Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1904 — BEAR BEATEN AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

BEAR BEATEN AGAIN.

Russians Lobs Many Men In Another Big Battle. Reports received from Liaoyang and Newchwang show that a furious battie has been fought In the vicinity of KaiChou or Hai-Cheng, in which the Russians were defeated with heavy loss and driven back on Liaoyang. A big Japanese army is said to be marghing to the northwest to prevent the Russians retreating to Mookden. The Japanese attacked SeuChen. While a Russian force of 8,000 under Gen. Kondratsvitch was traversing Wafungko ravine, nine miles southeast of Kai-Chou, it was surprised by concealed Japanese artillery. The Russians lost heavily, their casualties being 1,200 iu number. Gen. Kondratsvitch extricated his men and led them in good order to an entrenched position. A division of the army under Gen. Oku occupied Haiung-Yao without opposition. The reports of the Japanese treatment of prisoners and wounded are marked by extraordinary contradictions. In some cases the greatest kindness has been shown to the Russians, but from elsewhere come reports of brutality and worse. One case is cited in which the Japanese during the fighting, seeing the Russian wounded on the field, sent Chinese bearers and had them removed to a hospital.