RUSSIAN HEROISM.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12015, 17 October 1904, Page 7

RUSSIAN HEROISM.

SPLENDID BRAVERY AM) ENDUR- •. ■ ■ ' V'ANCTE." '■-■ .■■■ : '. ■: .' GUNS TAKEN AND RETAKEN. (Received October 16th,'5.26 p.m.) LONDON", October 15. There was Mw>* days' i«lent<leai fighting on Dwoorogya Hill, twelve miles south of Mukden. • The Japanese attempted" a night 'smv prise, and lost heavily. They fired a large village, the smoke screening their approach. ...-..- The Tonisk Regiment suffered terribly. A lew of the Tombeff Regiment were Wfc, and they and the' Volonski Regimen splendidly defended the temple on tKe moua- j tain. After three assaults they retired to Shikhi. . - Tbo Russians generally displayed splendid 'biuvery and endurance, dragging the i guns over almost impassible hills. : The Japanese rolled stones down one narrow defile, rendering it. impossible to use the -pam, bat the Russian troope scaled the hillside, and captured it alter a stubbam fight. , ■''•■'•, The Japanese <m the 13th unexpectedly «t«rmed a hill on tfae right flank, surrounded two batteries, and killed all the gunners. The Novooherkaelc Regiment retook the guns, but were unable to >Tt»in them. ■■ .'-•- The Japanese allege that their loesee are much smaller than those of* the Rus-. siarw. General Oyama estimates the Russian casualties at 30,000. '- k \ Tokio believes that Oenerni Kuropatkin vrii crushingly defeated, and that, be is still retreating. ~' .. .