CAMPAIGN ON LAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8932, 26 June 1905, Page 3

CAMPAIGN ON LAND.

HEAVY FIGHTING BETWEEN SCOUTS.

w ma. , , rt L ONDON, June 24. I -JUeld-MarshaJ Oyama- reports that in the I vicinity of Yuioang-on Wednesday 1000 Russian infantry, pressing the Japanese scouts advanced as faT a Ba B Heingyangcheu, ten miles ..south-east of Wankatzukan, tho Japanese Tepelling and pursuing them after inflicting heavy Joss. After the Japanese, who. an Wednesday occupied Zangmulintz, completed- theit-niission, -t hey withdrew. llireo battalions- of Russian infantry and - fonr squadrons of cavalry, with 12 guns, advanced southwards along the Kirin road, and appeared on Wednesday on the heights between Chapcngam mid I/chiaf xt . y shelled - the northern heights of Nancnentzu, whereupon the Japanese took tJie offensive aud assaulted and can- 1 lured the heigh-ts.-pureuing the -enemy

RUSSIAN FORCE REPORTED.

(Received June 26, 8.40 a m ) Tt . _ LONDON, June 26. ™nm STS T> r - P< ? rted T at Tokio thafc ***"» a ™ au.UUO Russians between Possiet Bay and Vladivostok. " "