THE WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8133, 1 December 1904, Page 2

THE WAR.

PORT ARTHUR. •» JAPANESE REPORTS. [PRXSH ASSOCIATION.] (Received November 30, 9.18 p.m.) LONDON, November 30. The following official message has reachd xokio: "With regard to the Russian mtrenchments at Sungshushan eastwards ye have firmly occupied the top of the sounterscarps and adjoining works. The .ime to storm has not yet come. We are low destroying casements and other capolieres." The message adds that in the ittack on 203 Metre Hill "several charge mabled us to capture the shelter trenches aear the summit. We are holding the position gained, and are endeavoring to capture the whole fort." Advices received at Chefoo state that the Japanese positions at Erlungshan and Kikwanshan are the most promising. A detachment of the 11th division, after several days' bombarding, advanced on the afternoon of the 24th and rushed again and again the trenches guarding the south-eastern Kikwanshan forts. The trenches were stubbornly contested for five hours, but after several repulses the Japanese finally gained possession. Many of the assailants carried sandbags, behind which they entrenched themselves in the catpured positions. A sortie from the fort was repulsed after a twelve hours' fight. (Received December 1, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 30. The Daily News' Tokio correspondent says that General Nogi has stopped the general assault, and that the sappers have resumed operations.