BATTLE OF TANG-CHI.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 180, 29 July 1904, Page 5

BATTLE OF TANG-CHI.

FURTHER RUSSIAN REPORT.

Six Hundred Casualties.

LONDON, July 28. General Zabourieff, chief of the Fourth Siberian Army Corps, who commanded the Russians near Taschi-chiao, asserts that the Japanese were in enormous superiority in numbers, and had an overwhelming preponderance in artillery. He claims that the Russians displayed splendid endurance throughout a glorious fight, and did not yield an inch of ground, though they were under a terrific fire for fourteen and a half hours, and were fighting on four occasions at close quarters with the bayonet, which the Japanese were unable to withstand.

He estimates the Russian casualties at twenty officers and 600 men, including Colonel Auspensky, of the Tomsk Regiment, which, with the Tobolsk, Semipalatinck and Barnaoulsk Regiments, covered themselves with glory.

Genial Zabourieff also Btates that owing to the Japanese superiority, and finding them marching in the direction of Simucheng and Haicheng, he felt it unwise to continue the action, and ordered the army to retire. The retreat of the army from Taschi-chiao northwards was effected, he says, in complete order.