BATTLE OF NANSHAN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8052, 4 August 1904, Page 2

BATTLE OF NANSHAN.

BRILUANT CHARGE *V THE JAPANESE. IN THE TEEtTeToF HOWLING BULLETS. HONGKONG, June 16. A correspondent ,pf the Auckjtand Star writes : — The magnificent attack which .'cd to th& fall of Naashan ranka-as one of the m&fc desperate and daring that the history, of war* furnishes, for Nanshan presented one: of the most formidable obstacles, any army has ever been required to negotiate. >Am eminence 350 feet, high, bristling with artillery, seared with' trenches, and . bound) round with . barbed wire entanglement*, forms a position stronger than which it would be scarcely possibWto conceive. But against this apparently- impregnable height the Japanese were flung uatH the ground was strewn thkk 'with, ifceir dead and dying. From the sea the men of war assisted the fteW forces, and from adjacent* hills ih» artillery, catered the advance at the infantry, pouring in a hail, of shell, w)»fch tatted right up till the supply of ammunition was exhausted. It was 'this {act that compelled- the commander: to> fling the full force of hia arms against the position, for it was. Retting dark, and he knew full well that if the place was naft taken that night it might .not be tafcen the next— or the next. Re remembered Plevna; and he was not anxious toJiavo a Plevna in the campaign, The actual preparations for tike attack were completes! on the evening of May 25, and at mi*nigfcyt operations were commenced. • Feghto

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