CABLE NEWS.
(BT EMOTIIIO TULKOBArH. — OOrTBIOHT.] WAR IN THE FAR EAST DESPERATE ENGAGEMENT IN MANCHURIA. TICK FIGHT AT MHESNEFF HILL. POSITION CAPTURED AT THE BAYONKT POINT. ' HEAVY LOSSES ON- BOTH SIDES. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received February 27, 8.30 n.m.) LONDON, 26th February. Later news regarding the. recent engagemont in Manchuria states that there was desperate fighting nb Tsinchen»hnn. The first JiipunebO attack on the fortified positions on IfcroftnclT Hill was repulsed. It wai afterwards renewed, nnd superior numbers forced tho Russians to übandon their base. Oenernl SakliarofF reports that tho Japanese captured Bcrcsncfl 1 1 ill at thn bayonet point, advancing over tho bodies of their own dead, and exploding surface mines under tho barb wire entanglements. J lio Japiinuso lo&ses \vern consuluraWe. The Russian losaes have not yet been uacorlaineri. Tho attack on Tasyling Pass avos repulsed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 48, 27 February 1905, Page 5
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137CABLE NEWS. Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 48, 27 February 1905, Page 5
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