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Show FORT RHILUNG TAKEN BY JAPS It Has Taken Months of Hard Work NOT VERY IMPORTANT Say The Russians. Japs Evidently Feel Differently About It. Tokio, Dec. 2U, After months of haul lighting, sapping and lnlning.thc Japanese forces finally occupied limiting limi-ting mountain last night. A report iccclved from hcadquaiters of the Third Japanese army before Pott Arthur, received hero on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, December 28, at midnight, savs: "On Wednesdaj, at 10 o'clock in the morning the left center column of our army, following some heavy explosions on the fiontal parapet of Rhllung mountain, charged and occupied the parapet under cover of liic fiom heavy guns and constructed defense works despite the enemy's fierce the. "At 4 o'clock In the afternoon, when our occupation was practically complete, com-plete, we cliaigcd and occupied the Inner lines of heavy jun positions, subsequently dislodging a remnant of the enemy's foice stubbornly holding the gorge fort, which we occupied, and captured tho entire vvorKs." |