Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1904 — NODZU TELLS OF ASSAULT [ARTICLE]

NODZU TELLS OF ASSAULT

Heavy Fighting at Liao Yang on the Evening of Sept. 3. Tokio, Sept. 15.—General reports that the heaviest fighting at Liao Yang occurred during the evening of Sept. 3. The Twentieth regiment, having previously lost successively two and four battalion commanders sacriflc Jelly assaulted and dia-

lodged the Russians from their redoubts at Yusfanginiao. There uere no Japanese officers above the rank of captain. Captain Yegaml, commanding the regiment, led the charge and inspirited his men. The reserves unhesitatingly tilled the gaps in the assaulting line. The men, unmindful of wire entanglements and other obstructions, rushed up to the Russian works, shouting "Banzai.” One battalion lost all its officers in the first clash and a private subsequently commanded it. One company was reduced to fourteen or fifteen men. The regiment's losses were from 1,200 to 1,300. In spite of the fatigue, at sunrise. Sept. 4, the aJpanese continued the pursuit of the Russians, but tbe lark of bridges forced them to temporarily rernuin south of tbe Taitse river. > Dispatch from Kuropatkin. St. 'Petersburg, Sept. 12.—The emperor has received the following dispatch from General Kuropatkin, dated Sept. 9: “No lighting lias taken place in the slipere of operations and the enemy showed no perceptible activity Sept. Bor Sept. 9. Heavy rains continue, which does not permit of the drying or of their being repaired.” A dispatch from Tie pass says that the losses on both sides from Aug. 26 to Sept. 5 are estimated at from 60,000 to 70,000 killed or wounded. Many of the killed and wounded were left behind in the Chinese corn. The Japanese are experiencing great difficulty in bringing up supplies of ammunition. Japanese Loses. Tokio, Sept. 12.—An approximation of the Japanese casualties in the battle of Liaoyang, based upon reports of the chiefs of the medical corps of the three Japanese armies has been concluded. It covers the fighting from Aug. 26, and shows that the Japanese killed and wounded amount to 17,539 men, divided as follows: In the right army, under the command of General Kuroki, 4,866 men; center army,' Command of General Nodzu, 4,992 men, and left army, command of General Oku, 7,681 men. These casualties Include 136 officers killed and 464 officers wounded. Dispatches from Gen. Stoessel. St. Petersburg, Sept. 15. —General Stoessel, commander of the Russian military forces at Port Arthur, under the dates of Aug. 28 and Sept. 2, reports that renewed Japanese'attacks on the fortress were repulsed with small loss to the defenders. Dispute* Oyima’i Figures. London, Sept. 14. Bennett Burleigh, cabling from Tlen-TBln to The Daily Telegraph, insists that the Japanese casualties in the battle of Liaoyang were nearer 30,000 than 17,000.