JAPANESE CLAIM PROGRESS. SAY PLACE MUST FALL WITHIN TWENTY DAYS.

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

JAPANESE CLAIM PROGRESS. SAY PLACE MUST FALL WITHIN TWENTY DAYS.

(Received December 1. 10 a.m.) o LONDON, November 30. Mr Bennet Burleigh reports that the ipanese have exploded mines under the jrth-east corner of the Russian main dences near Erlungshan forts,, throwing i srtion of the glacis into a great moat. « . he besiegers also assaulted another of " le minor Kekwan forts, and in a subseuent rush the struggle lasted about an our. Four thousand Japanese were slain. The Standard's Tokio correspondent reeats an unofficial report that the Japnese have hauled large calibre guns to . de top of 203 Metre Hill, and their fire s sweeping the harbor, throwing the . reatly crippled warships into confusion. (Received December 1, 10 a.m.) LONDON, November 30. >3JTV)dtt) »A«q oi uiiip asausdef »qx i wo additional north-eastern forts and i ,bout one-third of West Kakwan, at the I ame time effecting a major lodgment at Pigeon Bay. This will have the effect >f turning the Russian position on 203 kletre Hifi. The Japanese add that their troops are low tunnelling from a gorge below Liaoishan, which they hope to damage and ihen rush. Desperate fighting takes place daily. The besiegers' losses are admittedly ex sessive, but they insist that within twenty lays the place must fall.