THE ARTILLERY FIGHTS.
BATTERIES BLAZING FROM ■ ■ ■ ■ . EVERY HTi.t. . ■ . 200 JAPANESE GUNS. .., ; REGIMENTS HURLED BACK SHATTERED. , ■ . ■ i LONDON, October 17. The correspondent of the Rum newspaper says that two hundred Japanese guns were concentrated on the Russian positions at Shatche, and they had the accurate j range. The Japanese, equally with the Russians, were temporarily forced to abandon guns. The Japanese momentarily left twelve c ins on the field, but a devastating fire prevented the Russians from capturing; them. The greatest artillery duel was on Wednesday. Batteries were biasing from every hill; . Russian and Japanese regiments •were almost incessantly poured into the plains and hurled back shattered. ' The volume of heavy firing caused a storm of hail and torrential rain, The roads had been converted into quagmires southward of Sha River on Friday.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 249, 18 October 1904, Page 5
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