Show BOLD SOLD ATTACK BY JAPANESE capture trench after trench but are finally beaten back A message from port arthur de scribes a japanese attack the evening 0 of f december 22 with a light column of and many machine guns on the northern defenses they dashed along the railway carrying trench after trench and succeeded in reach ing the watercourse beneath dayul sean mountain when the russian ar tillery worked terrible execution A fierce bayonet fight occurred at midnight A strong russian force advanced eastward of mountain threatening the retreat ot of the japanese who after a desperate struggle retired to the north leaving several machine guns rifles and eighty prisoners it Is estimated that they lost killed the japanese halted near the come tery and finding that both their flanks had carried all the works form ing the range of the main forts torts they entrenched on a small hill near etsa mountain under a severe enfilading fire which caused them heavy losses |