The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 3, 1904, Page 4

THE SAN {FRANCISCO CALL, KUROKI CAP AND EXPE Field Marshal-OyEa Will Throw His Main Army Across Taitse _—— River. Russians Are Gathering for the Final Stand at the Yen- tai Colliery. >-—— TOKI0, Saturday, Sept. pected that the main strength of Field Marshal Oyam: (10:30 a. m.).—It is ex- forces to the southward will sueceed this morning in erossing the Taitse River. General Kuroki yesterday captured a portion of the heights commanding Heiying- tai, and it is hoped that he will dominate the railway to-day. The Russians appear to be gathering at the Yen- tai colliery, northeast of Liaoyang. LONDON, Saturday, Sept. 3.—The Times’ Tokio eor- respondent, cabling on Friday, says: “The premature rumors of the fall of Liaoyang are repeated to-day, but a careful analysis of official reports shows that the Rus- sians have merely heen driven into their last line of de- fenses, where they probably will make a desperate re- sistance. Three Japanese armies are closing around them. TOKIO, Sept. 2.—A telegram received here from the chief of staff in the field indicates that General Oku, in com- mand of the Japanese left army, gained dancy over the Russian right a night assault. > gained a foothold near Wednesday afternoon, egram says that they occu- ntun and the eminences to houshanpao at 3 o'clock on rning, after having deliv- essful night attack, which e Russians. k captured by the Japa- they are using against ribed as ten-centi- number taken is not enter by Japane n The f of staff of the center Japa- v. General Nodzu, telegraph- this morning, reported that iter was continuing to with the object of tak- e from Shinchiyen to Liaoyang effecting a rejunction with the eft, ymanded by General Ok, KUROKI PRESSES THE ATTACK. attack at Helyingtal, seek- d The troops under re jaded and weary. since 23, but in spite of this they attacked with spirit. The Japanese | ntident that they already have swept back “the strong Russian force with which they have been engaged, and it is probable that when the details are knewn it will be found that'a great tragedy was enacted to-day along the Taitse River. The Taitse is flooded and cannot be General Oku, in command of the Japane left army, has directed his energies to forcing the Russians to | the river, and it is probable that many were drowned there. A private dispatch received here re- ports that great.fires are raging at Liaoyang. This statement is not con- firmed officially. ~ These' fires are be- lieved to have resulted from the Japa- nese shelling or from the efforts of the Russians to destroy their stores prepar- atory to the evacuation of Liaoyang, with the additional hope of injuring the city as a future Japanese base. RUSSIAN STRENGTH ESTIMATED. Unoffirial estimates place the Russian | forces in the vicinity of Liaoyang at| firteen divisions, of 15,000 each. These probably are excessive, but it is evident that numerically the Russian forces ex- ceed the Japanese. The opinion that the Russian casual- tigs in the recent fighting will reach 20,000 is confidently expressed ' in high quarters here. Neither Field Marshal Oyama nor the Japanese army com- manders has as yet estimated the Rus- sian losscs. It see that the Japanese avoided ENING THINGS. "We Are All in the Apprentice Class, When a simpie change of diet brings back health and happiness the story is briefly told. 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That's the reason. Look in each pkg. for the famous lit- tie, book, “The Road to Weliville.” * of Kuroki's right is confnuing | whente its guns will domi- | n marching and fighting | 2dy of Springfield, 1L, | a direct assault upon Liaoyang itself, but devoted their energies to the troops outside the city and an effort to cut off the Russian Tretreat. Liaoyang is strongly fortified . and it Is probable that the Japanese wili not attack the city directly until they have succeeded in isolating it. Should the Russians abandon Liaoyang, the Japanese, of course, will enter. PRESSURE ON RUSSIAN LEFT. The fate af the great bulk of the retreating Russian army hinges upon the bravery and fo;tltude of its left | flank. Before falling back General Kuropatkin intended that his left, to the eastward and northward of Liao- vang, should be greatly strengthened in the hope of checking General Ku- roki's adyance around his flank and to protect his line of retreat and com- { munication. The greater portion of this protecting force seems to have been massed in the neighborhood of Heiyingtai, twelve miles northeast of Lisoyang, where it was fiercely as< | sauited by General Kuroki at 11 o’clock on Thursday morning. The result -of this fighting is not known. If Kyroki wins and reaches the railroad, it wil place the Russians in a serious predica- ! ment. Yesterday the Japanese managed to interfere seriously with the train ser- vice from Liaoyang. They used some guns captured from the Russians, to- | sether with some of their own, to