AT THE BAYONET POINT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 215, 15 September 1904, Page 3

AT THE BAYONET POINT

STORMING THE KEY TO A RUSSIAN POSITION.. MEN MOWN DOWN IN SWATHS. LONDON, September 13. Sanguinary encounters occurred arouiul Hei-yen-tui, the key to the Russian position. On the night of the 2nd the Japanese stormed the heights at the point of the bayonet, and held them all next day, despite heavy losses. The Russians, in tho night, by reckless bravery, gained the summit, and prolonged bayonet fighting resulted in a Russian defeat with appalling losses. At the same time the Japanese attacked the Russian batteries, and iby means of electric devices the giunners ascertained the exact position of the assailants, mowing them down in swaths. One battalion was annihilated, dying in heaps before the ■guns. There were three thousand casualties around H a i-yen-tai. AN OPPORTUNE ARRIVAL. HOW HAI-YEN-TAI WAS SAVED TO KUROKI.

(Received September 15, 0.8 a.m.) LONDON, September 14. General Kuroki's report shows that he encountered enormous dilticultics in holding the highlands at Hai-yen-tai, owing to the constant arrivals of Russian reinforcements and the very disadvantageous positions held by the Japanese ar-. tillery. The situation was saved/ after two days' desperate fighting, by the opportune arrival of a thind Japanese column.