THE POSITION SAFE.
-—■ A JAPS' DESPERATE SXPEDIENT. RECOVERY OF HEt-KOU-TA I. (Received 8.28 a_m.) .LONDON, February 5. Further details of the recent engagement show that the pressure j cf the Russian attack on the Japanese right fl_nk unexpectedly relazed, as Gripenberg xsras trying to capture the villages to the south of Hei-kon-tai, and to s_.ro—ad the Japanese with a view to threatening Yentai and XJao-yang. On Ja_u__ry 28 Field-Marshal Oya— 12. resolved on a desperate expedient. Finding that the Japanese were still unable to recapture Hei-kon-tai, he encouraged his columns to a night attack, although I he expected the ann_—Lla-tion of th a troops owing to th* numerous ma- i chine guns employed by the enemy. ' The columns attacked with all' their —tight, and finally the Sua* I sians vere compelled to evseaste { Hed-kou-tai at dan.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1905, Page 5
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136THE POSITION SAFE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1905, Page 5
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