bom- bard the railroad station at Liaoyang, thus preventing the entraining of Rus- slan troops., ¢ LIAOYANG NOT YET TAKEN. Few detdils of ‘the pursuit of the Russian right have been received here. It is evident that the Russians: are moving back slowly, contesting the ground and shielding their movemeént as_fdr as possible. N Nothing concerning the actual ocgu- pation of Liaoyang has been received here. Official digpatches indicate that the Russians were stjll in possession of Liaoyang this (Friday) morning. The list of casualties in the fighting befcre Liaoyang is growing and the indications are that it will prove to be the bloodiest battle since the Franco- Prussian war. The calculations of casualties must include the losses since August 23, for the contest has been practically continuous since then. The Japanese have already reported more than 25,000 men in killed and wounded. s e NAVAL LESSONS OF THE WAR. Captain Matouzevitch- Enthusiastic Over Wircless Telegraphy. TSINGTAU, Sept. 2.—Captain Mat- ouzevitch, the late Admiral Withoeft's chief . of staff, who arrived, here wounded on the Russian battleship Cesarevitch on August 12, in an inter- view to-day on the naval lessons of the war, said: “I do not believe that the opera- ticns of either navy have demonstrat- ed anything which will materially change naval warfare. The greatest lesson has been the usefulness of wireless telegraphy. In the fighting of August 10 we used the wireless system in signaling until the appar- |atus was shot away. We found it worked more reliably and . quicker than flags. I believe that in' the near future every ship in all the navies, even gunboats, will be fitted with wirel apparatus. “Much has been learned about mines and torpedoes. The only de- fense against mines is good judgment, or insight as to where they are likely to be placed by the enemy. If it is imperative that ships must go to that vicinity, send ‘sweepers’ in advance. The war has demopnstrated that the most powerful searchlights cannot pick up floating mines, which were unknown before this war. “The Japanese made as many as { fifteen ineffectual torpedo attacks in one night. Torpedo nets are of very liitle use. they cannot be used successfully, as they retard her speed and hamper her movements. If several ships are to- gether and they concentrate their i searchlights it is almost impossible to successtully attack them with tor- pedoes. I do not agree with the crit- fce who say the battleship is a thing of the nast. In the Port Arthur move- ments the battleships, cruisers and torpedo-boats did the work cut out for them. “Since I have been at Tsingchou I ‘When a ship is in action: ATURDAY, SEPTE 1904, — % | Issue o 1 { the Gonibat Still it Doubt. HEIack of definit¢ information from the seat of war continued up to this morning and nothing far- ther regarding the situation at Liaoyang is known beyond the fact that Kuropatkin has withdrawn the main ‘portion of his forces to the north or right bank of the Taitse River and that, according to the latest advices, the action is.still in progress. same fime it is declared that the position Kuropatkin now occupics is the one he had prepared and forti- fied and where he has all along planned to make his second stand, instead of directly in and around Linogang, with the river at his back attacking Kuropatkin's present defenscs the Japanese arve facing an almost with their forces divided by the river. Advices reaching Tokio are that the Taltse is flooded and cannot be forded and therefore the river it- self becomes an important factor in the general scheme of Russian defense. Dispatches from. both Russian and Japanese sources indicate that the troops on both sides are jaded and weary nfl(:r the many days’ fighting and it is pointed out that, in consequence, a temporary lall in the active: straggle would not be sorprising. patch ‘recefved at Tokio says that great fires areé raging at Liaoyang. “believed to result from Japancse shelling or from the efforts of the Russians to burn their stoves preparatory to the evacuation . of Linoyang, with the additional hope of injuring the city as a future Japanese base.” The opinion prevails in Tokio that the Russian casuaities in the recent fighting will reach 30,000, es. of August 31 and September 1 are given in Russian official reports as 35000 killed or On the other hand, the commanders of the three Japanese armies have reported losses to- A wounded. taling 25,000, The report from Ma; i but the Jo: ) i' . There is aisthclination in St. Petersburg to belicve that Liaoyang has been abandoned, and at as had been helieved. rshal Oyama that he was engaged on Thursday:with the Russian center would indicate that at least a portion of Kuropatkin’s army was still on the south bank of the Taitse River. is pot yl‘; announced that the Japanesc have occupied Liaoyang. It is asserted by Russlan experts that in impossible task, especially It . LONDON, Sept. 3.