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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 101, 3 May 1904, Page 3

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DETAILS OP TIIB FIGHTING. BRAVE CONDUCT OP TEIE JAPANESE. WADING THROUGH TUP. WATER BREAST HIGH. RUSSIANS LOSE GUNS. AND MATERIAL. (Received May 3. 12.12 «.m.j LONDON, .May 2. Router's Tokfo correspondent, continuing, states that the guands, after resistance, occupied Kurito, killing an unknowrn number. Twenty-live were wounded. Kinteito was abandoned when it was attacked ran Tuesday. On Wednesday the Rtissians. with nine half-centimetre gum: and two Hotchkiss guns, bombard ed Wiju, tha Japanese not responding as the fire generally was ineffective. Kurokl on Thursday sent two companies of guards to recormoitt e the left bank at Aiho, aird ascertaiis the nature of the Russian wort® <jj i the

right baxikt The Russians made a Shell reconnaissance, which was met and a party of five Russians were killed. All Thursday and Friday (ho Russian artillery at Kiii-lioiichcng continued a high angle lire on Wiju, Kurito and Seikodo without drawing a reply from the Japanese. The twelfth division on Friday, after driving the Russians from tho bank opposite Suekochin, ~ tig-lit miles above Wiju, constructed a pontoon and the passage commenced at three on Saturday morning, the entire division crossing during the day, autt occupying by six in the evening the position assigned' to them for Sunday's haUlc. A vigorous exchange of artillery lire took place chiefly to the advantage of the Japanese. Kuroki considers that his shelling was very effective. Two Japanese were killed and five officers and twentytwo men were wounded. During Saturday's bombardment Admiral lloysoya's flotilla of gunboats participated, scattering a mixed force of infantry and cavalry below Autung. A second bridge just above Wiju was completed on Saturday evening and the second division and guards crossed and occupied the hills a( the back of Taosun, where the Russian 'headquarters were located. All night regiments poured across and by daylight Kuroki had concentrated all his artillery on the Russian position between Kiu-liencheng and Koshoke, the Russians vigorously replying, liy seven o'clock the Russian battery at Koshoke was silenced, and half-an-hour later Kuroki attacked along the entire line. The infantry charged across the Aiho River, wading breast-deep, and began storming the height. By nine they had swept the Russians back across the plateau. The anticipated losses aro heavy, especially during the charge. It is unknown whether the Russians retired down tho river or towards Fenghungchen. Correspondents report that a heavy artillery fire at first foiled the Japanese efforts to bridge the Yalu, but many waded across, and ultimately forty thousand got across, culminating in a bayonet charge of an heroic character. The high bluff was strongly entrenched and stubbornly defended, but it was carried with Immense dash. Inonke commanded the earlier movements, and Kuroki personally directed the final attack. The Russian losses exceed thosa of the Japanese, besides the loss of guns and material.