| Show DAY BY DAY THE JAPS GET CLOSER i Details of the l Latest te t Attack aCk Up Upon on Port 1 I STILl IN PROGRESS t r EFFECTIVE WORK OP OF INERS SAPPERS t I IT T No Nov 1 9 p m T I headquarters tonight published shed a series ot of reports coveri covering S the op t against Port Arthur during the months of August September and October The interest cent ra In III Inthe the tremendous attack which was be begun begun gun Oct 26 and Js is still sUU Hundreds of Japanese guns began bettering battering against the northerly and east easterly torts fOrts on Oct 26 the infantry I going forward with desperate rush rushes s where the artillery had prepared the wa way while the pioneers and sappers j were running against the Run Rus sInn milan forts forta The reports record a series of des desperate p rate encounters at close range rang and aud tell a dramatic story The Latest Attack The rhe reports of the attack or of OcL Oct 6 are as From Fram 8 30 in the morning the forts on and mountains the eastern group Of f forts fortson on mountain and fL a I ing to the north of the latter were bombarded with our siege guns and naval ordnance and shells took ef feet The naval guns directed against the and mountain forts sent any effective shells Time The para parapet pet or of mountain tort fort was de demolished demolished and openings were made In the fort Several portions of the cover coer were destroyed Two of the post most important covers of mountain forts were de destroyed by our shells One gun was as dismounted and an another another other was damaged One gun of the northern fort of East moun mountain tain tam was destroyed From 2 In the afternoon siege guns were directed against the trenches on all the slopes of mountain anti and mountain and against the trenches on the south side of All Al these trenches were heavily damaged by S 5 in the afternoon Charged the Trenches A portion of our right Wing charged against the trenches on Sung shu mountain and a portion of our cen center center ter wing charged against the tr on mountain and on th south ern em part or of mountain and ana took possession ot of them without heavy lo loss s sSI SI With the occupation of the places from which the Russians pad been driVen the enemy nemy posted itt in inthe the forts In their vicinity in tIon with the forts on omi West Vest kou mountain Gold n bill mount in and con conc concentrated c bis lii fire against the points where our a assaults were progressing j The sound ot of our cannonade the fire from the guns of the enemy and the bursting of shells made an impress I lye lve and dramatic cene The enemy shells were defective I A large ml e exploded of bU ta n 1 men was sas killed thereby 1 On the same night with the object I of preventing the Russians from mak makIng lug Ing repairs our siege and naval guns shelled the fort forts on mountaIn East mountain and mountain The warship and cry buildings Were also shelled Counter Attack Repulsed The cn enemy m balding and mountains under lInder the I tion of n a shell fire undertook several night attacks but all of them were re repulsed repulsed pulsed On Oct tt the bombardment with our siege guns was continued and the fire of our naval guns was directed against Itz Hz and mountaIns anti also I against the dockyard and the warships Of the effects of our bombardment I these deserving special mention are the effect realized against a fort on n East I mountain where a gun and Its carriage were completely d destroyed ed edthe the destruction of a banquette lying between the east end of the north front and the center of mountain forts Corts scattering the cover thereof and d destroying two small guns and the de of a sun gun on the east front of the same fort Several of our shells took effect on the tIU southeastern corner or of the same fort destro destroyIng Its cover and smashing two machine guns into pieces One gun placed on n a J projected d point ot of the mountain fort was dislocated and one gun which was wan placed In the center r or of th the wing was demolished while the covers were also destroyed En Advanced During the s same mc night oUr our engineer corps was sent against the northern part of East mountain and succeeded in destroying the outer case mate of a projected point During the night the enemy resorted to every means to obstruct our work assaulting and using bombs At the tho same time the worl worked cd ener energetically energetically in eft effecting Ung repairs on pome portions or of their torts forts damaged by our shells On Oct 28 23 the bombardment with heavy and other siege ge guns gnus was eon con and its effect was good Two hundred and effect effective lye ive shells have been counted and b be besides sides these several other othet shells took et cC feet on the torts forts of mountain Its Itz mountain mountain and on ona a hilt hill 03 metres high Our naval guns were directed chief chiefly C lJ ly agaInst u lIz Itz anti mountains the warships 11 In the cas east harbor and the western portion n of the cIty Effects deserving of special mention were ere made on the mountain fort The and ad the buildings inside tle e tc fort yere d and anci vital portions of t the fort were considerably The enemy placed a row of sand aI d bags In the place of the ban banquette banquette quette which we destroyed Exploded d d dOn On the northern portion of East mountain a magazine was I exploded and a field fied gun Was destro destroyed e r rn On n mountain a tw canet and carrIage were over overturned I turned and another gun was heavily dam ged gedOn On the metre hUt hill two coers and the wire entanglements ot of time the trenches I were ConsIderably damaged On the fort north of I the guns and works were heavily dam damaged damaged aged agedA agedal al A conflagration occurred d In the old city and a second conflagration was wan observed in a factory at the northeast base ot of Golden hill Which lasted for tor three hours t During the night a machinery ry build buildIng I ing near th the harbor was bombarded by I our guns which also alo protected the work ot of the engineers On Oct 29 the bombardment was I continued with an Increased number of shells On the same mornIng at dawn of the enemy assaulted our mine ex cx i 3 t tending toward fort but they I were rt repulsed wIth heavy heaY loss I Simultaneously a a sImilar force of the enemy assaulted our mine projected II against mountain Our men bravely withstood the attack but were v re I forced to lose a portion or of the mine which however was r retained wIth the assistance of our artillery at 2 in the after afternoon I Miners at Work A mine directed against mountain fort reached the outer limit Umit of the fort last night A portion of the outer limit of the fort was blown up Against the outer c of the eastern point of the Fort lying north ot of East mountain dynamite was applied twice lam laet night causIng wide openings and killing several ot of the enemy inside the Our bombardment Is proving in increasingly l effective A number of shells I from our heavy guns are taking effect I We counted ot of these shells Besides I this thle heavy damage has been inflicted on the Itz mountain and nd mountain forts and those I lying between then them Our naval guns Were directed agai against nsf Its m 0 imi I A lug p ly r mountain UI tu ung mountain in They on the thc tort foi FIve ships which wore be beIng beIng I Ing used in clearIng mines were also bombarded bombard tl Three e haa II fly damaged and the other two to were i fRt on 7 Ot er siege slee guns of different calibrO bombard d lying between the forts and the old Chinese walls I |
