Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-20 | Page 1 | Battle of Kiu Lien Cheng Bloody

li ! floss Was Over Fifteen Hundred Men f j Killed, While the Japs Capture J I ( Many Prisoners. i T r.10, SIay Gen.. Kurokl reports that the Japanese losses at the battle of Klu Lien Cheng May 1 were: X .jfi I Wiled, 5 offlcera and 218 men; wounded, 31 oflicera and 783 men. Thirteen hundred and sixty-three Russian I k dead were burled and IS ofTicers and GDC men were made prisoners. The Japanese captured 211 quick-firing I SorUn9, 15 am,"Unltlon Avagons, 1417 shells, S machine guns and 37.000 shells for these guns, 1021 rifle;) and -Ai rUI,d 0t ammunltIon, 03 horsee, 10 wagons, 1244 cots and H41 tenta. 1 Feng V.'ang Cheng the Japanese captured 350 shells for mountain guns 1SS.00O rounds of rlllc ammunition, I Pcota, 40,000 loaves of bread and other supplies, together with a quantity of tools and telegraph stores. ffe unofilcially reported that small skirmishes are taking place south of Kin Chou. On the Llao Tung penln- X w Japanese line extends from Chlnchaton to Chuleshan acrosa a ridge of hills a mile and a half north of Hiou. Kin Chou io seven or eight thousand metres north of the narrowcyt part of the peninsula and !KK,eS nrlh oC Poit A'tnur. The Japanese line, therefore, Is less than forty-five mites from Port Arthur. JWMIc- cruising off Dalny this morning the dispatch boat Fawan was stopped and examined by the Japanese I KTI i Sasi" Thc JaPanete ofliccrs Informed the Fawan that two Rues-Ian destroyers escaped from Port Ar- T Mil- J 3lm at aTRQ- Tne stated that the Russians are using Chinese Junka to place mines in the path J rmTrcv I,anCSC nc6t natrolIin the peninsula coast. I Wjm y a,tc Informed the Fawan that they had mmk a tug and several Junks that were discovered placing SlPlaUW)!?eqUCIlce of lhis Promiscuous mining the Japanese fleet Is moving to a greater distance off the const, 4 1 fi mJ.hcr navlcntlon in those waterp is suspended. There arc Indications that the Japanese destroyers have W Y Inlnes oulBlde Port Arthur, hoping to catch the Russian destroyers. l HH4iHfNHhH- lllill'l.HHI HfflfrmHHHWIifHHHIfrflfWH '