Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-14

up the slopes. There was sharp fight
 ing during the oay in which the Jap
 anese made further advances and | planted themselves along Q line two
 miles long facing the Russ .GI trench
 as and in few places onlv a few
 yards distant. They got little further
 in the next four days but they held
 their line and under difficulties which
 made it seem impossible. The first night the Russians made four attacks
 to drive them back, with a fusillade
 of continuous rifle fire supported | much of the time by smelling. The | fighting continued in this character
 for three successive nights. beginning
 before midnight and lasting till day.
 break. and it was continuous although
 not so heavy during the days. All
 the advantages lay with the Russians. Their guns could fire upon the Jap anese lines at closer distances and with greater effect than could the Japanese guns across the river upon
 the Russians, their trenches ran at angles which commanded the ap- preaching slopes from front and Hanks, and behind them were roofed shelters in which the soldiers could
 find rest and warmth. On their side the Japanese had only such protection as they could improvise under great disadvantages. digging the frozen ground and in the face of rifle fire.
 and turning the face of some of tho smaller Russian trenches. Going into action each man carried on his should- CTS a pair of small sand bags and for
 many these bags were the only shel- ter for hours and days. To raise a head or even an arm drew fire. For
 the first day they got no warm food
 only the rations carried in the haver-
 sacks All of this time the nights were several degrees below freezing
 and during the day the temperature was hardly above freezing point. The losses of this contingent, most of them. in the first nights work, reach
 ed fifteen hundred. including sixty officers. The non-combatants gave | splendid exhibition of their devotion
 to duty, with almost the same risks and without the opportunities for glory of the men in the fighting line. | All supplies Of rations and ammuni- ton had to be taken across the river and the open fields under fire from
 the Russian batteries, and during the last stage of the trip before the Rus
 sian rifles. South of the river bed
 was the plain al least a mile wide
 with no shelter and over this went peck trains, carts and hospital men bringing back the wounded, the
 stretcher bearer carrying bodies to the cremating fire behind Witesan. For two days this zone was swept by an almost constant artillery fire, and for three days the roads and approach
 es were shelled at intervals for sev- eral hours. Yet on the plain the en- gineers were calmly repairing the tel
 ephone lines, while the men of the hospital corps plodded back and forth hospitals was situated in a Chinese hamlet back Of low hill on the Dor der of the plain and was frequently struck by shells The road from this hospital to the headquarters of the di- vision, which were on the reverse of a small slope further to the front. ran for several hundred yards in sight of Russian battery. The Russian guns were sending a shell every few
 minutes during the night as well as the day. Carts and norsemen were sent across the road singIy and al full speed to present the least possi-
 ble target. One of the roads to the river led from the headquarters viii
 lage down the farther side of the slope and this road was sheiled frequently
 The shrapnel burst in a corn field
 so near that frequently they kicked
 up clouds of dust almost at the back
 wall of the Generals house but never
 quite reached it. In this village there were Chinese stolidly going about
 their work and children playing in the fields during the most incessaDt fire.
 Four soldiers came across the field to
 the village bearing the body of an of ficcr while Sirap1e. were dropping all about them, but although they
 shuffled along at as fast a gait as
 their burden would permit they did not drop it.
 Two days after the contingents of General Kuroki's left division had se-
 cured their foothold across the Shaho
 the center division which had been
 meeting Q strong opposition beyond
 the bend of the river east in 9 very
 mountainous tract also swung over. The plan was for them to cross when
 the other division did but the Russians in front of them were too strong. Their experience was almost the same as that of the left division. They found the approaches to the Russian trenches bristling with wire barriers
 with pit falls, and all the devices which the Russians have learned to employ against night attacks. NeyeE thei.ss their night advance to the first line was successful and then, like the left division they stuck like leeches to the lower slopes day and night while the Russians made fierce attempts to shake them off. The right division had a very hard fight lasting from the first of March until the morning of the seventh of April, several miles northeast and al