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Show WAS A BLOODY BATTLE. Japanese Loss In Storming of Kin Chou Was 12,000 Men, ' A dispatch to tho. London Central News says tho Japancso losses during tho fighting nt Kin Chou aro said to bo 12,000 men killed. It Is said that theso figures, havo boon confirmed by nn official" dispatch. Fighting, it is added, Is still going on In tho vicinity of Kin Chou. Tho fighting which culmlnntcd In the Japancso occupation of Kin Chou was particularly confined to nn artillery artil-lery duel, which, beginning nt dawn of May 20, continued without Intermission Inter-mission for flvo hours. Throo Japano30 warships in Kin Chou bay cooperated, firing with heavy guns on tho Russian position. A Russian gunboat In Tnllcn Wnn bay also Joined In tho fighting, bombard-Jng bombard-Jng tho loft flank of tho Japancso army. |
