Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-04
.RI ! / | ! | J FORT
TAKEN | | / !; JAPS
POSITION CAPTURED IN SPITE
OF FIERCE REsIsTANCE .
.ss.=, +. ut. BY RUSSIANS: 81 s. 81
ONE THOUSAND MEN
...... ** LOST IN THE ASSAULT
Garrison Of 500 Make Their Escape
s: Cars Troops lombard Railroad
:s Bridge = Japanese Enlist Aid OF
Bandits and Chinese. $4#z .


Before Port Arthur. via Fusan. Dec
30.-Rihlung fort was captured at three
o'clock Thursday morping with 1000
Japanese casualties. Seven dynamite
mines exploded at ten o'clock Wednesday
made breaches in the front wall through
which large body of Japanese troops
charged under cover of q tremendous
bombardment and captured the first line
of light guns. A bitter fight resulted in
the capture of the fort. The garrison,
numbering 500 men, escaped.
Build Defenses Under Fire,
Toxic, Dec. 30.-After months OF
fighting. sapping and mining the Japan
csc forces have finally occupied Rihlung
mountain. A report from headquarters
OF the Third japanese army before Por;
Arthur received here, says: con
Wednesday, December %, at ten O'Clock
In the morning, the left center column OF
our army, following some heavy ex-
plosions on the frontal parapet of
Rihlung mountain charged and occu-
pied the parapet under cover OF fire from
heavy guns and constructed defense
works despite the enemy's fierce fire. At
four o'clock in the afternoon when our
occupation was practically assured we
Saarged and occupied the inner lines OF
heavy gun positions, subsequently dis
lodging remnant of the enemy's force
stubbornly holding the gorge fort, which
We occupied and captured the entire
works."
(Like the Keekwan fort already in the
hands of the Japanese, Rihlung fort
commands the full sweep of both old and
new towns Of Port Arthur, the harbor
and dockyards, and the forts on Golden
and Electric hills. Rihlung mountain
is almost due north of the old town OF
Port Arthur and is just west of the fort
captured on Keekwan mountain last
week.
Jap Casualties at Port Arthur.
Army headquarters, Thursday pub
lished a list of casualties, presumably at
Port Arthur, showing that 40 officers
from the rank of colonel downward
were killed and that So from colonel
downward were wounded.
Russians lombard Bridge.
A report from Manchurian army head
quarters says:
ION December q at three o'clock in
the afternoon the Russians with heavy
field guns bombarded the Shake river
railroad bridge in the neighborhood of
the station and the Russian guns at
Talientun shelled Chihsiangtun and
Shulintzu. Russian cavalry attacked
Heilintun at sunset on thse4ame day,
but were repulsed by Japanese cavalry.
At $3.50 o'clock on the same evening the
Russian cavalry eDveloped the Japan
csc pickets who were reinforced and
finally repulsed the enemy. The Japan
csc casualties were three men killed."
Main Line Unbroken.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 30-The war Of
flee points out that the occupation OF
Rihlung mountain at the best only
makes the japanese masters of the en-
tire terrace beyond the principal forts
of Keekwan and still leaves the main
line unbroken.
Japs Hiring Bandits and Chinese.
AA~0ANAAS DCC. 0V-XIIC1uldUl0 eVl-
dence has been obtained at headquar-
tiers that the Japanese are not only hir-
ing Chinese bandits to operate on the
Russian TANKS, but that they are enlist
Ing Chinese under Japanese officers.
The Japanese are adopting cunning ex-
pedients to defeat the surprise attacks
OF the Russian scouts from which they
have suffered much. They cover the
steep approaches Of their trenches with
water which freezes, forms ice slides
and makes the scouts slip and fall in
confusion. In other places the jap
anese scatter millet stalks over the ap-
proaches the cracking of which gives
them warning of the presence OF Russian
scouts.
Salvage Operations Abandoned.
Seoul, Dec. 30.-The Japanese at
tempts to raise the Variag have been dis
continued. 1t is impossible to recon-
mence the work before spring, by which
time the three quarter inch steel plates
forming the hull may be so badly pitted
by the action of the air and water that
the damage will be irreparable except
at prohfbitive expense. It is probable
that further salvage operations will be
abandoned.
Japanese Warships Seen.
Batavia, Island of Java, Dutch East
Indies, Dec. 30.-Some warships show
Ing the Japanese colors passed AMER.
10 miles west of Batavia, Thursday.
Factory Burned.
Kokomo, Ind, Dec. 80. A fire of I'M
explained origin destroyed the entire
factory of the Kokomo Furniture COM
pany Thursday morning, and. it is
feared, cost the life of the night watch
man, Lyman East, who has not vet
been accounted for. The property loss
Is about $4,000, with only s., 500 insur-
ance.
New Russian Commissioner.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 80. - Admiral
Kaznakoff is returning to Russia and
will be replaced by Vice Admiral
Doubassoff, as Russian commissioner on
the international commission at Paris,
which is to inquire into the North sea
incident. Doubassoff starts Tor Paris
next week.
, Recently the Southern Pacific COM
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