The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-28

metre eminence. Paiyinshan and Paf-
| yushan.
The Naval guns fired principally on
! Sitaiyangkeu, Itszshan, Antszshan, the
| Russian warships in the eastern har-
| bour, and the western town of Port
| Arthur
| Of the effects produced by our fire.
| the following are worthy of special
/ mention:
| The infantry banquette and several
buildings within the Erhlungshan Fort
(where the enemy placed sand bags in
a section of the banquette which had
been destroyed the preceding day.
We're destroyed and considerable dam
age was also done to the gorge of the
fort
At the North fort of Tungkikwan-
shan an ammunition magazine was
exploded, and at the Tungl<ikwanshan
fort field gun mounted on the vest
ern side OF the gorge was blown off,
while at Sungshushan a covered 12-cm.
Canet gun and another at the gorge
We're struck by our projectiles.
AT Itszshan the carriage of a 12-cn-
. Canet gun was capsized, while another
gun carriage was considerably deviat-
ed from its proper position. The COW
erings of the fort on the 203-metre
elevation were destroyed at two places,
together with some portions of wire
ENHANCEMENT and entrenchments for
skirrnishers
1t appears that not a few injuries
were inflicted on the guns and build
ings at the northern fort at Sitaiyang-
ken.
Fire started at the old town of Port
Arthur and a second fire. lasting three
hours occurred at a mandatory at
the base of Golden Hill.
During the night, the arsenal at Port
Arthur was bombarded as usual, and
we also fired for the purpose of COW
ering our sapping operations
29th.-To-day We resumed firing and
increased the number of shots from
each gun.
Before daybreak the enemy's force
about 100 in number came out to at
tack us at the head of our channel
advancing on the Erhlungshan Fort,
but we repulsed them with heavy loss
es. At the same time, an equal force
of Russians delivered a fierce attack
on our tunnelled channel to Sungshu-
shan Fort Our troops defended the
ground in a most desperate manner.
but were obliged to give up part of it.
At 2 p. M, however, our forces in CO.
operation with body of artillery, re-
captured the lost position by a single
attack
Our channel advancing on ErhIung-
shan Fort reached the 1atter's outer
entertainments last night, a portion of
which was duly exploded and destroyed
by our force.
The classmates at the outer embank-
nents in the eastern corner of the
North Fort of Tungkikwanshan were
tgain twice exploded last night and
big breach made. killing a dozen Of the
Russians who We're staying there.
Our firing is becoming more and
more effective and the number of the
effective shells fired from the guns or
large calibre reached $50 to-day In
addition. immense damage has been
inflicted on the forts at Laoluhtsz,
Itszshan and Paiyinshan and the in
termediate forts between these. places.
The Naval guns We're used for firing
on Sitayangkeu. Itszshan. Antszshan
Kichienutsoying, Paiyushan and Sung
shushan. The shells from these guns
blew up the magazine at Sitayangl1eu.
Those guns are also used for firing on
the I'VE Understanding bOdtS iioptfu
along the southern side of the West
harbour, and have inflicted heavy
damage on three Of the boats and
caused fire to break out on board two
of them.
The rest of the siege-guns also bonn
barded from l D. m. the entertainments
attached to the forts between the Chi
nese wall and the fortresses.