The Bourbon news., 1904-10-07
FANATcAL BRAVERY.
Japs Attempt to Take a Hill and
Are Swept Down IN Masses.
Later the Russians Were Enticed
From Their Shelters and the Japs
Worked Havoc Among Them
AN Appalling Scene

bling under date of September 25.
says:
Terrible artillery conflicts are ad-
ding to the horrors of the situation at
Port Arthur. On September 22 and
| % the Russians made sorties against
positions held by the Kanagawa regi-
ment, and desperate fighting ensued.
The Japanese force was practically an
initiated, only one non commissioned
officer and IL men remaining alive out
Of the 1900 who went into the engage
ment
"The Japanese tunnel into Port Ar
thur was completed on September "a
and was Immediately used. The re-
suit is unknown"
st. Petersburg, Oct 5.-The war Of
! fee has received the following dis.
patch from Gen. Sakarohff, dated Oc-
tober 80:
SAT dawn of October l squadron
of Japanese cavalry twice attempted
to break through the line of advance
posts of Cossacks of the guard in the
district between Khuankhuandia and
Fengtiapu Both attempts were un-
successful. Two sontias of our cav
airy reinforced the advance posts and
| the Japanese dispersed.
Towards noon the same day one
battalion of the Japanese advance
guard with two or three squadrons OF
cavalry of the Japanese advance guard
with two or three squadrons of cav
| airy, renewed the offensive movement
| against a regiment of Cossacks. The
firing lasted until nightfall. Gen. Mist
chenko sent reinforcements to the aid
of the Cossacks and towards evening
the enemy was repulsed at all points.
the whole line retreating towards Sia-
lionkhetzy, pursued by our cavalry"
I'm the positions abandoned by the
| Japanese our Cossacks found a num-
Der of cartridges and medical stores.
and also a few dead horses. We had
two officers and two Cossacks wound
ed. The same day Japanese force
of one battalion and half and a
squadron of cavalry attacked in three
divisions our outposts between the
Hun river and the railway. Towards
evening this movement was checked
with the help of another company,
which reinforced the outpost. One
Cossack was killed and one wounded.
"One Russian patrol dispersed two
japanese patrols in the vicinity OF
Tchjanton, on the right bank of the
Hun river, taking three Japanese pris-
oners.
Another Russian patrol, sent in an
easterly direction, discovered Tawang-
hau Pass occupied by zoo Chinese BAN
dts, commanded by Japanese officers.
During the reconnaissance one Cos
sack was killed.
London, Oct. 6.-The Daily Tele-
graphs Che Foo correspondent says
that on September 24-25 the Japanese
made repeated and recklessly brave
attempts to capture High Hill at Port
Arthur. Owing to the destruction OF
earthworks their advance was COM
pletely unprotected and under the rays
of the searchlight the Russian ma
| chine guns swept them down in
| masses.
"More troops, however, came on
with fanatical bravery" the CORE
spondent adds, "leaping over the bod
les of their dead comrades. Then the
Russians, emboldened by their sue
cess, SORTED. The Japanese replied
with machine guns. 1t was the first
time the Japanese had been able to
entice the Russians from their shell
ters and they worked terrible havoc
among them.
''The scene next morning was ap-
palling. The hillside was strewn with
mangled Russian and Japanese bod
les, some of them gripped with ghast-
ly realism. Boulders were trickling
with blood.
"a brief message was received to-
day. 1t is on torn paper, in Chinese.
and signed by Gen. Stoessel. 1t states
that all had been quiet since Septem-
ber rs and that the Japanese again
had asked for and were refused a
truce to bury their dead. ~
''An official Japanese statement adj
mits the repulse and confesses the ne
cessity of a resort to passive siege.
"Enteric fever has broken out in
the garrison at Port Arthur
Berlin. Oct Ga dispatch to ths
Lohal Anzeiger from Mukden says:
Gen. Kuropatkin has expressed firm
determination to avail himself of this
favorable season of the year for mill
tary action. Everything points tc a
coming revenge for Liao Yang. The
officers and men hope that the period
of retreats is past and that they will
be led against the enemy. The JAP
anese undoubtedly intended Septe1-
ber 27 to attack in three columns from
the collieries at Yantai, along the inn
perial road, but they desisted when
they discovered that the Russians
fronting them numbered 10000 men,
Increased Number of Emigrants.
Vienna, Oct. GA dispatch from
Fiume reports great increase in the
number Of emigrants going to America
by the Cunard line. There are now