Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — BOLD ATTEMPT BY JAPS [ARTICLE]

BOLD ATTEMPT BY JAPS

FOUR DESTROYERS DEFY DEATH They Try to Enter Port Arthur—Two Sink and One Damaged—Russian Repulse at Motion Pass. London, July 7.—The Liao-Yang correspondent of The Daily Telegraph in a dispatch dated July 7, 1 a. m., says: “A battle is proceeding twenty-five miles from here. Evidently the engagement is a severe one.” Tien-Tsin.July 7. —Advices havebeen received that at 9 p. m. on last Sunday four Japanese destroyers made a determined attempt to enter Port Arthur and attack the Russian fleet The destroyers were discovered by the shore batteries. One of the destroyers was sunk under Golden hill, another under shore battery No. 22, and a third one had its funnel shot away. The fourtfi one succeeded iu effecting a retreat General Kuroki’s Headquarters, via FUsau, July 7.—On July 4 two battalions of Russians attacked .the Japanese outpost of eighty men at the northern entrance of Motien pass. Before daylight they surrounded the outpost and charged the trench. A bloody encounter with bayonets ensued. The Russians attacked the trench three times, but were driven up the valley by a Japanese reinforcement. Tokio, July 7.—Dispatches indicate that the fight at Mo-Tlen-Lien paas on July 4 was a desperate hand-to-hand fight affair. The Russians left fiftythree dead and forty wounded on the field. The Japanese lost nineteen killed and thirty-eight wounded.