Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-07 | Page 9 | Russians Fire on Own Soldiers

1.M0IB FIRE ONOWNSOLDIERS Mistook Czar's Men for Japs. i r J lone Hundred and Eighty 1 1 slain Before Mistake I Was Discovered. J- i V Batie of Sunday Last, Hussiiui j k Troopa Pled in a State of I t' Confusion. l ,1 -iQKIO, May C Gen. Kuroki. in re- J kT Prllng J'e8tcrda1"' te,lB oC a blooay WM encounter during tho Russian rc-iM'. rc-iM'. treat last Sunday, 'licn a large jHflrce of Russians mistook a small fitfody of their own men for Japanese. Pfclllln? 110 nnrl 'lV0UmllnS seventy k ctn. Kuroki says that a Japanese pa-J'rol. pa-J'rol. consisting of fonrtcen men. j$T;tichcd Tenshang-Hong on the Srd $4 isuunt, when a Russian patrol posted 01 ca.a hlll'south of the village attacked flf 'iheci. The Japanese patrol thereupon Ii turned and charged them and after an li .jairepld hand-to-hand affray tho enemy ft zis driven back In the direction of K rMS Wans Cheng. The Japanese pa-M pa-M trol pursuci thesn to a stream three i cOeJ fouthtvest of Kaollmcn, where Hl-Roriian sentri-3 were discovered posted ta bills on both sides of the road. j Native Telle the Story. According to information furnished by I i native, a body of Russian Infantry ' strong, occupying a hill near Ten- jliinf-Hons on Sunday, mistook a de- Uchncnt of their own Infantry about j Wstronp. which was retiring, for the Jipar.tse troops and engaged It in bat-; bat-; Uf. In tho fighting which followed 110 ; vtre Rilled and seventy wounded and ' j Ujs Russian carts were stampeded, i laving their loads of stores behind. V ! Disorder in Retreat. I According to the story told by a cap- r : Icrcd Russian officer who participated J Ii thus battle on Sunday last, only five or i) tii battalions of Russian Infantry and . hro battalions of artillery were able to l4 rttlre in order. The other troops ran )j array in a state of entire confusion.