Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-05-04 | Page 7 | Ance in Thibet is Agian Natives to Defend Lhassa

- ( - J " w ' I ' 4 I , . - II tn t . to I e ' l ' Map Howiaa locajxcm or guru -wiic-ai baiu-u txwiaa " 1 . r'Hffl lacFExrrrott amd tkxectaii occurkxd . MILLED ;f ON THE YALU Shows How Hotly the Fight athe Crossing. -Twelfth regiments, both flanks of "which were repeatedly turned by the enemy, advanced with fixed bayonets. i '- rt- ..a of; v.: t?i nkj; r at e- - .If r.:; i Jii -y :ts .a-' ot W' , ry de ur p preceded by buglers to clear a passage. iTh Japanese, however, declined a hand-to-hand conflict and recoiled. In front of the regiment a chaplain beating beat-ing a' drum was struck by two bullets. It wa onlv by advancing on the Japanese Ja-panese with the bayonet that th Seventh Sev-enth regiment was able to retire. "Osethe arrival of the battalion of the "TenZiregiment all the troops were able r to beTV the retreat. . "C "The' losses of the Eleventh and twelfth regiments were very great but "thay are not yet exactly known. In the Eleventh the killed Included Col. Laming Lam-ing and Lieut Cols. Demottl and Ralev-ski Ralev-ski The Twelfth lost nine company commanders killed or wounded. - "The Second and Third batteries Of "the Sixth brigade, having lost the "greater number of their men and horses, were compelled to abandon their gun after rendering them useless. use-less. For the same reason, six guns of the Third battery of the Third brigade ot artillery and eight poulementa which could not be brought away were also disabled. The mountainous nature of -Hhe country made it impossible to save Ihe guns by means of drag ropes. - "Up to the present 800 wounded, including in-cluding fourteen officers, have been -brought to the hospital at Feng Wang 'Cheng. Their eventual transportation Elsewhere is assured. . , "Japanese cavalry appeared1 to the 'southward of Feng Wang Cheng, but seeing two companies with two guns opposed to it did not Venture to approach. ap-proach. ' "According to the statements of participants par-ticipants in the battle, at least 000 or 4000 were killed." - ----- -