THE FIGHTING AT LIAOYANG.
RUSSIAN LOSSES. STRENGTH OF LIAOYAM. TUESDAY'S BATTLE. 200,000 JAPANESE ENGAGED, i DESPERATE FIGHTING. "■■' '■■■'■' T". ' United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—'Copyright. (Received September 1, 8.13 a.m.) LONDON, August 31. St Petersburg telegrams estimate th© Russian losses around Liaoyamg on Saturday and Sunday at 3150. Military circles in St Petersburg declare Ghat Liaoyang is a hug© fortress, a second Port Arthur. Russian accounts state that 200,000 Japanese, frith 1200 guns, attacked an advanced position at Liaoyang early on August 30, and 1 Tinder cover of a very sever© artillery fire, delivered obstinate assaults on "the Russian centre. They inflicted considerable low, and later fiercely connonaded the Russians until dark from the heights of Wambatai. The Russian cavalry were obliged to operate in a labyrinth of defiles and marshy, narrow roads, with the vegetation above the heads of the horsemen. The Russians olaim to have captured ten guns and repulsed all attempts to outflank them.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8104, 1 September 1904, Page 3
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