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Show ' CZAR'S MEN fisiiwai Severs! Attempts to Mate Ills. Finally Retired, After Suffering Suf-fering Heavy Loss, From Narrow Peninsula. Storming of Nan Shan Hill Was a Bloody Affair on 1 Both.1 .' Sides. TOKIO, May. 27. Tho Japanese troops fought bravely for. sixteen hours yesterday .under an extremely ex-tremely heavy, tire before clearing the Russians from the; southern heights After a brave resistance. The Muscovites Mus-covites made several attempts to retako the hills, but after much loss of life retired re-tired finally from the narrowest part of the peninsula which had been held so long. Subsequent reports received here Indicate In-dicate that the storming of Nan S,han hill yesterday was a bloody affair. The Japanese first centered their fire on the Russian batteries, in which work they were aided by four gunboats from' Kin Chou bay. They succeeded in silencing many of the enemy's guns. The Russians had constructed a. scries sc-ries of trenches around the hill, on a terrace protected by wire entanglements entangle-ments and other such devices. The Japanese Ja-panese made a series of rushes, but they were in vain. The'deadly rifle and cannon lire of the enemy checked them repeatedly. Finally nt 3 o'clock In the afternoon the Japanese re-formed and stormed the crest of the hill. The Russians held to their position doggedly and it was 7 o'clock ln the evening before the Japanese Ja-panese finally gained possession of the ridge. |