The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-15
BATTLE IS RAGING NORTH OF KIN CHOU Japanese Take the Offensive In Attempt to Drive the Russians Further
 North.
RUSSIANS REPORT REPULSE
DECLARE REPEATED ATTACKS FAILED TO DTSLoDGE THEM.

DECLARE REPEATED ATTACKS FAILED TO DTSLODGE THEM. Main Force of the Attack Directed Against the Left Flank Which it is Officially Stated Sustained Severe Losses-Feeling in St. Petersburg That Japs Have Suffered a Severe Check-BIindness of the Situation Further North Emphasized. Liao Yang June 14.-Japanese artil- lery to-day opened upon vafangow Ca station on the railroad twenty-f five miles above Kin Chau). Details are awaited.
 London, June 14.-The Central News has received a dispatch from it's Liao Yang correspondent, under to-day's date, saying that heavy firing between the Russian and Japanese vanguards commenced at LAO o'clock this after noon. The fighting extended along the sntire front, assuming the dimensions pf a general engagement.
 St. Petersburg, June 14.-Emperor Nicholas has received the following tel gram from Lieutenant-General Baron ;takelborg, bearing to-days date A battle began at noon around the Russian position four and a half miles outh of the station of Wafanhoon (Va- angow), the enemy making repeated ttempts to dislodge our left flank. The ttack was repelled and we retained ur position.
 The First regiment, occupying the left ank of our position, sustained severe 4sses. Its commander, Colonel Kha- astounoff, and Adjutant Sub-Lieuten- nt Dragorslaff Nadochinsky were kill ]. General Gerngross was wounded, a hrapnel bullet shattering the right side his lower jaw, but he remained on ae field
 St. Petersburg, June 14.-Emperor icholas has received the following dis etch from General Kuropatkin, dated ine IS:
 This morning the advance of two tpanese divisions was discovered lrthward from Pu Ian Tien, The ad- ncing forces at 2 p. m. were observed extend from the village of Wand lou along the valley oftthe Tassa, one vision advancing by the Tassa valley. le enemy halted at 4:30 p. m., occu- ing the villages of Tao Tsia Tung, lang Tsia Tung and Lui Tsia Tung, the heights southward of Wand ou. fI have not received detailed informa- In of our losses to-day, but Lieuten- Tcherepakfin and several soldiers Ire wounded.
 According to our intelligence, no vance of the Japanese from Siu Yen ward Taling Pass was observed to- v."
 ,he general staff has received the lowing dispatch, dated June IS, from jor- General Karkevitch:
 During the night of June 11-12 the banese attacked our advance posts Ar the village of Utsaten, south of An Fang Tfen station and above the sewo-Pu Ian Tien line. The Japan. were repulsed with loss.
 EThe same night, after fighting last until morning, our attachments k possession Of the pass heights lr the village of Lui Tsia Tung.
 bur losses in these nocturnal en- hters were four soldiers killed and hteen wounded.
 During the evening of June Lieu hnt Lang, while engaged in recon ssance in the neighborhoOd of On- hasa, ten miles northeast of Ali Yang in, was attecked by two companies Japanese He succeeded in forcing way through after hand-to-hand According to information, 5000 Jap Be are marching north towards Hua Slang"
 Petersburg, June 15.-3:16 a. m.- general staff remained in session | almost 2 o'clock this morning to late and give out Lieutenant Gen. Baron Stakelberg's message an ncing the fight at Vafangow. This sually late hour indicates that the horities attach considerable impor- ee to the dispatch.
 is thought here tRat the Vafangow ir may prove to have been quite a Fy fight. The fact that Russians their positions in the face of heavy es also supports this theory, and il elieved that it may turn out to be were check to the Japanese north advance.
 e movement of 6,oO0 Japanese north kuan Dia Sian, only adds to the iness of the situation in the north arn field of operations. It is un- tionable that the Cossacks have
 worrying the Japanese north of Wang Cheng, and the movement
 be merely an effort to clear the try At the same time this move
 holds the possibility of a demon ion against Mukden, one of the
 roads leading directly east from den toward the region to which the nese are now advancing.
 3 concensus of opinion, however, is