—English military authorities neither share Tokio's jubila- | tion over the result at Llaoyang nor lzy stress upon the advantage which Russian dispaiches attribute to Kuro- petkin’s latest move. The best informed observers, who have access to sources of information not revealed in the dis- patches from Tokio and not given out at St. Petersburg, declare that the bat- tle of Liaoyang, however dramatic and historic in loss of life and tragie inci- dents, canp have no serious bearing on the evnmkl issue unless the Japanese have surrounded Kuropatkin. The London daily- newspapers, in their headlines, depict the conditions at Liaoyang as “Russian route,” ‘“'De- feat,” etc. Their editorials, in a more careful vein, noint out that the latest dispatches leave the issues of the “‘greatest battle of this generation” still [in_doubt. | From the expert British point of | view, Marquis Oyama’s sacrifices will | have been in vain unless he is able to | cut off Kuropatkin from Mukden. On | this point there are chaotic hypotheses. The Daily Graphic says: “We are in the dark as to the final outcome,” add- ning that it seems not unlikely that Kuropatkin may still manage to earry a fighting force with him to Mukden. MAY NOT PROFIT BY VICTORY. The other critics doubt whether the Japanese, in the face of “indemitable Russian pluck,” are strong enough to British Military Authorities Regar Jubilation as P e e profit by the preliminary successes al- ready won. The Morning Post concludes a careful survey of the four days’ fighting with an opinion that the battle of Liaoyang will take its place beside that of Wa- terloo and believes that ‘‘whether or not Kuropatkin's force is able to con- tinue its retreat it will be broken and useless for some time to come.” The Russian view that General Kuro- patkin, by crossing the river, divided the opposing forces, meets with slight consideration, as it is poh\!ed out that all the Japanese units can .attack simultaneously from different direc- tions, which eliminates any advantage to the Russian side and really aggra- vates the seriousness of their position, the Japanese force being superior in numbers. The suspense with which the devel- opments at Liaoyang are awaited could be scarcely greater in Tokio that it is in London. KUROPATKIN'S “FORLORN HOPE” The Daily Telegraph, which hailed the initial successes at Liaovang with the degree of finality, now admits that “it is not inconceivable that Kuropat- kin may extricate a portion of his forces,” though this is characterized as the “supreme 'éffort of a, forlorn hope.” The Daily' Telegraph ésminues: “One of the most exciting problems ever known in war has been narrowed down to one point, namely, whether a part of the retreating army will suc- d Japan’s remature. ceed in tearing through Yentai, leaving many thousands of men and some hun- dreds of guns behind them, or whether General Kuroki will receive the ring by hammering blows. Perhaps a seventh day must be waged before the issue can be finally declared.” The Daily Telegraph's military critie, in common with other English experts, sees nothing but a superior Japanese force and strategy to account for Gen- eral Kuropatkin's present position. This authority predicts an endeavor on the part of.the Russian force to reach Chinese territory. FEARS RUSSIANS WILL ESCAPE. The Standard bluntly voices the thought of many by asking: “Is it re- treat or rout?” The Standard says that General Kuropatkin, in his “precarious condition, is not without some pros- pects of avoiding the signal catastrophe of surrender en masse if he can still get away to the north. Even with the loss of many guns and valuable supplies the succéss of the Japanese will. be a good deal modified.” The Times compares the battle of Liaoyang to those of Wagram, Leip- sig, Connigratz and Gravellotte, but it says: i3k A ““We still have to learn whethier the Japanese reaped the fruits of victory in such abundant measur: to make the battle thoroughly decisive—the turning point of the war. From the news thus far available there seems to be a strong probability that -they will ‘be able to do so.” FLAMES SWEEP METICAN TOWY Special Dispatch to The Call. GUAYMAS, Mexico, Sept. 2.—A dis- patch from Alamos, capital of the dis- trict of that name, glives the first de- tails of a fire which swept the business portion of that place and caused a loss of more than $100,000. The fire started in the warehouse of Panfilo, Santini & Co., spreading to the stores of the comi- pany, causing a loss of $60,000, the greater portion of which is covered by insurance. From the buildings of the| company it spread to the Waters-Pierce Oil Company buildings, and swept on- | ward, taking a whole block of small | stores. The fire department, the appa- ratus of which is somewhat obsolete, | was powerless, and the fire spread on unchecked until it reached & Jong line of one-story adobes, which resisted the flames. At that point the department gained control. Alamoes is not on a raflroad, and as | the source of supplies for' the commu- nity and surrounding country has been temporarily cut off the fire will work great hardship. wh have had an opportunity to read the Japanese reports of the Port Arthur engagements and I find them inac- curate. The Russians have done much damage to the Japanese warships which has not been reported by either side.” Captain Matouzevitch is still in the hespital, but is improving. The other Russian wounded are convalescing. N ———— l/ BALLOON CORPS EFFECTIVE. Enables Russians to Follow the Course “of the Japanese Advance. i ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2.