A RUSSIAN POSITION CAPTURED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 37, 13 February 1905, Page 5

A RUSSIAN POSITION CAPTURED.

(Received 5.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 12. It is announced that the Japanese captured an eminence to the south of Chang-chin chia on Thursday, expelling two companies of Russian infantry. _ LOSS OF JAPANESE CRUISER. SUNK IN NOVEMBER. RUSSIANS FIRE CN SURVIVORS LONDON. February 11. Commander Okutla, second in command of the cruiser Tnnjen, supplies a. narrative of the loss of thai vessel. ILe .says, she struck a mine in Louisa Hay on November 13 while co-operating with the army in the attack on Metre Hill. Eight men in the engine-room were killed, and as the ship was -inking Captain Tagima. who was on the bridge, ordered the crew to save thercsolves. Lieutenant Nu.shitonii went into his cabin twice, rescuing portraits of the Mikado. Empress ami Crown Prince. Engineer Tame similarly saved the signal book, which he entrusted to | one of ilie occupants of ihr only two boats launched. I Only two minutes elapsed between the explosion and the sinking oh the vessel. The enemy, from Liaotishan. poured a ! deadly tire on the occupants of the boats and those struggling in the water, and equally on the rescuers from comrade ships.' Okuda and Tagima sank together, and Tagima and thirty others were lost, 19 officers and 140 men being rescued.