Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1904-06-04
JAPS' STRATEGY
WINS THEM VICTORY
Supposedly Impregnable Hills
Around Kin Chou Taken
by Night Attack.
LCSS SAID TO BE $4,000
Russians Are eBing Pushed Back in
Utter Defeat Toward Port Arthur,
Whose Days Seem
hundred.

London, May 3O.-A dispatch to the
Central News from Hardin says the
Japanese losses during the fighting at
Kin Chou are said to be $1,000 men
killed. 1t is asserted that these figures
have been confirmed by an official dis
patch. Fighting, il is added, is still go
ing on In the vicinity OF Kin Chou.
Toxic, May 30.-After five hours or
desperate fighting the japanese swept
the Russians from Kin Chou Friday
evening. Nau Guam Ling, a stronghold
OF the enemy was taken later after a hot
fight. The artillery duel still contln-
ues. 4 Russian gunboat bombarded the
japanese left flank from Talien war
bay, while The Japanese warships
worked with the army from Kin Chou
bay.
Vice Admiral Togo has now estab-
lished a complete blockade around the
southern end Of the Lao Tung PENN
sula. This completely envelopes Port
Arthur from the seaward and proDaply
marks the opening of the fnal invest
ment OF the town and it's Notifications.
The Japanese have swept all the Rus
slams from their d%efences west of Talien
Wan bay and II is now improbable the
after will be capable Of offering any
further resistance in the territory north
of Port Arthur.
Castle Stormed at Night.
Kin Chou castle was occupied by the
Japanese at twenty minutes past 1 this
morning. Later the Russians were
driven from their positions on the
southern heights and the japanese are
now in pursuit of the ~retreating Rus
slams.
The Japanese army swept the Rus
slams from Kin Chou last evening and
Il, a Ingparata NIGHT attack gtOrmed
the almost impregnable position of the
Russians on Nanshan hill, west OF
Talien Wan. The battle ragged In the
hills all through the night.
mentary kilograms from the apanes
headquarters report the engagement
is still in progress and that the Japa-
nese are still pursuing the Russians
south from Nanshan and he head of
Talien Wan bay. The Russians had
made elaborate preparations to check
the Japanese movement south on the
Lao Tung peninsula toward Port Ar
thur. They had fortified the high
ground on the south shore of Talien
Wan bay.
Wonderful Jap Strategy.
The extreme Russian right was at
Hushangtao, and the extreme left at
Nanshan hill. This hill was the strong
est part OF the line. A series OF bat
teries strongly emplaCed crowded Its
crest, while rifle pits extended around
It's sides. Mines had been placed lower
down the hill, and around the base on
the northern and eastern sides were
stretched well made wire e~ntangle-
ments. Another line of wire e~ntangle-
ments extended from Yen Chin Tung,
near the head of Tailcn War bay.
A strong Russian force OF infantry
and artillery was posted at Kin Chou.
The lapanCSe frst occupied Il line or
hills to the'east Of Kin Chou. back Of
which me attacking force W. assem-
blcd In complete security. LAa Rus
SLAMS apparently attempted to draw he
Japanese attack last Saturday, for
their batteries opened fire on the enc
my tina day. The Japanese refused to
be drawn until the positions of the
Russians, their guns and their strength
had been fully developed. To this end
the Japanese began a series Of careful
"Reminiscences, their officers working
their way close enough to the Russian
position to draw the enemy's fire. They
thus secured fragments of shells for
the purpose Of ascertaining the caliber
of the Russian guns.
Located Enemy's Guns.
They discovered that the batteries
on Nanshan hill included tour howitz-
ers Of about 12-centimeter caliber, ten
old STYLE cannon of between 8 and 10
ccntimeters, and two quick-firing guns
of u centimeters. The Japanese dis
covered also a number of large en-
placements, but did not learn the num-
her OF guns contained therein. The
emplacementS raced 10 the north ana
east.
The guns fired by the Russians de-
welcomed q range of $500 meters. Eight
heavy guns, posted on the Russian
right in the vicinity Of Hu Shang Hao
also were discovered, and another
-.-..-r D,tGgtnn nnCifinn 1nNnlnnn1 nv
these reconnoissanCes was on another
hill ]uthwe OF Nanshan hill, where
the Russians had a series of shelter
trenches.
on the shore of Talienwan bay, close
TO the head of the bay, the Russians
had established n series OF positions.
Here were set up searchlights which
nightly played over the Japanese angle
in the hills to the northeast. Further
reconnoissanCeS developed the fact thai
west OF Liu CHA Tien the Russians had
no defenses except q force posted al
Kin Chou This gap in the defenses
was the fatal defect in the Russian
position, and when II was perceived
the Japanese extended their right tC
the north and east, enVeloping XIII
Chou and the Russian extreme right
The Japanese left also was extended
10 Wang CHA Tung on the shore OF
Talienwan bay and the center was
moved forward.
Great Artillery Duel.
Wednesday morning at $50 the Jap
anese attacked Kin Chou and for three
hours they had an artillery duel Will
the batteries on Nanshan hill. The
Russian gunners searched the Japa'
nese lines with their fire but failed t
innict much damage. The battle wa
resumed at dawn Thursday.
Three Japanese ~gunboats then en-
tered Kin Chou bay n in Co-opera'
ton with the artillery on shore shelle'
the Russian positions on Nanshan hill
A Russian gunboat in Talien Wal ba!
steamed close to shore and shelled tn,
Japanese left. From dawn the bat
teries on both sides hammered ava,
at each other.
At an early hour japanese infantr,
moved forward and at $50 Thursda,
morning they entered Kin Chou, tn
Russians retiring to the south. TIL
fighting continued into Thursday night
the Japanese pressing to the south an,
storming Nanshan hill. They followe,
the retreating Russians through tn
southern hills.
No information is given concerning
the losses. They probably were heav,
on both sides.
ST. Petersburg in the Dark.
St. Petersburg, May 27.-Afternoon-
Owipp- m tho fact that communicable