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Show HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT. Battle at Vafangow Was Desperata ' and Bloody. St. Petersburg, June l. General Sak-haroff Sak-haroff has telegraphed as follows, under today's date, to th general staff: "According to reports the Ja panes commander in the action of May o. near Vafangow had three battalions of infantry in reserve. Our losses were seventeen men killed and twenty-three men wounded, and Lieutenant Meyer and another officer, whose ntme has not been ascertained, wounded. The Japanese losses were very considerable. consider-able. One squadron of the Thirteenth Japanese cavalry was annihilated in a hand-to-hand encounter, and another an-other squadron which came to its assistance as-sistance suffered jcreat loss from tho fire of our frontier guards and riflemen. rifle-men. "We captured nineteen horses." Fuji Reported Aground. St. Petersburg. June 1. An uivun-firmed uivun-firmed rumor lias reached here from Mukden that the Japanese battleship Fuji is . aground on a reef off the Miao Tao islands, between the Kwan Tuns: and Shan Tung promontories, where she is being guarded by torpedo boats. |
