BATTLE OF LIAO-YANG.
HEROISM ON BOTH SIDES. FOUGHT TO THE DEATH. (Received 7.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 9. Many stories of heroism are told about both sides in the fighting at Liao-yang. . The Russians on one occasion surrounded two Japanese battalions in the midst of the growing millet, and desperate fighting followed. The Japasese refused to aeecpt quarter, preferring death to surrender ; consequently all of them were killed. The Russian frontier guards died at their post, refusing to surrender.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 217, 10 September 1904, Page 5
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78BATTLE OF LIAO-YANG. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 217, 10 September 1904, Page 5
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