Latest War News.

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 17, 6 December 1904, Page 2

Latest War News.

Desperate Fighting. t The Conflict at Metre Hill. LONDON, Monday. A Russian official despatch claims that Renuenkarupf succeeded in driving the Japs, as far as the Taitso river. It states \ that fifty of the Japanese troops were ' killed in the action, and that 25 others r were bayoneted in another action at the fjha river. There are indications that the Russians ft re trying to regain possession of the Yentai mines. The underground works of the Russians and Japanese extend fiillv live miles in a continuous line from. Luishinpu tableland. The troops of both armies are able to move about unseen, but so near together at some places that the voices are audible from one front to the other. The special correspondent* ’oU the London “ Daily Mail ” says that as the Russians are determined to retake 203 Metre Hill, the Japs, are piling company on company on the bill and throwing up entrenchments. In a recent attack on the position the Japan<3lfcaiad seveiTft** officers killed and 64 wounded. * Router states that the Russians are further fortifying Liaotshan district. A flag of truce approached the Japs.’ left wing at Port Arthur, and a partial armistice of six hours was arranged on Friday, for the removal of the dead and wounded. The struggle for 203 Metre Hill occupied five days’ desperate fighting. After three desperate assaults the Japs, won the hill, only to be thrust out by a night attack of the Russians. After desperate j fighting the Japs, won a second time, and have held it so far, though the Bus- 1 sians made six heroic attempts, in which' m they lost heavily, to recover ’the positioflj The Japanese have now made Metre 1 Hill thoroughly secure, and occupied ipother hill 300 yards further south. j • j The Japanese Minister of Finance ky, j] assured the House of the military strength .3 of the nation. 1W m The ships of the Japanese fleet have M been secretly undergoing repairs since ISL August, and are now completed, the fleet. 12 being ready for anything. 1