—Nemi- i rovitch Danchenko, Russian correspond- yent in the service of the Associated I'ress, in a dispatch from Liaoyang, dated August 31, says: - < ’ “The Russian balloon corps has been of the greatest service throughout the \“several days’ fighting in finding the | Japanese advance through the. thick | country of. Chinese, .cornfields, where Japanese. columns frequently tried to Lcreep up-and surprise the Russian po- | sitions. | “The Japanese are using. lyddite and | Shimose: powder. The latter is terrific in ite effects, and.its brown® haze is casily distinguishable on the curtained slopes- of the hille, where hundreds of Japanese guns all day long poured in a deadly rain of fire. - a7 “The soldiers are in excellent spirits. General Stakelberg is personally visit- ing and inspecting the various posi- tions. In some of the batteries it has been impossible to remove the killed or wounded for three days.” g me Ty .o i mm GIRL TAKES .MORPHINE.—May - Wilson 530 Pacific strect, an | suicidal intent. She m.m 5 ! released. COAT OF MAIL SAVES SULTAN —_— GENEVA, Sept. 3.—A high official of the Ottoman court ‘has received news of a serious fight between the Sultan’s| Albanian guard and Bosnians, which continued almost to the doors of the harem. Many were killed or wounded. It is said that one Albanian shot at the Sultan, the bullet glancing off the coat of mail which he always wears. The Sultan has asked the Prince of Montenegro to supply him with a guard. ———— WAR WRITERS DISGUSTED. Give Up Hope of Witnessing Opera- tions From Japanese Lines. CHEFU, Sept. 2.—Richard Harding Davis and John Fox Jr., American newspaper correspondents, have ar- rived here from the headquarters of | the second Japanese .army and will leave for the United States September | 8. They say that the foreign mili- tary attaches and newspaper corre- spondents with the second army wit- nessed the battle on August 26 from a distance of eight miles and that this was so unsatisfactory to them that they united in o round robin to the Japanese authorities, protesting that, because of this restriction upon their moWements, their usefulness was at an end. General Oku replied, saying that in the future thev would be permitted to witness engagements from a dis- tance of four miles, whereunon Davis and Fox, together with Melton Prior and George Lynch, British corre- spondents, left the second army. Lynch will make an attempt to reach Port Dalny. 4 s S UNITED STATES PROTESTS, ‘Wants Satisfaction for the Seizure of the Calchas’ Cargo, ~ ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. —The United States has protested to Russia against the seizure of the cargo of the British steamship Calchas, which was captured while bound from Puget ° COLLINS WIFE REVALNS LOYAL Special Dis (o The Call. NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Mrs. G. Glen Collins, according to an intimate friend who recently returned from Europe, has not separated from her husband and has no intention of leaving him. The friend in question, who is a promi- nent woman in soclety here, declared that no amount of influence on the part of friends or relatives could induce Mrs. Collins to nart from the man to whom she has plighted her troth, The words which made beautiful Nathalie Schenck the wife of Captain Glen Collins last spring in Monterey had a deeper mean- ing to this popular society girl than they have sometimes conveyed to mem- bers of the set to which she belongs. Mrs. Coilins’ friend said: “I saw Nathalie and her mother the day before 1 sailed for home, and I begged her to return to this country with me and let her husband fight ou his troubles alone, ¥ “‘Don’t ask me to do that, for I can- not,” replied Mrs. Collins. ‘My heart is bound up in him, and if he had to go to prison I would go with him.'” Mrs. Colling’. friend did not hesitate to say that her mother also desired her to separate from her husband, and that there was no question that Captain Collins is in pecuniary difficulties. ————— FINDS WARNER GUILTY OF MURDER JURY Man Who Killed Marie Tamoyo in Santa Burbara Stands in Shadow of Scefold, SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 2. — After having deliberated for four hours the jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree late this afternoon against Walter Warner of Los Angales, for shooting and killing Marie Tamoyo in this city on June 10. While there waore no evewitnesses to the shooting, the prosecution wove a strong chain of rcumstantial evidence about the de- fendant. No witnesses were called for Sound to Japan by the Vladivostok squadron. The protest follows the lines of the case of the Portland and Asiatic line steamship Arabia, seized by the Vladivostok squadron, in de- clining to recognize as of a contraband character goods and foodstuffs in the ordinary course of trade and not de- cigned for the use of belligerents. A Sk Chinese Junks Captured, TOKIO, Sept. 2. mnoon.