THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 3 December 1904, Page 3

THE WAR.

japs mount Heavy guns. The Standard’s Tokio correspondent states that according to an unofficial report the Japanese have hauled large calibre guns to the top of 203 metro bill, rho fire sweeping the harbour and thriving the greatly crippled warships info confusion. The Japanese at Shaho are in comfortable trenches and wanned underground fines, similar to Chinese khans. They are well clad and fed. JAPS STILL CAPTURING POSITIONS. The Japanese claim to have captured two additional north-east forts and about one-third of west Kekwan, at the same time effecting the major lodgment of Pigeon Bay. This will have the effect of turning the Russian position on 208 Metre Sill. The Japanese add that their troops are now tunnelling from the gorge below Liaotishan, which they hope to damage and then rush. Desperate fighting takes place daily. The besiegers losses are admittedly excessive, hut they insist that within 20 days the place must fall. BLOWING UP DEFENCE WORKS. Mr Bennett Burleigh reports that the Japanese exploded mines under (be north-east corner of the Russian main defences, near Erlungshan forts, throwing a poriion of the glacis into the great moat. The besiegers also assaulted another of the minor Kekwan forts. In the subsequent rush the struggle lasted for about an hour. During this assault four thousand Japanese were slain.