Fighting Prior to the Retreat.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 103, 5 May 1904, Page 2

Fighting Prior to the Retreat.

Deadly Japanese Shell Fire.

London, May 3.

When the Russians were driven on Sunday to the hills extending from Kiuliencheng to Yoshoro, they made a second stand on the hills northwest of Kiuliencheng, but at 2 o'clock in the afternoon they retreated, and by 6 o'clock the Japanese held a line ex* tending from Antnng, in a northwesterly direction, to Lauguru, and thence running in a northwesterly direction to Liskuhau.

At Hamatan the Imperial Guards enveloped the Russians on three sides. After sharp fighting at close range, they captured three guns and much ammunition.

A captured Russian officer states that the effect of the Japanese artillery fire on Saturday was enormous. Shells, he says, wounded Generals Sassulitch andKashtalinski,

General Euroki telegraphs that the Imperial Princes and tbe Japanese officers and men are in excellent spirits,