—Admiral Hosoya -reports that the Japanese guardship near Yentao, south of San- shantao, near Talien Bay, on Sunday and Monday captured twenty-six Chi- nese junks which were attempting to carry provisions into' Port Arthur. They were taken to Talien and were tried and confiscated. The crews were A the defense and ‘Warner declined to go on the stand. ‘Warner visited the house where his victim was staying and during an alter- ‘cation shot her: . Jealousy is said to have been the cause. . Staps Repalts on the Askold. SHANGHAI, Sept. 2.—The Chinese Government, according to the request of Japan, effected the stoppage te-day of all vepairs on the Russian protected cruiser Askold and the' pedo-boat destrover Grozovol. L ——— e n tor- TURES HEIGHTS NEAR LIAOYANG S TO SEIZE RAILROAD TO-DAY Slavs Will Offer Desperate Re- sistance in Their Last Line of Defenses. Three Japanese Armies Are Clos- ing Around the Army of Kuropatkin. $T. PETERSBURG, Saturday, Sept.,the “main positions” of the Russians 3, 3:10 a. m.—The text of the dispatch |are on the north bank of the river, sent to the Czar by General Ku Kin on Thursday evening, the most of | which was given out by the War Office and was cabled by the press at 4:50 o'clock on Friday afternoon, was not made public last night, as was expect- ed. It was promised to the local press and was awalted with feverish impa- tience until 2 o'clock this morning, when it was announced that it would be issued to-day. All the news, there- fore, as far as 8t. Petersburg is con- cerned is contained in telegrams from foreign sources, and there is painful suspense awaiting news from Russian sources. s Continued and dogged confidence in General Kuropatkin is expressed in many quarters, and the public gener- ally, as well as many of the military authorities, absolutely refuse to belleve that Liaoyang has been abandoned, or if it has been abandoned that General Kuropatkin is not in a better position to make a stand north of the Taitse River. There seemed to be an air of consid- erable confidence at Peterhof last night. An official who saw the Czar yesterday afternoon said that he was extremely confident. Experts who are familiar with the nature of the intri- cate and powerful defenses constructed north of the Taitse River by General Velitchko, one of Ruesia's foremost army engineers, belleve that the Japanese are facing an almost impossible task in at- tacking them, especially with divided forces. It is pointed out that General Kuroki will have to make a considerable de- tour to reunite his forces. The bridge heads abutting on the north bank of the Taitse River are strongly defended by intrenched artillery, while it is said that there is a strong rear guard still on the south bank to contest the Japa- nese advance, thus making the bridges utterly impracticable for a Japanese crossing. The river itseif therefore be- comes an important factor in the gen- eral scheme of defense.’ A temporary Ml in - the fighting would not be surprising. The men on both sides have already made almost superhuman efforts, and it is thought that there must soon be a let-up of some sort. . " The report that Rear Admiral Ouk- tomsky, now in command’of the naval forces at Port Arthur, is to be court- martialed lacks confirmation. The story probably originated in the same sources as the earlier report of his deposition and of his suicide at Port Arthur. STRATEGY OF “SLAV FOX.” ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2.—The foct disclosed for the first time in these dispatches last night that the strongest Russian position prepared by General Kuropatkin was not around the town of Liaoyang, as the public had been led to believe, but on the north bank of .the Taitse River, was a secret so'successfully guarded that not even an intimation of it had Jeaked out. It is now explained that the Russlan commander in chief had all along expected that the Japanese, when they made their advance on Liaoyang, would pursue the identical tactics which have been so successful in every previous stage of the cam- | o paign, .and while attracting attention in front would attempt, by a wide detour, to outflank the Russian posi- ticn. General Kuropatkin was not caught napging. He was prepared for just what has occurred and as soon as he received word that General Kuroki had crossed the Taitse twenty miles above Liaoyang and was moving west- ward, Kuropatkin met the move by throwing his whole army over at might. By this strategy Kuropatkin, in the oninion of the