THE JAPANESE ATTACK.
RUSSIANS BETREAT IN CONFUSION. RUSSIAN LINES TURNED.
TWO GUNS LOST. LONDON, June 30. "The Times" Tokio correspondent, referring to the Japanesu attack on the out■vorks to the extreme east of Port Arthur, utatcs tliat by evening they had driven the Russians in confusion from the heights
along the Pungni River to the Keekwan (probably Chikwan) forts. Tl«e Japanese advanced westward from Pintu to Sioting Hill, and then assailed a line of eminences despite the strenuous resistance. This places the Japanese in the rear of Tuchoigtsze, which is strongly fortified, virtually turning the Russian lines. The Japanese casualties were 100. The Russians lost two machine guns and a quantity of rifles and ammunition, and left forty dead on the field.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11935, 2 July 1904, Page 8
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