New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-09
NOGI ADVANCES NORTH.
Hand-to-Hand Fighting IN Villages
Vest of MOukden.

Moukden. March Z. II p. m.-The chief OBJ
tects of the bloody combat west of Moukden to-
day the villages of U-Shun-TUn. seven
miles west Of the station and Tatchekiao, where
the results practically were draw, but fur
Their turning movement has developed. The
Japanese are extending their forces still further
toward Tie Pass.
At dawn to-day, after night broken by irreg-
ular musketry fire and cannonading, the fight be-
gan at U-Shun-Tun and Tatchekiao both of
which large villages, in groves of leafess
tamarinds. The houses are constructed with
thick walls. and the villages are surrounded by
high clay ramparts, converting them into forti-
hcations impervious to rife bullets 1t was
most difficult to approach these villages, and
each house had TO be taken singly by hand Ito
hand combat.
The Russians who held U-Shun-Tun for a
night were forced to withdraw at dawn the next
day by a fearful fire of shrapnel and Shmose
shells, under which the village seethed as if in
a cauldron but reinforced by brigades Of rife
men and reserves the Russians again advanced
to the attack.
Under the eyes of General Kaulbara, who,
with his staff, moved about where the hail Of
iron was thickest, and seemed to bear a charmed
life the riaemen deployed over the ploughed
fields as if at man9uvres. and without firing a
shot, though despatched by the continuous
bursting of shrapnel and lead, they pushed
eagerly forward in close diminishing order
captured the village and advanced on the ian
anese TANKS. The fight then grew more bitter
the japanese attacking madly, but at o'clock
in the afternoon the Russian position became
secure. and General Kaulbars who had spent
most of the day at this point, moved off to visit
the other Russian positions, the Japanese bid
ding him adieu with a burst OF Shimose shells.
Opposite Tatchekiao the fighting was Of an
equally desperate nature. The Russians estab-
lished themselves in the villages of Tsun-Huan-
Che and Lui-Dyao-Fan, but night fell with
Tatchekiao still in the hands of the Japanese.
Northward, at Tatchekiao, the cannonade also
roared. There a regiment under the command
of Colonel Zapolsky chung tenaciously to viii
lage under a shower Of shrapneI.
Toward evening General Kuropatkin rode out
OF Moukden in automobile and examined the
positions of the second army.
At the close Of the fighting this evening the
infantry on both sides were short of ammuni-
ton, and the night devoted to bringing m
supplies.
Southwest of Moukden, at the Cbanp-Tan
pivot fight. the Japanese succeeded IN estab-
fishing themselves in the southern part of one
OF the villages, but later were expelled bv the
Russians
Reports received here say the repeated attacks
OF the Japanese on Putilofr and Novgorod hills
nave been repulsed with the heaviest loss.
DIVISION OF Russian cavalry which was
patroning the Lao Valley. and was cut off or
March by the rapid advance OF the 1anona.a
succeeded to-day in re1oining the Russian arroy,
without sustaining any losses. It took a num-
! Der of prisoners
inns has been spring day. The ground ,s he
| coming damp. - De-
an attack is expected to take place to-r,or-o,,,
on the Russian centre. No'ro"