GREAT FIGHT ON FRIDAY.
ON THE BANKS OF THE TAITSE. AN ALL-DAY BATTLE. SLOPES STREWN WITH JAPANESE CORPSES. (Received September G, 0.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 5. A Russian despatch says that fighting on Friday began simultaneously on both banks of the Taitso.
Tho Japanese, in superior numbers, advanced down towards tbs Y r entai coalmines.
Twelve Russian battalions courageously sustained the attack all day, but were ultimately compelled to yield and proceed to positions to tho westward. Tiie Japanese on tho left bank of tho river continuously bombarded the Liaeyang fortifications. The Russians made a counter attack, occupying several villages between them and fireir original positions. The}' found the slopes and plains, which had been occupied by the Japanese, strewn with corpses, some being heaped up. The Russian losses were also heavy.
TALES OF SUFFERINGS. LONDON, September 4. Tim Russian papers publish horrible details of tho needless sufferings of the sick and wounded soldiers. Medical necessaries, and even clothes, are, they state, unavailable.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5374, 6 September 1904, Page 5
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163GREAT FIGHT ON FRIDAY. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5374, 6 September 1904, Page 5
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