FIGHTING IN A DUST STORM.
RUSSIAN OUTPOSTS ENGAGED.' ROUTED BY A MACHINE OUN. (Received M.mh 7, 7.25 A.m.) LONDON. 6th March. Owing lo (ho Sinminting rnitl, (ho Russian outposts nt various stations were recalled in order to strengthen MulultMi. Some of these on Vridny encountered tlio Japaneso at Liropiene. The Japnnrao, in tho fuco of a driving dint storm, firod shrapnel from thirty guns at. close rango. Tho Hnssians bei'nmo domoralisod, and fired wildly from the liigh ground and good cover. Tho Nubians wore routed by a machino gi.n 3tationed in v clump of willows. It is rrportwl that fivo Russian olFiccrs and two luiitdrpti men wore killed. Tho wounded wore abandoned by their coin rades, who ret rented to Tlueling.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 55, 7 March 1905, Page 5
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