JAPANESE SUCCESSES.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 56, 3 September 1904, Page 5

JAPANESE SUCCESSES.

TflE FIGHTING IN MANCHURIA. RUSSIANS DISLODGED FROM THREE POSITIONS. MOVEMENTS OF THE OPPOSING --FORCES. LONDON, 2nd September. Tho Japanese on Tuesday nnd Wednesday desperately attacked a long chain of splendidly-fortified positions on tho Russian southern front. They confronted a tremendous fire, and for a long timo tho iittaek filled, but ultimately they dislodged tho Russians from three positions, thus enabling them to capture, ou Thursday tho remaining heights, and forcing tho Russian right and centra to retire. Five thousand Japoneeo troops have landed at Niuchwang. Marshal Oyama has ordered 35,000 troops held in reserve near Port Arthur to proceed north. Goneral Sakharoff reports that a division of Japanese- infantry with artillery and cavalry, crossed tho Taitoo River on Wednesday night, and moved westward, screening tho pa&sago of other troops, towards an advanced position. General Sakharolf, in his report, claims that in desperate fighting on the 30th and 31st August the Rusiiiaun maintained all advanced positions, though exposed to a hail of shrapnel. The Russian rifle-pits, in millet fields, fronting the fortified positions, were- completely filled with Japaneso corpses. Goneral Miosovaki was wounded' during tho baltlo. It is reported at St. Petersburg that Gonoral Linovitch, with 30,000 men, is within two days' march of Mukden.