Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — BOTH REPULSED IN ATTACKS. [ARTICLE]

BOTH REPULSED IN ATTACKS.

Japs Fall in Masses and Russians Suffer Later at Port Arthur. The London Daily Telegraph’s Chefoo correspondent says that Sept. 24 and 25 the Japanese made repeated and recklessly brave attempts to capture High hill at Port Arthur. Owing to the destruction of earthworks their advance was completely unprotected and under the rays of the searchlight the Russian machine guns swept them down in masses. “More troops, however, came on with fanatical bravery,” the correspondent adds, “leaping over the bodies of their dead comrades. Then the Russians, emboldened by their success, made a sortie. The Japanese replied with machine guns. It was the first time the Japanese had been able to entice the Russians from their shelters, and they worked terrible havoc among them. “The scene the next morning was appalling. The hillside was strewn with mingled Russian and Japanese bodies, some of them gripped with ghastly realism. “A brief message was received on torn paper, in Chinese, and signed by Gen. Stoessel. It states that nil had been quiet since Sept. 25, and that the Japanese again had asked for and were refused a truce to bury their dead. “An I 'official Japanese statement Admits the repulse and confesses the necessity of a resort to a passive siege. Enteric fever has broken out in the garrison at Port Arthur.”