THE WAR. DETAILS OF THE BATTLE.

Manawatu Herald, 7 May 1904, Page 2

THE WAR.

DETAILS OF THE BATTLE.

JAPANESE LOSSES SAID TO BE 8000 to 4000. General Sassulich, in his report of Sunday’s battle further says;— A chaplain, bearing a cross, who led the attack, was twice struck by bullets. The losses of the 11th and 12th regiments are unknown, but were very great. One Colonel and two Ciieut.-Colonels of the 11th regiment were killed. The 12th regiment lost nine company commanders killed and wounded. m The second and third batteries of the sixth brigade abandoned their guns when they had lost the greater number of their men and horses, but they first rendered their guns useless. For the same reason six guns of the third battery were disabled and abandoned. Up to the present, eight hundred wounded, including fourteen officers, have been brought to Fgngbuenoheng hospital. Their eventual transport elsewhere is assured. The transport of the wounded by nhinese bearers was very difficult. Most of them arrived at the fort, assisted by their comrades, within a day of the battle. The Japanese losses at the passage of the Miho were very heavy. The men engaged estimate that at least three or four thousand Japanese were killed, chiefly at Turentoheu and during a conflict with the 11th regiment.