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Southland Times, Issue 19381, 3 September 1904, Page 2

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JACK THE GIANT-KILLER LONDON. Sept. 2. Received -.Ild. .X'iV p 111. The Japanese on Tuesday nnd Wednesday desperately attn'M-d l..ongch;wig. a sph-ndidly-fort ilied position on the Russian southern fiont Confront ing a t i.-meiidous lit'" l'or a long; time the attack failed, but ultimately they dislodged the Russians from tbree positions-, thus en ■ aiding tln-jn to eaplure. on Thursday, the i-einnining heights and lorring the Russian right and centre to retireSTILL POURSWG IN "(Mm i Japanese troops have landed at Niuchwutig Marshal (Kama ha? ordered .'*.".. <.n>o t,, i-„. p., -hi „i re-.-rvi at Port Arthur to proceed north Tliere is an impression tlml tht Smolensk lias rounded the Pa tie ot (i'ot)d Hope westward, ami is unlikely to be spoken before she reaches St Vincent . SATISFIED Received -2nd, JMjn }>.»». Sir Robert Hart. Chinese Commissioner of Customs, lias permitted tin Independent to proceed from Chilli to Niuehwatig. THE BEST FACE SakharolT reports that a divisiot of .lapane.se infantry, with artillery ami cavalry. crossed the Tnitsi river on the night of the 'Usl nit. and advanced westwards and toward, the Yontai mines, svreening the passage of other troops towards an advanced position. SakharolT claim. that the desperate lighting on tin. . .'.'Oth and .'list was till a compl't. success, the Russians maintaining ill their advanced posit ion.M. though exposed to a hail of shrapnel Tin Russian ride pits in the millet flehl. fronting' the fortihed positions; v.m completely Idled with Japanese dead General Miosovski was wounded The Russian losses were considerable those of the Japanese enormous. OMINOUS Keuter's Mukden correspondent ieports that the train service to I.iaoyang was interrupted late on Times day evening, and the roads are impassable. IN THE DUMPS Received 2nd. KM., p.m. St. Petersburg optimism litis beei: converts | into pronounced pessimism. No telegrams have been received from Liaoyang since the morning - antl it is feared that the Japanese hold the telegraph line. It is per--1 sistently reported that Kouropa; kir has been ordered to retreat, but has , found his> retirement cut off. St Petersburg estimates the Russiai losses on Wednesday at oMOO. WITHIN THE PROBABILITIES i Received 2nd. 1 1 .:.."> p.m. It ist reported in Tokio and Shanghai that the Japuinse occupied . Liaoyang* on Thursday afternoon but there is mi olhcial coidirmal ion. It is reported at St. Petersburg that Ceneral Linevitch, with :.0.00(i nie.n, is within two tlavs' inarch o Mukden. The reported capture of Id Japanese guns' has not been continued. A VERY REMOTE "CHANCE" Received '?rd, 1.7 a.m. Military critics consider that Kouropat kin's only chance is to annihilate Kuroki's army at nn\ co si . Several Russian warships are at the Canary Islands. where c.illiers are waiting for them.