General Staff, gained an immense advantage. His army s concentrated on one side of the river and the road is still open for his retirement northward, while the Japanese armies, which must act in unison, are separated by the river, which places Kuropatkin in a posi- tion to oppose Kuroki with his whole army, while Generals Oku and Nodzu are stranded on the other side. This gived Kuropatkin a possible opportun- ity to imitate Napoleon's tactics and defeat the opposing forces in detail. WORD FROM KUROPATKIN. At 4 o'clock this afternoon the War Office received a. dispatch from Petér- hof, sent to the Emperor last night by General Kuropatkin, dated 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. As com- municated to the press the .dispatch stated that an artillery batile pro- cceded until 3 o'clock and that the Russians were retiring' upon their “main positions”; that General Ku- yoki was attacking the Russian left, north of the Taitse River; that the reilroad station, which Is situated a mile northwest of Liaoyang, had been | set on fire by Japanese shells; that ‘the station had been transferred across the river to a peint on the north bank;-that Kuropatkin had passed in review the Third Siberian Corps un- der General Ivanoff, which sufferéd greatly in the earlier stages of the | battle on the east front; and, finally, that the Russian losses for two days were 5000 killed or wounded. " The dispatch does not admit that General Kuropatkin is. withdrawing across the 'r.lu:'l mv_‘r'::unly. It iy possible that, owing to the pressure of the Jananese, the Russian in the Tokio dispatches, was into confusion and greatly | ropat- | the dispatch becomes intelligible. The artillery fighting during the day makes it evident that a screen of Rus~ sian guns was used to cover the move=~ ment across the river. The guns on the north bank doubtless also wera employed for this purpose, being placed so as to protect the railroad bridge spanning the Taitse. The review of the Third Siberian Corps mentioned in the dispatch probably was a march past of the troops while crossing the river, it be- ing unlikely that a formal review oc~ curred while the battle was in prog= ress.* At 4:30 o’clock this afternoon the War Office announced that the rail- road between Liaoyang and Mukden ‘was open. VIVID DETAILS OF BATTLE. A delayed dispatch to the Official Messenger from Liaoyang, under date of August 31, gives some details of the three days’ fighting from August 239. The correspondent says that he was with a battery on Koulack Hill, to the left of the railway line, at dawn on Monday, when the Japanese guns opened fire. “It was,” he continues, “a simul- taneous salute by hundreds of can- nons and during the first hour the firing was simply terrific. We wers under a perfect rain of shrapnel, bul- lets and splinters of shells. The Jap- anese did not know the country or the location of our defenses, so they con- stantly shifted their batteries, trying to search out our positions. “It was in the course of these maneuvers that Koulack had become an obfect of interest to the Japanese artillervmen. The sight was a beauti- ful but terrifying ome. Although we were well masked and tolerably pro- tected, the sides of our hill were rent and torn by bursting shells; dirt, dust and rocks filled the air; sand and smoke hung like a golden halo over- head. We watched the shells fall upon the-ruins of the thousand-year- old watch tower, where they coms- pleted ‘the ravages of the centuries. JAPANESE GUNNERS ROUTED. “The Japanese got our range and tried to enfllade us from a village on the right. Here we had the advantage in knewing the range and simply smothered them with shells. Conse- quently the Japanese withdrew hur- riediy. A second attempt to enfilade fis was made at 10 o'clogk in the morning, but again it failed. We swept the Chinese corn flelds whence the fire came and turned out the Jap= anese gunners like a nest of angry wasps. “Our rifle brigade held the village of Maietung against the rolling waves of Japanese infantry thrown out against the position time and again, until our reserves swept down and cleared the front at the point of the bayonet. “The roar of the fight was not stopped by darkness. The scene be« came infinitely more beautiful as the hills were lighted by the glare from, flame-spitting batteries, which had been scarcely visible in the daylight, Each of the thousands of shells be« came a pyrotechnic spectacle, while lines of fire racked and quivered back and forth where the infantry was holding our trenches against thae creeping Japanese columns. The late ter had almost reached the trenches of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, aided by the darkness. The men who were at supper dropped their soup and black bread, turned quickly and dyove oft the Japanese with their bayonets, Then they returned to thefr sowely needed meal. “The fighting on Tuesday was heavy on the right flank. 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