JAPS' ADVANCE RETARDED
ROADS TERRIBLY CUT UP.
DALNY REFUGEES ARRIVE.
ANOTHER RUSSIAN
REVERSE
(Press Association.- Copyright.l Eeceived May 20, 12.26 a.m.
IjON'don. Yesterdnv,
The Japanese .iilvancei] to ttio south of Liaoyang, and delayud two days while awaiting their heavy artillery, which, owing to the terriblo state of tho roads, retarded the army. The advance was resumed on the 18th.
General Oko reports that the railway has been cut in five places north of Port Arthur, between the sth and 17th inst. Hundreds of Chinese and Russian rofugoes from Dnlny have reached Chefop. They report' that an attompt was made to destroy the docks and piers at Dulny, but they were unsuccessful, though tho iron pier at Talienwan wus wrecked.
The Japanese, on the 16th after serious fighting, drove a battalion of Russians with «>ight guns off a line of hills at Chakato to Chulisan, near Kinchau. The liussians retreated southwards.
The Japaneso casualties were 146, in eluding nine oflicors wounded.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7979, 20 May 1904, Page 2
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