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Show SMl-f 0 MM 203 MEM flit '. :;M Mte MILS; SAILORS AMONG : MAD FODNB' OH FIELD BY JAPANESE Czar's Forces Preparing to Make Final Stand in De- i fense of Long Beleaguered Fortress at Liao Ti. - BULLETIN. T0K20, Dec. 2, 3 p. m. It is reported here that the Russians have X attempted to retake 203 Metre MU. They assembled a stronp force and assaulted the position, but were repulsed with heavy loss. The Japanese, finding sailors among: the Russian dead, believe that If Qnen from the fleet are being: employed In making sorties, the complement ' of the force must be falling short. . - The fabt that the Russians are fortifying: the positions available between be-tween Liao Ti and Mantao mountains increases the belief that they will make their last stand there. TOKIO, Dec 2. 11 a. m. Imperial " headquarters makes the announcement that seventeen officers have been killed - and Blxty-four wounded in the field,' but "does not mention! the place. It Is pre- ' sumed that It was at Port Arthur. The details of the attack of, the swordsmen at Port Arthur are unknown , here, and a difference of opinion exists as to whether any of the. attacking par. ties were armed exclusively with wworda Possihlymauy f the. soldiers - carried swords in addition- to their bayonets, for the Japanese retain much ancient respect for the sword and con- - tlnue training with tt, despite the oppo- sltlon of the officers of the newer school. The results of this sword attack were evidently negative. The wounded leg of Gen. Nakamura has been amputated. The party under Gen. Salto retired and did not press the attack. JAPANESE DRIVEN OUT OF NEW POSITION , BY RENNENKAItPFTS MEN. St. PETERSBURG. Dec. 1 Dispatches received from Mukden today say that Gea. Rennenkampfl's force" en' 'November 39 drove the Japanese out of a new position southward of Tslnkhetchen. The fighting was short and sharp. The Japanese burned their supply depots In three villages and retreated, pursued by Cossacks so far as the Taltse river. The Japanese losses were about fifty killed and 100 wounded. The Cossacks destroyed a Japanese telegraph tele-graph line and occupied the village of Suidun, about seven and a half miles southeast of Tslnkhetchen. No News at Chefoo. CHXFOO, Dec. 1 No news from Port Arthur was received here today. , Russians Claim Victory.. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec 2. Gen. Sakharoff reports that a Russian recon-nolteriug recon-nolteriug force attacked the Japanese .who were intrenched at Lamatun (La-muntlng), (La-muntlng), at nightfall November 80 and drove them out at the point of the bayonet, bay-onet, pursuing them as ' far as the Shakhe river. About twenty-five Japanese Japa-nese were bayoneted. The Russians secured se-cured many rifles and equipments. The Russians obtained a similar success on the right wing. Their losses In both affairs af-fairs were insignificant. |