
patch continues, have now secured a
Yalu.
Toxic, May 2.-Noon.-Admiral Kami-
mura reports that he has been unable to
| lombard Vladivostok because of the
dense fog which prevails
| Toxic, May 2.-The greatest battle
since the American Civil war has been
| fought ON the banks of ane Ialu river,
fl,a
nese army
Six days of sanguinary fighting, chiefly
with artillery. eliminated yesterday in
| the first Japanese army forcing a cross
ing of the Yaln and driving the Russians
| from their position with a daShing
| charge Of infantry covering a frontage OF
more than four miles.
Recalls Battle of Wilderness.
| From reports received here it is judged
by military experts that the famous bat
tie of the Wilderness in the American
Civil war has been repeated along the
banks of the Yalu, and that Gen. Ku-
roki commander of the first japanese
army. has followed the tactics of Gen
Grant and stubbornly pounded his way
| 20 victory.
Gen. Kureki reports that the Russians
J have been driven from their first line of
| defense at Chiu Iien Cheng and from
|
| or Aida, river, which enters the Yalu
/ from the north almost opposite Wiiu
The Japanese turned the left flank of the
Russian position, and swept away the
new front interposed by the Russians to
check their onward movement.
The present position OF the japanese
| is q dominating one, and they may force
the abandonment of the defenses erected
by the Russians at Antung and other
/ points lower down the river.
Losses Enormous on Both Sides.
Nothing has been received here as to
the losses sustained in the fighting previ-
| Gus to yesterdays decisive conflict, but
| it can be easily judged from the reports
! received that the losses have been enor
NOUS on both sides. Gen. Kuroki re-
ports that the Russians yesterday lost
more than 500 in killed or wounded
while he places the japanese loss al
about 700.
The report from Gen kuroki covering
yesterdays fighting says:
/ THE Russians made two stands. The
enemy's strength included all of the
! third division two regiments Of the sixth
division, one cavalry brigade, about forty
quick-fring gums and eight machine guns
'We have taken twenty-eight quick fir.
ing guns. many rifles. much ammunition
more than twenty officers, and many non
commissioned officers and men as prison
erS.
81 am informed that Maj. Kashtalin-
sky, commander of the Third East ST
"orian Rifle brigade, and Lieut.. Gen
Iassaliteh commander Of the Second 81
berlan Army corps. were wounded"
Start of japanese Advance
Gen. Kuroki began his yistorous move
ment ON Tuesday by ordering a detach
ment Of the imperial guards division tt
seize the island of Kurito, which is il
fhn oj,y 1Sx,-o
OF the Second division to seize the island
of kintelto, situated below Wiju TIL,
detachment of the imperial guards me
with some resistance, but succeeded Ia
clearing the enemy out, and occupied
Nurlto island The Russians abandoned
the island of kinteito when attacked.
Ihe actual losses sustained by the de
tachment Of the imperial guards is no
known, as there is an error i'm that par
or the message received here referring tt
| the number killed, but nine Of the detach
ment were severely and sixteen slight,
wounded. The detachment OF the Secont
! division, which took the island OF Kin
teito, sustained no losses.
Russians Open Artillery Fire.
During these movements on the islands
the Russians opened fire on the japanese
with eight nine and one-half centimete,
guns from a hill behind Chiu Tien Cheng
and two Hotchkiss guns mounted On the
Dank OF the river at kosan, where The
Russians had established their headquar
tiers. One battery Of japanese artillery
which had taken a position Oh a hill tt
the east of WiJu, fired three volleys a,
kosan, and at noon Tuesday the Rus
san batteries behind Chiu Tien Chens
shelled Win. wounding one Japanese sol
! der with shrapnel
On Wednesday the Russians resumed
the bombardment of Win, firing at In
tervals throughout the day. The Japa
hese artillery did not respond to this fire
Guards Rout Russians.
i The Russians resumed their bomba I'd
ment Thursday, but it was generally in
effective. Subsequently Gen. kuroki or
dered two companies of the Imperia
guards to cross the Yalu and make {
reconnaissance along the left bank Of the
lho for the purpose OF discovering The